Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon 1942

6.30

In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.

1942

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away 1944

6.50

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

1944

Horse

Horse 1941

5.80

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.

1941

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room 1949

6.60

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.

1949

Eyes in the Night

Eyes in the Night 1942

6.00

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

1942

Three Came Home

Three Came Home 1950

6.71

Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.

1950

Keep Your Powder Dry

Keep Your Powder Dry 1945

5.90

A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.

1945

Show-Business at War

Show-Business at War 1943

7.00

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

1943

The Very Thought of You

The Very Thought of You 1944

6.20

Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.

1944

The Phoney War

The Phoney War 2019

8.00

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

2019

Scrap Happy Daffy

Scrap Happy Daffy 1943

6.63

During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis powers. Hitler reads about Daffy's scrap pile and about Daffy's stated intent to win the war with junk and, after throwing a fit and chewing a carpet like a mad dog, orders Daffy's scrap pile destroyed.

1943

The Tree in a Test Tube

The Tree in a Test Tube 1942

4.90

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.

1942

Sweethearts of the U.S.A.

Sweethearts of the U.S.A. 1944

4.00

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

1944

Meet the People

Meet the People 1944

5.00

A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.

1944

Rosies of the North

Rosies of the North 1999

1

They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.

1999

Inflation

Inflation 1942

5.00

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

1942

Seeing Hands

Seeing Hands 1943

5.30

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.

1943

You Can't Ration Love

You Can't Ration Love 1944

1

In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun. This is beneficial for the campus wimp who suddenly finds himself the hottest property on campus.

1944

Asunder

Asunder 2016

1

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who fought in the fields to those who stayed behind to work in the region’s shipyards and munitions factories.

2016

Women’s Munition Work

Women’s Munition Work 1917

1

This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in the aircraft industry as well as the tempting prospect of a fun social life. (source: British Film Institute)

1917

How The Nazis Lost The War

How The Nazis Lost The War 2021

7.50

The decline of Hitler’s empire from the inside out by exploring the decline of the Nazis through the perspective of Hitler's bumbling generals and a paranoid Fuhrer.

2021