1940 Movies

Dirty Willie learns about why nobody wants to play with him. He has a dream that he is working and is fired for being dirty. Then we learn about germs...

Reportage about the most dangerous occupations and work locations.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the ceremony honoring the Argentine hero Don José de San Martín for the proclamation of Peru's Independence.

1940s newsreel about the large crowds at "Agua Dulce" beach during the holidays.

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the Lima festival of San Juan de los Amancaes, a time when Lima revives one of its most vibrant celebrations. The fi...

A parody of the classic Beau Geste, made on the leftover sets from the 1939 version by San Diego State University students, about brothers Beau, John...

A Marathi film by Master Vinayak.

Denunciation of Hitler, of “Mein Kampf” to the annexations of European countries

Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a prom...

The physics, science and applications of light.

A film by K. Narayan Kale.

Juha Tiisjärvi, a 79-year-old coppersmith from Nurmo, casts and finishes small bells in her workshop.

A Marathi film by Narayan and Gajanan.

Wartime Japanese movie involving a woman who visits the front.

Plant movements in historical films by Wilhelm Pfeffers: geotropic bending of a horizontal Impatiens glandulifera; germination of Vicia faba; developm...

Tobaccoland USA is a newsreel style film commissioned by the Liggett & Myers Tobacco & Co, the company behind Chesterfield Cigarettes, and produced by...