1944 Movies

Overview of the Desert campaigns of the Second World War using historical footage taken during the battles.

Ben K. Blake went out his way to ensure that vaudeville wouldn't die, and his series of film shorts virtually guaranteed it would. This one features R...

Set against the backdrop of WW II in Calcutta, "Meri Bahen" is the story of a schoolteacher and his young sister. The film followed his rise to fame a...

Illustrates table 30 of the board of Education Syllabus (1933) and draws attention to certain main points essential to the correct performance of the...

A Dave Fleischer produced animated short.

In this film, Matthew McMurray, Royal Voluntary Service Keeper of History sets the scene for the charity’s beginnings and its impact on British societ...

Silent footage of the red cross visiting WW2 concentration camp Amersfoort. The only known footage shot of Kamp Amersfoort during WW2.

A dramatised story demonstrates the importance of map-reading as the fundamental 'aid' in aircraft navigation.

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts President Manuel Prado Ugarteche's visit to the Oyón basin. It describes his passage through the picturesque plaza o...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the visit of President Manuel Carlos Prado Ugarteche to the province of Canta. The visit was a significant event...

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc.

A 1944 German video used for the training of their snipers.

A little dog tries to steal some bones from a pile of wartime scrap bones (intended for a victory drive) that's being guarded by a big, mean bulldog.

The run-up to the Allied invasion of Normandy, including Eisenhower strategizing.

Blue-Grass Gentlemen is a 1944 English language short film, starring Ed Thorgersen. It was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Subject,...

Four travelers attempt to escape a small town in Manchuria, but their bus breaks down on a dirt road. Unwilling to be left homeless, they return and r...

A mythological and devotional drama based on the life of Bhartrhari, a legendary king who renounced his throne and worldly life to become an ascetic a...

Shots of Canterbury Cathedral and the surrounding countryside are accompanied by choral songs and a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr William...

The farce is set in Turku in the summer of 1940. Olavi Vuori, the son of a landowner, sets out to investigate shortages that have occurred in his fath...