1940s Movies

In Japanese, “shi kata ga nai” means “it can't be helped”. As a phrase, it represents the philosophical basis of the Japanese...

Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will...

A trip across three timelines: 1947, where the U.S. Air Force announced — then quickly retracted — that it had recovered a 'flying disc';...

Chapter 10 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between...

Annika and Bo want to surprise their mother with a homemade cake on Mother's Day. However, not everything works out so easily.

An unbaptized woman is killed because of the regressive mentality existing in the mountains of northern Albania.

Many members of the Dutch Underground were gay and lesbian. This film pays homage to them and recounts their story.

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.

In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended...

World War II. Albania is under the Nazi occupation. The Germans capture two young girls and torture them to learn more about the communist movement.

A successful writer faces the pressures of finishing her latest novel all while the main character she has written hunts her down, demanding an...

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage.

A film and novel of romance, drama, and strength. A story that highlights the beauty of Caribbean culture and tells the story of every Caribbean...

In 1940s Lahore, Virmati, eldest of ten in a conservative Punjabi family, defies convention in her pursuit of education and love, only to find...

Filmed in the Colorado Rockies, this film portrays the dangerous sport of mountain climbing and shows special equipment needed, together with its...

A film set during World War II - a small partisan unit must ambush a German convoy.

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

If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...

After the agrarian reform, a dispute for the land starts between two families in north Albania.