Knox Manning Movies

  • 1943
    The Rear Gunner

    The Rear Gunner

    The Rear Gunner

    5.21943HD

    Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown...

    The Rear Gunner
  • 1941
    The Tanks Are Coming

    The Tanks Are Coming

    The Tanks Are Coming

    5.11941HD

    Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from the...

    The Tanks Are Coming
  • 1940
    Deadwood Dick

    Deadwood Dick

    Deadwood Dick

    01940HD

    Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

    Deadwood Dick
  • 1948
    Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains

    Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains

    Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains

    01948HD

    Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had...

    Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
  • 1946
    The Kid from Brooklyn

    The Kid from Brooklyn

    The Kid from Brooklyn

    6.21946HD

    Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The...

    The Kid from Brooklyn
  • 1942
    Beyond the Line of Duty

    Beyond the Line of Duty

    Beyond the Line of Duty

    5.21942HD

    This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S....

    Beyond the Line of Duty
  • 1944
    Jammin' the Blues

    Jammin' the Blues

    Jammin' the Blues

    6.91944HD

    In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor...

    Jammin' the Blues
  • 1951
    Mysterious Island

    Mysterious Island

    Mysterious Island

    5.31951HD

    It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and...

    Mysterious Island
  • 1948
    Congo Bill

    Congo Bill

    Congo Bill

    1.71948HD

    Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.

    Congo Bill
  • 1942
    Remember Pearl Harbor

    Remember Pearl Harbor

    Remember Pearl Harbor

    61942HD

    A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.

    Remember Pearl Harbor
  • 1946
    Facing Your Danger

    Facing Your Danger

    Facing Your Danger

    61946HD

    This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to...

    Facing Your Danger
  • 1941
    At the Stroke of Twelve

    At the Stroke of Twelve

    At the Stroke of Twelve

    51941HD

    This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...

    At the Stroke of Twelve
  • 1948
    The Babe Ruth Story

    The Babe Ruth Story

    The Babe Ruth Story

    5.81948HD

    The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

    The Babe Ruth Story
  • 1945
    Hitler Lives

    Hitler Lives

    Hitler Lives

    4.91945HD

    This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.

    Hitler Lives
  • 1941
    Tanks a Million

    Tanks a Million

    Tanks a Million

    51941HD

    Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to...

    Tanks a Million
  • 1945
    Story of a Dog

    Story of a Dog

    Story of a Dog

    5.51945HD

    A dog trains for the battlefield and becomes a crucial part of the United States military. This 1945 short documentary film was nominated for an...

    Story of a Dog
  • 1944
    The Birds and the Beasts Were There

    The Birds and the Beasts Were There

    The Birds and the Beasts Were There

    01944HD

    Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes, and other birds; the Monkey Jungle, where the...

    The Birds and the Beasts Were There
  • 1942
    Wedding Yells

    Wedding Yells

    Wedding Yells

    01942HD

    Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).

    Wedding Yells
  • 1941
    The Iron Claw

    The Iron Claw

    The Iron Claw

    61941HD

    The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron...

    The Iron Claw
  • 1950
    Cody of the Pony Express

    Cody of the Pony Express

    Cody of the Pony Express

    61950HD

    Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.

    Cody of the Pony Express