1940 Movies

Wartime Japanese movie involving a woman who visits the front.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the meeting of former students of Colegio Sabogal, now Instituto Sabogal, for the forty-fifth anniversary of its foundin...

Against a background of bluish light, several objects appear: a square, a circle, and a set of rods. As the background color occasionally varies in sh...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the education children receive at this school, founded in 1930, mentions that there are 87 kindergartens throughout th...

A color film produced by the Natural History Museum Vienna.

A Marathi film by Master Vinayak.

How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.

Dirty Willie learns about why nobody wants to play with him. He has a dream that he is working and is fired for being dirty. Then we learn about germs...

Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a prom...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the Lima festival of San Juan de los Amancaes, a time when Lima revives one of its most vibrant celebrations. The fi...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the journey through the Peruvian jungle shows the Marañón River with motorboats and the engineers' camp preparing the...

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a specific...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting government initiatives to modernize the Satipo region into a prosperous industrial community accessible througho...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts a gathering at La Atarjea field by members of the university club of Americans residing in Lima. A pachamanca (a tra...