Most Viewed Year 1940 - 97

Rohini, the princess of Suvarnadesh and her closest friend Mangala is on their way to Prayag, for Rohini is going to be betrothed to Trivikram, the...

"One Tenth of Our Nation" is a 1940 documentary directed by Felix Greene that documents the historical and contemporary conditions of African...

Denunciation of Hitler, of “Mein Kampf” to the annexations of European countries

A parody of the classic Beau Geste, made on the leftover sets from the 1939 version by San Diego State University students, about brothers Beau, John...

First color film in Bosnia. Bojko shot people bathing and cruising in their boats on the Vrbas river near his hometown of Banja Luka.

While a reception is being prepared for the Queen, a baby feeds from a bottle of milk, restores vigor to the schoolboy doing his calculations, to the...

A short film on locomotives in Japan.

Produced by Bell & Howell, this short explains the basic principles of motion pictures and, by animation, shows how sound is recorded on a strip of...

A woman in love with a doctor is harassed by another man and she ends up taking care of orphans.

Short documentary about distributing mail and packages both in the past and with the help of the 1940’s modern technologies. The viewer can...

The prominent scenery of Bali is presented through the journey of a romancing couple. It also features the martial arts skill of a young woman, the...

Shipwrights, plate-fitters and riveters are busy at work in shipyards around Britain, but make time to talk to well-known newsreader, E.V.H. Emmett,...

With no dialogue, the film shows how a public library can be not only a place for quiet reading, but also dynamic information center. Features the...

Wartime Japanese movie involving a woman who visits the front.

Metal, glass, electrical and lighting elements, and a frosted-glass screen in an oak cabinet

Abandoning any figurative reference, Veronesi realizes a true "abstract" film, constructed through the rhythmic succession of splashes of color,...

Dirty Willie learns about why nobody wants to play with him. He has a dream that he is working and is fired for being dirty. Then we learn about...

Introspective psychology for salespeople: "Would you buy anything from the salesman you see in the mirror?"

Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a...