1940s Movies

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...

Set in 1944, The Farm Boy is a black and white feature film. A love story and adventure, the film is loosely based on the real life story of the...

The film tells the story of the events in Western Ukraine before the outbreak of World War II, the rise of Soviet rule, changes in borders, and the...

22-year-old Miles Davis embarks on a transformative trip to Paris in 1949, where he falls into a passionate romance with Juliette Gréco, the...

Shpresa goes to the house of fascist collaborators to commit an assassination. After that, dressed as a bride, she becomes an illegal.

Film set in a remote mountainous area where work and living conditions are harsh.

German war documentary about Yugoslavia from 1941.

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

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage.

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

An animated documentary about the life of Fredy Hirsch, the German Jewish and gay prisoner who led children’s programming in Terezin and...

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

Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the...

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,...

Detective Renthro gets more than he bargained for.

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family find themselves trapped in their attic...

In 1948 Malaya, WWII vets Iz and Abe face vengeful ex-ally Chin Liu, who betrayed them during the war and now leads terrorists to their village....

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