1944 Movies

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

Teen-Age is another "exposé" film of the 1940s, cheaply made but widely distributed. In the guise of a warning against wartime juvenile delinquency, t...

A dramatised account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War II, directed by Jiří Weiss and written by acclaimed author...

Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At...

One of several WW II-era "juvenile delinquent" dramas, Youth Aflame was filmed two years before its 1945 release, and frankly looks much older. It's t...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelih...

The plot revolves around the confusion and misunderstandings that arise when a package labeled "Postlagernd 212" arrives in a small Swiss village. The...

Ferda Mravenec (Ferda The Ant, 1944 ) runs over ten minutes, telling the tale of an ant colony versus a spider. This one is teeming with characters, w...

Planning a vacation, Woody reads in the newspaper about Swiss Chard Lodge which promises lots of good food (which, as Woody says, is his "favorite dis...

After the death of the girl's father, Berlanti, her means of life become more limited and her mother falls ill, so Berlanti is forced to work as a sin...

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.

French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two g...

A married couple is vacationing at Lake Wörthersee. Two female friends discover the husband's clothes and camera on the shore. Since they are currentl...

The bank is preparing to solemnly celebrate the 15th anniversary of the institution. And at that moment, two events took place that turned everything...

A free adaptation of Gottfried Keller's novella "Romeo and Juliet in the Village," which reveals elements of the Nazis' blood-and-soil ideology: Vroni...

Documentary about the cultivation of cassava, a plant used to make tapioca. The film begins with a presentation of Madagascar and its capital Tananar...

A short documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde.

The titular Marie-Louise is a young French lass who is evacuated to Switzerland when her country is overrun by the Nazis. Suffering a nervous breakdow...