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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2608
357
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
Michael Curtiz
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Shchors
1939
Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva
Yevgeni Samojlov, Ivan Skuratov, Luka Lyashenko, Nina Nikitina
Drama / War / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2692
394
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
Irving Cummings
Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
409
Robert Koch
1939
Hans Steinhoff
Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Viktoria von Ballasko
Drama / Biography
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2809
436
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
H.C. Potter
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields
Biography / Musical / Romance / War
USA
English
5 Stars
477
24
Alexander Nevsky
1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
3.5 Stars
1551
135
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman
Musical / Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1789
163
Marie Antoinette
1938
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1790
164
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
1938
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovsky
Biography / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2189
238
Boys Town
1938
Norman Taurog
Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney
Drama / Biography
USA
English
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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2375
289
The Great Waltz
1938
Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg
Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Peter the First, Part Two
1938
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail Zharov
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Suez
1938
Allan Dwan
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
436
Jazz "Hot"
1938
unknown
Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli
Short / Documentary / Biography / Music
UK
English
5 Stars
326
13
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2397
296
Peter the First, Part One
1937
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Mikhail Zharov
War / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2449
308
Scipione l'africano
1937
Carmine Gallone
Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggi
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2487
315
Victoria the Great
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2758
415
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute
1937
C. Allen Alexander
George Washington Carver
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1190
89
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1349
107
Rembrandt
1936
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
4 Stars
1372
109
The Great Ziegfeld
1936
Robert Z. Leonard
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Musical / Biography / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1511
128
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
John Ford
Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Drama / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1517
131
Mayerling
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2.5 Stars
2608
357
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1936
Abel Gance
Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Andre Nox, Jane Marken, Lucas Gridoux
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film / Romance
France
French
2.5 Stars
2608
357
Mary of Scotland
1936
John Ford, Leslie Goodwins
Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2685
389
Sant Tukaram
1936
Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri, B. Nandrekar, Shankar Kulkarni
Drama / Biography / Religion
India
Hindi
2.5 Stars
2692
394
The Plainsman
1936
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess
Biography / War / Western / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
409
Nine Days a Queen
1936
Robert Stevenson
Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills, Felix Aylmer
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2758
415
The Plow That Broke the Plains
1936
Pare Lorentz
Thomas Chalmers
Documentary / Short / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2773
419
Der Kaiser von Kalifornien
1936
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker, Viktoria Von Ballasko, Elise Aulinger
Western / History / Drama / Biography
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2742
409
Golgotha
1935
Julien Duvivier
Jean Gabin, Edwige Feuillère, Juliette Verneuil, Vanah Yami
Adventure / Drama / Religion / Epic / Biography
France
French
2.5 Stars
2742
409
Jánosik
1935
Martin Fric
Palo Bielik, Zlata Hajdúková, Andrej Bagar
Adventure / Romance / Biography
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2.5 Stars
2773
419
Casta Diva
1935
Carmine Gallone
Mártha Eggerth, Phillips Holmes, Donald Calthrop
Biography / Drama / Musical
Italy
Italian
4.5 Stars
813
53
The Scarlet Empress
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1193
91
Viva Villa!
1934
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray
Western / Action / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1478
124
Cleopatra
1934
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1820
169
The House of Rothschild
1934
Alfred L. Werker
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2511
329
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Three Songs About Lenin
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2742
409
Catherine the Great
1934
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2742
409
Chapayev
1934
Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev
Boris Babochkin, Leonid Kmit, Varvara Myasnikova
Drama / War / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2790
425
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934
Alexander Korda
Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
4.5 Stars
580
33
Queen Christina
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
4.5 Stars
736
44
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2493
318
The Great Consoler
1933
Lev Kuleshov
Konstantin Khokhlov, Ivan Novoseltsev, Vasili Kovrigin, Andrei Fajt
Drama / Biography / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2809
436
I Was a Spy
1933
Victor Saville
Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn, Gerald du Maurier
Biography / War / Spy
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2694
395
The Dreyfus Case
1931
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2712
401
Trader Horn
1931
W.S. Van Dyke
Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Adventure / Action / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2488
316
Abraham Lincoln
1930
D.W. Griffith
Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman
Biography / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Billy the Kid
1930
King Vidor
Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing
History / Western / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
436
The Silent Enemy
1930
H.P. Carver
Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Spotted Elk
Drama / Action / History / Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2811
438
With Byrd at the South Pole
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1503
127
Disraeli
1929
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
394
The Divine Lady
1929
Frank Lloyd
Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler
Drama / History / Biography / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
69
5
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Glorious Betsy
1928
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott, Pasquale Amato
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
5 Stars
232
8
Napoléon
1927
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Casanova
1927
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2528
336
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
436
The Great White Silence
1924
Herbert G. Ponting
Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting
Documentary / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Wild Bill Hickok
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
633
38
Nanook of the North
1922
Robert J. Flaherty
Nanook, Nyla, Cunayou, Allee, Allegoo
Documentary / Drama / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Anna Boleyn
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Aud Egede Nissen
Drama / Biography / History / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
436
Heading Home
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Madame DuBarry
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri,Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Masks and Faces
1917
Fred Paul
Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Irene Vanbrugh, Henry S. Irving, Gerald du Maurier
Drama / Romance / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
NR
-
Cleopatra
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Joan the Woman
1916
Cecil B. DeMille
Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Wallace Reid
Adventure / Drama / History / Mystery / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
436
The Raven
1915
Charles Brabin
Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard, Ernest Maupain, Eleanor Thompson, Marian Skinner
Biography / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
The Life of General Villa
1914
Christy Cabanne
Irene Hunt, W.H. Lawrence, Walter Long, Teddy Sampson, Pancho Villa, Raoul Walsh
Action / Biography / Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
La Reine Élisabeth
1912
Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton
Sarah Bernhardt, Lou Tellegen, Max Maxudian, Jean Angelo, Georges Charmeroy
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2839
447
Richard III
1912
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
Henry VIII
1911
William G.B. Barker
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Arthur Bourchier, Violet Vanbrugh, Laura Cowie
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
The Life of Moses
1909
J. Stuart Blackton
Pat Hartigan, Julia Arthur, William Humphrey, Charles Kent, Edith Storey
Biography / Drama / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
394
The Story of the Kelly Gang
1906
Charles Tait
Elizabeth Tait, John Tait, Bella Cola, Vera Linden, Frank Mills, Ollie Wilson
Biography / Drama
Australia
English (Silent)
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