1942 Movies

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...

Henry Browne, an African American farmer, and his family are profiled in this film. The important job of a farmer during times of war is highlighted,...

Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in sear...

An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that...

A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.

Two rival newspaper editors in New York send journalists to the South Pacific to dig up new material.

By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero...

1942 Short restored in true form

From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of 'acted films', which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of WWII,...

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

This film explains what makes up the national income and how it is spent. It also suggests that savings be invested in war bonds and certificates.

A Rooster finds that none of the housework, cooking or chick-minding is going on when the hens join the WAACs. Throwing themselves into a first-aid co...

A recently unearthed experimental documentary of the crashing sea set to Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave." An example of the filmmakers' "new cinema" the...

An animated travelogue instructs vacationing Northerners on proper tourism etiquette when visiting Miami Beach.

In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately,...

Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photographer Andy Parker and British secret service agent...