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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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The Informer | Ford, John | 1935 | United States |
The Informer explores guilt and personal morals during the Irish War for Independence (1919–1921). Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) is a former Irish Republican Army (IRA) man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape... |
Guests of the Nation (1935) | Denis Johnston | 1935 | Ireland |
During the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond with their captives and the enemy becomes human. This greatly worries the Irish leader, because... |
1860 / Gesuzza the Garibaldian Wife | Blasetti, Alessandro | 1934 | Italy |
Alessandro Blasetti's masterpiece 1860 reveals Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand into Sicily from the perspective of a shepherd-turned-soldier and his wife. The campaign was a turning point in Italian unification. The film... |
Chapaev | Vasilev, Georgii | 1934 | Soviet Union |
This popular propaganda film of the Soviet Realist era celebrates Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (1887–1919), a Red Army commander who became a hero of the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). It is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitri Furmanov, a... |
The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Capra, Frank | 1933 | United States |
The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 American pre-Code drama war film directed by Frank Capra, based on the 1930 novel The Bitter Tea of General Yen by Grace Zaring Stone. The film is about an American missionary in Shanghai ... |
Okraina / Outskirts | Barnet, Boris | 1933 | Soviet Union |
In a remote Russian village during World War I, factory workers struggle to organize against the owners. When World War I comes, they unite as soldiers of the Tsar on the Eastern Front, while local girl Anka forges a relationship with a German ... |
Queen Christina | Mamoulian, Rouben | 1933 | United States |
Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The film portrays the life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689), who became monarch at the age of six in 1632 and grew to be a powerful and... |
Morgenrot / Dawn | Sewell, Victor | 1933 | Germany |
This German World War I movie, directed by Victor Sewell, offers a highly fictionised version of the death of the British War Secretary, Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916) on abroad the cruiser HMS Hampshire, on his way to... |
Les croix de bois / Wooden Crosses | Bernard, Raymond | 1932 | France |
In France in 1914, student Gilbert Demachy enlists when the hostilities begin. His youthful illusions are quickly dashed against the hard realities of war, and it's at the side of his comrade Sulphart that he will live through the offensives, the... |
Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci / The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci | Ucicky, Gustav | 1931 | Germany |
One of the more popular films of the Prussian film genre, which glorified Prussian history and militarism in the wake of Germany's devastating loss in World War I. This film celebrates King Frederick II (1712–1786), known as Frederick the Great,... |
Zemlya / Earth | Dovzhenko, Aleksandr | 1930 | Soviet Union |
Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Soviet silent film and capping Alexander Dovzhenko's trilogy about the relationship between the Ukraine and the Soviet Union, Earth tackles the politics of collectivization and class in the Ukrainian... |