1940 Movies

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.

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 game...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 July 1940.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 June 1940.

Rupert is the smallest pig of the litter, and all the farm animals bully him and won't give him a spot at the feeding trough. Sulking in the woods, he...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 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 peddle...

Rube Goldberg looks for a perfect Perpetuum Mobile design, while petroleum and internal combustion engine technologies open new frontiers.

Savor the sounds of big band jazz and swing with this compendium of live performance clips from some of the genre's most legendary musicians. Besides...

1940 film starring Chittor V. Nagaiah, Giri A.S. and Kumari

The waterfront and agriculture of the Caribbean island of Grenada in the 1940's.

Film inspired by Ford's "Cycle of Production" exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. At the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Ford assembly li...

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 medi...

A farmer is badly disappointed by his thumb-sized son who eventually makes good by sending away for some free garden growth pills.

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, b...