1943 Movies

Cartoonist Joe Noble has fun suggesting different shapes and uses for barrage balloons.

Amateur colour footage by Sir Clarmont Skrine from 1943, showing the people, landscapes and landmarks of numerous places in Iran.

The campaign to take back the small administrative and port centre of Salamaua from the Japanese army constituted one of the most important actions in the battle for New Guinea.

"A documentary of high plasticity, with geometric framing, a radical editing that links long slow-paced shots with close-ups of sand, skin and nets that tell the story of a day at an Argentine beach" Ángela Lopez Ruiz.

USAAF Documentary Film

In this WWII short training film, a Japanese sniper, who has just been captured by an American soldier, explains how easy it was to pick off ten troops from the G.I. platoon, due to mistakes they, themselves, had made.

The notion of socio-political outcry arises out of multiple superimpositions of Labour Day demonstrations, banners and speeches. The outcry also reaches an artist, who is barely able to evade the pull of the street.

"We know that victory is won only through the sweat of workers and the blood of soldiers. Out there, there isn't one unimportant soldier, back here there isn't a single unimportant worker." Another film about the critical importance of wartime production broug...

A documentary about everyday life in Aunus Karelia in the second year of the Continuation War. As the film tells the story, every village has a primary school.

A newsreel from the 1940s reports that, following the conclusion of diplomatic negotiations between our country and Ecuador, the Boundary Commission established the border markers. The film also shows the President of the Republic inspecting the completed work...

Our Enemy-The Japanese is a 1943 16mm propaganda film produced by the US Navy and Office of War Information to provide background knowledge about the wartime foe.

Instructional film stressing the importance of preparation and an exact knowledge of the aircraft's position in the execution of low-level attacks.

Part of the Nazi film series "Die Frontshau" (The Front Show) which was produced to supposedly ready German troops, to whom the series was exclusively screened, for the German assault on Soviet territories (1941-1943). The film is listed as FS film number 8.

A young poet reading on a bridge is approached by a mysterious robed figure, who points towards the river before throwing him from the bridge to his death.

A message from Adolf Hitler to the Latvians that they are here to save them from Bolshevism.

"The Boogie Man" from Johnny Long and His Orchestra.

Propaganda film about the contribution of the American farmer to the war effort.

Military training film exploring techniques of aerial dive bombing.

The film promotes Canada's Food Rules in an effort to get Canadians to be strong and healthy by getting the necessary vitamins in their diet. A series of healthy foods, all that originate from farm raised items, are shown, emanating from those images the lette...