1940s Movies

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...

Short version of the film 'Eingeschneit in Lager IV', released for the home market. The film shows images of the 1938 German expedition to Nanga...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.

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

In the late 1940s, a weary assassin known as the Nighthawk sits alone in a late-night diner, awaiting his inevitable end. Three distinct figures from...

Based on a true story, set during the drainage of the Maliq swamp.

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,...

German war documentary about Yugoslavia from 1941.

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

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

A successful writer faces the pressures of finishing her latest novel all while the main character she has written hunts her down, demanding an...

A film about the collective psychological traumas of Ukrainians.

Filmed in the Colorado Rockies, this film portrays the dangerous sport of mountain climbing and shows special equipment needed, together with its...

A judgmental toy jumps from owner to owner, seeking a Christian boy who can provide him a home.

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...

During World War II, an Italian agent tries to infiltrate the Albanian guerrilla units under the identity of 'engineer Tosti'.

October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb, carries on his back the lifeless body of his...

In an alpine ascent with two customers, a mountain guide hears a distress call from another roped party. After guiding the couple he accompanies to...

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