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Cabiria (1914)

Summary: Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.

Release Date: May 09, 1914

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Giovanni Pastrone

Writers: Gabriele D'Annunzio

, Titus Livius

, Giovanni Pastrone

Runtime: 2 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Itala Film

Distributor: Kleine Optical Company, Kino Video

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Summary: The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klu...

Release Date: March 21, 1915

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr.

, D.W. Griffith

, Frank E. Woods

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: David W. Griffith Corp., Epoch Producing Corporation

Distributor: Astor Pictures Corporation, Joseph Brenner Associates (JBA), Lumivision, Republic Pictures Home Video, Image Entertainment, Kino Video, Reel Media International, FilmAnnex, Alpha Video Distributors, Twilight Time, Killiam Shows

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 110,000

Intolerance (1916)

Summary: The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Release Date: October 04, 1916

Genres: Drama, History

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writers: Hettie Grey Baker

, Tod Browning

, D.W. Griffith

Runtime: 2 h 43 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: D.W. Griffith Productions

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Kino Video, Cohen Media Group, Film Detective, The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Blackhawk Films, Republic Pictures Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 385,907

The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)

Summary: Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.

Release Date: April 03, 1916

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Directors: Phillips Smalley

, Lois Weber

Writers: Lois Weber

, Daniel-François Auber

, Germain Delavigne

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Production: Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Distributor: Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Milestone Film & Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Auction of Souls (1919)

Summary: The story about the Armenian Genocide based on the account of survivor Aurora Mardiganian.

Release Date: January 19, 1919

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Director: Oscar Apfel

Writers: Aurora Mardiganian

, Henry Leyford Gates

, Frederick Chapin

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

Production: First National Pictures, Selig Studios for the American Committee for Armenian & Syrian Relief

Distributor: First National Exhibitors' Circuit

Country: United States

Language: English

Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)

Summary: In 16th century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicar's family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape, they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen i...

Release Date: December 10, 1921

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Mauritz Stiller

Writers: Selma Lagerlöf

, Gustaf Molander

, Mauritz Stiller

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Svenska Biografteatern AB

Distributor: Grapevine Video

Country: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Summary: Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.

Release Date: January 30, 1922

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writers: Adolphe d'Ennery

, Eugène Cormon

, D.W. Griffith

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: D.W. Griffith Productions, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: United Artists, Republic Pictures Home Video, Kino Video, Image Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors, Delta Expedition, Reel Media International, FilmAnnex, HBO Max, Grapevine Video, Killiam Shows

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Häxan (1922)

Summary: Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.

Release Date: May 27, 1929

Genres: Documentary, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Benjamin Christensen

Writer: Benjamin Christensen

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Aljosha Production Company, Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Countries: Sweden, Denmark

Language: Swedish

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Salomé (1922)

Summary: Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist.

Release Date: February 15, 1923

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Directors: Charles Bryant

, Alla Nazimova

Writers: Oscar Wilde

, Alla Nazimova

, Natacha Rambova

Runtime: 1 h 12 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Nazimova Productions

Distributor: Allied Producers & Distributors Corporation, Grapevine Video, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 350,000

The Iron Horse (1924)

Summary: After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.

Release Date: October 04, 1925

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Director: John Ford

Writers: Charles Kenyon

, John Russell

, Charles Darnton

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Fox Film Corporation, Good Harvest Productions, Good Harvest Unlimited

Distributor: Fox Film Corporation, Critics' Choice Video, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, British Film Institute (BFI), Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 280,000

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Summary: In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Release Date: December 24, 1925

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Nina Agadzhanova

, Sergei Eisenstein

, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Runtime: 1 h 06 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: Republic Pictures Home Video, Reel Media International, Kino International, Kino Video, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 51,198

International: $ 10,191

Bismillah (1925)

Summary: Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that woul...

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh

Writers: Pavel Blyakhin

, Igor Savchenko

, Arkadi Yalovoy

Runtime: 0 h 57 min

Production: Azdovlatkinosanaye, Azerbaijan Photo Film Management (AFKU), Azerbaijanfilm

Country: Soviet Union

Languages: None, Azerbaijani, Sign Languages

Napoleon (1927)

Summary: A film about the French general's youth and early military career.

Release Date: February 17, 1929

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Abel Gance

Writer: Abel Gance

Runtime: 5 h 30 min

Production: Ciné France, Films Abel Gance, Isepa-Wengeroff Film GmbH, Société générale des films

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Cinema Services Ltd., Images Film Archive, Zoetrope Studios, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)

Summary: A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.

Release Date: September 24, 1928

Genres: Drama, History

Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov

, Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Sergei Eisenstein

, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

, John Reed

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: Sovkino

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Grapevine Video

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

Summary: Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.

Release Date: September 02, 1928

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Harry A. Pollard

Writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe

, Walter Anthony

, Harry A. Pollard

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Summary: In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

Release Date: October 25, 1928

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Writers: Joseph Delteil

, Carl Theodor Dreyer

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Société générale des films

Distributor: M.J. Gourland, Capitol Film Exchange, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 21,877

The Last Command (1928)

Summary: A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Release Date: January 21, 1928

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Writers: Lajos Biró

, John F. Goodrich

, Ernst Lubitsch

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

The Dreyfus Case (1930)

Summary: In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.

Release Date: August 16, 1930

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Richard Oswald

Writers: Bruno Weil

, Heinz Goldberg

, Fritz Wendhausen

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

Production: Richard-Oswald-Produktion

Country: Germany

Language: German

The House of Rothschild (1934)

Summary: The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within.

Release Date: April 07, 1934

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Directors: Alfred L. Werker

, Sidney Lanfield

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, George Hembert Westley

, George Arliss

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: 20th Century Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Summary: A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

Release Date: September 07, 1934

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Writers: Manuel Komroff

, Eleanor McGeary

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 900,000

Cabiria (1914)

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Intolerance (1916)

The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)

Auction of Souls (1919)

Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)

Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Häxan (1922)

Salomé (1922)

The Iron Horse (1924)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Bismillah (1925)

Napoleon (1927)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

The Last Command (1928)

The Dreyfus Case (1930)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

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