1940 Movies

A lonely girl faces several odds in society after her mother's death. Later, she gets attracted to a witty man, who decides to marry her.

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...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

A sadistic big game hunter, Hyde Skinner (a self-described Fur Trapper And All Around Dirty Guy),uses a poor little turtle as a pack mule. He does hi...

The challenge of what to feed her family weighs on the mind of hard-pressed Mrs Bond in this surreal wartime film made for the Ministry of Food.

Gviristine is considered the best tea picker in Khidobni collective farm. Together with other harvesters, she is sent to Moscow to attend the Congress...

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

Mystery Pictures is looking for a stunt man. Swee'pea tags along with Popeye, but he sends the tot home. Popeye shows clips of his stunts to the direc...

A few musical numbers from Dave Apollon and His Orchestra.

Jnanambika, the heroine of the film, is the daughter of a wealthy landlord, Rajasekharan. After the death of her mother, her father marries again. Raj...

Dinky is scared off by hunters, finding his way to a farmyard. There he tries to join a chicken family, but is rejected until he saves a chick who's f...

The life of students at the National Political Education Institute (Napola).

Pioneering 3D promotional film about the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The cat-of-the-house is a nuisance to the mice on a cheese-raid in the kitchen. They overturn a box of catnip, cat partakes, and cat goes on a binge v...

Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highwa...

How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.

Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a prom...