1940 Movies

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

“Peter will an die Landi” (1940) humorously broaches the issue of failing: Without success Peter is trying to reach an exhibition in Zurich by differe...

Butterfly, a faithful Japanese wife, waits patiently in Nagasaki for the return of her American husband, Pinkerton. She sees the Stars and Stripes flu...

Impressions of the different jobs in automotive service and suggestions on training leading to entrance and to advancement in the trade.

In a quiet riverside village, rumors spread that a takian tree is haunted, and that its spirit has begun walking among the living as a beautiful but t...

The waterfront and agriculture of the Caribbean island of Grenada in the 1940's.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Bali Brassiere Mfg. Co., with various models showing the company's line of undergarments.

A nostalgic, slightly syrupy tour through the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco by way of archive footage and a chuckling...

How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.

The physics, science and applications of light.

London was only one of the many cities that was bombed by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. "Manchester Took It Too" is propaganda film showi...

A parody of the classic Beau Geste, made on the leftover sets from the 1939 version by San Diego State University students, about brothers Beau, John...

The dead and the skeletons, coming out of the ground, indulge in playful dance to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns, and rejoice in the terror that the...

The plot draws inspiration from crime films of the early 1930s, showing scenes of chases and shootouts between smugglers and police in Callao.

A Santa Fe Railroad educational film on the steam locomotive in their role in industry and passenger travel.

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

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a specific...

Rohini, the princess of Suvarnadesh and her closest friend Mangala is on their way to Prayag, for Rohini is going to be betrothed to Trivikram, the ki...

A farmer is badly disappointed by his thumb-sized son who eventually makes good by sending away for some free garden growth pills.

The prominent scenery of Bali is presented through the journey of a romancing couple. It also features the martial arts skill of a young woman, the te...