1940 Movies

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

At Walpurgis Night (the Witches' Sabbath),Chernabog, God of evil, emerges from the peak of Bald Mountain (in reality Mount Triglav, in Slovenia) to s...

The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.

Daffy Duck convinces Porky Pig to quit the cartoon biz and try his luck in the features. Porky's adventures begin when he tries to enter the movie stu...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1940.

Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.

"One Tenth of Our Nation" is a 1940 documentary directed by Felix Greene that documents the historical and contemporary conditions of African American...

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Dad Rudd wants the size of a local dam increased for the benefit of local farmers but faces opposition from a wealthy grazier, Henry Webster. When the...

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists...

Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middl...

Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the F...

The life of students at the National Political Education Institute (Napola).

A stark documentary film about the economic and educational crises the mountain people of rural Appalachia faced at the tail end of the Dust Bowl peri...

Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance by...