1940 Movies

A newsreel from the 1940s depicting the province of Pacasmayo.

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...

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...

This short films see men crafting furniture.

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...

Film about Ghost-Cat.

A fast-talking airplane-salesman inspires the farmyard animals to building airplanes of their own, but farmer Alfalfa is set on not getting off of the...

Karelia, which was ceded to the Soviet Union, was commemorated in numerous short films during the armistice. The Karelia series and the poetic narrati...

One of the first made-in-Singapore movies by Shaw Brothers

Introspective psychology for salespeople: "Would you buy anything from the salesman you see in the mirror?"

London was only one of the many cities that was bombed by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. "Manchester Took It Too" is propaganda film showi...

First color film in Bosnia. Bojko shot people bathing and cruising in their boats on the Vrbas river near his hometown of Banja Luka.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the expansion of the Agricultural College No. 27 of San Juan de Matucana as part of the country's industrialization prog...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the city of Huancayo: avenues, industrial centers, architecture, churches, haciendas among others.

A newsreel from the 1940s shows the Hawaiian Club practicing a new water sport brought by Carlos Dogny Larco, in the style of Hawaii and Waikiki, on t...

A 1940s cinematic newsreel about the immigration of 600 people from Europe to Peru, ready for productive work, who will become part of the national co...

Vocational guidance film showing the radio industry as it existed in 1940, along with potential occupations at every level. Introduces the new industr...

A newsreel from the 1940s showcases the seaside resort of Miraflores, highlighting its remarkable beauty, from its hidden corners to the elegance of i...

A commercial film for the Bulgarian beer, Shumensko pivo, showing manual and automatic washing of bottles, pouring beer, a bus decorated with the logo...