6.4
Ride Tonight!
IMDb: 6.4 1942 106 min 18 views
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg’s novel.
6.3
Native Land
IMDb: 6.3 1942 89 min 21 views
By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage ...
7.2
That Hamilton Woman
IMDb: 7.2 1941 125 min 18 views
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and ...
7.9
The Little Foxes
IMDb: 7.9 1941 117 min 22 views
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
7.2
The 47 Ronin
IMDb: 7.2 1941 223 min 21 views
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun’s palace. The Shogun ...
7.6
The Sea Hawk
IMDb: 7.6 1940 127 min 18 views
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
7
Northwest Passage
IMDb: 7 1940 126 min 19 views
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers’ Rangers, as the legendary ...
6.4
Little Old New York
IMDb: 6.4 1940 100 min 23 views
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
6
The Howards of Virginia
IMDb: 6 1940 116 min 18 views
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins ...
6.5
Four Sons
IMDb: 6.5 1940 89 min 21 views
Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
7
Edison, the Man
IMDb: 7 1940 107 min 20 views
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in ...
6.9
A Dispatch from Reuters
IMDb: 6.9 1940 90 min 20 views
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
6.2
Chad Hanna
IMDb: 6.2 1940 86 min 19 views
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
6.3
Brigham Young
IMDb: 6.3 1940 114 min 22 views
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to ...
7.3
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
IMDb: 7.3 1940 110 min 20 views
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until ...
7.5
Young Mr. Lincoln
IMDb: 7.5 1939 100 min 22 views
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his ...
6.6
Tower of London
IMDb: 6.6 1939 92 min 18 views
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the ...
7
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
IMDb: 7 1939 98 min 22 views
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human ...
7
Stanley and Livingstone
IMDb: 7 1939 101 min 19 views
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to ...
6.4
Stand Up and Fight
IMDb: 6.4 1939 97 min 20 views
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
7
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
IMDb: 7 1939 106 min 22 views
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
5.7
The Night Riders
IMDb: 5.7 1939 56 min 17 views
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won’t pay. The Three ...
6
Man of Conquest
IMDb: 6 1939 105 min 21 views
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
7
The Man in the Iron Mask
IMDb: 7 1939 112 min 20 views
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father’s trusted ...
6.9
Juarez
IMDb: 6.9 1939 125 min 19 views
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
6.5
Hollywood Cavalcade
IMDb: 6.5 1939 97 min 20 views
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks ...
7.4
The Four Feathers
IMDb: 7.4 1939 129 min 18 views
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
7
Drums Along the Mohawk
IMDb: 7 1939 100 min 20 views
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing ...
6.3
Allegheny Uprising
IMDb: 6.3 1939 81 min 18 views
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. ...
6.2
Yellow Jack
IMDb: 6.2 1938 83 min 17 views
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed’s search for the cause of “Yellow Jack” or Yellow Fever and those who ...
6.4
We’re Going to Be Rich
IMDb: 6.4 1938 78 min 18 views
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally ...
6.5
Suez
IMDb: 6.5 1938 104 min 21 views
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it’s just the place for a canal.
7
La Marseillaise
IMDb: 7 1938 131 min 18 views
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, ...
7.1
If I Were King
IMDb: 7.1 1938 101 min 20 views
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the ...
6.6
The Buccaneer
IMDb: 6.6 1938 126 min 22 views
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
7.9
The Adventures of Robin Hood
IMDb: 7.9 1938 102 min 17 views
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
5.9
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
IMDb: 5.9 1936 83 min 21 views
Mozart biopic.
6.3
Victoria the Great
IMDb: 6.3 1937 112 min 21 views
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent ...
6.3
The Toast of New York
IMDb: 6.3 1937 109 min 20 views
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where ...
5.3
Parnell
IMDb: 5.3 1937 118 min 18 views
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O’Shea ...
7.6
Humanity and Paper Balloons
IMDb: 7.6 1937 86 min 18 views
In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father’s former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to ...
6.8
Knight Without Armour
IMDb: 6.8 1937 100 min 19 views
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia ...
8.1
Grand Illusion
IMDb: 8.1 1937 114 min 19 views
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class ...
7.5
The Good Earth
IMDb: 7.5 1937 139 min 21 views
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure ...
6.8
The Firefly
IMDb: 6.8 1937 131 min 24 views
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in ...
6.5
Fire Over England
IMDb: 6.5 1937 92 min 19 views
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence ...
6.5
The Emperor’s Candlesticks
IMDb: 6.5 1937 89 min 17 views
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
6.5
Conquest
IMDb: 6.5 1937 113 min 22 views
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might ...
7.3
Camille
IMDb: 7.3 1936 109 min 21 views
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means ...
5.8
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
IMDb: 5.8 1936 76 min 20 views
It is England in the 1830s. London’s dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, ...
