1940 Movies

Training film made for Ford.

Norma is a girl who sacrifices her personal happiness out of respect to her parents. Her lover, a poor young man named Idrus must let go of Norma when...

Luís immigrated to the USA and intends to become an American. But after his father invites him on a journey to the Portuguese territories in Africa, h...

This medium-length documentary film, which is also slightly advertise-driven, goes through the process of selection and training of young talents at t...

Documentary on lobster fishing.

Short designed to encourage the use of Technicolor for instructional and advertising films. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1995.

Johnny is a troubled 15-year-old who falls in with a bad crowd, steals a car and gets caught by the police. However, instead of sending Johnny to refo...

A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the p...

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Tiga Kekasih, before being...

On the outbreak of the Second World War an idler is forced to join the army by his domineering wife.

Shipwrights, plate-fitters and riveters are busy at work in shipyards around Britain, but make time to talk to well-known newsreader, E.V.H. Emmett, a...

Prem Nagar is a small, happy and contented village somewhere in India. A tiny spark of anger flared up a misunderstanding, a quarrel, jealousy, and gr...

Mendel and Hannah Shapiro, an elderly Jewish couple who run a small farm in New Jersey, must get money to meet their mortgage payment to the bank by t...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking on...

Shows how the RAF's barrage balloon squadron are trained, and then on the job.

A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.

Tsukinosuke narrowly misses capturing the lord of the phantom castle by a hair's breadth. The mountain map was with Kirisaku at the Ashiwara residence...

Young engineer is fighting against conservatives who don't want to find new oil deposits.