Topic: 1910s

Direction Inna Sahakyan

Cast Aurora Mardiganian

Plot A genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian's odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed. She journeys far to tell...

Direction Herbert G. Ponting

Cast Herbert G. Ponting

Plot In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Meryl Streep · Robert Redford · Klaus Maria Brandauer · Michael Kitchen

Plot Based on the book "Out of Africa" by Danish writer Isak Dinesen (her real name was Karen Blixen). Karen Blixen, a Danish woman, marries a friend for the title of...

Direction Aleksandr Mitta

Cast Oleg Tabakov · Yelena Proklova · Oleg Efremov · Leonid Dyachkov

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Danny Glover · Whoopi Goldberg · Adolph Caesar · Akosua Busia

Plot An acclaimed drama, spanning a period of forty years, in which Celie, a black girl, is mistreated by two men until suddenly a blues singer enters her life and her...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · John Payne · Anne Baxter

Plot Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929,...

Direction Bill Morrison

Plot Dawson City: Frozen Time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s - 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Clara Bow · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Richard Arlen · Gary Cooper

Plot In 1917, Jack Powell is a young man with passion for cars. His next door neighbor is Mary Preston, who is in deep love for him, but Jack does not...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Susanne Lothar · Ulrich Tukur · Leonard Proxauf · Burghart Klaußner

Plot Year 1913. Some inexplicable events disturb the quiet life of a German village, just before World War I. A cable has been put up to trip the doctor riding his...

Direction François Ozon

Cast Paula Beer · Pierre Niney · Johann von Bülow · Marie Gruber

Plot 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.

Direction Edward Berger

Cast Felix Kammerer · Albrecht Schuch · Aaron Hilmer · Moritz Klaus

Plot A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Dorothy McGuire · George Brent · Kent Smith · Ethel Barrymore

Plot Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion....

Direction Emilio Fernández

Cast María Félix · Pedro Armendáriz · Fernando Fernández · José Morcillo

Plot In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general (Armendáriz) and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Bette Davis · Claude Rains · Walter Abel · Richard Waring

Plot Whose face ravaged, grotesque is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way...

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Amza Pellea · Gheorghe Dinica · Ernest Maftei · Ioana Pavelescu

Plot A former soldier and convict returns to his village after World War I and is suspected and rejected by everyone (his wife included), with the exception of a young widow....

Direction Ricardo Wullicher

Cast Héctor Alterio · Juan Carlos Gené · Lautaro Murúa · Walter Vidarte

Direction Pilar Miró

Cast Amparo Soler Leal · Héctor Alterio · Fernando Rey · Daniel Dicenta

Direction Kenneth Biller · Noah Pink · James Hawes · Minkie Spiro

Cast Geoffrey Rush · Emily Watson · Johnny Flynn · Nicholas Rowe

Plot The series will explore how patent clerk Einstein could not get a teaching job or doctorate in his early life yet managed to go on to develop the theory of...

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Alastair Sim · Jane Wenham · Brian Worth · Eileen Moore

Plot Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl...

Direction Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Cast Paola Cortellesi · Massimo Poggio · Gianmarco Tognazzi · Adalberto Maria Merli

Plot The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while...