The happiness of a child is marred by the harsh attitude of the captain of a boat.

Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat...

A 1941 film.

The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The...

An Italian comedy released in 1941.

Vi befinder os i en lille Heurigen-Café i Wien. Den unger sanger Fritz Hertzgruber (Max Hansen Sen.) stifter bekendtskab med en ung dansk forfatter,...

Drama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story.

A Pony Express rider's adventures in getting the mail through Indian country.

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter”...

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

Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of...

One night, the crew of the Derbent tanker receives a signal about oil ignition on the Agamali tanker. Despite the fire threatening to spill onto the...

The Clyde Wrecking Company is assigned to demolish a haunted house.

A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to...

Art professor Tore Stenwall is engaged to one of his young students, Anna-Lisa. He shows her a portrait and tells the story of how it came to be.

A wartime drama set in Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when people fled to Hong Kong from Mainland China.

Venice Film Festival 1941

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

Stars past and present gather to take part in the ceremonies at the dedication of Republic's new sound stage to the memory of Mabel Normand.

This publicity clip for Canada Post is Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB. For this animated short, McLaren drew symbols by pen onto clear 35 mm...

A travelogue for some vacation spot, possessed of every natural attraction the tourist seeking peace could wish for.

a short animation from Oskar Fischinger, drawings with periodic colour coding and some cells completely painted.

Christmas, during wartime.

This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are...

A toy soldier, distracted by a beautiful ice skater, is derelict in his duty and gets discharged. Later, when the screwball army declares war, he...

Jane Withers entertains her teenage friends with archery and jitterbug dancing; Cesar Romero and Patricia Morison play backgammon; Rita Hayworth...

Filmed after the start of the blitz, but with little visual reference to this, 'City Bound' is an exploration of the daily commute into London from...

This Traveltalk series short looks at what was then the Alaska Territory, which according to the film, was being looked at as a potential home to...

This 1941 Universal short is not the same film as the 1943 Columbia feature film/bio, although both films starred Ted Lewis and had the same title....

Captures the varied work of the Women's Voluntary Services.

Terry arrives at school, but doesn't get exactly the welcome he expected.

A tour of the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, showing the education and shaping of young men into members of the Royal Navy.

Documentary short from Finland about how to butcher a pig.

A Soundie with Vivien Fay and The Slate Brothers.

After Gandy Goose being rejected by the US Navy during World War II for being an incompetent, Gandy's Goose-like girlfriend suggests that he create...

Propaganda wartime film.