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poster
Amazon Prime Video
89
8.6
/550522/
84
/9398/
83
/4755/
4.4
/711728/
94
/97/
95
/14105/
89
/17/
cc age 9+

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
poster
86
8.8
/10740/
85
/545/
83
/186/
4.4
/29189/

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera was celebrated with a grand performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
82
8.3
/50318/
79
/437/
71
/118/
4.0
/14335/
95
/20/
94
/39/

Sardar Udham (2021)
A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.7
/118510/
75
/2734/
75
/1855/
3.9
/84242/
86
/126/
88
/1366/
76
/15/
cc age 14+

The Last Emperor (1987)
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
poster
Hoopla
82
80
7.9
/17156/
76
/303/
75
/257/
4.0
/14978/
100
/18/
89
/222/
80
/15/

The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.5
/2375/
73
/112/
68
/65/
3.8
/5962/
100
/62/
70
/21/
86
/14/

Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)
The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
poster
78
7.6
/77684/
74
/1284/
73
/1292/
3.7
/33183/
79
/146/
85
/3689/
76
/39/
cc age 17+

A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.3
/659/
70
/15/
72
/21/
3.6
/715/
100
/8/

South (1919)
The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
poster
77
7.1
/70429/
69
/1519/
68
/999/
3.4
/44458/
84
/114/
80
/1663/
78
/19/
cc age 11+

Chariots of Fire (1981)
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
poster
76
7.2
/7438/
70
/136/
66
/89/
3.7
/3653/
86
/28/
78
/115/
68
/22/
cc age 13+

Avalon (1990)
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
7.5
/18594/
74
/607/
73
/724/
3.8
/24088/
91
/138/
85
/64/
73
/28/

Frantz (2016)
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
poster
Hoopla
80
74
7.4
/12086/
76
/796/
78
/1336/
3.9
/38904/
94
/17/
84
/20/

See You Up There (2017)
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.2
/23748/
72
/485/
68
/259/
3.6
/14937/
87
/54/
80
/517/
71
/16/
cc age 11+

Eight Men Out (1988)
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
6.6
/2941/
68
/197/
62
/79/
3.3
/2990/
90
/41/
77
/22/

High Ground (2021)
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
poster
MGM Plus
70
7.6
/28839/
73
/451/
78
/665/
3.9
/19385/
52
/23/
84
/386/
70
/14/

1900 (1976)
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
6.7
/2741/
63
/124/
61
/116/
3.4
/1798/
92
/62/
56
/16/
81
/15/

The Guardians (2017)
In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops.
poster
79
69
7.5
/4265/
69
/72/
70
/89/
4.0
/6231/
95
/21/
86
/73/

The Red and the White (1967)
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
poster
The Roku Channel
77
68
7.3
/4513/
70
/69/
72
/58/
3.7
/3453/
100
/12/
78
/56/

This Happy Breed (1944)
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
poster
The Roku Channel
71
68
6.6
/9465/
67
/296/
63
/270/
3.2
/8513/
100
/6/
66
/391/
cc age 8+

Ballet Shoes (2008)
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
poster
68
7.0
/10524/
70
/480/
68
/299/
3.4
/4091/
75
/89/
62
/31/
58
/26/

13 Minutes (2015)
The breathtaking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, radical Georg Elser — disparaged as an assassin — is one of the greatest resistance fighters.
poster
MUBI
67
6.8
/4811/
67
/173/
63
/40/
3.3
/51675/
69
/130/
89
/49/
64
/32/
cc age 15+

The History of Sound (2025)
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
poster
MUBI
67
6.2
/7606/
62
/248/
62
/173/
3.4
/13943/
90
/67/
54
/52/
68
/20/

The Childhood of a Leader (2016)
The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
poster
65
7.2
/137462/
74
/3239/
73
/1737/
3.6
/228897/
32
/167/
84
/26713/
40
/39/
cc age 13+

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
61
7.0
/80561/
69
/2331/
67
/1298/
3.1
/16996/
63
/148/
60
/473/
50
/36/
cc age 16+

The Water Diviner (2014)
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
poster
Kanopy
73
60
6.9
/3171/
74
/69/
63
/85/
3.7
/6895/
83
/6/
76
/37/

Wittgenstein (1993)
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
poster
60
6.8
/11057/
63
/153/
64
/146/
3.4
/6646/
55
/22/
72
/165/
46
/17/

Kafka (1991)
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.
poster
60
6.5
/137610/
65
/3228/
62
/2527/
2.9
/56308/
44
/242/
44
/2915/
59
/42/
cc age 15+

J. Edgar (2011)
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
poster
58
5.7
/28849/
60
/2589/
57
/560/
2.8
/69456/
73
/171/
43
/186/
58
/39/
cc age 13+

An American Pickle (2020)
An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.
poster
58
5.5
/10948/
59
/612/
56
/275/
2.8
/9824/
64
/143/
34
/92/
67
/37/
cc age 15+

The Little Stranger (2018)
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
poster
64
58
6.4
/7251/
66
/153/
61
/101/
3.2
/5373/
73
/11/
58
/165/

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
poster
Disney Plus
55
6.2
/87744/
68
/7398/
65
/4479/
2.6
/165867/
46
/372/
47
/1505/
51
/55/
cc age 8+

Dumbo (2019)
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
poster
Hulu
51
6.2
/105971/
61
/4526/
60
/1763/
2.6
/257094/
31
/261/
61
/539/
49
/52/
cc age 15+

Amsterdam (2022)
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
poster
69
50
7.0
/1676/
66
/33/
70
/50/
3.9
/4464/
64
/316/

Different from the Others (1919)
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
50
7.2
/13034/
66
/169/
70
/203/
3.5
/5691/
4
/24/
78
/221/
25
/10/

Modigliani (2004)
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
poster
49
5.9
/1288/
50
/12/
71
/11/
3.1
/399/
11
/9/
46
/10/

The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
poster
56
49
4.8
/2713/
49
/180/
56
/88/
2.7
/3972/
78
/9/
52
/33/

The Field Guide to Evil (2019)
A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.
poster
71
46
7.3
/1846/
70
/30/
68
/49/
3.7
/2230/

The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
poster
57
41
6.4
/1362/
58
/113/
57
/48/
2.7
/2105/
53
/336/

Victory Through Air Power (1943)
Based on the book by Major Alexander de Seversky's about his theories of the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film shows de Seversky illustrating his ideas of how air power could win World War II for the Allies.
poster
MGM Plus
55
41
6.1
/2476/
63
/57/
57
/43/
3.4
/2408/
46
/13/
38
/22/

Valentino (1977)
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
poster
65
40
6.7
/2110/
66
/55/
66
/52/
3.4
/678/
58
/110/

Al Capone (1959)
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
39
7.2
/1578/
68
/69/
62
/12/
3.3
/944/
89
/117/
cc age 12+

The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis (2021)
An elder C.S. Lewis looks back on his remarkable journey from hard-boiled atheist to the most renowned Christian writer of the past century.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
39
7.0
/1565/
64
/12/
62
/26/
3.6
/1024/
77
/545/

Coup de Grâce (1976)
A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
poster
68
38
6.9
/2246/
66
/32/
61
/14/
3.3
/1003/
78
/899/

Three Little Words (1950)
Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their professional relationship.
poster
65
35
6.6
/1130/
70
/46/
56
/31/
3.3
/866/
67

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (1995)
The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the Great's most prized possessions. Pursued by a dangerous one-eyed man, Indy follows the trail of the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South Seas, where he has a run-in with a murderous band of Chinese pirates. The shipboard battle that ensues is a spectacular display of swords, guns and flying fists. Marooned by the pirates on a remote desert island, Indy is captured by savage headhunters, but before they can turn him into a shrunken head and cannibal stew, he is rescued by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and makes a life-altering decision.
poster
65
35
7.0
/2995/
67
/45/
51
/36/
3.2
/840/
73
/16/

Stalin (1992)
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of Anna Aliluyeva, Stalin’s granddaughter, the film traces the rise of the Bolshevik tyrant from Lenin’s return from exile to his brutal struggle with Trotsky, the creation of his feared secret police and the merciless inner workings of his regime. As Anna recounts her grandfather’s life, viewers gain an intimate, personal perspective on the paranoia and purges that left even his closest circles living in constant fear.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
34
7.2
/2496/
70
/72/
70
/31/
3.3
/411/
63
/16/
78
/2/

Queen Marie of Romania (2019)
Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.
poster
56
32
6.3
/1646/
51
/22/
61
/28/
3.2
/719/
60
/5/
40
/23/

Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
poster
59
32
7.1
/1918/
71
/30/
64
/15/
3.3
/608/
29
/7/
62
/26/
55
/5/

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.


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