1940 Movies

A color film produced by the Natural History Museum Vienna.

Follows two men who are raised as brothers and compete for the love of the same woman.

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.

The first Slovenian advertisement. Advertisement for the Yugoslav Bookstore, which was located in the premises of today's Dom at 5 Ciril Metod Square...

The science of hearing is explained with animated diagrams of the human auditory system.

"Southward Expansion to Taiwan" describes the achievements and achievements of the Taiwan Governor's Office in ruling Taiwan for about forty years. T...

This film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968),a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, contains footage from approximately 19...

Short propaganda film encouraging swedish aid in the Winter War.

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.

Official War Department Training Film.

How maps are made from earliest times to the present.

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

Film inspired by Ford's "Cycle of Production" exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. At the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Ford assembly li...

The car of a male and female mouse breaks down en route to a football match. A cat in a sleek roadster takes her, leaving the male behind. At the game...

The second Egyptian cartoon starring Mish-Mish. While Mish-Mish Effendi is doing a cabaret number with his bride-to-be, there's an announcement over t...

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...

Documentary about a mission on board a German submarine.

A young man in a leotard leads a group of animals in a sumo wrestling match. The bear is the final victor of all the animals, but then loses when he m...

A short anti-Semitic propaganda cartoon produced in 1940 based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert of the same name.