1943 Movies

Stepin Fetchit introduces a band which plays several numbers, including "Cow Cow Boogie" and a swing version of "Rigoletto." Dorothy Dandridge appears...

Rules in Fog. Sound signals. Title screen says, “Fog signals must be used in fog, mist, falling snow or heavy rain-storms, whenever visibility falls b...

Short film about shepherds in the Puszta

USAAF Documentary Film

An official U.S. War Department film restricted in nature and produced by the US Army Pictorial Service, “The Japanese Army and Navy” is a black-and-w...

This film from 1943 explains the mysteries of sound recording on film.

Summer of 1943. The biggest Finnish film stars get together for charity and stop by an allotment of a veteran left disabled from the war. Helping with...

Excerpts compiled by OSS to try to provide a basic understanding of the social, economic, political and religious aspects of Japanese culture and how...

Laundry soap brand Rinso was quick to jump on the 1940s fuel rationing bandwagon and remind housewives that, unlike other soaps, Rinso required very l...

Made to support WWII war workers, this 1943 War Department Training film was part of a series that covers the care and use of essential tools such as...

U.S. WWII War Department training film -- "Infantry Weapons and Their Effects" -- covers the major infantry weapons in use by the U.S. Army.

Documentary short film detailing the first high-altitude daylight bombing of Germany by American B-17 bombers.

"A documentary of high plasticity, with geometric framing, a radical editing that links long slow-paced shots with close-ups of sand, skin and nets th...

WWII: The Japanese threat warrants a fortification of the northern territories, which prompts a herculean effort by the US Army Corps of Engineers to...

A U.S. Army training film made during World War II to teach soldiers hand-to-hand combat techniques.

How America mobilizes.

Bollywood 1943

Cartoonist Joe Noble has fun suggesting different shapes and uses for barrage balloons.