1940 Movies

A day in wintertime Budapest. Shot in an avant-garde style, the study extended over the smallest details of everyday life, observing everybody from wo...

A color film produced by the Natural History Museum Vienna.

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.

A young couple face a crisis when they experience an unexpected, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, touching on themes of unwanted pregnancy and illegal aborti...

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

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.

An educational film about how a backward impoverished village was able to prosper thanks to the initiative of the village youth who began to grow toba...

Mother Hen's kids are aspiring singers and actresses, but Chester wants to become a G-Man. This fantasy of his lands him into trouble.

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.

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

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

“Peter will an die Landi” (1940) humorously broaches the issue of failing: Without success Peter is trying to reach an exhibition in Zurich by differe...

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...