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Title | Author | Year of Publication | Country | Abstract |
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Juno and the Paycock | Hitchcock, Alfred | 1930 | United Kingdom |
Juno and the Paycock is a 1930 British comedy film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the successful 1924 play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. The film relays a tragicomic tale of the disintegration of one family during... |
All Quiet on the Western Front / Im Westen Nichts Neues | Milestone, Lewis | 1930 | United States |
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American anti-war film based on the German novel, Im Westen Nichts Neues (1929), by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970). Directed by Lewis Milestone, the film won two Oscars for Best... |
Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie / Westfront 1918 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | 1930 | Germany |
Westfront 1918 is a German film from 1930, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and based on the novel, Vier von der Infanterie (Four from the Infantry) by Ernst Johannsen. It is set mostly in the trenches of the Western... |
Arsenal | Dovzhenko, Aleksandr | 1929 | Soviet Union |
In this avant-garde silent film, acclaimed director Alexander Dovzhenko documents the demobilization of Ukraine and its embrace of the Bolshevik Revolution after World War I. Timosh, a veteran and factory worker, views Ukrainian independence... |
Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir / October (Ten Days that Shook the World) | Eisenstein, Sergei M. | 1928 | Soviet Union |
Commissioned by the U.S.S.R for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917, this celebratory documentary film portrays events in revolutionary Petrograd (St. Petersburg). In documentary style, events are re-enacted from the end of... |
The Red Dance | Walsh, Raoul | 1928 | United States |
The story is set in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Tasia, a beautiful lower class dancer with communist beliefs, falls for the noble Grand Duke Eugene. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in... |
Potomok Chingis-Khana / Storm over Asia | Pudovkin, Vsevolod | 1928 | Soviet Union |
Storm over Asia is a 1928 Soviet propaganda film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair (Valery Inkijinoff), shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post and joins the Soviet... |
The Rough Riders | Fleming, Victor | 1927 | United States |
The Rough Riders (1927) is a silent film directed by Victor Fleming. The picture is fictional account of Theodore Roosevelt's military unit in Cuba, otherwise known as the Rough Riders. The Rough Riders were a special regiment that... |
Napoléon (1927) | Gance, Abel | 1927 | France |
A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (1789–99) (where a real storm... |
Sorok pervyy / The Forty-First (1927) | Protazanov, Yakov | 1927 | Soviet Union |
The Forty-First is a 1927 Soviet silent film based on the eponymous novel by Boris Lavrenyov. The film is set during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and tells the story of a tragic romance between a female sniper of the Red Army and an... |
Hotel Imperial | Stiller, Mauritz | 1927 | United States |
Hotel Imperial is a 1927 American silent war drama film directed by Mauritz Stiller, based on the 1917 Hungarian play of the same name by Lajos Bíró. The film is set in Austria-Hungary during World War I and starring Pola Negri as a... |