1940 Movies

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.

P. U. Chinnappa, plays in dual role, as twin brothers. One is a tyrant king and the other is a brave commoner, separated at birth. Loosely based on Al...

Mobilization on the brink of the Second World War divides a husband and wife. When lawyer Frans van Loon is called up to join the mine clearance servi...

Documentation of patients with deformities.

The surviving parts give a powerful picture of the work and livelihood of the reindeer Sámi, which was a living reality during the filming. Mäkinen wo...

Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images qu...

Well-known canine performers of the 1930s vie for a part in an upcoming movie.

Japanese horror movie from 1940.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

Two men will receive $100 if they stay in Old Man Mose’s deserted house overnight in order to dig up his body and get the gold that has been placed un...

An ethnographic film depicting the harvest and threshing of grain in Veteli.

Japanese newsreel on the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo's worship at Kashihara Shrine, Nara Prefectural Celebration for the 2600th anniversary of the fir...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

The heroine, a girl of marriageable age named Yu, married a thirteen-year-old fiancé, but he died three years later. Twenty years later, Yu adopts a c...

This informative herring aid from WWII makes no bones about the need to make the most of every fish.

An enlightening film about a teacher who sees a rich student despise a poor student, and eventually the students study hard with each other's affectio...

Wartime short promoting the evacuation if urban children to rural areas.

The wife does not protect the honor of her wealthy husband, so she enters into a shameful relationship with an immoral man without the husband’s knowl...