1940 Movies

A 1940 film.

Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a prom...

Jnanambika, the heroine of the film, is the daughter of a wealthy landlord, Rajasekharan. After the death of her mother, her father marries again. Raj...

Venice Film Festival 1940

Shipwrights, plate-fitters and riveters are busy at work in shipyards around Britain, but make time to talk to well-known newsreader, E.V.H. Emmett, a...

Titi loses her mind after her beloved child passed away. His husband, Suria is in love with Kartinah, the nurse. But he does not want to have two wive...

Reverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular nightspot where drinking and dancing are the rule. No o...

A walrus steals the brandy from a Saint Bernard puppy.

Mendel and Hannah Shapiro, an elderly Jewish couple who run a small farm in New Jersey, must get money to meet their mortgage payment to the bank by t...

This Traveltalk series short begins in the Wenatchee River valley, where apples are the chief commercial crop. In Spokane, we see the Sunken Gardens (...

A look at Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, 90 miles long, 45 miles wide, and home to a million people. After a quick reference to its history, we see i...

Gabby is constable in the village, and the mayor is on his case to catch pig thieves.

Achhut (The Untouchable) is a 1940 social Indian Hindi film based on untouchability. It was the third highest grossing Indian film of 1940. The film w...

A comic look at prehistoric life.

Norwegian Drama based on Oscar Braathen's Novel.

The organisation of medical services in Britain during the Second World War.