Most Viewed Year 1940 - 79

A concert film

A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what...

An exchanged suitcase and a burglary with an actress give occasions to whirl a family with daughters-in-law and brides hard in a mess. Old mistake...

Actors Liselotte Schaak and Erik Ode travel from Weimar to Karlsbad in an early version of the Volkswagen Beetle (KdF-Wagen der Nullserie).

The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of...

On the outbreak of the Second World War an idler is forced to join the army by his domineering wife.

The film deals with the Winter War of 1939-40 between Finland and the USSR. It begins with military exercises in the Autumn of 1939 and moves on to...

In front of television crews and thousands of spectators, Spaceship-1—commanded by Commodore Hardt, inventor of the powerful rocket fuel...

This labor advocacy film is about diseases plaguing miners in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Sponsored by the Tri-State Survey Committee, "Men and...

Cosmopolitan mixture of variety acts are presented in an international café: Spanish dance, Hawaiian song, Italian street singer, Cossack...

A rich man has two wives and two brothers-in-law, each of them related to one of the wives. When he decides to go to England, he takes his first...

The music score in this film is performed by Oriental Novelty Five, a Hawaiian music group.

In 1932, University of Georgia agriculture professor Paul W. Chapman wrote a novel about the Future Farmers of America (FFA), The Green Hand, in...

Gran'pop Monkey opens a nursery, but the mischievous baby animals overwhelm him and his two assistants.

Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

A depiction of the life of a pampered dog belonging to a rich family. It gets egg-shampoos and all sorts of other annoying indignities heaped upon...