1940s Movies

In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.

The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing...

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined...

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing...

Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to...

Remedios Buendía defends her homeland and will fight for it. This fateful day of 1945, a group of maquis take the post where she tries on her...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another...

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest...

Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess...

The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who,...

Preparation of "spawn" for commercial mushrooms, which grow to the tune of "You Came Along." Also: extraction & uses of snake venom; personal dress...

Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffering wife Else raise their daughter Rita during...

Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in...

The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and...

In occupied Poland 1943, German official Martin Wolff is sent to a remote village to investigate the disappearance of a Jewish lawyer. His arrival...

During World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are...

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

A British Intelligence Officer in Naples at the end of World War II: Norman Lewis's acknowledged masterpiece about a war-torn city and its...