Best history films 1931 – 1940 - Charts
Best history films 1931 – 1940
1. The Merry Wives (1938)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Historical
Directed by: Otakar Vávra
Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek, Ladislav Pešek
2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: William Dieterle
Cast: Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke
3. Jánošík (1935)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Paľo Bielik, Zlata Hajdúková
4. Queen Christina (1933)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
5. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
6. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Soviet Union, War / Historical
Directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev
7. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Fredric March, Elissa Landi
8. The Plainsman (1936)
USA, Western / Historical
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
9. The Crusades (1935)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon
10. Marie Antoinette (1938)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power
11. Virginia City (1940)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins
12. The Lantern (1938)
Czechoslovakia, Fairytale / Fantasy
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: Otomar Korbelář, Jarmila Beránková
13. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
USA, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: James Whale
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett
14. Cleopatra (1934)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William
15. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi
16. U snědeného krámu (1933)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: František Smolík, Vlasta Burian
17. The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
USA, Western / Historical
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart
18. Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)
Mexico, Drama / War
Directed by: Fernando de Fuentes
Cast: Domingo Soler, Miguel M. Delgado
20. Les Misérables (1935)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton
21. Behold the Man (1935)
France, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Harry Baur, Jean Gabin
22. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn
23. Allegheny Uprising (1939)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne
24. Conquest (1937)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Clarence Brown, Gustav Machatý
Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer
25. Pyotr pervyy I (1937)
Soviet Union, War / Drama
Directed by: Владимир Петров
Cast: Nikolay Simonov, Nikolai Cherkasov
26. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart
27. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard, Jack Conway
Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan
28. Westward Ho (1935)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Robert N. Bradbury
Cast: John Wayne, Sheila Bromley
29. The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
UK, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Alexander Korda
Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
30. Tower of London (1939)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff
31. The Edge of the World (1937)
UK, Historical / Drama
Directed by: Michael Powell
Cast: John Laurie, Belle Chrystall
32. The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
33. Beleet parus odinokiy (1937)
Soviet Union, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: Vladimir Legoshin
Cast: Ivan Pelttser, Daniil Sagal
34. Mary of Scotland (1936)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March
35. Vojnarka (1936)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Vladimír Borský
Cast: Jiřina Štěpničková, Karel Pecián
36. The Golem (1936)
France / Czechoslovakia, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Harry Baur, Roger Karl
37. La Marseillaise (1938)
France, Historical
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cast: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare
38. Preußische Liebesgeschichte (1938)
German Empire, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Paul Martin
Cast: Dieter Borsche, Hans Nielsen
39. Pohádka máje (1940)
Czechoslovakia, Romance / Poetic
Directed by: Otakar Vávra
Cast: Nataša Gollová, Jaroslav Vojta
40. Jan Výrava (1937)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Vladimír Borský
Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek, Stanislav Strnad
41. Psohlavci (1931)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Svatopluk Innemann
Cast: Bedřich Karen, Marie Grossová
42. Chapayev (1934)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Sergei Vasilyev, Georgiy Vasilyev
Cast: Boris Babochkin, Леонид Кмит
43. Za ranních červánků (1934)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Josef Rovenský
Cast: Karel Hašler, Bedřich Vrbský
44. The Eternal Jew (1940)
German Empire, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Fritz Hippler
Cast: Harry Giese, Rosa Luxemburg
45. Lenin in October (1937)
Soviet Union, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Mikhail Romm, Dmitriy Vasilev