1940 Movies

Savonlinna introductory photo. Nälkälinnantorni, Kyrönsalmi, Olavinlinna, Linnankatu, Olavinkatu, Bathhouse and casino, beach, harbor, inland waterway...

A Disney theatrical anthology

One of the European explorers wrote to his friend Hamdi Bey that there were mummy graves on the outskirts of Alexandria that had not yet been discover...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Shipwrights, plate-fitters and riveters are busy at work in shipyards around Britain, but make time to talk to well-known newsreader, E.V.H. Emmett, a...

Doria is a student in a boarding school. She falls in love with an arrogant young man who decides to follow the straight path out of his love for her....

A lonely girl faces several odds in society after her mother's death. Later, she gets attracted to a witty man, who decides to marry her.

Shankar abandons his religious wife Durga and takes their son Mohan into a life of crime. Years later, Durga raises her second son Kumar to be virtuou...

This short dramatizes how profoundly the inventions of Thomas A. Edison have affected the world in which we live. In addition to the electric light, E...

Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance comp...

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby. Since he doesn't want to fall asleep, she turns to her neighbors for help.

A monkey in a jungle orchestra only has one note to play, but this seemingly easy task will be more complicated than it seems.

1940 Telugu language film

A nostalgic, slightly syrupy tour through the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco by way of archive footage and a chuckling...

It's basically a series of visual gags that takes place on a greyhound race track with the racers chasing a mechanical rabbit attached to a gate (thou...

"An early color film presented as 'Ascent to the Bernina Massif'. Two mountaineers break from the Forno hut and first climb the Punta Rasica and then...