1942 Movies

The story of Zaccheus as recorded in Luke 19 shows him as an impoverished potter with great ambition who takes advantage of circumstances to gain the...

John T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian. He...

It's laundry day in 1942.

Two rival newspaper editors in New York send journalists to the South Pacific to dig up new material.

Home movie footage of film preservationist David Shepard at the age of 2. In the footage, he is playing in Riverside Park in Manhattan. Near the end,...

A fairy tale about celebrating the New Year with Santa Claus.

Juanito goes hunting

The eponymous hero of the Fakir Gonzalez series hunts for gold from New York to the Wild West.

German "Kulturfilm" in Agfacolor.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

A film directed by Vincent Paquette.

"Bicycle Polo at San Mateo features the Stauffacher brothers, Frank and Jack, and others playing the lost sport of bicycle polo on the lawn of San Mat...

Estrella, a millionaire's daughter, acts impulsively leaving her boring suitor for traveling abroad and marrying a man she has just met. After she has...

Footage of the Basque leader, Jose Antonio de Aguirre during his time spent in exile in New York.

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 April 1942.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 20 February 1942.