1941 Movies

A homely old maid hen with buck teeth tries to get a boyfriend at an all-chicken barn dance. The only one she's interested in is a cornball practical...

Theater props maker Karel Vajgant has a young wife, Magda, and two children, seven-year-old Pavlík and eleven-year-old Pepička. Magda is a caring moth...

Waste paper collector Mikko dreams of being a wealthy mining engineer who succeeds in all his business ventures. He is also lucky in love when Clas, a...

President Risto Ryti radio voice of the Continuation War 06/26/1941.

The Korn Kobblers and Where the Sweet Mamas Grow.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 October 1941.

Short propaganda piece masquerading as a newsreel.

Documenting the production of kerosene tins and their reuse in rural India, this early short by Bimal Roy observes industrial labor and everyday life...

Two brothers in a remote Indian town are in love with the same girl, a new teacher who has been assigned to the town. The older brother is a brute and...

An exuberant little donkey lives for one thing: the joy of racing at top speed. But his mother, cautions her son to go slow and use care, for misfortu...

A Soundie short starring comedian Willie Howard as a socialist revolutionary.

A spoof of radio quiz shows. The host asks questions, with the contestant getting worse and worse punishments for wrong answers. Professor Cornelius V...

Threatened with deprivation of inheritance, Mohsen travels from Istanbul to Cairo to forcefully marry his cousin Samira, who disguises himself as a ma...

Documentary short film depicting the construction of the Martin B-26 medium bomber and its deployment to the U.S. Army Air Corps, including both engin...

In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer; red...

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

A short wartime propaganda film documenting the initial progress of the AIF 6th Division during the Western Desert Campaign of WWII. The film records...

Two good friends return from long-term military service: Jan Cimbura from Semic and Josef Piksa from Putim. Piksa farms on his own, Cimbura accepts se...