This is a list of Canadian films which were released in the 1940s.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
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1941 | |||||
Churchill's Island | National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short | Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |||
Inside Fighting China | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nominee | |||
Mail Early | NFB animated short | Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB[1] | |||
Warclouds in the Pacific | Narrated by Lorne Greene | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nominee | ||
1942 | |||||
High over the Borders | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary nominee | |||
1943 | |||||
Alexis Tremblay, Habitant | NFB documentary | Photographed by Judith Crawley[2] | |||
At the Crossroads (À la croisée des chemins) | Drama | Narrated by René Lévesque, the future premier of Quebec.[3] | |||
1945 | |||||
Fridolinons | Short | ||||
The Music Master (Le Père Chopin) | Madeleine Ozeray, Marcel Chabrier, Pierre Durand | Drama | The first of several feature films produced during the 1940s and early 1950s by Renaissance Films of Montreal.[4] | ||
1947 | |||||
Bush Pilot | Melodrama | ||||
Whispering City and La Forteresse | Crime drama | Two films made simultaneously with each other, with different casts acting English and French versions of the same screenplay. | |||
1948 | |||||
Drug Addict | NFB short | Canadian Film Awards (CFA) - Documentary[5] | |||
The Loon's Necklace | Short | ||||
Sins of the Fathers | Drama | [6] | |||
Who Will Teach Your Child? | NFB documentary | ||||
1949 | |||||
Begone Dull Care | NFB animated short | At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Medal (Culture Films and Documentaries) award; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | |||
The Grand Bill (Le Gros Bill) | Ginette Letondal, Juliette Béliveau | Comedy/drama | [7] | ||
A Man and His Sin (Un Homme et son péché) | Drama | Canadian Film Award - Special Award[8] | |||
Perpetual Movement (Mouvement perpétuel) | Canadian Film Award winner for Best Amateur Film in 1950 | ||||
The Rising Tide | NFB documentary | It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) | |||
The Story of Dr. Louise (On ne triche pas la vie) | Drama | First Canada-France co-production[9] | |||
The Village Priest (Le Curé du village) | Richard Jarvis | Drama |