1940 Movies

Featuring the clash between modern thinking against traditional conservatism, the story has the troubled romance between the noble princess, RA Rusmin...

Police work during World War II in Britain.

Scrappy is deep-sea fishing when a bottle floats by his boat. In this corked bottle is a secret treasure map. There's a chest of gold on the ocean flo...

This was a Columbia cartoon starring the human boy Scrappy in which the leading character is an assistant to a mad scientist character who creates a r...

"The people of Tampere have always understood what prosperity leads to..." An excellent city documentary filmed by Tampere's own man, Uno Pihlström (1...

Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.

In the late 1930s, Yuldashev, a journalist, came to one of the sanatoriums in Uzbekistan. He wants to write an article about a warrior hero. But every...

A trailer created for the Community Chest features Donald as a charity collector having a hard time.

Prem Nagar is a small, happy and contented village somewhere in India. A tiny spark of anger flared up a misunderstanding, a quarrel, jealousy, and gr...

The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.

Laxmi, an "untouchable" woman fights for her community's rights against societal discrimination. She faces personal hardship and resistance from autho...

Savonlinna introductory photo. Nälkälinnantorni, Kyrönsalmi, Olavinlinna, Linnankatu, Olavinkatu, Bathhouse and casino, beach, harbor, inland waterway...

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

The prologue shows a Swedish home, where a family discusses what "a handful of rice" can mean. The action then moves to Thailand and shows the life of...

In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, b...

A government-sponsored short documentary commissioned by the Ministry of Information during WWII.