1940 Movies

A Cartune short featuring Punchy.

A 1940 film on the Indian Air Force by J B Wadia. Going by the location and the presence of these officers and aircraft, it is believed that the film...

This short films see men crafting furniture.

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Reverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular nightspot where drinking and dancing are the rule. No o...

An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success...

It all started when the family of a rich farmer, Stanek, moved to a small village and his daughter Liduška fell in love with a poor violinist, Toník....

How did a beautiful American divorcee get into the bed of her best friend's fiancé right after returning to Budapest?

Karelia, which was ceded to the Soviet Union, was commemorated in numerous short films during the armistice. The Karelia series and the poetic narrati...

Mrs Roti treats her first daughter Hian Nio badly. On the other hand, she treats her other daughters, as her favorites. Hian Nio has a boyfriend, Kian...

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

In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.

A newsreel documenting King George VI's inspection of Australian troops stationed in England, alongside scenes of their military training and off-duty...

A commercial film for the Bulgarian beer, Shumensko pivo, showing manual and automatic washing of bottles, pouring beer, a bus decorated with the logo...

King Chakra is going about his usual palace duties, granting audiences to his advisers, including his Lord Chamberlain, who is keen to see the king fu...