1942 Movies

Released in September 1942 by Nippon Eigasha, this 55-minute kokusaku (national policy) documentary follows Japanese paratroopers through every stage...

Presented by the U.S. Navy, this WWII-era color film "Your Ship in Action" shows the construction and launch of a Cleveland class light cruiser, USS D...

tells the story of Dhananjay, who belongs to a conventional family, and his modern wife Chitra. Chitra’s sister Banu and her husband are birth-control...

News items about British dockers, a scrap metal initiative, cartoonist David Low's appreciation of Soviet cartoons, and a tribute to British workers f...

5: "Seattle Trip etc." contains images of clouds, many people in a small boat, a shoreline with small white buildings, a sailboat, rigging on a boat,...

Short film about syphilis.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Manned by veterans and inexperienced youths, hundreds of freighters braved the dangers of the sea to keep open the life-lines of the Allies. The worst...

A documentary edited by Jiří Weiss on the role of Soviet women in the Second World War

Composition no. 3 by Dwinell Grant.

Estrella, a millionaire's daughter, acts impulsively leaving her boring suitor for traveling abroad and marrying a man she has just met. After she has...

Kenneth Anger plays a "chosen adolescent" who is elected to be sent on a trip to Mars in a rocket. He awakes in a Martian maze only to find that he no...

Forest animals do their part for the war effort. A cartoon that makes you proud to be an American.

53: ships on the water, a community along the shoreline (possibly Ketchikan),totem pole, sunsets, views from boat on water, people disembarking ship...

Denver Darling's Hillbillies and their Buffalo Gals.

An RAF instructional film directed at flying cadets with the aim of preventing accidents.

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk short tours North Carolina, first visiting the Cataloochie Ranch near Waynesville, where the ranch hands are shown square-...

Views of the military training and learning activities given to cadets at the Chorrillos Military School during the 1942 academic year.

Gandy appears on the "Dunker's Doughnuts" radio show and recalls a disastrous day when he and Sergeant Sourpuss were training for combat.