1940s Movies

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recounts their story.

Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in...

In the summer of 1946, New York City becomes the stage for a tale of concealed emotions. A woman, burdened with a well-kept secret, embarks on a...

An injured stranger comes to a peasant family that lives in isolation, announcing that he can help them find water, as a drought threatens them.

In 1943, Joseph, a Jewish man, was arrested by the Germans in front of his 13-year-old daughter, Suzanne, in the apartment where they were hiding. By...

The Pearl Harbor Attack by Japan in 1941 and the nuclear bomb explosion in 1945 together led to the independence of Chosun (Korea). Behind these...

A deep dive into the history of the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence leasing First Nations reserves as practice bombing...

A group of young soldiers, fresh out of boot camp, find themselves stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean after their ship is sunk by the...

During World War II, an Italian agent tries to infiltrate the Albanian guerrilla units under the identity of 'engineer Tosti'.

The story of the events of 1941, the beginning of the occupation of Vinnytsia, when the mass extermination of Jews began.

The year is 1940. Bethany is a beautiful hairdresser and owner of a barber shop in the city. On an ordinary day, the new clumsy customer Harry...

A group of expat criminals are coerced into a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a game-changing chemical weapon developed by the Nazis...

Film set in three different times. In the beginning, Miti is killed while defending his land. Then, the film focuses on his son Gjergji who fights...

Based on a true story, set during the drainage of the Maliq swamp.

Chapter 9 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico from 1940...

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World War II, the director Cozarinsky returns to...

After the agrarian reform, a dispute for the land starts between two families in north Albania.