1940s Movies
- 2002
Zoot Suit Riots
Zoot Suit Riots02002HD
On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that...
- 2020
The Sign Painter
The Sign Painter6.32020HD
A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go, his...
- 1996
Eine kleine Jazzmusik
Eine kleine Jazzmusik01996HD
- 1970
The Violinist
The Violinist01970HD
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...
- 1979
Crimson Shores
Crimson Shores81979HD
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...
- 1949
Kuckelikaka
Kuckelikaka01949HD
Annika and Bo want to surprise their mother with a homemade cake on Mother's Day. However, not everything works out so easily.
- 2000
Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell
Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell52000HD
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940...
- 1980
Tanglewoods' Secret
Tanglewoods' Secret01980HD
Young brother and sister in 1940s New England learn about life, death and faith
- 2003
Chaplin Today: 'The Great Dictator'
Chaplin Today: 'The Great Dictator'6.42003HD
A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."
- 1982
Broken Sky
Broken Sky61982HD
Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed...
- 2010
La Nueve, the Forgotten Men of the 9th Company
La Nueve, the Forgotten Men of the 9th Company7.52010HD
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,...
- 1963
Third Time
Third Time4.21963HD
The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war,...
- 1971
Mountains Clad in Green
Mountains Clad in Green101971HD
Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.
- 1979
Rosnička
Rosnička01979HD
- 1994
Saturnin
Saturnin7.61994HD
Saturnin je sluha, který se stane pánem svého pána. Mladý muž dobrého společenského...
- 2011
Hella W
Hella W4.72011HD
The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman,...
- 1970
Elsa
Elsa01970HD
Set in Oslo 1945, Elsa the film explores national identity, heroism, vengeance, and sexual freedom.
- 2009
The Interrogation
The Interrogation6.22009HD
Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will...
- 1967
Victory Over Death
Victory Over Death101967HD
World War II. Albania is under the Nazi occupation. The Germans capture two young girls and torture them to learn more about the communist movement.
- 1991
A Day in October
A Day in October61991HD
During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing...