1944 Movies

An interesting & fun novelty act, Reg Kehoe & His Marimba Queens star in one of the simply marvelous soundie A Study in Brown (1944). The grou...

Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a co...

Documentary short film detailing the history of the American Women's Army Corps, the WACS. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Co...

This short film describes how Chris Musser of Spring Run Farm in York County, Pennsylvania has adopted soil conservation practices--contour farming in...

Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he comes to the Social Democratic fold after heroical...

Set against the backdrop of WW II in Calcutta, "Meri Bahen" is the story of a schoolteacher and his young sister. The film followed his rise to fame a...

A pro-Japanese film in which a teacher at a school in an island village gives her students a comprehensive education, encouraging them to also volunte...

The local doctor Aarno works with his nurse wife Asta. After the death of their child, the spouses have distanced themselves from each other. The man...

A Jewish radio announcer broadcasts the imminent arrival in France of Allied liberators; US planes flown by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Popeye, (an...

In the town of Nowhere, the main street is divided by a broad green line. The mice live on one side. The cats live on the other, and never cross over...

Highlights the history of balloons.

Chahine’s first film, made while he was still a student at the Victoria School in Alexandria, titled “School Life”

Highlights of the Allied advance from Normandy to Antwerp during World War II.

A Japanese propaganda film that the fate of romusha is better and honorable than workers in the Dutch colonial era (Rodi).

Second World War British Ministry of Information animated cartoon newsreel trailer encouraging the public to make fewer social telephone calls in orde...

The Modernaires sing "Juke Box Saturday Night".

Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.

A little dog tries to steal some bones from a pile of wartime scrap bones (intended for a victory drive) that's being guarded by a big, mean bulldog.