1940s Movies

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing...

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the...

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family find themselves trapped in their attic...

On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside following the country's surrender. The occupying...

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

Join Thomas, Allen, And Amber In An All-New Movie Adventure For The Whole Family! When Allen From America Comes To Sodor, He Soon Finds Out That The...

Fear and fascination arise in Muriel Grey when she remembers the figure of her father, who passed away when she was still very young. Thirty years...

Young brother and sister in 1940s New England learn about life, death and faith

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

Based on Larry Loftis’ bestseller of the same name, Dusko Popov is a double agent during World War II who was also a suave and sophisticated...

Set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947, a young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous...

Amid the hysteria of World War II, a Chinese-American private investigator meets with a Japanese-American client and must choose between his desire...

Dora Maar, a world-class photographer who began her artistic career in the French Surrealist scene of the 30s, lived in the shadow of Spanish painter...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage.

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s...

A WWII satire about a secret UK mission to make morale-boosting pornographic films for troops. A ragtag group is tasked with this clandestine...

The Second World War is experienced through the journey of Private Cole, a dramatic study of the contrasting nature between the innocence of...