1940 Movies

While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how t...

We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.

Diagnostic Procedures in Tuberculosis documents how to perform particular tests for tuberculosis.

At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son.

The main character of the funny story is an ordinary typist Julinka Svobodová, who works for the established business firm Hrubý a syn and lives in a...

Mr. Smith Goes Ghost

This movie's preamble explains the importance of salesmanship after the great depression The industrial revolution has created a life of modern conven...

Porky finds out that Ali-Baba and his Dirty Sleeves plan to attack the fort; it's up to him to go warn the fort. He gets there to discover everyone ha...

An industrial short produced by Pražská železářská společnost (Prague Ironworks Company) in 1939, the film contains footage from the shorts Výroba oce...

Gviristine is considered the best tea picker in Khidobni collective farm. Together with other harvesters, she is sent to Moscow to attend the Congress...

In a large fish export company, the general manager's talented son Hugo holds a trusted position. When one day 500 kroner is missing from the cash reg...

Based on Japanese author Toshitaro Takeda's novel of the same name, the film centers around Takako, who unveils a past relationship between her husban...

A documentary on the anti-Japanese war, once thought to be lost but eventually a print was discovered in the archive of Taiwan.

This cartoon is by Rudy Ising, and is the last of a long line of black animal musicals done at MGM in the late 30s and early 40s.

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to Alaska, focusing on the cities of Sitka and Juneau.

Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes th...

A self-loving and arrogant priest, strolling through the market square, is looking for a "cook, stable boy and carpenter" who would work for him dilig...

To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.