Most Viewed Year 1940 - 86

Holiday traditions celebrated in Sweden

Lance White portrays the Fuhrer as a short-tempered incompetent in his slapstick Adolf's Busy Day.

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

This film was originally made in black-and-white 3-D for the 1939 New York World's Fair, and proved so popular that it was remade in 1940 in color...

A Traveltalk look at the exteriors of Washington, D.C.'s famous buildings and monuments.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1940.

Edgar, a broken-down race horse, becomes a fugitive from a glue factory and is ousted from his park bench and chased by the police. He upsets a...

A sadistic big game hunter, Hyde Skinner (a self-described Fur Trapper And All Around Dirty Guy), uses a poor little turtle as a pack mule. He does...

Documentary about bears where the animals were filmed completely undisturbed.

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,...

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

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

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

In Tang Dynasty China, poetry exams for officials drove young men to study. Zhu Yingtai, a scholar's daughter, disguised herself as a man to attend...

This one-reel short is comprised of footage depicting the intelligence of birds and animals when their mental processes, through training, are...

Barja falls in love with Siti, the daughter of his uncle, Haji Hartawan. However, his feelings are unrequited, and this sparks Barja’s anger....

A government-sponsored short documentary commissioned by the Ministry of Information during WWII.