Year 1940 - Story Timelines
53 Movies and TV Series
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks
― Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinst..
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Back to School
― Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason'..
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Battle of Britain
― In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro..
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Goodnight Sweetheart
― Goodnight Sweetheart is a British sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999. It stars..
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Come What May
― In may 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of ..
TVSeries
The Disguiser
― Set in the Japanese occupation era, the rich yet naive young master Ming Tai is trained to become an..
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Weekend at Dunkirk
― In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Mail..
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The Last Train
― Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while..
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Tomorrow Was The War
― A drama a life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Sovi..
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Submission
― In wartime France, Pharmacist Elaine (Lisa Gastoni) begins a torrid affair with her shop assistant A..
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The Good And The Bad
― From 1935 to 1945, the happiness of a couple turns to sadness when their Traction Avant auto is used..
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Everyone Dies Alone
― When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, ..
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God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
― After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ..
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Doctor Faustus
― A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later..
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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
― 40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London..
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Return to Never Land
― The classic tale of 'Peter Pan' continues in Disney's sequel 'Return to Never Land'. In 1940 on a wo..
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An American Carol
― In An American Carol a cynical, Anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish t..
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Age of Heroes
― The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces ..
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YellowBrickRoad
― In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding moun..
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The Cheap Detective
― Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective,..