1940 Movies

This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South.

Follows two men who are raised as brothers and compete for the love of the same woman.

The conflict between ducklings and frogs escalates into war. However, a lightning strike makes the fighters realize the trivial nature of their battle...

Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispat...

A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.

Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wif...

A romantic story about a rich girl, who is not used to household work, charms many men while working in the "Haukka" manor. The reason for this under...

A comic look at prehistoric life.

The life and works of Michelangelo are presented by German actor Mathias Wieman, in the the historical context of the High Renaissance era. A much re...

The greengrocer Ferdinand Strubel wants his daughter Marianne to marry the son of the brewery owner Baron von Schnackenberg. Since Strubel is an impo...

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appea...

Three kittens are cruel and mean to an orphan kitty. Their mother adopts the little orphan.

World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.

This black-and-white archival film outlines the importance of Canada's forests in the national war effort during the Second World War.

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.