1940 Movies

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess h...

Fifth-grade students, misbehaving during an air-raid drill, smash a cabinet in the physics lab. Lev Prokushev, one of the perpetrators, takes a micros...

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

This educational short examines the chemical makeup of film and the process in which it's developed.

Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein shot during 1931-32 in Mexico f...

The four sailing school cadets Gerhard, Fritz, Kurt, and Christian are close friends; there's hardly anything they don't do together. But when the cha...

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

Donald takes a kayak trip. When he gets to his campsite, he unloads the kayak, fights with his folding chair, and goes to sleep. Meanwhile, the chipmu...

Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic i...

Christmas Eve, and Sniffles is determined to stay awake to see Santa. Not an easy task.

On the outbreak of the Second World War an idler is forced to join the army by his domineering wife.

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

A comic look at prehistoric life- about how boy might have gotten girl.

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves...

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Krava...