1940 Movies

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes from the...

In New York, boxer Eddie Steele has a promising career ahead of him. But this makes him reckless, and he prefers nightclubs to training. Eventually, h...

What might become the greatest challenge for the elderly Brasen couple having opened a summer guest house by the sea? Financial struggle or the sudden...

A propaganda film used by the Japanese military to recruit young Korean men as soldiers to defend the northwest border from possible Chinese attacks d...

A WWII film about children evacuated from Britain and sent to Canada for their safety. The film begins in England with children seeking shelter as ant...

This one-reel short is comprised of footage depicting the intelligence of birds and animals when their mental processes, through training, are directe...

A young working woman lives to shop, particularly for hats. She decides on a unique one.

The Piazzi Conspiracy in a comedy directed by Toni Franguelli.

George Pal's cel-animated commercial commissioned by the Dutch Cinema Association on behalf of the Bio Vacation Resort in Bergen aan Zee, Netherlands.

A Juan Oliva's animation short film.

Health film using unusual imagery and metaphors to impart lessons in hygiene.

A flea sets up its new home in the fur of a sleeping dog.

Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on once-idle land...

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps t...

Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wif...

Kristina and Sture is married and has a little baby boy, Olle. Sture is an architect and while he is struggling with his business, his wife Kristina g...

It's basically a series of visual gags that takes place on a greyhound race track with the racers chasing a mechanical rabbit attached to a gate (thou...