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This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with its significant events. 19th century in film; 20th century in film: 1900s – 1910s – 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s; 21st century in film: 2000s – 2010s – 2020s
Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with the film Rebecca, and made many classics throughout the 1940s. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives; the film was directed by William Wyler, and starred Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell.
Although the 1940s was a decade dominated by World War II, important and noteworthy films about a wide variety of subjects were made during that era. Hollywood was instrumental in producing dozens of classic films during the 1940s, several of which were about the war and some are on most lists of all-time great films.
A list of American films released in 1940. American film production was concentrated in Hollywood and was dominated by the eight Major film studios MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, RKO, Columbia, Universal and United Artists. Other significant production and distribution companies included Republic, Monogram and PRC.
List of Malaysian films before 1960; List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1940–1949) List of Mexican films of the 1940s; N. List of Norwegian films of the 1940s; O.
There are several types of timeline articles. Historical timelines show the significant historical events and developments for a specific topic, over the course of centuries or millennia. Graphical timelines provide a visual representation for the timespan of multiple events that have a particular duration, over the course of centuries or ...
List of Paramount Pictures films (1912–1919) List of Paramount Pictures films (1920–1929) List of Paramount Pictures films (1930–1939) List of Paramount Pictures films (1940–1949) List of Paramount Pictures films (1950–1959) List of Paramount Pictures films (1960–1969) List of Paramount Pictures films (1970–1979)
Similar to spy films, the heist or caper film included worldly settings and hi-tech gadgets, as in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), Topkapi (1964) or The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). The spaghetti westerns (made in Italy and Spain), were typified by Clint Eastwood films, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965) or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...