1940s Movies

In the days leading up to Partition, a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man. Soon, she finds herself not only forced into marriage, but living in...

The story of Fred Paterson, member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament in the 1940s and the only Communist Party member ever elected to any...

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

This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From...

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the...

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...

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

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to...

Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess...

Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in public until the fall of the dictatorship that...

Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists...

Young revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha fights for Indian Independence in the early 1900s.

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma...

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami,...

Roger Rabbit is given the task of babysitting Baby Herman by Mrs. Herman, or risk "going back to the science lab". From his crib Baby Herman spots a...

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.

In autumn 1943—in the build-up to D-Day as South England is flooded with American soldiers—Miss Roach, a publisher’s reader bombed...

The story of student love in the most difficult times, because even during the Protectorate, young people liked to have fun, dance, and fall in love....

Film set after World War II. A group of kids notice a shady new resident in their neighborhood.