1940 Movies

Britain's check to the German drive for world domination. The Ministry of Information requested that the film should be withdrawn as it was considered...

The men of the trawlers and drifters set out at dawn on voyages of any- thing from twenty to four thousand miles. This is a wartime picture of fishing...

Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry),young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once...

Sandy Powell plays a messenger who joins the Navy by accident and has a series of misadventures.

Herzensfreud-Herzensleid (literally translates to "Heartfelt Joy - Heartbreak"),the 1940 Hubert Marischka German family relationship romantic comedy...

After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.

A surreal 1940 film by an amateur cineaste Cynthia Childs about a woman's infidelitous evening out on the town. Added score composed and performed by...

A late period home movie with Man Ray and his lovely friend Juliet Browner lounging together in the US. Man Ray had returned to America when the Germa...

The Frictions of a suburban family come to boiling point.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the festivities. But after the Gang causes a disruption,...

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.

Prem Nagar is a small, happy and contented village somewhere in India. A tiny spark of anger flared up a misunderstanding, a quarrel, jealousy, and gr...