1944 Movies

A compilation of some of the action (on sea, air, and Normandy beach) that took place from D Day to Day Plus 3, 6-9 June 1944. Likely shown at SHAEF h...

Five musical performances from "South of the Border"

A humorous depiction of farm animals' need for proper fodder, Grim Pastures shows a horse and a cow both racing for the same bit of grass. The distrac...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy originally shot "Design Workshops" as a silent film to which he lectured when he presented the program of the Institute of Design....

An interesting & fun novelty act, Reg Kehoe & His Marimba Queens star in one of the simply marvelous soundie A Study in Brown (1944). The grou...

Chahine’s first film, made while he was still a student at the Victoria School in Alexandria, titled “School Life”

A romantic drama or a social film exploring themes of love, emotional expression, hidden feelings, or personal desires and the conflicts or joys that...

WWII documentary film on helping child victims of war.

Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.

This documentary from the World in Action series tells the story of the great Allied invasion of Northwest Europe in 1944. The film reviews the prepar...

Demonstrates the differences between alternating current and direct current arc welding processes, and in particular the finer control available with...

The local doctor Aarno works with his nurse wife Asta. After the death of their child, the spouses have distanced themselves from each other. The man...

In order to verify if her husband is cheating on her, a woman fakes her death and returns home pretending to be her twin sister.

Second World War British Ministry of Information animated cartoon newsreel trailer encouraging the public to make fewer social telephone calls in orde...

Propaganad film about the fight against nazism.

A short animated film that explains the necessity of curtailing the consumption of civilian goods in wartime.

Mexican movie

Documentary short on Nyborg, Denmark.