1940 Movies

A young woman falls in love with her university classmate but her father is against it. She disappears and soon there are rumours that her spirit haun...

Time for the big horse race. We drop in on the fillies, who gossip in New York accents. That's followed by a pre-race fashion parade. In both of these...

In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To...

Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvania...

Young engineer is fighting against conservatives who don't want to find new oil deposits.

The music score in this film is performed by Oriental Novelty Five, a Hawaiian music group.

Bandhan is a 1940 Indian Bollywood film directed by N.R. Acharya. It stars Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar and Suresh. It was the second highest grossing I...

Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.

A film directed by Paul L. Stein.

Tour of an auto parts and accessories factory climaxing with a stop-motion product parade.

Ching Kwok-yuen, a bird hunter, sees a female ghost harming people and shoots her to scare her away. The female ghost harbors a grudge and waits for a...

This short dramatizes how profoundly the inventions of Thomas A. Edison have affected the world in which we live. In addition to the electric light, E...

This Lone Ranger spoof pits the Lonesome Stranger and his horse Sliver against a gang of Mexican banditos known as the Killer Diller Boys.

An English fellow lectures about his trip to the Gobi desert to find a dinosaur egg.

Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.

Filmed operetta about a wealthy Provencal man who puts those lining up for his inheritance through a series of colorful adventures, only to reveal to...