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Cinema of the United Kingdom; List of British films; British horror; 1888–1919; ... A list of British films released in 1940. 1940. Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) [3] and Gone with the Wind (1939) became controversial because they gave a favorable depiction. In 1940, The Santa Fe Trail gave a strong condemnation of abolitionist John Brown's attacks on slavery. [4] The American civil rights movement in the 1950s made defiant slaves into heroes. [5]
Pages in category "1940s in British cinema" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. B. List of British films of 1940; List of British films of 1941;
Colonialism in the cinema has been the subject of many books and essays. Stereotyping, distortion, imagistic mistreatment, assimilationism and caricatural visions of colonies have been practiced in this type of cinema. Before 1960 most colonialism films were made with narratives constructed from the point of view of the colonizing nationals.
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Title Director Cast Genre Notes 49th Parallel: Michael Powell: Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard: World War II: An Airman's Letter to His Mother: Michael Powell: John Gielgud
Film events and films originally released in the 1940s. Film portal; 1890s; ... 1940s in British cinema (2 C, ... Film series introduced in the 1940s ...
Parole Fixer (1940) – action drama crime film based on the 1938 book called Persons in Hiding, an exposé of corruption within the American parole system [25] Pastor Hall (1940) – British drama film based on the true story of the German pastor Martin Niemöller who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi Party [26]