1940s Movies

Shot in 1941, this black-and-white instructional film (featuring actor Alan Ladd) serves as a veritable time capsule on the history of the sport,...

Set during WWII when artists were being blacklisted in Communist witch-hunts, follows the star-crossed love story of a young poet and a young female...

The film is based on the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, recorded by the Shoah Foundation, The Institue for Visual History and Education in...

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing...

A ghost story set in 1943 in the dilapidated manor of Great Ashfield House. When two disparate worlds collide, the boundaries between the living and...

Staffan returns to Svalöv, his childhood town. The visit becomes an odyssey of his memories with his friends Maria and Janne when they grew up...

Preparation of "spawn" for commercial mushrooms, which grow to the tune of "You Came Along." Also: extraction & uses of snake venom; personal dress...

Inside a literary cafe, novelists convene to trade ideas, imagine stories and dream of greatness. Inspired by the works of Hungarian writer Jenő...

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.

Vlado has just passed his high school diploma and is starting a job as a home tutor in the family of a big businessman. He finds himself in a very...

Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed...

On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Ludwig...

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera,...

World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe, and the boots of the Third Reich echo through the streets. But on a quiet city corner in the...

Four partisans are tasked with delivering a song to the Congress of Përmet.

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

Set in 1944, The Farm Boy is a black and white feature film. A love story and adventure, the film is loosely based on the real life story of the...

We meet the young violinist Erik Smith in the lap of his family with his wife Lise and his little daughter Lone. Erik is a young, aspiring musician...

Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three...