1942 Movies

A documentary edited by Jiří Weiss on the role of Soviet women in the Second World War

Second part of the Mare Senki (Malaya War Record) series produced by Nihon Eigasha in 1942. While the first installment documented the Japanese advanc...

An Italian documentary.

In the previous year, the harvest had been very poor and many farmers starved durng the winter. With the new growing season, it looks as if the harves...

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong

The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapi...

A tour of Southern Brazil in the 1940's.

Released in September 1942 by Nippon Eigasha, this 55-minute kokusaku (national policy) documentary follows Japanese paratroopers through every stage...

Denver Darling's Hillbillies and their Buffalo Gals.

There Won't Be a Shortage of Love from Teddy Powell's Orchestra.

1942, 3 minutes, 16mm, color, silent. A self-portrait.

Operation Of Diesel Engine Governors, Overspeed, Overspeed Trip And Regulating Governors.

Manned by veterans and inexperienced youths, hundreds of freighters braved the dangers of the sea to keep open the life-lines of the Allies. The worst...

Asha, a rich woman, is in love with Ashok, a poor but academically brilliant man. However, her father does not approve of him and wants her to marry D...

A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.

The first film adaptation of the popular corrido/awit of the same name about a prince disguised as a deformed beggar.

Composition no. 3 by Dwinell Grant.

Footage of the Basque leader, Jose Antonio de Aguirre during his time spent in exile in New York.

Kenneth Anger plays a "chosen adolescent" who is elected to be sent on a trip to Mars in a rocket. He awakes in a Martian maze only to find that he no...

The second of Castle Films' Christmas Cartoons released for home projection. Contains a family talking about Santa, the Frank Moser directed Terrytown...