376 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1940s
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Bless Me, Ultima
New Mexico The 1940sIn a village in New Mexico, the life of young farm boy Antonio is dramatically changed when an old medicine woman joins his household. This affecting coming-of-age tale recounts Antonio's experiences to reveal the spiritual conflict in his community.
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Teenage
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe birth of youth culture — Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.
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Wish You Well
Virginia The 1940sBelieving in family can create miracles. — A young girl and her brother come of age at their great grandmother's house in Virginia during the 1940s. After a family tragedy, a young girl moves from New York with your younger brother to live with their great grandmother on a Virginia farm and comes closer to understanding the land and roots that inspired her father's writings while discovering herself, the love of family, and the power of truly believing.
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Specials
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇺🇸 United States of America 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sOliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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The Master
New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania Arizona California England The 1950s The 1940sEvery man needs a guide. — Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
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Kon-Tiki
New York 🇳🇴 Norway 🇵🇪 Peru South Pacific - General Pacific Ocean The 1940sThe true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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On the Road
Quebec The 1950s The 1940sThe best teacher is experience. — Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇪🇸 Spain The 1940s The 1930sWe were good in war. And when there was no war, we made our own. — Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
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Hitchcock
California The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sGood evening. — Follow the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous horror-thriller film, Psycho, and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
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The Philadelphia Experiment
Pennsylvania The 1940s The 2010sPast and present collide — A secret government research project tries reviving the World War II "Philadelphia Experiment," which was an attempt to create a cloaking device to render warships invisible. When the experiment succeeds, it brings back the original ship (the Eldridge) that disappeared during the first test in 1943 - which brings death and destruction to the 21st century. It's up to the sole survivor of the first experiment and his granddaughter to stop it.
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A Christmas Story 2
Indiana The 1940sThe Genuine, Authentic, 100% American Christmas is Back. — The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-American Christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy, mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
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Paperman
New York The 1940sDelicate, charming and sweet. — An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.
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Easy Rider: The Ride Back
Ohio The 1950s The 1940s The 2000sHere you are again, uninvited and unannounced! — In this revisionist drama, the film delves into the family lineage of Wyatt Williams, the character made famous by Peter Fonda in the original Easy Rider Movie. Centering around the Williams family, and their internal family struggles throughout the eras of the 40's to present day, as they struggle to connect with one another through the only way they know how. Their love of motorcycles and the freedom of the ride.
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Keye Luke
Washington California The 1930s The 1940sKeye Luke: Artist, Actor, and the First Pioneer. — KEYE LUKE is a short film bio-pic about pioneering Actor and Artist Keye Luke, the first, original on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades before Bruce Lee and also the All-American "Number One Son" in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s.
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Captain America: The First Avenger
New York New Jersey England 🇳🇴 Norway 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 2010sWhen patriots become heroes — During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
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Paul
Nevada California The 1940s The 1980s The 2010sWho's up for a close encounter? — For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
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X-Men: First Class
Nevada Virginia District of Columbia Florida England 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇵🇱 Poland 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 1940sWitness the moment that will change our world. — Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
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Battle of Los Angeles
California The 2010s The 1940sThey Don't Come In Peace! — In February 1942 Us forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.
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The Lost Valentine
Georgia 🇵🇭 Philippines The 2000s The 1940sLove can stand the test of time. — A young and cynical female journalist learns love may transcend trials and time as she discovers a story that will change her life forever. When war separates lovers on their wedding anniversary Feb. 14, 1944 at LA Union Train Station, Navy pilot Neil Thomas makes a promise he isn't sure he can keep - to return to the train station safe by their next anniversary. For sixty years Caroline Thomas keeps her promise by waiting at the train station until her missing in action husband can finally keep his with the "lost valentine." The message and meaning shows romance and love can be real; worth fighting, and maybe even dying for.
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J. Edgar
District of Columbia The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1980sThe most powerful man in the world. — As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
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Remembrance
New York The 1940s The 1970sHannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.
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YellowBrickRoad
New Hampshire The 1940sThey went looking for evil in the forest but the forest found evil in them — In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.
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Max Schmeling
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece The 1930s The 1940sBased on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be killed in battle.
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Chico & Rita
🇨🇺 Cuba New York The 1950s The 1940sChico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Pennsylvania Nevada Louisiana 🇳🇬 Nigeria Africa - General 🇨🇦 Canada The 1970s The 1940s The 1910s The 1860s The 1840sWitness the Origin. — After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
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