Most Viewed Year 1940 - 90

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.

A young man in a leotard leads a group of animals in a sumo wrestling match. The bear is the final victor of all the animals, but then loses when he...

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

Diagnostic Procedures in Tuberculosis documents how to perform particular tests for tuberculosis.

A training documentary describing basic flight information for pilots of the Curtiss-Wright P-40 Warhawk pursuit aircraft.

Victor Young and his Orchestra play "Tiger Rag".

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 Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1940.

The title character has his truck in the circus caravan disintegrate and he wanders into an abandoned house where where he winds up drinking some...

It's basically a series of visual gags that takes place on a greyhound race track with the racers chasing a mechanical rabbit attached to a gate...

A lion with a Bert Lahr voice can't stand being cooped up in a cage at the zoo, and escapes to confront the man who captured him in the first place,...

Lye edited together “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk (including Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grapelli on violin),...