1940 Movies

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.

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...

Animated instructional film reminding aircrew to always wear their oxygen masks when flying at high altitudes.

Pianists Charlie Kunz and Mark Hambourg tickle the ivories for our entertainment in this jolly musical short.

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough sc...

The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of l...

This silent film documents a day at Washington School, a Black elementary school located at 1025 Washington, Topeka, Kansas. The film follows each gra...

Pebble Punch is a 1940 animated theatrical commercial produced for The Coca-Cola Company under the Minitoons series by Cartoon Films, Ltd. (formerly t...

Winata’s preoccupation with his business causes a lot of conflict with his wife, Dasima. Eventually they end their marriage. Then Dasima becomes Samiu...

Mrs. Takács, a widow and a postmistress living in the country, is about to marry her two daughters.

Pictures of new and old Turku.

This film shows experiments performed by Soviet scientists reviving the lungs, heart, and even the head of a dead dog.

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the festivities honoring the Virgin of Alta Gracia in Ayaviri, one of the most important cities in the Puno region a...

Scans of Chauvet and Lascaux, ancient cave drawings discovered in France in the 1940's. Meant to be viewed under firelight, the flicker giving the ill...

Mrs Roti treats her first daughter Hian Nio badly. On the other hand, she treats her other daughters, as her favorites. Hian Nio has a boyfriend, Kian...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the inauguration of several galleries at the National Palace of Photographic Art, an art museum created and main...

Recorded footage from the New York World's Fair in 1939.