1940s Movies

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America’s top college football stars set their fame aside to enlist in the Marines. As they prepare...

Three years after the fascist occupation, a group of children create the anti-fascist organization called "Debatik". Coli, an orphan boy, manages to...

Ashamed of being gay, Touko draws erotic pictures of muscular men to release his sexual tension. Through his art he becomes an international gay...

A throwback musical comedy set in 1943, where clueless radio stars, The Apple Sisters botch a chance of a lifetime by forgetting their movie pitch to...

Three-time tennis champion Alice Marble defies her coach, leaves the sport to become an Allied spy, gathering crucial Nazi intel for the Nuremberg...

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

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

Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the...

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

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

German war documentary about Yugoslavia from 1941.

In 1940s outport Newfoundland, young Sadie struggles to cope with the tragic death of both her parents.

The story of the Spanish Republicans of La Nueve, the 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, part of the French 2nd Armored Division,...

Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a...

The extraordinary true story of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest who volunteered to die in place of another man in Auschwitz during...