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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Summary: An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Release Date: March 15, 1940

Genres: Drama, History

Director: John Ford

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, John Steinbeck

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Disney Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 800,000

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Der ewige Jude (1940)

Summary: Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race," designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of Western civilization fall off.

Release Date: November 28, 1940

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Fritz Hippler

Writer: Eberhard Taubert

Runtime: 1 h 02 min

Production: Deutsche Filmherstellungs- und -Verwertungs- GmbH, Berlin (DFG)

Distributor: BuyIndies.com Inc., Loving the Classics

Country: Germany

Language: German

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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Summary: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Release Date: February 16, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Miklós László

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

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Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Summary: On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

Release Date: August 16, 1940

Genres: Action, Romance, Thriller

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Charles Bennett

, Joan Harrison

, James Hilton

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Walter Wanger Productions

Distributor: Masterpiece Productions, Time Life Films, Time-Life Video, Lightning Video, Vestron Video, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Films sans Frontières, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

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High Sierra (1940)

Summary: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Release Date: February 17, 1941

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: John Huston

, W.R. Burnett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Key Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 455,000

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The Rothschilds (1940)

Summary: Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Release Date: July 17, 1940

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Erich Waschneck

Writers: Mirko Jelusich

, C.M. Köhn

, Gerhard T. Buchholz

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Production: Universum Film (UFA)

Country: Germany

Language: German

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The Westerner (1940)

Summary: Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.

Release Date: September 20, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Jo Swerling

, Niven Busch

, Stuart N. Lake

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Distributor: United Artists, Film Classics, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Embassy Home Entertainment, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Pioneer Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

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The Long Voyage Home (1940)

Summary: A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.

Release Date: November 22, 1940

Genres: Drama, War

Director: John Ford

Writers: Eugene O'Neill

, Dudley Nichols

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Argosy Pictures, Walter Wanger Productions

Distributor: Warner Home Video, Castle Hill Productions, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 682,495

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The Great Dictator (1940)

Summary: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Release Date: June 01, 2020

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Charles Chaplin

Writer: Charles Chaplin

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Charles Chaplin Productions

Distributor: Key Video, Columbia Pictures, CBS/Fox, Image Entertainment, MK2 Diffusion, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

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Fantasia (1940)

Summary: A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.

Release Date: September 19, 1941

Genres: Family, Fantasy, Animation

Directors: James Algar

, Samuel Armstrong

, Ford Beebe Jr.

Writers: Joe Grant

, Dick Huemer

, Lee Blair

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Miracle Productions Company, Image Entertainment, Walt Disney Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,280,000

Domestic: $ 76,408,097

International: $ 3,722

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Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Summary: In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Release Date: December 28, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writers: Robert Buckner

, Andrée Levy

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Reel Media International, Penteo Films S.L.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

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Night Train to Munich (1940)

Summary: After Germany invades Czechia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.

Release Date: July 26, 1940

Genres: Thriller, War

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: Gordon Wellesley

, Sidney Gilliat

, Frank Launder

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Twentieth Century-Fox Productions

Distributor: The Roan Group, Kino Video, Madacy Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Films sans Frontières, Sinister Cinema

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: Italian

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Rebecca (1940)

Summary: A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Release Date: June 07, 2024

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Daphne Du Maurier

, Robert E. Sherwood

, Joan Harrison

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Selznick International Pictures

Distributor: United Artists, Eagle-Lion Films, Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, The Criterion Collection, ABC Video Enterprises, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,288,000

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20 Mule Team (1940)

Summary: In California's Death Valley, in 1892, borax miners scratch a hard living until a map pinpointing the location of high-grade borax surfaces, sending prospectors and crooks alike into a gold-rush-like frenzy.

Release Date: May 03, 1940

Genre: Western

Director: Richard Thorpe

Writers: Owen Atkinson

, Robert C. DuSoe

, Cyril Hume

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

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The Great McGinty (1940)

Summary: Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

Release Date: August 23, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Preston Sturges

Writer: Preston Sturges

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 350,000

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The Fighting 69th (1940)

Summary: Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

Release Date: January 27, 1940

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography

Director: William Keighley

Writers: Norman Reilly Raine

, Fred Niblo Jr.

, Dean Riesner

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros. Television

Country: United States

Language: English

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Grand Ole Opry (1940)

Summary: Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from 'The Grand Ole Opry," and the antics and help of his family and the local citizens, manages to pass a legislative bill to help the farmers, and a...

Release Date: June 25, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Frank McDonald

Writers: Dorrell McGowan

, Stuart E. McGowan

Runtime: 1 h 07 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I)

Distributor: Republic Pictures (I)

Country: United States

Language: English

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Behind the News (1940)

Summary: It's Jeff Flavin's first day on the job as a cub reporter for the Enquirer. The boss, Archer, places him with lazy reporter Stu Woodrow. Stu detests cubs and treats Jeff badly. Jeff saves a drunken Stu's job by covering convicted ...

Release Date: December 20, 1940

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Joseph Santley

Writers: Isabel Dawn

, Boyce DeGaw

, Dore Schary

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I)

Country: United States

Language: English

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The French Way (1940)

Summary: Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.

Release Date: June 27, 1945

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Jacques de Baroncelli

Writer: Michel Duran

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Flag Films

Distributor: Manor Films, Kit Parker Films

Country: France

Language: French

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Bismarck (1940)

Summary: A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

Release Date: December 06, 1940

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Writers: Rolf Lauckner

, Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Production: Tobis Filmkunst

Country: Germany

Language: German

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Der ewige Jude (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

High Sierra (1940)

The Rothschilds (1940)

The Westerner (1940)

The Long Voyage Home (1940)

The Great Dictator (1940)

Fantasia (1940)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Rebecca (1940)

20 Mule Team (1940)

The Great McGinty (1940)

The Fighting 69th (1940)

Grand Ole Opry (1940)

Behind the News (1940)

The French Way (1940)

Bismarck (1940)

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