1940 Movies

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and losing...

A look at Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, 90 miles long, 45 miles wide, and home to a million people. After a quick reference to its history, we see i...

Butterfly, a faithful Japanese wife, waits patiently in Nagasaki for the return of her American husband, Pinkerton. She sees the Stars and Stripes flu...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highwa...

An amateur adaptation of Frankenstein.

Gabby is constable in the village, and the mayor is on his case to catch pig thieves.

While outside in a hotel garden at night, Miss Tang runs into a vampire. Mr. Li tries to find out if it's real or not. It may have something to do wit...

A walrus steals the brandy from a Saint Bernard puppy.

This Traveltalk series short begins in the Wenatchee River valley, where apples are the chief commercial crop. In Spokane, we see the Sunken Gardens (...

Achhut (The Untouchable) is a 1940 social Indian Hindi film based on untouchability. It was the third highest grossing Indian film of 1940. The film w...

A documentary on the anti-Japanese war, once thought to be lost but eventually a print was discovered in the archive of Taiwan.

Unreleased Argentine film.

A rich man has two wives and two brothers-in-law, each of them related to one of the wives. When he decides to go to England, he takes his first wife'...

Dolores, a beautiful young woman, works at the inn Daroca and is courted by the local barber Melchor, and Mr. Patricio, the richest farmer in the regi...

A monkey in a jungle orchestra only has one note to play, but this seemingly easy task will be more complicated than it seems.

A young woman gives birth in Buenos Aires at the time of Rosas. As her husband was a young opponent of the government, supposedly murdered, she must f...

Another entry in MGM's TravelTalks series with James A. FitzPatrick. This time we visit Mexico, which was a popular destination for this series since...