1940s Movies

Chapter 9 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico from 1940...

The story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold...

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

A successful writer faces the pressures of finishing her latest novel all while the main character she has written hunts her down, demanding an...

After Mato Gruda, a man living in a remote village in the mountains of Albania, steals a cannon abandoned by the German invaders he has to decide...

In 1940s Lahore, Virmati, eldest of ten in a conservative Punjabi family, defies convention in her pursuit of education and love, only to find...

It is the winter of 1943. Somewhere in central Greece. A captain and a sergeant of the Greek army are the only survivors of a failed sabotage attempt...

Film set in three different times. In the beginning, Miti is killed while defending his land. Then, the film focuses on his son Gjergji who fights...

Between 1944 and 1953, 170,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians put up fierce resistance to the Soviet invasion, hiding deep in the vast Baltic...

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...

In Manchuria during the 1940's, a karate master named Sazaki and hapkido champion Wang make plans to rob the Korean Independence Army of its funds....

Young Fouad, the son of Adel Pasha, travels abroad to continue his studies. During his absence, Adel Pasha assaults Amina, the widow of Attia, the...

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...

An ambitious girl is hired by a group of thieves as a maid in the apartment of a famous actress. The thieves thus prepare the ground for a...

The security forces, loyal to the people, uncover the conspiracy. At the center of the intrigue is an average actor who suddenly becomes dizzy from...

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.