1940s Movies

May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recounts their story.

An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.

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...

A moving, platonic love story between two Hindu-Muslim lovers navigating the painful turmoil and consequences of the Partition of India.

A movie about the education for nurse told from Bente's perspective. She starts at the preschool at Rødkilde Højskole at Møn and...

An unbaptized woman is killed because of the regressive mentality existing in the mountains of northern Albania.

A trip across three timelines: 1947, where the U.S. Air Force announced — then quickly retracted — that it had recovered a 'flying disc';...

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.

German war documentary about Yugoslavia from 1941.

The story of the Spanish Republicans of La Nueve, the 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, part of the French 2nd Armored Division,...

The film features B-movie actresses boarding a TWA airlines flight to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Phoenix, Arizona and Boulder City, Nevada. The women...

A film about the collective psychological traumas of Ukrainians.

In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended...

If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...

This documentary tells the story of the Ustashe. These Croatians nationalists had been involved in several murderous attacks before WWII until they...

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