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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Paradis Perdu / Four Flights to Love | Gance, Abel | 1940 | France |
An exploration of how war transforms a man's life and relationship with women in interwar France. In pre-1914 Paris, an aspiring artist falls in love with a dressmaker. After she dies in childbirth he volunteers to take part in a dangerous... |
The Howards of Virginia | Lloyd, Frank | 1940 | United States |
The Howards of Virginia is a 1940 American film directed by Frank Lloyd, and based on the book The Tree of Liberty written by Elizabeth Page. A young man from colonial Virginia fulfills his father's dream of moving West at the... |
Wunschkonzert / Request Concert | Eduard von Borsody | 1940 | Germany |
At the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - incognito, without permission for any contacts to his friends... |
Juarez | Dieterle, William | 1939 | United States |
Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle, based on the 1934 biography The Phantom Crown by Bertita Harding and the 1925 play Juarez and Maximilian by Franz Werfel. The film focuses on... |
Gunga Din | Stevens, George | 1939 | United States |
Loosely based on the Rudyard Kipling poem, this movie presents late 19th-century British colonialism in India in a positive light while noting sharp differences among its colonized subjects. Three British sergeants and their bhisti (water carrier... |
The Little Princess | Lang, Walter | 1939 | United States |
The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. When her father leaves to... |
Les Ôtages / The Mayor's Dilemma | Bernard, Raymond | 1939 | France |
This film takes place in 1914, and analyzes the reactions of a French village "under the German boot" during the First Battle of the Marne, on September 1914. Two teenagers experience a love story like Romeo and Juliette. A German officer has... |
Drums along the Mohawk | Ford, John | 1939 | United States |
This film, based on the 1936 novel Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmond, focuses on Gilbert and Lana Martin, a young couple trying to make a home in New York State's Mohawk Valley, but repeated attacks by Native American drive them... |
Sons of Liberty | Michael Curtiz | 1939 | United States |
This short film, winner of the Academy Award for Best Short, relays the story of the unselfish loyalty and devotion of Haym Salomon to General Washington and the fight for freedom in the American Revolution (1775-1783). Having immigrated to New... |
Stanley and Livingstone | King, Henry | 1939 | United States |
This legendary story of Stanley and Livingstone marks the onset of British colonization of Africa. In the 1860s, American journalist Henry M. Stanley (Spencer Tracy) is sent by his editor to track down a missing British missionary named Dr. David... |