John Burton Movies

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

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...

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a...

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

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

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

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