1943 Movies

Documentary short film detailing the work on American black college campuses in response to the call for military recruits and trained workers.

About the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.

While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one--is saved from disaster by a gregarious local girl. She winds up becoming not only his leading lady in the movie but, because of...

Sound news footage fragment showing the signing of the Japan-China Alliance.

Previously thought to be lost, this film documents life in Poland in 1938. Narrated by Eve Curie. Nominated for the Academy Award.

Soundie with a dance performance from Jayne Dodge & Roye Dodge.

A look at the Scottish town of Aberfeldy during the Second World War as troops arrive on leave.

Eddie Peabody charms three women with music.

An employee embezzles a sum belonging to the company where he works and loses it by making a wrong speculation. The employee's sister asks her fiancé for the dough so she can save her brother from shame. The fiancé refuses; then the girl decides to confront th...

Part of the Imperial War Museum Collection. Produced by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Defence and the Admiralty in 1943, Close Quarters is an authentic impression of a routine wartime Royal Navy submarine patrol in the North Sea, off the coast of No...

Wingy Manone sings and plays "The Saints Come Marching In".

Visit various Nova Scotians at home, work and leisure while giving a panoramic view of the province’s coasts, farms and forests.

This film documents one of the end of the year exhibitions of student work from the 1940s. It begins with a collection of abstract sculptures of cast white plaster. It then moves to drawings illustrating specific problems, kinetic sculptures, a composite photo...

A portrait of the (current day) University Library in Bratislava as both a historical stand and a generator of Slovak scholarship.

A short documentary about a small province on the east coast of Canada.

World War II propaganda film made to show an American audience that the Dutch were and would continue to be valuable allies in the fight against the Axis powers.

A short anti-war film denouncing the destruction of Polish national culture under the Nazis.

Plugger is annoyed at seeing empty butcher's shelves. Beef is needed, explains Mrs. Plugger, to feed the soldiers overseas. Plugger cheerfully buys a chicken.

A little man has the job of ringing the clock tower bell in his village but his timekeeping is poor and things look bleak until he discovers Kelloggs Corn Flakes breakfast cereal.