1941 Movies

Time-honoured craftsmanship at Corfe, near Taunton in Somerset.

A Soviet documentary by Roman Karmen and Mikhail Slutsky, assembled from 1938–41 footage in Yan’an and at the front, chronicling China’s anti-Japanese...

Short documentary pitching sales of U.S. Defense Bonds and Savings Stamps.

The 1943 Navy training film (MN-84b) Fundamental Fixed Gunnery Approaches is part of a series known as the “Fixed Gunnery and Fighter Tactics” series...

A narrator tells how military recruits are trained on land and sea. Men get a physical, undergo basic training, do duties on board ship for gunnery pr...

Betty driver vehicle

This documentary details Sun Yat-Sen's war against the warlords in China in order to unify the nation.

A documentary on the living practices of farmers in rural japan during the 1940s.

NSB propaganda film, showing images of singing and playing toddlers in the studio during a recording.

A Puppetoon by George Pal.

A 1941 Bengali film directed by Pramathesh Barua; the film was remade in 1963.

Filmed on a playground, Who Has Been Rocking My Dream Boat begins with what was described by Anger as a “montage of American children at play…in the l...

The film tells the story of Bai Xiongmin's maid, Mei Xiang, who was raped by Bai Xiongmin's father, Bai Jiankang, and who was forced to become a prost...

The story is from the heart of life, and revolves around the world of dance and the dancers who wage war against the ruin of full homes, so they steal...

A documentary illustrating the mountain sports activities of the university students of the GUF (Gruppi universitari fascisti) in Val Gardena, Madonna...

A propagandistic documentary.

Gabby makes good on his pledge to 'be helpful' by assisting the local fire department while they put out a fire. When the chief incapacitates himself...

This Traveltalk series short looks at what was then the Alaska Territory, which according to the film, was being looked at as a potential home to mill...

In the early days of medicine, doctors often used a rolled-up piece of parchment as a stethoscope. We also learn that the foxglove contains a drug kno...

Asmara is already in love with Sanusi. But her father, Rasyid, accepts Sumantri’s proposal to marry Asmara with his son, Harun. Enraged by this match,...