All Films

Uta e! Taiyō

1945 • 51 min • Japan

1945 Japanese movie

Three in the Saddle

1945 • 59 min • United States of America

Peggy Barlou is a young rancher who refuses to sell her spread to greedy stage-line proprietor John Rankin. Tex Haines, meanwhile, is accused of killing Bill Dugan, Rankin's bodyguard, but eludes capture long enough to hook up with Dave Wyatt and Panhandle Perkins, a couple of rangers in disguise.

Merida and Campeche

1945 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short visits two of the most important cities on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

Under Western Skies

1945 • 57 min • United States of America

An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from a bandit (Leo Carrillo).

Behind the Meat-Ball

1945 • 8 min • United States of America

A dog, starved for meat, goes to different lengths to get a steak back from a little dog that keeps out-smarting him.

Where Is Our Home?

1945 • 25 min • Poland

A piece of reportage realized by the Polish Army Film Studios at the end of the war. It tells a story of Warsaw children who started a camp in the summer of 1944 in Stoczek Lyczkowski. The authors show the children’s life, it’s full of small amounts of happiness and many problems. Near the camp the war is still on, the children’s relatives are still in danger.

Spreadin' the Jam

1945 • 10 min • United States of America

A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help when the other tenants throw a last-minute rent party in her apartment. In the process, they all charm the landlady out of a year's rent. The entire story is told in song (swing music) and dance (Jitterbug, Lindy Hop etc.).

Library of Congress

1945 • 20 min

A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau, and intended to show foreign viewers something about America and it's values, this one focuses on the important institution in Washington D.C. which preserves written and other works that have been copyrighted, as part of the country's heritage.

Cap'n Cub

1945 • 10 min • United States of America

A small bear cub, named Cap'n Cub, is the head of a troupe of like-minded animals fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.

Purity Squad

1945 • 20 min • United States of America

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.

Pop-Pie a la Mode

1945 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye, adrift at sea on a raft, eventually comes to an island which, it turns out, is inhabited by cannibals.

Gangster's Den

1945 • 55 min • United States of America

Fuzzy purchases a saloon with a large sack of gold from the mine he owns with his partner Billy. When a crooked lawyer uses underhanded methods to try taking over the saloon, Billy works to bring the lawyer and his no-good gang to justice.

The Screwy Truant

1945 • 7 min • United States of America

The truant officer is after Screwy Squirrel for not going to school.

The Open Door: The Story Of Foreman Jim Baxter And His Family

1945 • 48 min

A General Motors foreman learns not just to be a better manager, but where his place is in the system of production.

Dog, Cat, and Canary

1945 • 6 min • United States of America

Oscar nominated Animated Short Cartoon

Wagon Wheels Westward

1945 • 56 min • United States of America

In this western, Red Ryder leads a wagon train of homesteaders into a ghost town and discovers that it has become an outlaw's hideout.

Shrines of Yucatan

1945 • 10 min • United States of America

A visit to the structures built by the ancient Mayans at Chichén Itzá, on the Yucatán Peninsula.

Stranger from Santa Fe

1945 • 57 min • United States of America

Burly Johnny Mack Brown once again plays undercover U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie in this overly complicated series oater from low-budget Monogram. This time, McKenzie, who goes under the alias of Roy Ferris, is waylaid by would-be stage robber Cy Manning (John Merton) en route to the Bar X Ranch.

Are Animals Actors?

1945 • 14 min • United States of America

A short film that looks at various animal acts training and working in Hollywood.

Nasty Quacks

1945 • 7 min • United States of America

A doting father gives a cute little duckling to his little daughter. That duckling grows up to become Daffy Duck, who soon develops quite a night life, which he loudly explains at breakfast, in the process of eating everything in sight. When the exasperated father's attempts at violently removing Daffy fail, he tries one final measure to drive Daffy away...

Seeing El Salvador

1945 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short starts in San Salvador, El Salvador's capital, emphasizing the Spanish architectural heritage. We then go to the Izalco Volcano, which was created in 1770 by an eruption of the Santa Ana Volcano. The focus then shifts to the country's agriculture. The two main products are coffee and henequen, a plant with tough, fibrous leaves used to make rope, baskets, and other products.

Great Stagecoach Robbery

1945 • 56 min • United States of America

In this western, Red Ryder tries to be a good example for a young man who idolizes his father, an outlaw. The boy wants to follow in his father's footsteps when the hero intervenes.

That Justice Be Done

1945 • 10 min • United States of America

Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.

Rough Riders of Cheyenne

1945 • 56 min • United States of America

Sunset returns to find the Carson-Sterling feud still going. Sterling has been killed and it's not long before Andrew Carson is murdered. To end the feud Sunset challenges Martin Sterling to a shootout. Unknown to Sunset, Martin's sister Melinda has waylaid her brother and now appears for the shootout disguised in her brother's clothes.