This is a list of Australian films of the 1940s. For a complete alphabetical list, see .
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Notes |
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| Ants in His Pants | Comedy/Musical | ||||||||
| Dad Rudd, M.P. | Comedy | ||||||||
| Forty Thousand Horsemen | War | ||||||||
| Water Ballet: Sydney | ? | Short | |||||||
| Wings of Destiny | Action drama | ||||||||
| 1941 | |||||||||
| Advance to Libya | Documentary | ||||||||
| The Power and the Glory | Drama / Thriller | Based on book of same title | |||||||
| Racing Luck | Adventure comedy | ||||||||
| That Certain Something | Drama | ||||||||
| Water Ballet | ? | Short | |||||||
| 1942 | |||||||||
| 100,000 Cobbers | Drama / Short | ||||||||
| Jewel of the Pacific | ? | Short documentary | |||||||
| Kokoda Front Line! | Damien Parer (camera) | Peter Bathurst, Damien Parer | War documentary | 18 September First Australian film to win an Oscar (for Best Documentary Feature) | |||||
| Men of Timor | ? | Short documentary | |||||||
| Moresby Under the Blitz | ? | War documentary | |||||||
| Soldiers Without Uniforms | ? | Short documentary | |||||||
| A Yank in Australia | Comedy | ||||||||
| 1943 | |||||||||
| Assault on Salamaua | ? | Documentary | |||||||
| The Bismarck Convoy Smashed | Peter Bathurst (voice) | War documentary | |||||||
| 1944 | |||||||||
| The Rats of Tobruk | War / Drama | ||||||||
| Red Sky at Morning | Hartney J. Arthur | Drama | |||||||
| 1945 | |||||||||
| Harvest Gold | Joe Valli, Harry Abdy | Drama | |||||||
| Mid East | Documentary | ||||||||
| 1946 | |||||||||
| A Son Is Born | Drama | ||||||||
| Indonesia Calling | Short documentary | ||||||||
| The Overlanders | Adventure | ||||||||
| Smithy | Biopic | ||||||||
| Walkabout | Short/Documentary | ||||||||
| 1947 | |||||||||
| Bush Christmas | Adventure | ||||||||
| School in the Mailbox | Short documentary | Nominated for Oscar | |||||||
| 1948 | |||||||||
| Always Another Dawn | War drama | ||||||||
| 1949 | |||||||||
| The Inlanders | John Kingsford-Smith | David Low | Documentary | ||||||
| Into the Straight | Drama | ||||||||
| Sons of Matthew | Adventure / Drama | ||||||||
| Eureka Stockade | Historical Drama | ||||||||
| Strong Is the Seed | Drama |