Most Viewed Year 1940 - 91

Documentation of patients with deformities.

The third film in the Fantasmagoria series.

As the Copperhead leads escapees round a corner, Joe the thug opens fire on them, and the leading figure falls, shot.

An open can of gunpowder is knocked over when a fight breaks out in a mine. An escaping thug knocks a lit torch onto the trail which in turn sets off...

Lance White portrays the Fuhrer as a short-tempered incompetent in his slapstick Adolf's Busy Day.

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

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...

Impressions of the different jobs in automotive service and suggestions on training leading to entrance and to advancement in the trade.

Shows home, work and school activities of a middleclass Japanese family.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1940.

A butterfly gets trapped by a spider, but a grasshopper comes to save her.

1940 film starring Chittor V. Nagaiah, Giri A.S. and Kumari

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...

Scans of Chauvet and Lascaux, ancient cave drawings discovered in France in the 1940's. Meant to be viewed under firelight, the flicker giving the...

Commemorates the (primarily voluntary) efforts by which Londoners coped with the start of the Blitz when, the commentary says, 1200 people were made...

Short propaganda film encouraging swedish aid in the Winter War.

A film about military service dogs and their use in air signal, guard, medical and communications services.

Short film of Esso Station in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1940. Depicts refueling, the price of gas on a pump, and car driving off, past another station.