1942 Movies

This film is about the Penn School, a school for African Americans in the Sea Islands of South Carolina. It discusses the history of slavery on the is...

A German Nazi Kulturfilm made by the UFA Studios, Warsaw branch, in 1942. It was made to show "how good" the village life is under the new occupiers....

53: ships on the water, a community along the shoreline (possibly Ketchikan),totem pole, sunsets, views from boat on water, people disembarking ship...

Official War Film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps shows the importance of U.S. and allied factories in turning out military arms and vehicles t...

The march towards progress in Ste-Anne-de-Roquemaure manifests itself in various ways. It is the establishment of a cooperative union, a parish hall,...

A film by James Whitney.

The second of Castle Films' Christmas Cartoons released for home projection. Contains a family talking about Santa, the Frank Moser directed Terrytown...

Denver Darling's Hillbillies and their Buffalo Gals.

Commissioned film shot on 16mm Kodachrome film between 1939 and 1941 at the Quebec Provincial Exhibition. Restored by TECHNÈS and MELS from the origin...

A feature-length wartime documentary compiled by Nihon Eigasha, Malayan War Record: A Record of the Onward March chronicles Japan’s 1941–42 campaign f...

5: "Seattle Trip etc." contains images of clouds, many people in a small boat, a shoreline with small white buildings, a sailboat, rigging on a boat,...

Released in September 1942 by Nippon Eigasha, this 55-minute kokusaku (national policy) documentary follows Japanese paratroopers through every stage...

Manned by veterans and inexperienced youths, hundreds of freighters braved the dangers of the sea to keep open the life-lines of the Allies. The worst...

An anthology of Soviet film from 1942.

An idyllic summer sunday in Berlin.

A comprehensive overview of the life and times of Robert Burns, including places he lived and worked, from Alloway to Dumfries.

the continued strength of la patrie under Vichy