1940 Movies

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death.

A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what Hitler...

A trailer created for the Community Chest features Donald as a charity collector having a hard time.

This Traveltalk series short visits Seattle and other areas in the state of Washington. Seattle was a small city until the 1897 gold rush. During Worl...

The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 an...

This is a documentary feature film created with the aim of informing the public how to avoid the plague of the highly contagious disease marmoset.

A 1940 film.

An owl seeking to add some meat to his dinner adopts several disguises to get into a party being held by some musical bats. They are not fooled for lo...

During a visit to a large department store, a famous female singer has her handbag stolen.

Prince Heinrich Dagobert has a weakness for the opposite sex, which his wife, Rosemarie, isn't exactly happy about. While the prince invites both men...

Little Cute Chickie Duck loves little lucky Dinky Duck but they have a quarrel, which leads their parents to have a quarrel, which leads to a big-duck...

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead...

Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wa...

Mice get into trouble with toys and record players in a closed toy store.

World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.

On an island in the Stockholm archipelago lives a man named Albin who has fallen in love with the new school teacher named Eva. Because of the Winter...

On his journey around the country, Volle has reached Copenhagen with his skarperbør. Volle is an old vagabond who loves his freedom everywhere in the...