Most Viewed Year 1940 - 90

Titi loses her mind after her beloved child passed away. His husband, Suria is in love with Kartinah, the nurse. But he does not want to have two...

A surreal 1940 film by an amateur cineaste Cynthia Childs about a woman's infidelitous evening out on the town. Added score composed and performed by...

"Laureate demonstrates the hand of the painter in its spectacular use of still-lifes and complementary colors, as it metaphorically visualizes a...

Scrappy learns to play the piano.

The physics, science and applications of light.

Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a...

This ethnographic and historical silent 16mm cinematic jewel was filmed in 1940 by Sifrid Miladinov – a professional photographer and amateur...

A day in wintertime Budapest. Shot in an avant-garde style, the study extended over the smallest details of everyday life, observing everybody from...

A documentary film about the tidal flat ecosystem directed by ornithologist Shimomura Kenji. It is also said to be the original form of Japanese...

Documentary on lobster fishing.

Documentation of patients with deformities.

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.

A expressive documentary and one of the earliest works of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia.

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