1940 Movies

Wartime public information film.

At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edge...

Animation on The Sorcerer's Apprentice began on January 21, 1938, when James Algar, the director of the segment, assigned animator Preston Blair to wo...

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on once-idle land...

Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a rad...

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.

The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.

Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.

A dog thinks he is being chased by small pink elephants, and goes to the hospital. While Porky is working on medication, the pink elephants find him a...

A pro-Japanese propaganda film designed to inspire Korean fishermen to cooperate with the occupying regime.

In a North of England training camp, lovestruck Corporal Kenyon (Harry Kemble) is framed and demoted in rank by a rival in love for the affections of...

A comedy film.

This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.

An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps t...