1940 Movies

Wehrmacht propaganda documentary about the might of the German armament factories and their inexhaustible reserves of war material made ready for use.

Follows two men who are raised as brothers and compete for the love of the same woman.

Military cadets at training camp in Dunbar; on parade, at bayonet practice, and taking part in various sports, including many scenes shot at Dunbar Ou...

Scrappy is deep-sea fishing when a bottle floats by his boat. In this corked bottle is a secret treasure map. There's a chest of gold on the ocean flo...

In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of cattle rustlings. The lead...

The journey along the Elbe River begins with a train ride through the countryside, exploring the river’s course and the life of river boatmen. Key loc...

A 1940 film.

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

Shows how the RAF's barrage balloon squadron are trained, and then on the job.

A documentary about the events leading up to World War II and the first year of the war, compiled largely from Paramount Pictures newsreels of the 193...

This ethnographic and historical silent 16mm cinematic jewel was filmed in 1940 by Sifrid Miladinov – a professional photographer and amateur filmmake...

The Björcks are an ordinary middle-class family in a large Stockholm apartment with with two children, Greta and Ville. But the family's happiness is...

"Laureate demonstrates the hand of the painter in its spectacular use of still-lifes and complementary colors, as it metaphorically visualizes a write...

This film reveals the darker side of human nature, when lust for wealth cause others to suffer. The story is tangled with a tragic yet beautiful roman...

Anatasio Cordero arrives unexpectedly in a confined physical environment: the home of a Lima bourgeois family member, which he is entrusted with guard...

One fateful Friday 13th, a man rubs a gold ring and turns into a chimpanzee...so he has a look around Dublin and Chessington Zoos.

This early 1940s black and white film about the mindset of a fighter pilot during WWII is presented by The Ministry of Information, produced by Britis...

For the 20th anniversary of Soviet cinema, nationally beloved actors come together and characters from best Soviet films take part in the anniversary...

One of the European explorers wrote to his friend Hamdi Bey that there were mummy graves on the outskirts of Alexandria that had not yet been discover...

Ching Kwok-yuen, a bird hunter, sees a female ghost harming people and shoots her to scare her away. The female ghost harbors a grudge and waits for a...