Most Viewed Year 1940 - 93

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

A nostalgic, slightly syrupy tour through the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco by way of archive footage and a chuckling...

Documenting King Christian X's of Denmark's 70th birthday celebrations.

Short World War II documentary showing how the everyday work of British housewives aided the war effort.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1940.

A butterfly gets trapped by a spider, but a grasshopper comes to save her.

The film depicts one of the great hunts the South Sea Islanders. Come schools of fish in one of the bays on the island, so hurry on an alarm signal...

The cat-of-the-house is a nuisance to the mice on a cheese-raid in the kitchen. They overturn a box of catnip, cat partakes, and cat goes on a binge...

A comic look at prehistoric life.

A middle-aged auto sales manager is having poor results with his staff, so he gets some advice from his hanky-wearing father.

Commemorates the (primarily voluntary) efforts by which Londoners coped with the start of the Blitz when, the commentary says, 1200 people were made...

Short propaganda film encouraging swedish aid in the Winter War.

Commercial for Hylins Rakin shaving cream where Lasse Krantz uses the shaving cream to get smooth skin and become more believable when he dresses up...

Short film of Esso Station in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1940. Depicts refueling, the price of gas on a pump, and car driving off, past another station.

Amateur footage of a group of conscripted soldiers at Hamilton Barracks at the start of World War II, including shots of daily activities such as...

Nazi war propaganda that depicts the 'causes' of World War II from the German perspective. Shows us Churchill, Chamberlain, Halifax, and Eden as...