1940 Movies

The story of two brothers, Dhiraj and Shashi, and their rivalry. The cunning Dhiraj mortgages their ancestral property, causing complications for his...

P. U. Chinnappa, plays in dual role, as twin brothers. One is a tyrant king and the other is a brave commoner, separated at birth. Loosely based on Al...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

This documentary was produced on the request of the Korean railway-organisation during the Japanese occupation of Korea. The news-coverage in those da...

A travel film showing the magnificent scenery of the Rocky Mountains as seen from the highway linking Banff and Jasper National Parks.

Comedy set in Switzerland. An estranged honeymooner, mistaken for an ice- hockey champion, helps England to win an international ice hockey match.

The wealthy Ottó Dárday is angry with his heirless relatives and marries his maid Julcsa. Only six months after his death does she discover that he ha...

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...

Fishing and agriculture, transport, the archaeology and scenery of the Shetland Isles.

Mrs Roti treats her first daughter Hian Nio badly. On the other hand, she treats her other daughters, as her favorites. Hian Nio has a boyfriend, Kian...

Hajnally Ödön, engaged to the wealthy daughter Buday Klári, faces financial ruin as he struggles with debt. Anticipating a substantial dowry from Klár...

Anatasio Cordero arrives unexpectedly in a confined physical environment: the home of a Lima bourgeois family member, which he is entrusted with guard...

Documentation of patients with deformities.

"Released in mid-September 1940, Florida, Land of Flowers would be the first Technicolor Magic Carpet of Movietone to hit the screen. The location was...

A home movie filmed by Carry Wagner during a trip to Guatemala.

Recorded footage from the New York World's Fair in 1939.

Shows the shortage of civilian goods during World War II and illustrates, using diagrams, how uncontrolled buying leads to inflation. Bidding for avai...

An American Indian girl disguises a friendly mountain lion as a dog in order to keep him as a pet.

An exploitation film showing bare breasted women in western costumes playing ping pong.

A film about military service dogs and their use in air signal, guard, medical and communications services.