1940 Movies

Plant movements in historical films by Wilhelm Pfeffers: geotropic bending of a horizontal Impatiens glandulifera; germination of Vicia faba; developm...

Juha Tiisjärvi, a 79-year-old coppersmith from Nurmo, casts and finishes small bells in her workshop.

Short film of Esso Station in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1940. Depicts refueling, the price of gas on a pump, and car driving off, past another station.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

VS of ruined and damaged houses and of rescue workers digging amongst debris after severe earthquake in Peru. GVs. of homeless people congregating at...

This film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968),a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, contains footage from approximately 19...

Early peruvian film.

After the Great War of 1914-1918 Britain was left with one predominant desire--to live in peace. Fifteen years later, however, world-stirring events b...

Soviet essay film, previously thought to have been lost. The film depicts the development of Ukraine along the Dnipro River, positing Kyiv as a model...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicting the province of Pacasmayo.

Instructional film detailing the drill for arming and using the guns in the Fraser-Nash turret (as used in Vickers Wellington and Boulton Paul Defiant...

"Southward Expansion to Taiwan" describes the achievements and achievements of the Taiwan Governor's Office in ruling Taiwan for about forty years. T...

Animated instructional film reminding aircrew to always wear their oxygen masks when flying at high altitudes.

Pebble Punch is a 1940 animated theatrical commercial produced for The Coca-Cola Company under the Minitoons series by Cartoon Films, Ltd. (formerly t...

This short films see men crafting furniture.

First color film in Bosnia. Bojko shot people bathing and cruising in their boats on the Vrbas river near his hometown of Banja Luka.

Rohini, the princess of Suvarnadesh and her closest friend Mangala is on their way to Prayag, for Rohini is going to be betrothed to Trivikram, the ki...

Documentary about a mission on board a German submarine.