1940 Movies

This documentary was produced on the request of the Korean railway-organisation during the Japanese occupation of Korea. The news-coverage in those da...

Finnish short documentary

Short designed to encourage the use of Technicolor for instructional and advertising films. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1995.

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

In 1932, University of Georgia agriculture professor Paul W. Chapman wrote a novel about the Future Farmers of America (FFA),The Green Hand, in which...

Snehalata’s life takes a dramatic turn when love, duty, and circumstance pull her between a poor orphan she once cared for and the wealthy man she mar...

This film explains how the fisherman of the east coast makes his living. It makes clear, with the help of diagrams, how the sunlight, striking through...

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

A film about Peruvian peasant farmers in the 1940's.

Getting Down to Earth Again, is a black and white motion picture, produced by Caravel Films Inc. for the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., and was abou...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the romantic corners of Old Lima: The Alameda de los Descalzos, the marble statues and the Church of Our Lady of Patro...

A short film on locomotives in Japan.

This short documentary offers a close-up view of a hectic hockey game in which the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers fight to break a tied...

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

Newsreel from the 1940s about the bullfight in the Acho bullring and the performance of the young bullfighters.

On the search for weird and amazing creatures living on the seashores... This short movie played before The Thief of Bagdad (1940) during its original...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the activities carried out in Ayacucho during Holy Week, such as the procession of the Lord of the Resurrection, the o...