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Rita da Cascia
The 15th Century The 14th CenturyBiographical film about Saint Rita da Cascia, who lived in Umbria in the 14th century.
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Flying Tigers
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sStrong Brave Men Flying in the Face of Death that We may Live ... — Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
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Native Land
The 1930sThe Picture with the Most Exciting Story of Our Time! — 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 productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
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Tennessee Johnson
The 1860s The 1830sFrom poverty to a president. A great American story! — The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
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Battle of Hawaii
The 1940sA Japanese wartime propaganda drama made nearly a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor to celebrate the victory.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
England 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturyThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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The Dismissal
🇩🇪 Germany The 1890s The 1880sGerman chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end.
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania England The 18th Century The 17th CenturyPenn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
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Raza
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sThe troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a new cut of the film was released with less ideological depth and ten minutes shorter.)
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The Great King
🇩🇪 Germany The 18th CenturyKing Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going well. The Austrians are inflicting major casualties, and his army is beginning to crumble. Defeat seems inevitable when a combination of events gives him hope that he may pull victory from the jaws of defeat after all.
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A Garibaldian in the Convent
The 19th CenturyAn old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.
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The Gaucho War
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1810sThe story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
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Geheimakte W.B. 1
The 19th CenturyNazi propaganda film showing the development of the German navy's submarine fleet.
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Ride Tonight!
The 17th CenturyOppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
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The Gorgon
The 11th Century1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
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Sergeant York
Tennessee 🇫🇷 France The 1910sMissiles! Jets! Tanks! ... It's still the guy with guts and a gun who wins the war! — Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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They Died with Their Boots On
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sA STORY OF UNDYING FAITH! — The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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That Hamilton Woman
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyThe Year's Most Exciting Team of Screen Lovers! — The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The 47 Ronin
The 18th CenturyIn 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 sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
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Piccolo mondo antico
The 1850sFranco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.
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Carl Peters
England 🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1890s The 1880sNational-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
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Sikandar
The 4th Century BCThe film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. Sohrab Modi plays the Indian king Puru (Porus to the Greeks). The story goes that when Sikander defeated Porus and imprisoned him, he asked Porus how would he like to be treated. Porus replied the same way a defeated king is treated by the winner (meaning killed).
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Cadets
🇩🇪 Germany The 18th CenturyThe year is 1760: it is the time of the Seven Years' War and the advancing Russian army has taken captive 100 underage Prussian cadets. The kids are mishandled by the raping and pillaging Russians, but with the help of a Rittmeister now in the service of the Tsar, they succeed in getting away. They hole up in a deserted fort and eventually sally forward to take back their military academy from the bloodthirsty, pillaging Cossacks.
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Turbina
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Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
🇮🇹 Italy The 17th Century The 16th CenturyCaravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.
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Virginia City
NevadaGo West!...to Virginia City...for excitement, for adventure, for primitive romance!!! — Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Northwest Passage
New York New Hampshire Quebec The 18th CenturyHalf Men—Half Demons … Warriors Such As The World Has Never Known … They Lived With Death and Danger For The Women Who Hungered For Their Love! — 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 elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Illinois The 1860s The 1850sNow on the screen! — 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 his election as President of the United States.
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Edison, the Man
New York New Jersey The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sSpencer Tracy's greatest performance! — 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 New York. He's on his way with invention of an early form of stock market ticker.
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The Howards of Virginia
Virginia The 18th CenturyThe Vivid Drama Of A Nation's Birth ! — Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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North West Mounted Police
Saskatchewan The 1880sDeMille's first film in Technicolor! 10 Great Stars! 2 Glorious Love Stories! 1,000 Unforgettable Thrills! — Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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A Dispatch from Reuters
England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sGerman Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Four Sons
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1930sFour 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.
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The Man from Dakota
The 19th CenturyA frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
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The Fight for Life
Illinois The 1940sThe Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New York stage actors. A tribute to the Chicago Maternity Center and its efforts to provide the best possible care for destitute mothers, the film is based on the book of the same name by Paul de Kruif. Myron McCormick plays the largest role as a dedicated intern, while others in the cast include such theatrical heavywrights as Will Geer, Dudley Digges and Dorothy Adams. The film's many vignettes range from the tragic (a mother dying in childbirth in the opening scene) to the exultant (another mother rescued from the brink of death in a disease-ridden tenement). Filmed in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, Fight for Life is a worthwhile effort, though Lorentz seems more comfortable with the "actuality" scenes than with the dramatized passages.
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Little Old New York
New York The 1800sA spirited belle of the brawling waterfront, fighting for the heart of handsome Robert Fulton — Inventor Robert Fulton (Richard Greene) receives support from a tavern owner (Alice Faye) and a shipyard worker (Fred MacMurray) to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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From Mayerling to Sarajevo
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sAn Austrian prince's doomed love affair with a Czech countess sparks turmoil across Europe.
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Rewi's Last Stand
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1860sIf men can die, the women and children can die also. — Star-crossed lovers, Robert and Ariana, are caught up in the New Zealand wars of the 1860s. Ariana is claimed by the Maniapoto people as one of their own and, despite Robert's chivalrous defence, is taken by them and must help them prepare for war. Robert likewise must do his patriotic duty and enlists to fight on the other side. He volunteers to ride despatch, thinking it may give him an opportunity to see Ariana again, which it does, but their joy is short-lived; Maniapoto women fight beside their men, and furthermore she is a Rangitira (noble) and will not let her people down. The climax is the siege of Oraku Pa where 300 Maori hold off 2000 troops for three days. The Maniapoto are defeated, but Ariana, although wounded, survives to be reunited with Robert.
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Lucrezia Borgia
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The Four Feathers
🇸🇩 Sudan The 1890sThey made him a hero by branding him a coward... the story of a man who conquered fear. — A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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Jesse James
The 1880s The 1870sMotion Pictures' Supreme Epic ! — After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Illinois The 1830sThe story of Abraham Lincoln that has NEVER been told! — 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 first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Massachusetts England The 1870sDarryl F. Zanuck's Entertainment gem will take its place in the Hall of Fame ! — Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Drums Along the Mohawk
New York The 18th CenturyThrilling! Stirring! Spectacular! — 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 prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
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