1939 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Crisis
A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.
![Goodbye, Mr. Chips](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/goodbye-mr.-chips-sam-wood-sidney-franklin-image.jpg)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
![Mr. Smith Goes to Washington](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mr.-smith-goes-to-washington-frank-capra-image.jpg)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn’t back down.
![Ninotchka](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ninotchka-ernst-lubitsch-image.jpg)
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
![Stagecoach](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/stagecoach-john-ford-image.jpg)
Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
![The Roaring Twenties](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-roaring-twenties-raoul-walsh-image.jpg)
The Roaring Twenties
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
![The Spy in Black](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-spy-in-black-michael-powell-image.jpg)
The Spy in Black
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
![Wuthering Heights](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wuthering-heights-william-wyler-image.jpg)
Wuthering Heights
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveller the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy (Merle Oberon) and Heathcliff (Sir Laurence Olivier).
![Young Mr. Lincoln](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/young-mr.-lincoln-john-ford-image.jpg)
Young Mr. Lincoln
A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.