Film
- 28 October – Release of How Green Was My Valley (book by Richard Llewellyn). Filmed in California with mainly American and Irish stars, there is only one genuinely Welsh actor, Rhys Williams in the minor role of Dai Bando. The film wins the year's Academy Award for Best Picture (awarded 26 February 1942).
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