1941 Movies

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

Famous Hollywood director Robert Grimble arrives in the antipodes to make an epic flick about pioneering women, and launches a quest to find a girl wi...

The story of a rich man's son who has just reached the age of adolescence. With his money and good looks, he starts out to conquer the world, especial...

Terry and his gang stow away on board an ocean liner.

The Tsokotukha fly is abducted by a spider during the birthday celebration, but is saved by a noble mosquito.

Venice Film Festival 1941

A Soundie with The Eton Boys.

Alberto, who has a beautiful voice but is afraid to sing in public, and the shy Anna, daughter of a very rich shoe manufacturer, take "lessons of cour...

A silent, non-narrative documentary showing people in a small town in the early 1940s. One of H. Lee Waters' "Movies of Local People".

Narrates the story of a homeless shoeshine boy who lives under a bridge.

Hindi version of the film starring Mazhar Khan, Gajanan Jagirdar and Anees Khatoon. In a small village in India, the villagers of different communitie...

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

Andy invests the money his wife gave him to pay the bills into a sure-fire money-making scheme, a girl's softball team made up of out-of-work chorus g...

Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra performing "I Want a Big Fat Mama."

Stars and stripes forever and ever and ever. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

a short animation from Oskar Fischinger, drawings with periodic colour coding and some cells completely painted.