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51. Hindenburg: The Last Flight (2011)
180 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
About the supposed conspiracy that led to the catastrophic deadly crash of the Hindeburg zeppelin in 1937.
Stars: Hannes Jaenicke, Maximilian Simonischek, Lauren Lee Smith, Stacy Keach
Votes: 1,177
52. Guernica (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.
Director: Koldo Serra | Stars: James D'Arcy, María Valverde, Jack Davenport, Ingrid García Jonsson
Votes: 2,505
53. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
TV-G | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.
Director: Hardy Martins | Stars: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Michael Mendl
Votes: 8,110
54. The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 9,989 | Gross: $1.03M
55. Nanking (2007)
R | 88 min | Biography, History, War
Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
Directors: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman | Stars: Hugo Armstrong, Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff, John Getz
Votes: 3,592 | Gross: $0.16M
56. The Ghosts of Borley Rectory (2021)
TV-14 | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Harry Price investigates the ghosts of Borley Rectory during his stay there.
Director: Steven M. Smith | Stars: Toby Wynn-Davies, Julian Sands, Colin Baker, Christopher Ellison
Votes: 778
57. Before the Rains (2007)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.
Director: Santosh Sivan | Stars: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 2,175 | Gross: $1.04M
58. Slovo House (2017)
81 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The extraordinary story of Ukraine's "Slovo House".
Director: Taras Tomenko | Stars: Boris Georgievskiy, Anna Levchenko, Mykhaylo Voznyuk, Olga Radchuk
Votes: 115
59. The Rocket (2005)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
Director: Charles Binamé | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Julie LeBreton, Philip Craig
Votes: 5,455
60. Malice in Wonderland (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper (Jane Alexander) can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintance of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons (Dame Elizabeth ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Alexander, Richard Dysart, Joyce Van Patten
Votes: 359
61. Dawn of War (II) (2020)
100 min | History, Thriller
A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.
Director: Margus Paju | Stars: Priit Võigemast, Kaspars Znotins, Agnese Budovska, Elmo Nüganen
Votes: 1,248
62. The Eternal Road (2017)
103 min | Drama, History
One night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home in Finland. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may.
Director: Antti-Jussi Annila | Stars: Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Irina Björklund
Votes: 2,740
63. John Rabe (2009)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny
Votes: 6,749 | Gross: $0.07M
64. The Rape of Europa (2006)
Unrated | 117 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | Stars: Joan Allen, E. Randol Schoenberg, Maria Altmann, Wolfgang Fischer
Votes: 1,664
65. Aalto: Architect of Emotions (2020)
103 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife... See full summary »
Director: Virpi Suutari | Stars: Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto, Elissa Aalto, David N. Fixler
Votes: 714
66. The Riddle of the Stinson (1988 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins a search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
Director: Chris Noonan | Stars: Jack Thompson, Helen O'Connor, Mary Haire, Kendall Monaghan
Votes: 146
67. Blood & Orchids (1986 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Jane Alexander, Sean Young, José Ferrer
Votes: 278
68. Blue Box (2021)
82 min | Documentary
The JNF's Blue Boxes were part of a successful fund raising campaign to support the purchase of land in Palestine. Joseph Weitz was the man who orchestrated the acquisition and expropriation of Palestinian lands.
Director: Michal Weits | Stars: Ren Burttet, Dror Keren, R.H. Thomson, Michal Weits
Votes: 107
69. Scarred Hearts (2016)
Not Rated | 141 min | Biography, Drama
Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Serban Pavlu, Alex Bogdan, Gabriel Spahiu, Ivana Mladenovic
Votes: 1,261
70. Don't Cry, Nanking (1995)
120 min | Drama, History, War
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking ... See full summary »
Director: Ziniu Wu | Stars: Han Chin, Ai Saotome, Rene Liu, Tao Bai
Votes: 273
71. They Were Sisters (1945)
115 min | Drama
The story of three sisters and the men they marry. One is happily married but childless; the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage; the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair, Anne Crawford
Votes: 342
72. Stand-ins (1997)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A group of dysfunctional, disappointed actresses congregate in a Hollywood bar circa 1937.
Director: Harvey Keith | Stars: Katherine Morris, Costas Mandylor, Jordan Ladd, Daphne Zuniga
Votes: 198
73. And Now Tomorrow (1944)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A wealthy woman who lost her hearing to meningitis meets a doctor who is concocting a serum that will cure deafness.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 470
74. Girl 27 (2007)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
Director: David Stenn | Stars: Patricia Douglas, Baby Peggy, Richard W. Bann, Kelly Brown
Votes: 1,188
75. Open Doors (1990)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Tuccio Musumeci
Votes: 1,003 | Gross: $0.12M
76. When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
This film concentrates on attorney (Dean Jones) and his 9-year-old daughter (Katy Kurtzman). Responding to Katy's fervent pleas, Jones takes on the case of mute handyman Geoffrey Lewis, who has been accused of murder.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Dean Jones, Louise Sorel, Chris Petersen, Katy Kurtzman
Votes: 141
77. Uncertain Glory (2017)
115 min | Drama
In war-torn Spain, during the tumultuous 1937, a Republican young officer will hopelessly fall for the charms of a deceitful femme-fatale who will not hesitate to use him in her best interest.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Marcel Borràs, Núria Prims, Oriol Pla, Bruna Cusí
Votes: 1,034
78. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
120 min | Documentary, History
The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett
Votes: 2,157 | Gross: $0.13M
79. Rookie Agent Rouge (2016)
43 min | Action, History
Can a young woman prove her loyalty to her country and her family? Lan Yan Zhi (Zhao Li Ying) is a privileged banker's daughter in Shanghai and a student activist who mistakenly comes into ... See full summary »
Stars: Zanilia Zhao, Xin-ran Tao, Yi Lu, Wenkang Yuan
Votes: 59
80. Battle of Changsha (2014– )
History, Romance, War
Set during the ill-fated Anti-Japanese war between 1938 and 1945. Xiang Xiang, a fun ordinary 16 yr old girl and Gu Qing Ming, a strict Intelligence Officer in the Nationalist Army start off on bad terms, however romance begins to blossom.
Stars: Wallace Huo, Zi Yang, Muye Kuang, Lu Liu
Votes: 253
81. Red Kiss (1985)
110 min | Drama, Romance
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" ... See full summary »
Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Charlotte Valandrey, Lambert Wilson, Marthe Keller, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 335
82. Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, History
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland | Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Rike Schmid, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Udo Kier
Votes: 847 | Gross: $0.04M
83. Café Metropole (1937)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In Paris, a young American is in debt to a nightclub owner who forces him to woo an heiress in hopes of reaping her fortune.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 709
84. Spider-Man Noir: Venom - Part 1 (2017)
9 min | Short
Director: Lance McCloud | Stars: Lance McCloud, Miss Pinkie, Keden L., Javier Justo
85. Leftenan Adnan (2000)
127 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film is about a Malaysian soldier, Lieutenant Adnan Saidi, who fought bravely against the Japanese Imperial Army during World War 2.
Director: Aziz M. Osman | Stars: Hairie Othman, Umie Aida, Faizal Hussein, Wahid Senario
Votes: 186
86. A Prominent Patient (2016)
114 min | Biography, Drama, History
A period in the life of diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, who was the son of Czechoslovakia's founder, served as the Central-European country's minister of foreign affairs and has been brutally killed by Russian secret service in 1948.
Director: Julius Sevcík | Stars: Karel Roden, Hanns Zischler, Oldrich Kaiser, Arly Jover
Votes: 824
87. The Death of the Heart (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Family
A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man who seems to be courting her. Surrounded ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Daniel Chatto, JoJo Cole, Judith Davis
Votes: 54
88. Spider-Man Noir: Venom - Part 3 (2018)
6 min | Short, Action, Crime
Director: Lance McCloud | Stars: Lance McCloud, Bryan Garcia, Isaac Ramirez
89. La Habanera (1937)
98 min | Drama
Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Zarah Leander, Julia Serda, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell
Votes: 638
90. Syberia: The World Before (2022 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Kate Walker survives as best she can in the salt mine where she has been imprisoned, when a tragic event propels her into a new adventure in search of her identity.
Directors: Remi Brun, Christophe Cheul, Emmanuel Gorinstein, Lucas Lagravette, Benoît Sokal | Stars: Sharon Mann, Emilie Rault, Mark Jane, Florian Hutter
Votes: 180
91. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965– )
45 min | Drama
Ernest Hemingway's famous story of the Spanish Civil War concerns an attempt by partisans to blow up a bridge.
Stars: John Ronane, Ann Bell, Glynn Edwards, Joan Miller
Votes: 11
92. East of the River (1940)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college, but both are in love with the same girl.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: John Garfield, Brenda Marshall, Marjorie Rambeau, George Tobias
Votes: 475
93. The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Musical
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Burns
Votes: 389
94. Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction (2003 Video)
68 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Collection of 19 new original Looney Tunes shorts made as webisodes with Daffy, Bugs, Porky, Sylvester, Twitty, Taz, Foghorn and others. Segments include Daffy's show about the supernatural and Duck Dodgers' take on Planet of the Apes.
Director: Steve Belfer | Stars: Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, Greg Burson, Jim Cummings
Votes: 141
95. Elemental: Hydrogen Vs. Hindenburg (2018)
History
Stars: Cindy Crawford, Tyler Hilton, Stephen Stanton, Ian James Corlett
Votes: 19
96. Nudist Land (1937)
11 min | Documentary, Short
The lifestyle of certain peoples in Africa, Bali, Samoa and the Hawaiian Islands, among other places, is examined with respect to the idea that physical perfection is the chief result of ... See full summary »
Director: A. Royal Horter | Star: Jerry Mannes
Votes: 19
97. Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage (1937)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
A short documentary which chronicles the riots that occurred in Chicago when the Republic Steel employees went on strike on Memorial Day, May 26, 1937.
Votes: 106
98. Guernica (1951)
13 min | Documentary, Short
On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Hessens, Alain Resnais | Stars: María Casares, Jacques Pruvost
Votes: 1,042
99. Howard Hughes: The Man and the Madness (1999 TV Movie)
Documentary, Biography
Documentary on the idiosyncratic, eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes utilizes rare archive footage and interviews with associates to shed light on the Hughes enigma.
Director: Nick Millard | Stars: Shannon Bollinger, Brett Brinkhoff, Jan Dicken, Howard Hughes
Votes: 40
100. Hotel Shanghai (1997 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, War
German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII.
Director: Peter Patzak | Stars: Agnieszka Wagner, Nicholas Clay, James McCaffrey, Min Zhang
Votes: 34