Best History Films by Year

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Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
3.5 Stars
1564
89
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2356
184
1955
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1955
Mario Camerini, Mario Bava
Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà
Adventure / History / Fantasy / Romance
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2794
298
1955
Howard Hawks
Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alex Minotis
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2794
298
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Drama / History / Epic
Japan
Japanese
3.5 Stars
1964
132
1954
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentaro Mikuni
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1954
Michael Curtiz
Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Bella Darvi
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
4.5 Stars
873
55
1953
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2280
171
1953
George Lowe
Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay
Documentary / History / Sports / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2608
243
1953
Ken Annakin
Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Adventure / Drama / Family / History
USA
English
Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1953
Peter Brook
Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway
Crime / History / Musical / Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2742
280
1953
Irving Pichel
Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA / West Germany
English
2.5 Stars
2799
301
1953
Jean Negulesco
Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2799
301
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1953
Owen Crump
Roy Thompson Jr., Henry Goszkowski, Richard Karl Elliott, Albert Bernard Cook
Documentary / War / History / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2569
234
1952
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
4 Stars
1130
69
1951
John Huston
Audie Murphy, Andy Devine, Robert Easton, Douglas Dick
War / History / Epic
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1578
92
1951
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2499
215
1951
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore
Drama / Romance / History / Religion / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2171
157
1950
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins, Arlette Marchal
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2492
213
1950
Jacques Tourneur
Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon
Adventure / History / Fantasy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1950
Mikheil Chiaureli
Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Marina Kovalyova, V. Savelyev, G. Timoshenko
War / Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2694
264
1950
Henry Hathaway
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie
Adventure / History / Epic / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2694
264
1949
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane
Adventure / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2396
193
1948
Victor Fleming
Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert H. Barrat
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
280
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2.5 Stars
2790
296
1948
Charles Frend
John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1948
Gordon Douglas
Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams
Action / Adventure / History / Romance / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2323
179
1947
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Antonio Moreno
Adventure / Drama / Family / Romance / History / Action / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2685
261
1947
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1947
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Adventure / History / Western / Epic / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1865
119
1946
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1946
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
5 Stars
378
18
1945
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
3 Stars
2042
142
1945
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2711
271
1945
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1945
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1945
Frank Capra
George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
Documentary / War / History / Short
USA
English
5 Stars
292
15
1944
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
4 Stars
1448
82
1944
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
280
1944
William Wyler
Robert Taylor
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1944
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Douglas MacArthur
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1944
Stuart Heisler
William Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Norman Ford, Carlton Moss, Clyde Turner
Documentary / Short / War / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2803
304
1944
Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway
Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey
Drama / History / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1944
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
Comedy / Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1944
unknown
Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Short / War / Documentary / History
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1944
130
1943
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1943
Delmer Daves
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson
Adventure / History / War / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1943
Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1943
Frank Capra
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1943
John Ford, Gregg Toland
Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst, George O'Brien
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1942
Emilio Fernández
David Silva, Isabela Corona, Pituka de Foronda, Carlos López
Drama / War / History
Mexico / Argentina / Spain
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2773
291
1942
Veit Harlan
Paul Wegener, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / History / War / Biography / Epic
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1942
John Ford
Donald Crisp, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Irving Pichel, James Roosevelt
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1942
John Ford
Documentary / Short / History / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2366
188
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2401
196
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2516
219
1941
Fritz Lang
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1941
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2756
284
1941
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
4 Stars
1389
81
1940
King Vidor, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2354
183
1940
John Cromwell
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Romance / Western / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1940
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1940
unknown
Documentary / Short / History / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1940
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
4.5 Stars
568
32
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1841
116
1939
Henry King, Otto Brower
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn
Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2521
221
1939
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2608
243
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
263
1939
Irving Cummings, Malcolm St. Clair, Buster Keaton
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin, Jed Prouty
Comedy / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2773
291
1939
Goffredo Alessandrini
Camillo Pilotto, Mario Ferrari, Enrico Glori, Amedeo Trilli
History / War / Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1939
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford
Action / History / War / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
478
24
1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
5 Stars
491
26
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
4.5 Stars
544
30
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
3.5 Stars
1783
113
1938
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, William Aguet, Elisa Ruis
History / Period Film / War
France
French
3.5 Stars
1788
115
1938
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
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
263
1938
Allan Dwan
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure / Biography
USA
English
3 Stars
2015
140
1937
William K. Howard
Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh
Adventure / History / Romance / War
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2396
193
1937
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Mikhail Zharov
War / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2447
206
1937
Carmine Gallone
Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggi
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2486
210
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2645
248
1937
Christian-Jaque, Sacha Guitry
Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding
Comedy / History / Epic
France
French
2.5 Stars
2694
264
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1937
C. Allen Alexander
George Washington Carver
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1937
unknown
Herbert Morrison
Short / Documentary / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1937
Jacques Tourneur
Carey Wilson, Ernie Adams, Erville Alderson, Virginia Brissac, Philo McCullough
Short / History / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1937
George Nichols Jr.
Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Fay Bainter
Adventure / History / Romance / War / Action / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1517
88
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
3 Stars
2145
151
1936
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce
Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Epic / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2230
166
1936
Henry King
Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power
Drama / History / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2608
243
1936
John Ford, Leslie Goodwins
Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1936
John Ford
Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe
Drama / History / Adventure / Thriller / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2694
264
1936
George B. Seitz
Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel
Adventure / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
280
1936
Robert Stevenson
Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills, Felix Aylmer
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2742
280
1936
Efim Dzigan
Grigori Bushuyev, Raisa Yesipova, Vasili Zajchikov, E. Gunn
War / History / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1936
Pare Lorentz
Thomas Chalmers
Documentary / Short / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2773
291
1936
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker, Viktoria Von Ballasko, Elise Aulinger
Western / History / Drama / Biography
Germany
German
4 Stars
1112
67
1935
Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Adventure / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1935
Cecil B. DeMille
Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine DeMille
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Action / Epic / Religion
USA
English
4.5 Stars
813
48
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1479
84
1934
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1934
Alessandro Blasetti
Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari
Drama / War / History / Epic
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2742
280
1934
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
581
34
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
4.5 Stars
735
45
1933
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2742
280
1933
Vernon Sewell, Gustav Ucicky
Rudolf Forster, Fritz Genschow, Paul Westermeier,
War / History
Germany
German
3.5 Stars
1732
108
1932
Cecil B. DeMille
Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2533
225
1932
Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin
John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2694
264
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
2758
285
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2487
211
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
263
1930
King Vidor
Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing
History / Western / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1930
John G. Adolfi
Otis Skinner, Beryl Mercer, Betty Jane Graham, Loretta Young, Walter Pidgeon
Short / History / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
306
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
307
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1929
Charles Brabin
Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Don Alvarado, Duncan Renaldo
Drama / History / Religion
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1929
Frank Lloyd
Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler
Drama / History / Biography / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1929
Allan Dwan
Belle Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1929
Marco de Gastyne
Simone Genevois, Fernand Mailly, Georges Paulais, Jean Debucourt
Drama / History
France / Germany
German (Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
69
4
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
4 Stars
1018
64
1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2510
217
1928
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1928
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott, Pasquale Amato
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
5 Stars
232
10
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
2423
203
1927
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah, Bimbo the Monkey
Adventure / Documentary / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2514
218
1927
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Ivan Chuvelyov, Aleksei Davor
Drama / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2527
222
1927
Cecil B. DeMille
H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2608
243
1927
Alan Crosland
John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt, Henry Victor
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2514
218
1926
James Cruze
George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, William Conklin, Nick De Ruiz, Effie Ellsler
Drama / History / Adventure / Action / War
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
60
3
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Drama / War / Experimental / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
5 Stars
401
20
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
4 Stars
1332
77
1925
Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Epic / Religion / Action / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1925
Léonce Perret
Gloria Swanson, Émile Drain, Charles de Rochefort, Madeleine Guitty
Comedy / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2527
222
1924
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1924
Henry King
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman, Charles Lane
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2823
312
1924
D.W. Griffith
Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Lee Beggs
Drama / History / War / Romance / Adventure / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
306
1923
Herbert Brenon
Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes
History / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2308
176
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Romance / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2514
218
1922
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Dagny Servaes, Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova
History / Drama / Epic / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
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
2692
263
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri,Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1918
William Nigh
Halbert Brown, Willard Dashiell, Louis Dean, Earl Schenck, George Ridell
War / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
195
7
1916
D.W. Griffith
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis
Drama / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1916
Cecil B. DeMille
Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Wallace Reid
Adventure / Drama / History / Mystery / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
231
9
1915
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
Drama / War / Western / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1914
D.W. Griffith
Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Lillian Gish
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1914
William Robert Daly
Sam Lucas, Walter Hitchcock, Hattie Delaro, Master Abernathy, Teresa Michelena
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1913
Enrico Guazzoni
Amleto Novelli, Gustavo Serena, Amelia Cattaneo, Carlo Cattaneo, Lea Giunchi
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
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
317
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
263
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
263
1908
Vladimir Romashkov
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Short / History
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1907
Sidney Olcott
Herman Rottger, William S. Hart
Short / History / Action / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2758
285
1906
unknown
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
263
1902
Georges Méliès
Short / History
France
French (Silent)
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