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- A story of burgeoning labor rights amongst poor fishermen in a small village in Mexico.
- Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.
- A young farmer and his lazy father try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
- The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest.
- Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. He makes his escape just as the real Inspector General is set to appear, but those-in-need will be no better off when the real McCoy shows up then they were with Burian.
- When this film was being made in 1938, Pearl Harbor was almost four years away. Poland had not been invaded yet. However, World War II was raging in Asia, where the Japanese perpetrated ghastly horrors upon the conquered populations. This contemporaneous Chinese film focuses upon one family's fate amidst the atrocity.
- Health care during the Spanish Civil War is portrayed in this French made documentary: the progress under the new Republican government in setting up child care centers, the extent to which hospital care is provided at the battlefront or via trains to nearby facilities, the provision of convalescence care for wounded soldiers so that they can promptly return as needed to combat. The film concludes as a plea for help, with the Republicans still struggling.
- Operetta adaptation : in nineteenth century Saint Petersburg, villains threaten the true love of a heartfelt couple.