1941 Movies

War documentary short from Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

1941 Oscar nominated short documentary

Filmed on a playground, Who Has Been Rocking My Dream Boat begins with what was described by Anger as a “montage of American children at play…in the l...

Unique; one of the only Japanese cartoons that fully employs the physics of US animation (squash & stretch, follow-thru, weight variation, distort...

The film shows Port Louis, the capital; workers on sugar plantations and road mending as well as colonial life in the then British dependency.

Shows the picking and preservation of Swedish wild berries

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

Jane Withers entertains her teenage friends with archery and jitterbug dancing; Cesar Romero and Patricia Morison play backgammon; Rita Hayworth super...

Enactment of possible events surrounding the Second Coming of Christ.

Karol Plicka was an important musician and composer. He recorded folk songs immediately after hearing them in musical notation to preserve them for fu...

Made for an American audience, this is edited, narrated and written by three women, with no director credited.

Filmed after the start of the blitz, but with little visual reference to this, 'City Bound' is an exploration of the daily commute into London from th...

Village life in Ingermanland

Yuerong is an downtrodden orphan girl. She is taken in by Erhe, a rickshaw driver, whose neighbors, recognizing her intelligence and singing talent, r...

In spring, the fox is busy partying. On the other hand, the diligent raccoon dog family works hard in the fields even in the hot summer and are ready...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 May 1941.

A Soundie with Ginger Harmon.

The Neighborhood Community (Tonari-gumi) was the smallest unit of population which was the national mobilization program established by the Japanese g...

Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.