7.6
The Sea Hawk
IMDb: 7.6 1940 127 min
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
7
Northwest Passage
IMDb: 7 1940 126 min
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers’ Rangers, as the legendary ...
6.4
Little Old New York
IMDb: 6.4 1940 100 min
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
6
The Howards of Virginia
IMDb: 6 1940 116 min
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins ...
6.5
Four Sons
IMDb: 6.5 1940 89 min
Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
7
Edison, the Man
IMDb: 7 1940 107 min
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
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
6.2
Chad Hanna
IMDb: 6.2 1940 86 min
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
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
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
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
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
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human ...
6.4
Stand Up and Fight
IMDb: 6.4 1939 97 min
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
7
Stanley and Livingstone
IMDb: 7 1939 101 min
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to ...
7
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
IMDb: 7 1939 106 min
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
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
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
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
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
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
6.5
Hollywood Cavalcade
IMDb: 6.5 1939 97 min
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
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
7
Drums Along the Mohawk
IMDb: 7 1939 100 min
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
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
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
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 ...
6.5
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.
7.3
Marie Antoinette
IMDb: 7.3 1938 149 min
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for ...
7
La Marseillaise
IMDb: 7 1938 131 min
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, ...
