1940s Movies

Soviet propaganda film. After the end of the WWII, a group of bridge builders comes to the village of Lyubotin, but around them, disturbing the...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

The story of the Spanish Republicans of La Nueve, the 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, part of the French 2nd Armored Division,...

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger...

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

A film about the collective psychological traumas of Ukrainians.

During Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a couple shelters a Jewish perfume salesman in their home. Living with an unknown person brings unforeseen...

This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From...

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a...

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

Staffan returns to Svalöv, his childhood town. The visit becomes an odyssey of his memories with his friends Maria and Janne when they grew up...

It is Singapore in the late 1930s. Kai and Fei are childhood friends and aspiring violinists. When Japan invades Malaya in 1941, Kai chooses to forgo...

George and Katherine plan to marry but war breaks out. When he returns on two weeks leave, but has his marriage proposal put down by Katherine,...

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

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