Movies about Historical Events

MOVIES ABOUT THE

EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

1905	Fiddler on the Roof	Topol, Norma Crane	Jewish life in pre-revolutionary Russian Empire	Russia
1905	The Battleship Potemkin	Sergei Eisenstein	Leninist propoganda about Russia 1905, poetical	Russia
1910	Metropolis	Fritz Lang	German futurism- organization and mechanized man	Germany
1910	Out of Africa	Meryl Streep, Robert Redford	Tale of a Danish noble who has a farm in Africa	East Africa
1910	The Time Machine	Rod Taylor, H.G. Wells	Grand story of a Victorian transported to the future	England
1912	Titanic	Leonardo di Caprio, Kate Winslett	The tragedy of the grandest of all ships as it capsizes	Atlantic
1914	Legends of the Fall	Brad Pitt	American guys from the frontier off to WWI	France
1915	The African Queen	Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn	A story of love and war on the rivers of Africa	Central Africa
1915	All Quiet on the Western Front	Lew Ayres	A German deadened by WWI Trench war	France
1916	Paths of Glory	Kirk Douglas, Stanley Kubrick	A French war worn squad must take one last battle	France
1916	Gallipoli	Mel Gibson	Australian men fighting in Turkey in WWI	Turkey
1917	Nicholas and Alexandra	Nobody Important	Story of the last Russian king and queen	Russia
1917	Rasputin	Alan Rickman	Story of the guy who, perhaps, brought Russia down	Russia
1917	Reds	Warren Beaty, Jack Nicholson	An American communist during the Russian Rev.	Russia
1917	Oktyabr (October)	Sergei Eisenstein	The ten days that shook the Russian world	Russia
1918	Red and the White	Miklos Jancso	Bolscheviks and Whites fighting post Revolution	Russia

1918	Dr. Zhivago	Omar Sharif, David Lean, Pasternak	Flashback from Russia... how it used to be	Russia
1918	Lawrence of Arabia	Peter o'Toole	Englishman helps Arabian tribes vs. the Turks	Egypt-Palestine
1920	Untamed	Tyrone Power, Susan Hayword	The Great Trek of the Boers of South Africa	South Africa
1920	Intolerance	DW Griffith	A race against time (literally) to see if love conquers all	American South
1925	The Untouchables	Kevin Costner, Sean Connery	The great film about the Chicago Capone gangsters	Chicago
1927	The Spirit of St. Louis	James Stewart	The ultimate trip- first ever flight across the ocean	New York
1929	The Keys of the Kingdom	Gregory Peck	Missionary in China, a Catholic Priest overcomes all	China
1930	The Grapes of Wrath	Henry Fonda	The dust bowl and the Great Depression	Oklahoma
1930	Red Dust	Clark Gable	An African Safari and a love quadrangle	South Africa
1930	Mogambo	Clark Gable	An African Safari and a love quadrangle	South Africa
1930	The Naked Jungle	Charlton Heston	Carving out a plantation in South America	South America
1930	I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	Nobody Important	The story that awakened America's conscience	American South
1932	Mr. Robinson Crusoe	Douglas Fairbanks	A can-do kind of guy winds up on an island	Pacific
1934	Sanders of the River	Paul Robson, Zoltan Korda	Kenya during the British Empire, funny movie	East Africa
1934	The Old Man and the Sea	Spencer Tracy	An old man has to come face to face with reality	The Sea
1935	Bonnie and Clyde	Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway	Story of the famous depression era fugitives	America
1936	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin	Story of a guy who faces modern times	America
1937	Chinatown	Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski	Story of organized crime in San Francisco	San Francisco
1937	Lost Horizon	Frank Capra	Classic about British plane crash in the Hemalayas	India

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