1940 Movies

Mrs Roti treats her first daughter Hian Nio badly. On the other hand, she treats her other daughters, as her favorites. Hian Nio has a boyfriend, Kian...

A look at Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, 90 miles long, 45 miles wide, and home to a million people. After a quick reference to its history, we see i...

A lion with a Bert Lahr voice can't stand being cooped up in a cage at the zoo, and escapes to confront the man who captured him in the first place, b...

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the meeting of former students of Colegio Sabogal, now Instituto Sabogal, for the forty-fifth anniversary of its foundin...

A newsreel from the 1940s shows the drinking water of Lima, Callao, and its coastal resorts. It reports that the water is considered to be of the high...

A newsreel from the 1940s shows a group of cyclists demonstrating their skills at the Campo de Marte. Among those present at this sporting event were...

View to Lake Viljandi. A family strolling by the lake. People with rowboats on the lake. Swimming competition in the lake pool. Boat harbour. A man wi...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 July 1940.

A father tries to take picture of his easily distracted daughter, which is made more difficult by an angry group of dogs.

'Dog' wants to find out how to win friends and influence cats and gets a few more kittens than he bargained for.

This short documentary offers a close-up view of a hectic hockey game in which the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers fight to break a tied...

A documentary film about the tidal flat ecosystem directed by ornithologist Shimomura Kenji. It is also said to be the original form of Japanese ecolo...

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

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...

Early peruvian film.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the expansion of the Agricultural College No. 27 of San Juan de Matucana as part of the country's industrialization prog...

A film about Peruvian peasant farmers in the 1940's.

A newsreel from the 1940s about the journey through the Peruvian jungle shows the Marañón River with motorboats and the engineers' camp preparing the...