1940 Movies

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.

Laxmi, an "untouchable" woman fights for her community's rights against societal discrimination. She faces personal hardship and resistance from autho...

From a series of films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing S...

While a reception is being prepared for the Queen, a baby feeds from a bottle of milk, restores vigor to the schoolboy doing his calculations, to the...

The epic of the exploration and conquest of the Brazilian territory, in search of gold and precious stones.

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.

Gran' Pop Monkey and The Three Monkeys decide to open a jungle beauty parlor, but a tough-guy gorilla comes in with his fat hippopotamus girlfriend an...

When Andy Panda and his father are stranded miles away from home by a thunderstorm, they take shelter in a nearby house. Little do they realize that t...

This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series of morale-boosting wartime propaganda films. In Home Front, the various WWII-era social...

A prince, fresh from his foreign education, returns to find his kingdom plagued by intrigues and rigid traditions. Disillusioned, he decides to ventur...

In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Ro...

Mice get into trouble with toys and record players in a closed toy store.

Bintara is a pirate captain who sails the Malaka strait. He robs ships and murders their crews. Two children survive one of the attacks. They are Rusn...

An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.