1940s Movies

In Japanese, “shi kata ga nai” means “it can't be helped”. As a phrase, it represents the philosophical basis of the Japanese...

Jimmy McNamara is an ex-writer and WWII vet turned accountant who receives a call from Vivian, his ex-fiance and nightclub singer. Vivian got a...

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,...

Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will...

In the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII, Awa and Ibrahim are a young couple whose lives are...

A film set during World War II - a small partisan unit must ambush a German convoy.

The waterfront and agriculture of the Caribbean island of Grenada in the 1940's.

After the end of the WWII, a group of bridge builders comes to the village of Lyubotin, but around them, disturbing the peaceful life, the...

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recounts their story.

A film and novel of romance, drama, and strength. A story that highlights the beauty of Caribbean culture and tells the story of every Caribbean...

The documentary that captures the compelling story and eyewitness account of six survivors in war-torn Netherlands during World War II.

An unbaptized woman is killed because of the regressive mentality existing in the mountains of northern Albania.

After the agrarian reform, a dispute for the land starts between two families in north Albania.

The film features B-movie actresses boarding a TWA airlines flight to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Phoenix, Arizona and Boulder City, Nevada. The women...

Detective Renthro gets more than he bargained for.

German war documentary about Yugoslavia from 1941.

Chapter 10 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between...

Ashamed of being gay, Touko draws erotic pictures of muscular men to release his sexual tension. Through his art he becomes an international gay...

An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.