1940s Educational Movies

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11 movies found (page 1/1):

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi(1943)

| 10min | Animation, Drama, Documentary

3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi

Wild Weed(1949)

1h 10min | Drama

2.2/5 (with 5 votes)

A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

Directed by Sam Newfield - With Alan Baxter, Jack Elam, Lyle Talbot, Lila Leeds, David Holt, Donald Patrick Harvey, ...

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Westward Ho!(1940)

9min | War, Documentary

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Wartime short promoting the evacuation if urban children to rural areas.

Directed by Thorold Dickinson

Reason and Emotion(1943)

| 8min | Animation

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A World War II propaganda film about the need to remain calm and logical during wartime.

Directed by Bill Roberts

The Story of Menstruation(1946)

| 10min | Animation

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A basic explanation of the purpose and process of menstruation, told largely with diagrams.

Directed by Jack Kinney

Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light(1941)

8min

Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.

Directed by Herbert Mason - With Sydney Howard, Muriel George

Test Tube Babies(1948)

1h 10min | Drama

1.9/5 (with 8 votes)

A happily married couple has been trying to have a baby with no luck. They discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered a scandalous choice.

Directed by W. Merle Connell

Rush Hour(1941)

5min

The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum during "rush hour".

Directed by Anthony Asquith - With Muriel George, Hay Petrie

Your Very Good Health(1948)

9min | Animation

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In this film Charley demystifies the new state-funded National Health Service, detailing the benefits a free-at-point-of-delivery health service will offer to everyone in England.

Directed by John Halas

Stop that Tank!(1942)

22min | Animation

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A Disney educational animated short instructing the use of the Boys MK.1 Anti-Tank rifle.

Directed by Ub Iwerks

Worth the Risk?(1948)

10min

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?".

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