Best history films 1921 – 1930 - Charts
Best history films 1921 – 1930
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
France, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain
3. October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)
Soviet Union, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Cast: Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
4. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin
Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman
5. Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927)
France / Czechoslovakia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Abel Gance
Cast: Albert Dieudonné, Antonin Artaud
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Wallace Worsley
Cast: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller
7. Jánošík (1921)
Czechoslovakia / USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jaroslav Siakeľ
Cast: Theodor Pištěk, Karel Schleichert
8. The Iron Mask (1929)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Allan Dwan
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett
10. Shiraz: A Romance of India (1928)
India / German Empire, Historical / Romance
Directed by: Franz Osten
Cast: Himanshu Rai, Enakashi Rama Rao
11. The King of Kings (1927)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming
12. The Viking (1928)
USA, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Donald Crisp, Pauline Starke
13. St. Wenceslas (1929)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jan S. Kolár
Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bohumil Heš
14. America (1924)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Neil Hamilton, Carol Dempster
15. The Lantern (1925)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Fairytale
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: Theodor Pištěk, Anny Ondráková
16. The New Babylon (1929)
Soviet Union, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Leonid Trauberg, Grigoriy Kozintsev
Cast: Tamara Makarova, David Gutman
17. Abraham Lincoln (1930)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Walter Huston, Una Merkel