1940s Movies

The true story of Traian Popovici, a Romanian Mayor that saved 20,000 Jewish People from death during WWII and his friend, who married a Jewish woman...

On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside following the country's surrender. The occupying...

Young Fouad, the son of Adel Pasha, travels abroad to continue his studies. During his absence, Adel Pasha assaults Amina, the widow of Attia, the...

In 1947 by the Beskid mountains, the traces of war still linger, destroyed tanks dispersed throughout the farmland creating an eerie backdrop. This...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s...

A successful writer faces the pressures of finishing her latest novel all while the main character she has written hunts her down, demanding an...

A movie about the education for nurse told from Bente's perspective. She starts at the preschool at Rødkilde Højskole at Møn and...

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on...

Based on a true story, set during the drainage of the Maliq swamp.

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

A film set during World War II - a small partisan unit must ambush a German convoy.

Chapter 10 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between...

Experience the Armistice like never before with over two hours of unique and neverbeforeheard sound recordings These negotiations confirmed Hitlers...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

A trip across three timelines: 1947, where the U.S. Air Force announced — then quickly retracted — that it had recovered a 'flying disc';...

The security forces, loyal to the people, uncover the conspiracy. At the center of the intrigue is an average actor who suddenly becomes dizzy from...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...