1940s Movies

In postwar Naples, an American sailor falls deeply in love with a young woman, but when his service ends and he returns home, she is left alone and...

Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to...

Montreal, 1940. The Second World War is raging in Europe. Pierre Sauvageau, 22, would like to enlist, but he has to take care of his twin sister,...

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined...

In his second international bestseller, "Arc de Triomphe," author Erich Maria Remarque explores his own experience of exile and his decisive...

In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest...

During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.

Rare film about skiing, shot in the Nuria Valley in 1941, with the participation of the first company of skiers of Nuria. The documentary entitled...

It's 1929. Antonio immigrates from Italy to become a success as an artist in America. Mary leaves Ireland to make a better life for her child. Their...

The film is based on the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, recorded by the Shoah Foundation, The Institue for Visual History and Education in...

Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffering wife Else raise their daughter Rita during...

The events in the film are based on the life of the Scholler family of German origin, who lived in Azerbaijan since the 1940s.

After the war, the country is plagued by famine. The secretary party committee, Martin Kreka, leads a campaign to gather the grain that is sold in...

During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.

Pliofilm plastic (rubber hydrochloride) and applications in raingear, food packaging, a transparent dress. Also, hybrid giant vegetables; plastic...

Alberto Manzi is twenty years old and wants to be a teacher. He gets the job at a juvenile correctional facility, to then get transfered to a proper...

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

In autumn 1943—in the build-up to D-Day as South England is flooded with American soldiers—Miss Roach, a publisher’s reader bombed...