1940 Movies

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

Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a...

Directed by Homi Wadia.

Film-within-a-film: two men eating lunch at restaurant see another Shell Oil film entitled "The Largest Club in the World" with Lew Lehr and Don Wilso...

Johnny is a troubled 15-year-old who falls in with a bad crowd, steals a car and gets caught by the police. However, instead of sending Johnny to refo...

The story focuses on a middle-class family. It introduces us to two characters: Corina, secretary of Don Emilio Condal, and his brother Julián, a news...

This Canadian produced film spotlights the young flyers of the Canadian Air Force in the early days of World War II. Quite well done and rarely seen....

A woman in love with a doctor is harassed by another man and she ends up taking care of orphans.

This pulse-pounding documentary from the leftist filmmaker Herbert Kline traces the rise of Hitler up to the very brink of WWII. The commentary, writt...

This Traveltalk series short looks at several landmarks and neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sights include the Cathedral of St. Louis, Pirate...

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.

A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

Second Generation Married Couple

A young Norwegian woman lives in a remote fishing village Dreaming of life in the big city, she sends her photo to a beauty contest. She is appointed...

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.