1940s Movies

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

When Italy capitulated 1943 and joined the allied forces, some soldiers from the German Wehrmacht also changed sides and joined the Italians in their...

Story of a man who, at the end of the 1940s, attempted to cross the Czechoslovak border illegally like many others to escape the communist regime and...

A film about the collective psychological traumas of Ukrainians.

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.

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

The true story of Traian Popovici, a Romanian Mayor that saved 20,000 Jewish People from death during WWII and his friend, who married a Jewish woman...

Based on a true story, set during the drainage of the Maliq swamp.

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 official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

An engineer struggles with his rival to receive the order to carry out an important construction in the Valle d'Aosta. Both opponents embark on a...

The film shows a winter crossing attempt of the Bernina ridge by a team of Swiss military in a reconnaissance tour in April 1939. The commanders...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

A film set during World War II - a small partisan unit must ambush a German convoy.

The climbing of the Fiamma, the famous rock needle in the Bergell, with minimal equipment and technique. A must for lovers of mountain sports. A...

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

The short film begins in Tenerife (1948), where Indiana Jones is looking for some spanish doubloons whereabouts. The journey continues in Portugal,...

Living through the air raids of the German Luftwaffe in 1940, a little boy, Paul, tries to explain to himself what’s happening to the city...

On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside following the country's surrender. The occupying...

In 1940s New York, idealistic detective Sam Malone fights for justice in a corrupt city, but his growing paranoia forces him to question even those...