1940s Movies

During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on...

The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other...

The year is 1940, Croatian coast, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Jakov, a poor peasant from hinterland, and his daughter Mala, go to the city, trying to find...

The story of student love in the most difficult times, because even during the Protectorate, young people liked to have fun, dance, and fall in love....

When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond...

In the final days of World War II, a 15-year-old boy grappling with survivor's guilt watches a rural Japanese community quietly fracture under the...

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public...

Thi is the story of a Kyiv boy who lives his life believing that the problems of his country do not interest him. However, everything changes when he...

To celebrate his eleventh birthday, a young boy selects his gift - little knowing that his choice will change the world.

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

The story of the events of 1941, the beginning of the occupation of Vinnytsia, when the mass extermination of Jews began.

Using exclusively archival footage, Erwin Leiser traces the rise and collapse of the Third Reich, from Adolf Hitler’s early years to the...

A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma...

Marcel Ichac accompanied the mountaineer Armand Charlet, in 1943, in the repetition of the first crossing of the Aiguilles du Diable that the guide...

Through interviews with Manhattan Project scientists and newly declassified archival footage, this documentary examines the life of physicist J....

We meet the young violinist Erik Smith in the lap of his family with his wife Lise and his little daughter Lone. Erik is a young, aspiring musician...