Best Documentary Movies of 1933

The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

One of the short little films featuring Don Aspiazu of his own orchestra, a good example of the style of Cubano jazz in the 1920's and 1930's, combined with some sporadic, picturesque images of contemporary Cuba.

A documentary of explorer Richard Halliburton's travels on the Indian sub-continent, featuring a mix of real and staged footage.

Another FitzPatrick TravelTalk, taking us to the titular islands.

An entry into James A. Fitzpatrick's Traveltalks series of one reel travelogues.

Animal life in the American desert is depicted with an emphasis on the battles between various combatants in the struggle to either eat or be eaten.

Hailed by John Grierson as 'one of the best descriptions of life in the country anybody has yet made', the film follows a young couple torn between the choice of emigration to Australia or remaining to work their croft in Shetland.