En el món del Cinema, el 1940 van passar alguns fets destacables:
- Abe Lincoln a Illinois
- All This and Heaven Too
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante protagonitzada per Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, i Fay Holden
- Aixeca't, amor meu
- Arizona
- The Bank Dick, escrita i protagonitzada per W.C. Fields
- The Biscuit Eater
- Boom Town
- Boys of the City
- Broadway Melody of 1940 protagonitzada per Fred Astaire i Eleanor Powell
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet protagonitzada per Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, i Donald Crisp.
- East Side Kids
- Edison, the Man protagonitzada per Spencer Tracy
- Fantasia
- Go West, protagonitzada pels Germans Marx
- Give Us Wings
- Gaslight
- El raïm de la ira
- The Great Dictator, protagonitzada per Charlie Chaplin
- Green Hell
- Lluna nova, protagonitzada per Cary Grant i Rosalind Russell
- The Howards of Virginia, protagonitzada per Cary Grant i Martha Scott
- Junior G-Men
- Kitty Foyle
- My Favorite Wife
- Night Train to Munich
- North West Mounted Police
- Northwest Passage, protagonitzada per Spencer Tracy
- One Million B.C.
- One Night in the Tropics, pel·lícula debut d'Abbott and Costello
- The Philadelphia Story
- Pinocchio
- Pride of the Bowery
- Pride and Prejudice, protagonitzada per Greer Garson i Laurence Olivier
- Rebecca - protagonitzada per Sir Laurence Olivier
- El falcó del mar
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Strike Up the Band
- That Gang of Mine
- The Thief of Bagdad
- Too Many Husbands
- Vigil in the Night, protagonitzada per Carole Lombard
- The Well-Digger's Daughter
- You're Not So Tough