1940 Movies

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes...

A ranch owner gives the Cheyenne Kid $1000 and sends him off to buy cattle. At the same time he fires a ranch hand and that hand rides ahead and alert...

A little mouse is having a great day tramping through the jungle. Seeing a sleeping lion, he pulls his whiskers as a joke and wants to be friends. The...

A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to exact justice. But he can no longer sate his thirst f...

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

Film-within-a-film: two men eating lunch at restaurant see another Shell Oil film entitled "The Largest Club in the World" with Lew Lehr and Don Wilso...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edge...

Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced...

How To Improve Immigrants' English (1940s Instructional Film). Originally called '48 Paddington Street', British Pathe issued this as a cinema newsree...

Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.

A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germ...

A wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home, Inspector Hanaud investigates..

A dance film idealising poverty made mainly to showcase Bose's talents. Labour leader Suryashankar is jailed for trade union activities and, when rele...

A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.

Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm decide to take up egg collecting, setting their eyes upon a big barn owl egg. But the big barn owl isn'...