1941 Movies

Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle with Carson Robison and His Buckaroos.

A soundie from 1941 featuring Cyd Charisse dancing with Nico Charisse as The Mills Rhumba Orchestra plays behind them.

Film star Priscilla Lane extols the virtues of joining the Red Cross in the lead up to World War II.

This Vitaphone musical featurette features a minstrel show, with traditional interlocutor and Mr. Bones, doing many old time songs (mostly Stephen Fos...

The parable of the lost sheep visualized.

An alley cat spies a high-class female cat on her balcony and falls for her. Her butler sends the family bulldog to deal with the alley cat, but the c...

Two half-brothers, Mahesh and Ramesh, whose paths cross with Geeta, a spirited village girl. As both develop feelings for her, misunderstandings, hidd...

Joe Bonica sings the title song to a series of serving girls dressed in a stereotypically 'Dutch' style, albeit with very short skirts.

Midsummer Eve 1941, threatening clouds loom in the eastern sky. A Finnish man heads east... "On Midsummer, a siren blooms in the barrel of a Finnish s...

Dorothy Dandridge performing "Easy Street".

NSB propaganda film, showing footage of the opening of the new banner quarters by Commander Zondervan. During this, a parade is held by the WA for Zon...

A silent, non-narrative documentary showing people in a small town in the early 1940s. One of H. Lee Waters' "Movies of Local People".

A small cat annoys his elder by imitating everything he does. Eventually, the bigger cat catches a mouse, knowing the copy cat won't be able to perfor...

The Heart of Britain (1941) depicts wartime life in the North and Midlands, contrasting tranquil countryside with the grit of industry. From Sheffield...

Made during World War II by the German Ministry of Health in collaboration with UFA (Germany’s largest movie studio),The English Disease combines Naz...

When a widower's five daughters find out that he has a fiancée, they hire an actress to seduce him in order to end the relationship.

A Soviet documentary by Roman Karmen and Mikhail Slutsky, assembled from 1938–41 footage in Yan’an and at the front, chronicling China’s anti-Japanese...

A winter ascent of Piz Bernina by Swiss mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. The film also shows images of avalanche research,...

This Traveltalk series short celebrates the beauty of Yosemite National Park. Besides the majestic mountains, we see Bridal Veil Falls and a giant seq...