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Wilson
New Jersey District of Columbia The 1910s The 1920sDRAMA AND SPECTACLE UNPARALLELED! ENTERTAINMENT UNDREAMED OF! 12,000 PLAYERS! 200 MIGHTY SCENES! TOLD TO THE TUNE OF 87 BELOVED SONGS! — The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
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Greenwich Village
New York The 1920sHIT OF HITS!!! IN TECHNICOLOR! — In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
The 1920sIn 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivity and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
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The Hour Before the Dawn
England The 1940s The 1920sW. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman! — A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
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Heaven Can Wait
The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sHe believed in Love… Honor… and Obey – That Impulse! — Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Victory Through Air Power
The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sThis is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky's theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.
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Variety Jubilee
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sThis domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
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Happy Land
Iowa The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sAn Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
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The Pride of the Yankees
New York The 1930s The 1920sIntimate and thrilling drama of a hero of the headlines... the girl who had his love and shared his life, but dared not question his one secret! — The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Random Harvest
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sHe had found love - lost it - and now had found it again! — An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
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Roxie Hart
Illinois The 1920sThe gal who became a national pastime! — A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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A Gentleman After Dark
New York The 1920sDON'T WORRY, TWO-TIMER...I WON'T KILL YOU...NOW! — A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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Broadway
New York The 1920sTogether for the first time! — Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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Citizen Kane
New York Florida The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sIt's terrific! — Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Remember the Day
Indiana The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sElderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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One Foot in Heaven
Iowa Colorado Ontario The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sFolks, meet a grand FATHER! He's the affable, laffable head of the most delightful family that ever stepped out of America's screens...into America's hearts! — Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Back Street
New York Ohio The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sPreviously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
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Cheers For Miss Bishop
The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sElla Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
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My Life for Ireland
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920s The 1900sA Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
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Venus on Trial
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930s The 1920sA sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.
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You Will Remember
England The 1920s The 1900sBiography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Oklahoma The 1930s The 1920sThe Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions! — Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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The Roaring Twenties
New York The 1920sThe land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick! — After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Rose of Washington Square
New York The 1920s The 1910sRose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Balalaika
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia The 1920s The 1910sWhere there's wine, women, and song! — A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Angels with Dirty Faces
New York The 1930s The 1920sThe saga of America’s dirty faced kids... and the breaks that life won’t give them! — In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
New York California England 🇫🇷 France The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sAn American Cavalcade! — Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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The Citadel
Wales England The 1930s The 1920sSecrets of a doctor as told by a doctor! — Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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Three Comrades
🇩🇪 Germany The 1920s The 1910s.. Torn from a million souls! — A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
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Love, Honor and Behave
The 1920sCHILDREN OF DIVORCE...READY TO CALL LOVE QUITS WITHOUT A TRY! — Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
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Pour le Mérite
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The Lady in White
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sThe lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.
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Zangezur
🇦🇲 Armenia The 1920sThe film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
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The Road Back
🇩🇪 Germany The 1920s The 1910sFAREWELL WESTERN FRONT - HAIL YOUTH...AND LOVE! — After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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The High Command
🇮🇪 Ireland Africa - General The 1920sA general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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The Thirteen
The 1920sThe film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian desert. They are forced to do battle with superior forces of Basmachi rebels for the dry draw-well.
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Togger
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Champagne Waltz
🇦🇹 Austria The 1920sAs gay and sparkling as a champagne cocktail! — n Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
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Revolt of the Zombies
🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1920sWEIRDEST LOVE STORY IN 2000 YEARS! — The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda.
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The Great Ziegfeld
New York Illinois California The 1920s The 1910s The 1890sThe Last Word In Entertainment! — Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
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Beloved Enemy
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sLOVE KEEPS A DATE WITH DESTINY IN THIS THRILLING STORY OF A WOMAN WHO BETRAYED THE MAN SHE LOVED! — In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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Winterset
New York The 1930s The 1920sA man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
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The Dawn
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sThe fight must go on. — Set in 1920 Ireland when the Black & Tans were brought in from Britain to help supress revolution in Ireland. It was the first full length sound movie made in Ireland and tells the saga of an IRA flying column in Kerry and the local Malone family suspected of betraying their country. It was made in and around Killarney by Tom Cooper, the owner of the local cinema who also directs and stars as the head of the local IRA.
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The Informer
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sGypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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Toni
🇫🇷 France The 1920s The 1930sIn the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
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New Women
Shanghai The 1920sOvernight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution.
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