Films from the 1940s on The Criterion Channel 2026

Updated September 14, 2026Checked September 14, 2026

1. 21 Days (1940)
2. 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946)
3. 49th Parallel (1941)
4. All That Money Can Buy (1941)
5. Anna Karenina (1948)
6. Apostasy (1948)
7. Army (1944)
8. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
9. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
10. Bitter Rice (1949)
11. Black Narcissus (1947)
12. Blanche Fury (1948)
13. Blithe Spirit (1945)
14. The Blood of Jesus (1941)
15. Blood of the Beasts (1949)
16. Brief Encounter (1945)
17. Broken Drum (1949)
18. Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
19. Brute Force (1947)
20. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
21. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
22. Carita de cielo (1947)
23. Carnival of Sinners (1943)
24. Chains (1949)
25. The Children Are Watching Us (1943)
26. Children of Paradise (1945)
27. A Christmas Dream (1945)
28. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
29. Crisis (1946)
30. D.O.A. (1949)
31. Day of Wrath (1943)
32. Desert Fury (1947)
33. Detour (1945)
34. Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1947)
35. Distant Journey (1949)
36. Douce (1943)
37. Drunken Angel (1948)
38. The Eternal Return (1943)
39. Eva (1948)
40. The Fan (1949)
41. Fight Without Hate (1948)
42. The First of the Few (1942)
43. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
44. Freshwater Assassins (1947)
45. Germany, Year Zero (1948)
46. The Girl I Loved (1946)
47. The Great Dictator (1940)
48. Great Expectations (1946)
49. Green for Danger (1946)
50. Hamlet (1948)
51. A Hen in the Wind (1948)
52. Henry V (1944)
53. Here's to the Young Lady (1949)
54. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
55. I Married a Witch (1942)
56. I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
57. I Shot Jesse James (1949)
58. An Ideal Husband (1947)
59. In Which We Serve (1942)
60. Inspiration (1949)
61. Jour de Fête (1949)
62. Jubilation Street (1944)
63. June Night (1940)
64. Jungle Book (1942)
65. Kalpana (1948)
66. L'Amore (1948)
67. Late Spring (1949)
68. Le Corbeau (1943)
69. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
70. Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945)
71. Let There Be Light (1946)
72. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
73. The Living Magoroku (1943)
74. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
75. Love Letters (1942)
76. Lydia (1941)
77. Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
78. Major Barbara (1941)
79. The Man in Grey (1943)
80. The Marriage of Chiffon (1942)
81. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
82. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
83. Morning for the Osone Family (1946)
84. The Most Beautiful (1944)
85. The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
86. N.U. (1948)
87. The Naked City (1948)
88. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
89. Obsession (1949)
90. Odd Man Out (1947)
91. Oliver Twist (1948)
92. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
93. Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
94. Paisan (1946)
95. The Passionate Friends (1949)
96. Phoenix (1947)
97. Port of Call (1948)
98. The Portrait (1948)
99. Quartet (1948)
100. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
101. The Red Shoes (1948)
102. The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
103. Rome, Open City (1945)
104. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
105. Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945)
106. School for Postmen (1946)
107. The Seventh Veil (1945)
108. A Ship to India (1947)
109. Shoeshine (1946)
110. The Silence of the Sea (1949)
111. The Small Back Room (1949)
112. Snow Trail (1947)
113. Strange Victory (1948)
114. Stray Dog (1949)
115. Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949)
116. Summer Light (1943)
117. That Hamilton Woman (1941)
118. There Was a Father (1942)
119. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
120. Thirst (1949)
121. This Happy Breed (1944)
122. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
123. Torment (1944)
124. Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
125. The Vampire (1945)
126. The Volunteer (1944)
127. The Wicked Lady (1945)
128. Women of the Night (1948)
129. XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (1948)