Movies: John Burton

This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America....

Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory....

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels....

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him....

This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II....

An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets M...

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution....

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation....

This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to power, as well as the eventual triumph of "the daughter of the English Isles" against these forces. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Su...

This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France....

The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed....

A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions....

After P. C. Gordon is murdered and robbed of a diamond ring that he bought as a birthday present for his wife, one of the thieves, C. Dates, is apprehended. A woman prosecuting attorney makes a compelling case against him, and he is given a ten-year ...