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...

This Traveltalk series short takes viewers on a tour of old New Mexico. Starting in Santa Fe, the oldest state capitol in the USA, the city existed lo...

The film vividly tells us about the socialist competition between the Georgian and Ukrainian Kolmeurnei, which will grow into a cordial friendship and...

The story of an unemployed graduate who falls in love with a woman who ran away from her cruel husband.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 April 1940.

Ignác Semmelweis is 18 and is in Vienna, training to become a judge-advocate, to comply with the wishes of his family. He is, however, attracted by th...

A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, th...

Captures the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.

In a village in Manchuria, a group of Japanese settlers struggle against the elements to create wet rice paddies.

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...

In this crime drama, a renowned eye surgeon goes mad and murders the lover of his wife. He is later given a life-sentence to be spent in a mental hosp...

A film directed by Paul L. Stein.

A cub reporter goes after his story in a big way when he single-handedly exposes a crime ring.

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...