1940s Movies
- 2022
Shantaye's World
Shantaye's World02022HD
A film and novel of romance, drama, and strength. A story that highlights the beauty of Caribbean culture and tells the story of every Caribbean...
- 1943
The Herring Murder Mystery
The Herring Murder Mystery01943HD
A man working in a fish cannery has a guilty conscience and begins to imagine he is a murderer. In his delirium/dream the fish try him for murder in...
- 1970
Death March
Death March01970HD
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese...
- 1970
Wittgenstein's Poker
Wittgenstein's Poker01970HD
On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Ludwig...
- 1997
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
Hitler's Forgotten Victims101997HD
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration...
- 2020
Stolen Children
Stolen Children02020HD
June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland...
- 2007
The Reckoning: Remembering the Dutch Resistance
The Reckoning: Remembering the Dutch Resistance02007HD
Documentary - The Reckoning: Remembering the Dutch Resistance is the international award-winning documentary that captures the compelling story and...
- 2005
Suzanne
Suzanne02005HD
In 1943, Joseph, a Jewish man, was arrested by the Germans in front of his 13-year-old daughter, Suzanne, in the apartment where they were hiding. By...
- 2020
Akiko's Piano: Chords Played by the Surviving Piano
Akiko's Piano: Chords Played by the Surviving Piano02020HD
1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing...
- 2019
The Crying Fields
The Crying Fields02019HD
A deep dive into the history of the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence leasing First Nations reserves as practice bombing...
- 2021
A Barber's Kiss
A Barber's Kiss02021HD
The year is 1940. Bethany is a beautiful hairdresser and owner of a barber shop in the city. On an ordinary day, the new clumsy customer Harry...
- 1970
Elsa
Elsa01970HD
Set in Oslo 1945, Elsa the film explores national identity, heroism, vengeance, and sexual freedom.
- 2020
Echoes
Echoes02020HD
The story of the events of 1941, the beginning of the occupation of Vinnytsia, when the mass extermination of Jews began.
- 2013
The Voyage
The Voyage02013HD
The year is 1941 in Sweden and Astrid seeks independence by trying to become a train conductor. On the train she meets an older passenger Dora, which...
- 2020
Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen
Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen02020HD
The story of the more than nine thousand Spaniards who were interned in the Nazi concentration camps, through the testimony of a group of survivors...
- 1997
Exodus 1947
Exodus 194701997HD
Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in...
- 1970
The Yellow Tie
The Yellow Tie01970HD
Sergiu Celibidache's fairy tale journey: from Moldavia to the Berlin Philharmonic. Despite World War II and countless challenges, he pursued his...
- 2014
Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen
Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen02014HD
Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the club to its first German championship, was...
- 2020
My Lovely Grandma
My Lovely Grandma02020HD
If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...
- 1970
My Soul Is a Witness
My Soul Is a Witness01970HD
In the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII, Awa and Ibrahim are a young couple whose lives are...