Most Viewed Year 1940 - 95

Wartime public information film.

Documentary about a mission on board a German submarine.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

The conflict between ducklings and frogs escalates into war. However, a lightning strike makes the fighters realize the trivial nature of their...

The Yugoslavian Royal Army's review at the Banjica neighborhood of Belgrade in 1940.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

This absurdly pro-business film tells the story of a young man who learns a lesson about capitalism and how his town is dependent upon its factories...

Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's...

A nostalgic, slightly syrupy tour through the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco by way of archive footage and a chuckling...

A training documentary describing basic flight information for pilots of the Curtiss-Wright P-40 Warhawk pursuit aircraft.

“Peter will an die Landi” (1940) humorously broaches the issue of failing: Without success Peter is trying to reach an exhibition in...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

An amateur adaptation of Frankenstein.

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

Film inspired by Ford's "Cycle of Production" exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. At the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Ford assembly...