1940 Movies

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

This absurdly pro-business film tells the story of a young man who learns a lesson about capitalism and how his town is dependent upon its factories f...

Vocational guidance film showing the radio industry as it existed in 1940, along with potential occupations at every level. Introduces the new industr...

Health film using unusual imagery and metaphors to impart lessons in hygiene.

Shows home, work and school activities of a middleclass Japanese family.

“Peter will an die Landi” (1940) humorously broaches the issue of failing: Without success Peter is trying to reach an exhibition in Zurich by differe...

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.

The car of a male and female mouse breaks down en route to a football match. A cat in a sleek roadster takes her, leaving the male behind. At the game...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 July 1940.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

Savor the sounds of big band jazz and swing with this compendium of live performance clips from some of the genre's most legendary musicians. Besides...

Film inspired by Ford's "Cycle of Production" exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. At the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Ford assembly li...

A farmer is badly disappointed by his thumb-sized son who eventually makes good by sending away for some free garden growth pills.