1940 Movies

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

This Traveltalk series short takes viewers on a tour of old New Mexico. Starting in Santa Fe, the oldest state capitol in the USA, the city existed lo...

Well-known canine performers of the 1930s vie for a part in an upcoming movie.

Health film using unusual imagery and metaphors to impart lessons in hygiene.

A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 July 1940.

On the search for weird and amazing creatures living on the seashores... This short movie played before The Thief of Bagdad (1940) during its original...

The painter Raafat loves Amal, who is absent from her appointment as a result of her injury in an accident, and he tries to forget her with his love f...

In pre-independence India, a wealthy young zamindar brings a village girl of illegitimate birth into his household after her mother’s death. As she gr...

Holiday traditions celebrated in Sweden

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

The surviving parts give a powerful picture of the work and livelihood of the reindeer Sámi, which was a living reality during the filming. Mäkinen wo...

A butterfly gets trapped by a spider, but a grasshopper comes to save her.

Alibaba and his son live with his rich brother Cassim. Marjina and Zabba are two slave girls who work in Cassim's house. Marjina and Alibaba's son are...

A workshop owner goes on a trip to the desert and goes missing. Everyone thinks he is dead. His wife takes over the work of the workshop. She meets a...

The Yugoslavian Royal Army's review at the Banjica neighborhood of Belgrade in 1940.