1940 Movies

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

"Southward Expansion to Taiwan" describes the achievements and achievements of the Taiwan Governor's Office in ruling Taiwan for about forty years. T...

Rohini, the princess of Suvarnadesh and her closest friend Mangala is on their way to Prayag, for Rohini is going to be betrothed to Trivikram, the ki...

A home movie filmed by Carry Wagner during a trip to Guatemala.

A farmer is badly disappointed by his thumb-sized son who eventually makes good by sending away for some free garden growth pills.

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a specific...

The dead and the skeletons, coming out of the ground, indulge in playful dance to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns, and rejoice in the terror that the...

A Santa Fe Railroad educational film on the steam locomotive in their role in industry and passenger travel.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Bali Brassiere Mfg. Co., with various models showing the company's line of undergarments.

The waterfront and agriculture of the Caribbean island of Grenada in the 1940's.

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...

Documentation of patients with deformities.

School children are taught elements of backstroke, breast stroke and front crawl at Cumnock outdoor bathing pool. Followed by demonstrations of each s...

After the Great War of 1914-1918 Britain was left with one predominant desire--to live in peace. Fifteen years later, however, world-stirring events b...

This ethnographic and historical silent 16mm cinematic jewel was filmed in 1940 by Sifrid Miladinov – a professional photographer and amateur filmmake...

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...

A Marathi film by Master Vinayak.

Plant movements in historical films by Wilhelm Pfeffers: geotropic bending of a horizontal Impatiens glandulifera; germination of Vicia faba; developm...

A film by K. Narayan Kale.

Denunciation of Hitler, of “Mein Kampf” to the annexations of European countries