1941 Movies

Documentary short film depicting the construction of the Martin B-26 medium bomber and its deployment to the U.S. Army Air Corps, including both engineering techniques and flight characteristics.

First Tamil adaptation of the story Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

NSB film dealing with the commemoration dedicated to the seventeenth-century painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Secretary General Goedwaagen gives a speech in the Westerkerk. After the ceremony in the church, a wreath is laid on Rembrandt's gravestone.

From the progressive police department explaining its organization and activities. Distinctive for its homespun style, this film calls itself a “chartoon” to draw attention to its use of animated charts and includes unusual visualizations such as stop-motion a...

Images of folk-style strength training exercises and boys rowing a reed boat in an ethnographic documentary.

A film about the sowing and harvesting of wheat in Colombia’s Cundiboyacense high plateau. Through biblical intertitles and pastoral scenes, a bucolic poem unfolds—evoking the rhythms of the land, the dignity of agricultural labor, and the soul of rural life.

The King Sisters & Alvino Rey and His Orchestra combine to deliver Tying Apples on a Lilac Tree.

US Navy Blasts Marshall Islands. Marshall Island marks one of the first sea battles location. This short shows sailors and flyers on ships sailing into the South Pacific.

Christopher Young experiments with objects and their uses.

Propaganda film by the NSB directed against the Western powers, the capitalist economy, and the crisis situation in the Netherlands. Images of the German invasions of the Netherlands, who are depicted in the film as the liberators of Europe.

A Training film for the British Home Guard (British Army) on unarmed combat. The instructor is none other than Capt. W. E. Fairbairn and the narrator is David Niven. Techniques were also taught to SOE, Parachute Regiment (British Paratroopers) The British Comm...

German war documentary about Yugoslavia from 1941.

This film was produced by the Film Service of the NSB, the National Socialist Movement. As a result, these films may contain inaccurate, one-sided, and politically extreme ideas.

The film followed a doctor who falls in love with his maid, as well as her failed romance with a fellow villager.

Andy Panda and his father are trying to groom an alley cat, which Andy wants to enter in a Cat Show, The cat is not interested in being in show business, and is even more disinterested in getting a bath. A swimming pool is the last resort where everybody but t...

Documentary short about the government census of unemployed but employable workers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2009.