1940 Movies

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.

A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.

A young man, despite his qualification, can not find work and, after several attempts, asks a classmate, who is secretary of the President of an impor...

Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.

Liliane Springer, the daughter of Antwerpen office manager, has fallen in love with a football player, Raymond Smet. The trouble is that he is the sta...

A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a doctor who has to join the army and work at war. The fo...

An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.

In 1910, the landlord's daughter Agnes from the Steiermark gets to know the diplomat Hans. They have a short love affair and then part from one anoth...

Japanese propaganda film

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends he...

Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.

Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.

A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar.

Teacher František Kmoch is suspended because he plays at dances or composes at night. He forms a band in Kolín and his supporter Baron Hrubý helps him...

A play by Noël Coward recorded for radio starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing...

Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barre...

"One Tenth of Our Nation" is a 1940 documentary directed by Felix Greene that documents the historical and contemporary conditions of African American...

The Deacon is on his way to church in the Deep South and sees a brother from the congregation setting out to do some Sunday fishing. The preacher advi...