6.9
A Dispatch from Reuters
IMDb: 6.9 1940 90 min
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
6.2
The Blue Bird
IMDb: 6.2 1940 88 min
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, ...
7.4
The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 7.4 1939 80 min
On his uncle’s death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, ...
7.2
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
IMDb: 7.2 1939 85 min
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock ...
6.5
Suez
IMDb: 6.5 1938 104 min
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.
6.1
Thunder in the City
IMDb: 6.1 1937 87 min
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
6.4
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
IMDb: 6.4 1937 98 min
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
6.6
The White Angel
IMDb: 6.6 1936 92 min
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale’s heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a ...
6.4
Under Two Flags
IMDb: 6.4 1936 98 min
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother’s crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though ...
6.8
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
IMDb: 6.8 1936 96 min
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
7
The Charge of the Light Brigade
IMDb: 7 1936 111 min
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and ...
6.1
Jalna
IMDb: 6.1 1935 78 min
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
5.8
Becky Sharp
IMDb: 5.8 1935 84 min
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s ...
7.1
Treasure Island
IMDb: 7.1 1934 103 min
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in ...
7.3
The Scarlet Pimpernel
IMDb: 7.3 1934 97 min
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of ...
