Movies by Willard Van Dyke
Welcome to our dedicated selection of films directed by Willard Van Dyke. Here, you can explore a diverse range of works that highlight Willard Van Dyke’s unique vision, storytelling style, and contribution to the world of cinema. Whether you’re an avid fan or discovering Willard van dyke’s filmography for the first time, this collection will guide you through critically acclaimed masterpieces, hidden gems, and influential titles that have shaped the director’s legacy.
Journey Into Medicine (1947)
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A documentary/recruitment film originally intended for showings outside the United States to promote careers in public health and American methods in public health education. Directed by social documentarian Willard Van Dyke, and delivered entirely in the characteristic voice-over narration of that genre, the film centers around a young doctor, who during the course of his medical residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital becomes disillusioned with the failures of the medical profession to address larger social and environmental health factors and discovers the field of public health. The young doctor moves to Baltimore to study at the
The City (1939)
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A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.