1940s Movies

During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.

During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school...

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international...

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son...

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly...

A musical tale about two impoverished sisters' anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the...

A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on...

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.

Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence...

Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in public until the fall of the dictatorship that...

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for...

A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the...

Under Japanese imperialism, Korean national treasure Golden Buddha is stolen. More important to national security, the statue contains vital...

Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir...

In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are...

Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he...

Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home...

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of...

British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese...