1940s Movies

  • 1941
    Popular Science J-0-5

    Popular Science J-0-5

    Popular Science J-0-5

    71941HD

    Huge electric sign operated by photo cell animation; freshwater fauna propagated by Carolina Biological, sold and used for research; pickup and...

    Popular Science J-0-5
  • 1977
    Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front

    Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front

    Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front

    91977HD

    A retrospective on Hollywood's role in the war effort in World War II, narrated by Johnny Carson.

    Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front
  • 1977
    Achtung! The Desert Tigers

    Achtung! The Desert Tigers

    Achtung! The Desert Tigers

    3.81977HD

    During World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are...

    Achtung! The Desert Tigers
  • 2019
    Winter Journey

    Winter Journey

    Winter Journey

    82019HD

    Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of...

    Winter Journey
  • 1996
    Eine kleine Jazzmusik

    Eine kleine Jazzmusik

    Eine kleine Jazzmusik

    101996HD

    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....

    Eine kleine Jazzmusik
  • 1997
    Hitler's Forgotten Victims

    Hitler's Forgotten Victims

    Hitler's Forgotten Victims

    101997HD

    The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration...

    Hitler's Forgotten Victims
  • 2015
    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    Summer Solstice

    5.6742015HD

    Romek is a Polish railway worker and Guido is a German soldier. They are both 17, in love with jazz and the same pretty girl. But it's 1943 somewhere...

    Summer Solstice
  • 2023
    The Problem of the Hero

    The Problem of the Hero

    The Problem of the Hero

    102023HD

    In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway...

    The Problem of the Hero
  • 1941
    Popular Science J-0-6

    Popular Science J-0-6

    Popular Science J-0-6

    91941HD

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

    Popular Science J-0-6
  • 1948
    Will It Happen Again?

    Will It Happen Again?

    Will It Happen Again?

    91948HD

    An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisure at the Berghof, their Bavarian residence.

    Will It Happen Again?
  • 2011
    Memorial Day

    Memorial Day

    Memorial Day

    6.22011HD

    Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put...

    Memorial Day
  • 1940
    Popular Science J-0-3

    Popular Science J-0-3

    Popular Science J-0-3

    81940HD

    Pliofilm plastic (rubber hydrochloride) and applications in raingear, food packaging, a transparent dress. Also, hybrid giant vegetables; plastic...

    Popular Science J-0-3
  • 1945
    – Og en lys og lykkelig Fremtid!

    – Og en lys og lykkelig Fremtid!

    – Og en lys og lykkelig Fremtid!

    81945HD

    A documentary/extrended commercial for FDB Møblerc (FDB Furniture).

    – Og en lys og lykkelig Fremtid!
  • 1984
    The Woman of Wrath

    The Woman of Wrath

    The Woman of Wrath

    5.71984HD

    A woman resorts to prostitution out of hunger and commits suicide shortly after, leaving her daughter to embark on an equally cruel path.

    The Woman of Wrath
  • 2024
    Hey Joe

    Hey Joe

    Hey Joe

    6.52024HD

    In postwar Naples, an American sailor falls deeply in love with a young woman, but when his service ends and he returns home, she is left alone and...

    Hey Joe
  • 1985
    Gunpowder

    Gunpowder

    Gunpowder

    61985HD

    At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that...

    Gunpowder
  • 1994
    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    5.71994HD

    Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political...

    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
  • 2020
    Stolen Children

    Stolen Children

    Stolen Children

    02020HD

    June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland...

    Stolen Children
  • 1942
    The Navy Comes Through

    The Navy Comes Through

    The Navy Comes Through

    61942HD

    A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

    The Navy Comes Through
  • 1948
    Miracle in Harlem

    Miracle in Harlem

    Miracle in Harlem

    7.51948HD

    A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime.

    Miracle in Harlem