1940 Movies

Fishing and agriculture, transport, the archaeology and scenery of the Shetland Isles.

Len Lye’s camera-less film animates “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk—featuring Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stéphane Grappelli on violin...

Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personalities at a fund-raising gala and encouraging recruitm...

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on a...

To become a great wrestler, the strongest of the village's young men leaves his fiancée to join a sumo stable in Edo.

Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.

Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a b...

A trailer created for the Community Chest features Donald as a charity collector having a hard time.

The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 an...

Star-crossed lovers, Robert and Ariana, are caught up in the New Zealand wars of the 1860s. Ariana is claimed by the Maniapoto people as one of thei...

This labor advocacy film is about diseases plaguing miners in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Sponsored by the Tri-State Survey Committee, "Men and Dus...

Agya Betal, the demonic ruler of Maldweep, kidnaps Anarbala (Shanta Kashmiri),the daughter of Maharaja Madan Singh, and keeps her hidden away in a ma...

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

In 1910, the landlord's daughter Agnes from the Steiermark gets to know the diplomat Hans. They have a short love affair and then part from one anoth...

In a camp of sailors, the suicidal and solitary life of Greta, which makes men lose their heads.

Intern Plichta arrives to work at a country estate, where there is a strict ban on marriage for officials, issued by the count. However, Plichta meets...

Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes th...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 November 1939.