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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 | Stuart Legg | Narrated by Lorne Greene | National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short | Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | ||
Inside Fighting China | Stuart Legg | Narrated by Lorne Greene | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nominee | ||
Mail Early | Norman McLaren | NFB animated short | Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB[1] | |||
Warclouds in the Pacific | Stuart Legg | Narrated by Lorne Greene | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nominee | ||
1942 | ||||||
High over the Borders | Raymond Spottiswoode | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary nominee | |||
1943 | ||||||
Alexis Tremblay, Habitant | Jane Marsh Beveridge | NFB documentary | Photographed by Judith Crawley[2] | |||
At the Crossroads (À la croisée des chemins) | Jean-Marie Poitevin & Paul Guèvremont | Paul Guèvremont, Denise Pelletier | Drama | Narrated by René Lévesque, the future premier of Quebec.[3] | ||
1945 | ||||||
Fridolinons | Roger Blais | Gratien Gélinas | Short | |||
The Music Master (Le Père Chopin) | Fedor Ozep & Georges Freedland | 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 | Sterling Campbell | Rochelle Hudson, Jack La Rue, Austin Willis, Frank Perry | Melodrama | |||
Whispering City and La Forteresse | Fedor Ozep | English cast: Helmut Dantine, Mary Anderson, Paul Lukas, John Pratt French cast: Paul Dupuis, Nicole Germain, Jacques Auger, Henri Letondal |
Crime drama | Two films made simultaneously with each other, with different casts acting English and French versions of the same screenplay. | ||
1948 | ||||||
Drug Addict | Robert Anderson | NFB short | Canadian Film Awards (CFA) - Documentary[5] | |||
The Loon's Necklace | Budge Crawley | Short | The film won the inaugural Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | |||
Sins of the Fathers | Phil Rosen | Austin Willis, Joy Lafleur | Drama | [6] | ||
Who Will Teach Your Child? | Stanley Jackson | NFB documentary | ||||
1949 | ||||||
Begone Dull Care | Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart | Visual music presentation of Oscar Peterson | 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) | Jean-Yves Bigras, René Delacroix | Ginette Letondal, Juliette Béliveau | Comedy/drama | [7] | ||
A Man and His Sin (Un Homme et son péché) | Paul Gury | Hector Charland, Nicole Germain, Guy Provost | Drama | Canadian Film Award - Special Award[8] | ||
Perpetual Movement (Mouvement perpétuel) | Claude Jutra | Canadian Film Award winner for Best Amateur Film in 1950 | ||||
The Rising Tide | Jean Palardy | 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) | Paul Vandenberghe, René Delacroix | Madeleine Robinson, Jean Davy, Line Noro | Drama | First Canada-France co-production[9] | ||
The Village Priest (Le Curé du village) | Richard Jarvis | Ovila Légaré, Lise Roy, Denis Drouin | Drama |