1940 Movies

This short films see men crafting furniture.

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

Against a background of bluish light, several objects appear: a square, a circle, and a set of rods. As the background color occasionally varies in sh...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting a school gymnastics exhibition at the National Stadium, organized by the Directorate of Physical Education and S...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicting the city of Ayacucho.

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the inauguration of several galleries at the National Palace of Photographic Art, an art museum created and main...

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

Porky Pig finds out that Ali-Baba and his Dirty Sleeves plan to attack the fort; it's up to him to go warn the fort. He gets there to discover everyo...

This film shows experiments performed by Soviet scientists reviving the lungs, heart, and even the head of a dead dog.

A newsreel from the 1940s about the romantic corners of Old Lima: The Alameda de los Descalzos, the marble statues and the Church of Our Lady of Patro...

Naval Instructional Film A63.

A nostalgic, slightly syrupy tour through the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco by way of archive footage and a chuckling...

Winata’s preoccupation with his business causes a lot of conflict with his wife, Dasima. Eventually they end their marriage. Then Dasima becomes Samiu...

Documentary on the turpentine industry.

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

Short film of Esso Station in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1940. Depicts refueling, the price of gas on a pump, and car driving off, past another station.

Recorded footage from the New York World's Fair in 1939.

How maps are made from earliest times to the present.

One of the first made-in-Singapore movies by Shaw Brothers