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 19 views
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
6.3
Chad Hanna
IMDb: 6.3 1940 86 min 20 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 18 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 16 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 19 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 20 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 22 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 19 views
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
6.4
The Oklahoma Kid
IMDb: 6.4 1939 85 min 14 views
McCord’s gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw “The Oklahoma Kid” Jim ...
5.7
The Night Riders
IMDb: 5.7 1939 56 min 20 views
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won’t pay. The Three ...
6.1
Man of Conquest
IMDb: 6.1 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 21 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 18 views
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
6.3
Jamaica Inn
IMDb: 6.3 1939 108 min 19 views
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s ...
6.5
Hollywood Cavalcade
IMDb: 6.5 1939 97 min 17 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 23 views
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
7
Drums Along the Mohawk
IMDb: 7 1939 100 min 19 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 21 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 18 views
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed’s search for the cause of “Yellow Jack” or Yellow Fever and those who ...
6.3
We’re Going to Be Rich
IMDb: 6.3 1938 78 min 17 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 ...
6.6
Suez
IMDb: 6.6 1938 104 min 14 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 14 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 15 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 15 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.
5.8
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
IMDb: 5.8 1936 83 min 17 views
Mozart biopic.
6.3
Victoria the Great
IMDb: 6.3 1937 112 min 20 views
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent ...
