1942 Movies

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to sites in Massachusetts. Places visited include Plymouth Rock and harbor; John and Priscilla Alden's 3...

An affectionate portrait of the Colombian scientist and writer César Uribe Piedrahita. Shot in the quiet intimacy of his country home in Sasaima, the...

Skits by Charlie Chaplin dramatizing the bonds of friendship, love, marriage, and victory.

American training film, made by the OSS (Office of Strategic Services),about what a body search may entail, and advice on how an agent could avoid de...

Anatomical doc

At a hotel near Cold Mountain, travelers find a book titled Cold Mountain Night Rain in the library. The story goes: One stormy night, two officers es...

Cab Calloway and his Cabaliers sing "Blues in the Night".

The arrival of the German army in Riga. Registration of Latvian volunteers, parade in Dome square, parade in Riga streets. The first volunteers go to...

Soundie with Ginger Harmon singing "Tica Ti Tica Ta."

Erskine Hawkins and his jiving Sepia Scorchers are "Hot in the Groove."

60 "4th Julys, games, wedding, birds" scenes of men with an octopus, a procession of people coming out of a church and going back into church, row boa...

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous...

A single man must pretend to be the father of a teenage girl and will end up marrying her mother.

One of Boris Barnet's contributions to the "films for the armed forces" series, about the suffering of Poles under Nazi occupation.

A silhouette animation version of Princess Kaguya, also known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a 10th century folk tale.

Vintage United States Navy Training Film.

Training film for military pilots of the Bell P-39 Airacobra pursuit aircraft, examining flight techniques, cockpit layout, and armament.

Why prices for goods in Canada are rising due to World War II.