Search results for "1928"
Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History
IMDb: 7.3
151

A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

Noah’s Ark

Noah’s Ark

Noah’s Ark
IMDb: 6.6
135

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Genre: Drama, War
The Last Warning

The Last Warning

The Last Warning
IMDb: 6.8
89

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the…

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona
IMDb: 5.5
95

Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot…

Genre: Western
L’Argent

L’Argent

L’Argent
IMDb: 7.5
165

Adapted from the novel L’Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Genre: Drama
West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar
IMDb: 7.2
70

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician’s wife.

The Wind

The Wind

The Wind
IMDb: 8
76

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she…

Underground

Underground

Underground
IMDb: 7.3
93

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Street Angel

Street Angel

Street Angel
IMDb: 7.3
102

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Trail of ’98

The Trail of ’98

The Trail of ’98
IMDb: 7
87

Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

Genre: Action, Adventure
Steamboat Willie

Steamboat Willie

Steamboat Willie
IMDb: 7.5
8

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.
IMDb: 7.8
70

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he’s not seen since he was a child.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Speedy

Speedy

Speedy
IMDb: 7.6
85

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee…

Genre: Comedy
Spies

Spies

Spies
IMDb: 7.5
145

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government’s secret service.

Genre: Romance, Thriller
Shiraz: A Romance of India

Shiraz: A Romance of India

Shiraz: A Romance of India
IMDb: 7
106

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz. She is abducted and sold as a slave…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Sex Life of the Polyp

The Sex Life of the Polyp

The Sex Life of the Polyp
IMDb: 5.4
11

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live…

Genre: Comedy
Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia
IMDb: 7
127

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Racket

The Racket

The Racket
IMDb: 6.6
84

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl
IMDb: 7.1
32

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm,…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
The Pace That Kills

The Pace That Kills

The Pace That Kills
IMDb: 6.9
64

Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts.

Genre: Drama
The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc
IMDb: 8.1
82

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she’d spoken to God, Jeanne d’Arc…

Genre: Drama, History
Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters
IMDb: 6.7
84

A flapper who’s secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year
IMDb: 6.9
52

The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.

Genre: Documentary
Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge
IMDb: 6.6
137

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter’s fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs
IMDb: 7.6
110

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine’s father’s treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
The Law of the Range

The Law of the Range

The Law of the Range
IMDb: 2.1
60

Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering “Solitaire Kid”.

Genre: Western
Lonesome

Lonesome

Lonesome
IMDb: 7.7
70

Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together….

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Last Command

The Last Command

The Last Command
IMDb: 7.9
88

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.

A Girl in Every Port

A Girl in Every Port

A Girl in Every Port
IMDb: 6.5
78

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden
IMDb: 6.8
78

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four Sons

Four Sons

Four Sons
IMDb: 7.2
96

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow’s sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany’s eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film…

Genre: Drama, War
The Farmer’s Wife

The Farmer’s Wife

The Farmer’s Wife
IMDb: 5.8
129

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Docks of New York

The Docks of New York

The Docks of New York
IMDb: 7.5
76

A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Circus

The Circus

The Circus
IMDb: 8.1
73

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman – soon the star of the show – and falls in love with the circus owner’s stepdaughter.

Champagne

Champagne

Champagne
IMDb: 5.4
93

Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father’s will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Cameraman

The Cameraman

The Cameraman
IMDb: 8
74

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life
IMDb: 7.4
82

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of…

13 Washington Square

13 Washington Square

13 Washington Square
IMDb: 6
70

In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars
IMDb: 7.2
103

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.

Genre: Drama
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
IMDb: 7.4
N/A

Challenge of the GoBots is an American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, based on the Gobots toy-line released from Tonka. The show originally debuted in animated form as a five-part…