1940 Movies

Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.

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.

Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.

A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to tra...

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

Porky Pig provides play-by-play radio-broadcast commentary during a World Series baseball game.

Stone is buying cattle cheap in Mexico, bringing them across the border without paying duty, changing the brands, and then selling them at a big profi...

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939),Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poo...

A little mouse is having a great day tramping through the jungle. Seeing a sleeping lion, he pulls his whiskers as a joke and wants to be friends. The...

A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children Must...

A comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers

Although she is secretly married to a student, a young girl is forced to give up her baby rather than be thought of as an "unwed mother".

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.

A wealthy woman pressures her son-in-law to give her a grandson until her daughter finally gets pregnant.

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to se...