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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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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... |
Gone with the Wind | Fleming, Victor | 1939 | United States |
The Oscar-winning adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind, Victor Flemming focuses on an elite white southern woman's life before, during, and after the American Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara, favorite daughter of a... |
El cementerio de las águilas / The Eagles Cemetery | Lezama, Luis | 1939 | Mexico |
Two friends enlist in the Mexican army to fight during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). Their perspective shows the United States as an invading colonizer seeking to expand the institution of slavery through its annexation of Texas.... |
Tsuchi to heitai / Mud and Soldiers | Tasaka, Tomotaka | 1939 | Japan |
Using cinematic realism, director Tomotaka Tasaka documents he day-to-day travails and camaraderie of Japanese soldiers in a Japanese army unit during the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). As the unit advances into mainland... |
Yellow Jack | Seitz, George B. | 1938 | United States |
Based on a true story, in 1898 Cuba, U.S. troops who have survived the Spanish-American War are now dying by the hundreds from yellow fever, known as "yellow jack." Major Walter Reed (1851–1902), an Army physician, struggles to find the cause of... |
Marie Antoinette (1938) | Dyke, W. S. Van | 1938 | United States |
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would like to be... |
La Marseillaise | Renoir, Jean | 1938 | France |
Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution (1789–99) juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI (1754–93) with the poverty of the commoners who rose up to overthrow the monarchy in 1789. The film's title comes from the rallying song... |
Blockade | Dieterle, William | 1938 | United States |
Blockade is a 1938 American drama film directed by William Dieterle, relaying a love story amidst political battles and armed conflict during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Marco (Henry Fonda), a Nationalist farmer, falls in love... |
J'accuse! / I Accuse (1938) | Gance, Abel | 1938 | France |
In this remake of the 1919 film by the same title, director Abel Gance's depiction of the Battle of Verdun (February – December 1916) and the sacrifices made for it served as a stern warning to... |
The Drum | Korda, Zoltan | 1938 | United Kingdom |
The Drum (released in the U.S. as Drums) is a 1938 British Technicolor film based on the 1937 novel The Drum by A. E. W. Mason. On the frontier of India, British Capt. Carruthers (Roger Livesey) learns of an illegal... |
Texas Trail | Selman, David | 1937 | United States |
The fictional cowboy Hopalong Cassidy rounds up horses for Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish American War in 1898. Outlaws threaten to derail his mission. |