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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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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. |
Fridericus | Meyer, Johannes | 1937 | Germany |
Fridericus is a 1937 German historical film directed by Johannes Meyer, which depicts the life and triumps of Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786). Known as Frederick the Great, under his rule, Prussia greatly increased its territories... |
España 1936 | Le Chanois, Jean-Paul | 1937 | Spain |
A short documentary containing newsreel footage of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Jean-Paul Le Chanois focus on the inhumanity, death and destruction of war, rather than the politics of war. Although Buñuel made the... |
The Spanish Earth | Ivens, Joris | 1937 | United States |
A documentary about the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) funded and filmed by writers, actors, and directors who were part of the American Popular Front in the 1930s. The film was directed by Joris Ivens, written by John Dos Passos and Ernest... |
West of Shanghai | Farrow, John | 1937 | United States |
West of Shanghai is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese warlord. It is based on the 1920 Porter Emerson Browne play The Bad Man. During the Chinese Civil War (1927–1950... |
The Wife of General Ling | Vajda, Ladislao | 1937 | United Kingdom |
The Wife of General Ling is a 1937 British drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda, adapted from a novel by Dorothy Hope and Peter Cheyney. During the Chinese Civil War (1927–1950), a British intelligence officer must uncover the identity... |
La Grande Illusion | Renoir, Jean | 1937 | France |
Widely considered one of the best films of all time, director Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion explores the common bonds of humanity among World War I officers. The relationships between French prisoners of war and German officers... |
Marthe Richard au service de la France | Bernard, Raymond | 1937 | France |
This film tells the story of a female Alsatian spy who worked for France during the First World War, based on Marthe Richard's memoirs, whose veracity is somewhat doubtful. Richard (1889–1982) was the sixth French woman to receive a pilot's... |
Mademoiselle Docteur / Street of Shadows | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | 1937 | France |
This femme-fatale spy thriller explored 1930 tensions in Europe by taking a look back at World War I. A young French doctor falls in love with a German spy while attending to the wounded in Greece. She then works on his behalf by pursuing a... |
Soeurs d'Armes | Poirier, Léon | 1937 | France |
Designed to inspire patriotism before World War II, this film explores the real-life story of two French women's contributions during the Great War. Louise de Bettignies (1880–1918) and Léonie Vanhout carry vital intelligence to the British... |
A Message to Garcia | Marshall, George | 1936 | United States |
A Message to Garcia is a 1936 American adventure spy film directed by George Marshall, inspired by the 1899 essay "A Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard, that was loosely based on an incident during the ramp up to the Spanish–American... |