1940s Movies

In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended...

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

After the agrarian reform, a dispute for the land starts between two families in north Albania.

A judgmental toy jumps from owner to owner, seeking a Christian boy who can provide him a home.

The story of the more than nine thousand Spaniards who were interned in the Nazi concentration camps, through the testimony of a group of survivors...

On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside following the country's surrender. The occupying...

Chapter 10 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between...

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 deep dive into the history of the Canadian Government and the Department of National Defence leasing First Nations reserves as practice bombing...

A film set during World War II - a small partisan unit must ambush a German convoy.

The documentary that captures the compelling story and eyewitness account of six survivors in war-torn Netherlands during World War II.

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

An unbaptized woman is killed because of the regressive mentality existing in the mountains of northern Albania.

During World War II, an Italian agent tries to infiltrate the Albanian guerrilla units under the identity of 'engineer Tosti'.

An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.

In 1940s Lahore, Virmati, eldest of ten in a conservative Punjabi family, defies convention in her pursuit of education and love, only to find...

If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...

Detective Renthro gets more than he bargained for.

The waterfront and agriculture of the Caribbean island of Grenada in the 1940's.

German war documentary about Yugoslavia from 1941.