1940 Movies

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

Instructional film detailing the drill for arming and using the guns in the Fraser-Nash turret (as used in Vickers Wellington and Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft).

Short film of Esso Station in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1940. Depicts refueling, the price of gas on a pump, and car driving off, past another station.

A documentary film about the tidal flat ecosystem directed by ornithologist Shimomura Kenji. It is also said to be the original form of Japanese ecological documentary films. We took two years of long-term photography at Gyotoku Coast in Chiba Prefecture and A...

Shows home, work and school activities of a middleclass Japanese family.

A farmer is badly disappointed by his thumb-sized son who eventually makes good by sending away for some free garden growth pills.

How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.

The plot draws inspiration from crime films of the early 1930s, showing scenes of chases and shootouts between smugglers and police in Callao.

During the war, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) would often make morale-boosting visits throughout the UK.

The third film in the Fantasmagoria series.

Dirty Willie learns about why nobody wants to play with him. He has a dream that he is working and is fired for being dirty. Then we learn about germs.

Karelia, which was ceded to the Soviet Union, was commemorated in numerous short films during the armistice. The Karelia series and the poetic narration by a female voice bring memories to the surface for at least every Vyborg resident. "Our old Vyborg, the ci...

One of the first made-in-Singapore movies by Shaw Brothers

VS of ruined and damaged houses and of rescue workers digging amongst debris after severe earthquake in Peru. GVs. of homeless people congregating at area where tents and makeshift huts are assembled to house them.

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting government initiatives to modernize the Satipo region into a prosperous industrial community accessible throughout the country. It features the Victoria Bridge, the region's only means of transportation, the town with its...

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a specific project. For example, a visit to the Lincoln Park Zoo might inspire the design and construction of figures of...

The first Slovenian advertisement. Advertisement for the Yugoslav Bookstore, which was located in the premises of today's Dom at 5 Ciril Metod Square in Ljubljana.

A short documentary about the 'chess village' of Ströbeck, Germany, that ends in a game of human chess.

A 1940 film on the Indian Air Force by J B Wadia. Going by the location and the presence of these officers and aircraft, it is believed that the film was shot at Ambala Airfield, and sometime between Feb 1940 and June 1940. At that time, the Squadron had di...