1940 Movies

Dad Rudd wants the size of a local dam increased for the benefit of local farmers but faces opposition from a wealthy grazier, Henry Webster. When the...

A naive car caretaker must take care of a baby and search for his father.

A cartoon offering a series of blackout gags, disguised as a newsreel

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

Scrappy learns to play the piano.

Tom Thumb Jr. and his friend are cast ashore on an island where they are found by a lady who thinks Tom is a baby and puts him to sleep in a sewing ba...

A play by Noël Coward recorded for radio starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

Melodrama featuring a thikadar (forest contractor),a somewhat remote figure like the landscape in which he operates. The villain is the plantation-ow...

Liliane Springer, the daughter of Antwerpen office manager, has fallen in love with a football player, Raymond Smet. The trouble is that he is the sta...

A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ide...

In this 1940 entry from Columbia Pictures' "Color Rhapsodies" series, three television pioneers demonstrate how TV works. Featured is singer Madame Di...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

How To Improve Immigrants' English (1940s Instructional Film). Originally called '48 Paddington Street', British Pathe issued this as a cinema newsree...

Marianela is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with h...

Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict.

Love confusion between a girl and her benefactors.

Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.