6.3
Captain Kidd
IMDb: 6.3 1945 89 min
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne’s treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a ...
7.4
The Fighting Sullivans
IMDb: 7.4 1944 112 min
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual ...
6.3
Mademoiselle Fifi
IMDb: 6.3 1944 69 min
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social ...
6.8
The Hitler Gang
IMDb: 6.8 1944 101 min
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.
7
Henry V
IMDb: 7 1944 137 min
In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
8.1
Day of Wrath
IMDb: 8.1 1943 97 min
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, ...
6.1
Titanic
IMDb: 6.1 1943 88 min
In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest ...
6.3
Tonight We Raid Calais
IMDb: 6.3 1943 80 min
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete ...
6.5
Tennessee Johnson
IMDb: 6.5 1942 103 min
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson’s boyhood and covers ...
6.8
Paracelsus
IMDb: 6.8 1943 104 min
The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known ...
5.4
Mission to Moscow
IMDb: 5.4 1943 124 min
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
7.2
Madame Curie
IMDb: 7.2 1943 124 min
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism ...
6.9
Forever and a Day
IMDb: 6.9 1943 104 min
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie ...
6.8
For Whom the Bell Tolls
IMDb: 6.8 1943 170 min
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the ...
6.1
December 7th
IMDb: 6.1 1943 32 min
“Docudrama” about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of ...
6.7
The Young Mr. Pitt
IMDb: 6.7 1942 118 min
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
6.4
Ride Tonight!
IMDb: 6.4 1942 106 min
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg’s novel.
6.3
Native Land
IMDb: 6.3 1942 89 min
By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage ...
7.2
That Hamilton Woman
IMDb: 7.2 1941 125 min
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and ...
7.9
The Little Foxes
IMDb: 7.9 1941 117 min
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
7.2
The 47 Ronin
IMDb: 7.2 1941 223 min
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun’s palace. The Shogun ...
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 ...
