1940s Movies

The story of the events of 1941, the beginning of the occupation of Vinnytsia, when the mass extermination of Jews began.

A feature adaptation of the 2022 Ann Petry novel about a young Black woman and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and...

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

Affected by the powerful images in the pamphlet Om kriget kommer (If war comes), farmhand Karl-Göran Persson begins fortifying his house....

Four partisans are tasked with delivering a song to the Congress of Përmet.

Based on the play of the same name by Georgi Mdivani. In September 1941, lieutenant Ilya Streltsov, who graduated from the flight school, was...

Documentary - The Reckoning: Remembering the Dutch Resistance is the international award-winning documentary that captures the compelling story and...

1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing...

Film set after World War II. A group of kids notice a shady new resident in their neighborhood.

In 1946, in Soror city, three different stories intersect amid macabre events. While detectives Thomas and Carlos work in the unsolved cases of the...

Social democracy propaganda film about future dreams for Denmark in 1960. Although Denmark is free again, the former opponent and worker, Svend, is...

In Fascist Albania 1942, Albanian partisans will do all they can to remove the Italian fascists from their country.

A group of expat criminals are coerced into a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a game-changing chemical weapon developed by the Nazis...

October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb, carries on his back the lifeless body of his...

Story of a man who, at the end of the 1940s, attempted to cross the Czechoslovak border illegally like many others to escape the communist regime and...

Film set in three different times. In the beginning, Miti is killed while defending his land. Then, the film focuses on his son Gjergji who fights...

Based on a true story, set during the drainage of the Maliq swamp.