1940 Movies

A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.

The Sugar Plum Fairies are fairies responsible for controlling the change of the seasons. To accomplish this, there are different types of them to con...

Jeppe Aakjær's heroic poem about Jens Langkniv becomes something more than the story of a robber in a small parish in Jutland.

In this episode of A Color Rhapsody, the blackboard drawings come alive, as the characters on screen gather together for class. This Columbia classroo...

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

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov. About how collectivization was carried out on the Don in sharp contradictions, difficult and...

In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, b...

Japanese propaganda film

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby. Since he doesn't want to fall asleep, she turns to her neighbors for help.

In this 1940 entry from Columbia Pictures' "Color Rhapsodies" series, three television pioneers demonstrate how TV works. Featured is singer Madame Di...

Old Virtanen is a respected night watchman at a textile factory and a single father to his daughter Aino, who is about to graduate from high school. T...

A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.

Andy Panda gets a magic kit in the mail.

The bull makes short work of the matador, and then turns on Porky, a tamale vendor who wanders into the ring accidentally. But then he makes the mista...

New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking to steal it to sell it to a foreign power.

We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.