1940 Movies

The first Slovenian advertisement. Advertisement for the Yugoslav Bookstore, which was located in the premises of today's Dom at 5 Ciril Metod Square...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the traditional festival of Saint John the Baptist in the pampa of Amancaes, in the current district of Rímac, every J...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the festivities honoring the Virgin of Alta Gracia in Ayaviri, one of the most important cities in the Puno region a...

A newsreel from the 1940s shows a group of cyclists demonstrating their skills at the Campo de Marte. Among those present at this sporting event were...

A short anti-Semitic propaganda cartoon produced in 1940 based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert of the same name.

From the Home Movies Collection.

Documentary about the process of building tanks in Germany during the early days of World War II.

In 1932, University of Georgia agriculture professor Paul W. Chapman wrote a novel about the Future Farmers of America (FFA),The Green Hand, in which...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the inauguration of the First National Silversmithing Exhibition, held in the halls of the Museum of Culture in...

The dead and the skeletons, coming out of the ground, indulge in playful dance to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns, and rejoice in the terror that the...

The science of hearing is explained with animated diagrams of the human auditory system.

Herring seine fishing in Rymättylä in the summer.

The journey along the Elbe River begins with a train ride through the countryside, exploring the river’s course and the life of river boatmen. Key loc...

"An early color film presented as 'Ascent to the Bernina Massif'. Two mountaineers break from the Forno hut and first climb the Punta Rasica and then...

In pre-independence India, a wealthy young zamindar brings a village girl of illegitimate birth into his household after her mother’s death. As she gr...

1940s newsreel about the large crowds at "Agua Dulce" beach during the holidays.

Reportage about the most dangerous occupations and work locations.