1940 Movies

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children Must...

Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.

A travelogue celebrating the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition and highlighting its exhibition of classical paintings and stunning lighting effects.

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an a...

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Tiga Kekasih, before being...

A doctor explains to his children the dangers of tuberculosis, what it is and how to prevent against contracting it.

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching...

A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out...

First Turkish film about Nasreddin Hodja. On wedding day one of the guests tells the jokes when the circumcised child asks Nasreddin Hodja anecdotes.

On account of a bet, the painter Menzinger and his friend Schratt decide to travel the country as unemployed bums (no doubt, because there were so fe...

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number 7...

The consequences of having accepted a thief as a guest in the house.

Highlights a new system that will enable doctors to operate over long distances.

Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal, Barry is assigned to put an...

A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown.

Young Italian journalist Stefano Andriani travels to Albania, where he falls in love with Eliana, a local girl, and she with him. One day, Andriani co...

Over the course of a single fateful night at a struggling roadside motel, lunch counter, and tourist court located in the Mojave Desert, a diverse gro...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.