Most Viewed Year 1940 - 85

A cub reporter goes after his story in a big way when he single-handedly exposes a crime ring.

A 1940 film.

A day in the life of a 'typical' English family. Intended for African distribution.

Short designed to encourage the use of Technicolor for instructional and advertising films. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1995.

A short anti-Semitic propaganda cartoon produced in 1940 based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert of the same name.

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

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...

A cartoon that illustrates the old adage that you can take a pig to Switzerland, lead him to the snow, but you can't teach him to ski. But he might...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1940.

The film takes place in Russia during the World War I. Three Hungarian POWs are on the run from their Russian captives. One of them gets shot down....

Winata’s preoccupation with his business causes a lot of conflict with his wife, Dasima. Eventually they end their marriage. Then Dasima...

The story concerns an attempt by fifth columnists to gain control of Australia's supplies of wolfram, a mineral used in the manufacture of munitions,...

This film was originally made in black-and-white 3-D for the 1939 New York World's Fair, and proved so popular that it was remade in 1940 in color...

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

Gabby is constable in the village, and the mayor is on his case to catch pig thieves.

Fishing and agriculture, transport, the archaeology and scenery of the Shetland Isles.

Commercial for Hylins Rakin shaving cream where Lasse Krantz uses the shaving cream to get smooth skin and become more believable when he dresses up...

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Mutiara, before being...