1940s Movies

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s...

Documentary film of the Swiss newsreel about climbing in the Kreuzbergen. The film was produced in August 1943 by the Zurich company Gloria Film AG....

Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in...

En cordée is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Aiguillette D'argentière. It was directed by Jacques Berr in 1942 and...

On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside following the country's surrender. The occupying...

The true story of Traian Popovici, a Romanian Mayor that saved 20,000 Jewish People from death during WWII and his friend, who married a Jewish woman...

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

In 1940s outport Newfoundland, young Sadie struggles to cope with the tragic death of both her parents.

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

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...

Knatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s. Knatten tries to earn money while Janne...

Annika and Bo want to surprise their mother with a homemade cake on Mother's Day. However, not everything works out so easily.

A winter ascent of Piz Bernina by Swiss mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. The film also shows images of avalanche research,...

Experience the Armistice like never before with over two hours of unique and neverbeforeheard sound recordings These negotiations confirmed Hitlers...

A feature adaptation of the 2022 Ann Petry novel about a young Black woman and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and...

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had a good working relationship with a...

Story of a man who, at the end of the 1940s, attempted to cross the Czechoslovak border illegally like many others to escape the communist regime and...