List of Canadian films#1940s

This is a list of films produced in Canada ordered by year and date of release. At present, films predating 1920 are directly listed here; from 1920 on, links are provided to standalone lists by decade or year.

1890s

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{{Year header}} \| 1898
Ten Years in Manitoba	James Freer	James Freer

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{{Year header}} | 1898

Ten Years in Manitoba

James Freer

1900s

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{{Year header}} \| 1903
Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway	Joe Rosenthal	Short	A lost film.

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{{Year header}} | 1903

Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway

Joe Rosenthal

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A lost film.

1910s

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{{Year header}} \| 1913
Battle of the Long Sault	Frank Crane	Frank Crane	Short drama	Made with the Kanehnawaga First Nations{{cite news\|title=At Starland\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6645298/battle_of_the_long_sault_filmed_on/\|newspaper=The Winnipeg Tribune\|date=8 August 1913 \|page=7 \|access-date=March 25, 2017}}
{{Year header}} \| 1914
Evangeline	Edward P. Sullivan, William H. Cavanaugh	Laura Lyman, John T. Carleton, E.P. Sullivan	Drama based on the Longfellow poem
In the Land of the Head Hunters	Edward S. Curtis	Maggie Frank	Documentary
{{Year header}} \| 1915
Canada's Fighting Forces	D.J. Dwyer			Government of Canada World War I propaganda film{{cite book\|last1=Morris\|first1=Peter\|title=Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1895-1939\|url=https://archive.org/details/embattledshadows0000morr\|url-access=registration\|date=1978\|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press\|location=Montreal\|isbn=0-7735-0323-4\|page=[https://archive.org/details/embattledshadows0000morr/page/59 59]}}
{{Year header}} \| 1916
British Columbia for the Empire \|A. D. Kean \| \|Compilation \|Recruiting and training of British Columbia military units, and their departures for service in WWI.
Self-Defence	Charles Roos	Albert Grupe	Docudrama	It depicts a fictitious German invasion of Canada.{{cite book\|last1=Morris\|first1=Peter\|title=Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1895-1939\|url=https://archive.org/details/embattledshadows0000morr\|url-access=registration\|date=1978\|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press\|location=Montreal\|isbn=0-7735-0323-4\|page=[https://archive.org/details/embattledshadows0000morr/page/63 63]}}
{{Year header}} \| 1919
Back to God's Country	David Hartford	Nell Shipman, Charles Arling, Wheeler Oakman, Wellington Playter	Drama	Produced by Nell and Ernest Shipman
Whaling: British Columbia's Least Known and Most Romantic Industry \|A. D. Kean \| \|Documentary short \|Depicts the whaling industry on the Pacific coast, with scenes filmed off Vancouver Island (1916–17) and the Queen Charlotte Islands (1917–19).

1920s

List of Canadian films of the 1920s

1930s

List of Canadian films of the 1930s

1940s

List of Canadian films of the 1940s

1950s

List of Canadian films of the 1950s

1960s

List of Canadian films of the 1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

References

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{{citation |last = Melnyk|first = George|year = 2004|title =One hundred years of Canadian cinema

|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=h_OqzHvNKdwC&q=Canadian%20film&pg=PP1 |publisher= University of Toronto Press |isbn=0-8020-3568-X}}

{{citation |last = Rist |first =Peter |year =2001 |title =Guide to the cinema(s) of Canada |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=7uKs4fKOotUC&q=Guide%20to%20Canadian%20English&pg=PP1 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=0-313-29931-5 }}
{{citation |last =Wise |first =Wyndham |year =2001 |title = Essential guide to Canadian film

|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=m4Y_OgckDmIC&q=Guide%20to%20CAnadian&pg=PP1 |publisher= University of Toronto Press|isbn= 0-8020-3512-4}}

{{cite book

| last= Hallenbeck

| first= Bruce G.

| title= Comedy-Horror Films:A Chronological History, 1914-2008

|publisher= McFarland

|year= 2009

|isbn= 978-0786433322

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External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?countries=CA Canadian film] at the Internet Movie Database
[http://film.athabascau.ca/ Canadian Film Online database] (from Athabasca University)
[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/canadian-feature-film-database.aspx Canadian Feature Film Database] (from Library and Archives Canada)