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1900s - 1930s

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  • Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)

    1. Gone with the Wind

    19393h 58mG97Metascore
    8.2 (348K)
    A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
    DirectorVictor FlemingStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas Mitchell
  • Stagecoach (1939)

    2. Stagecoach

    19391h 36mApproved93Metascore
    7.8 (57K)
    A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorAndy Devine
  • John Wayne and Claire Trevor in Allegheny Uprising (1939)

    3. Allegheny Uprising

    19391h 21mApproved
    6.3 (1.9K)
    In 1759, in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians.
    DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsClaire TrevorJohn WayneGeorge Sanders
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    4. The Birth of a Nation

    19153h 15mTV-PG
    6.1 (28K)
    The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. Walthall
  • Intolerance (1916)

    5. Intolerance

    19162h 43mPassed99Metascore
    7.7 (17K)
    Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRobert HarronMae Marsh
  • Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, and Rose Stradner in The Last Gangster (1937)

    6. The Last Gangster

    19371h 21mApproved
    6.7 (1.9K)
    A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.
    DirectorEdward LudwigStarsEdward G. RobinsonJames StewartRose Stradner
  • James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, and Eugene Pallette in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

    7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    19392h 9mApproved73Metascore
    8.1 (127K)
    A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude Rains
  • Destry Rides Again (1939)

    8. Destry Rides Again

    19391h 35mApproved81Metascore
    7.6 (13K)
    Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.
    DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsMarlene DietrichJames StewartMischa Auer
  • Gary Cooper and Mary Brian in The Virginian (1929)

    9. The Virginian

    19291h 31mPassed
    6.7 (936)
    A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
    DirectorVictor FlemingStarsGary CooperWalter HustonMary Brian
  • The Thundering Herd (1933)

    10. The Thundering Herd

    19331h 2mPassed
    5.6 (351)
    Both Sprague and Jett and their crews are hunting buffalo. Doan is with Sprague and is looking for the Jett outfit where his girlfriend Milly is being held against her will.
    DirectorHenry HathawayStarsRandolph ScottJudith AllenBuster Crabbe
  • Randolph Scott, Noah Beery, and Harry Carey in Man of the Forest (1933)

    11. Man of the Forest

    19331h 2mApproved
    5.4 (278)
    Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.
    DirectorHenry HathawayStarsRandolph ScottVerna HillieHarry Carey
  • Randolph Scott, Noah Beery, Buster Crabbe, Jack La Rue, and Esther Ralston in To the Last Man (1933)

    12. To the Last Man

    19331h 14mApproved
    6.3 (711)
    In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
    DirectorHenry HathawayStarsRandolph ScottEsther RalstonJack La Rue
  • Randolph Scott, Monte Blue, Barbara Fritchie, and Fuzzy Knight in The Last Round-Up (1934)

    13. The Last Round-Up

    19341h 1mApproved
    7.0 (45)
    Jack Kells's bandit gang, the Border Legion, is run out of a mining town and regroups in Utah. News of a gold strike in Arizona City leads the gang there, and they execute stagecoach robberies to announce their arrival. Jim Cleve, meanwhile, loses all his money at an Arizona City bar. After he sees an old miner killed outside of town, a stagecoach finds Jim by the body and the passengers suspect him of the murder. One passenger, Joan Randall, who is headed to the bar as an entertainer, believes he is innocent, however. Later, Kells and his sidekick, Charles Bunko McGee, a disbarred lawyer, meet up with Joan, who happens to be Kells' former girl friend. Judge Savin is prepared to convict Jim on circumstantial evidence, but when Kells is recognized at the bar, he draws his guns and gives Jim a chance to escape. Jim later joins the Legion because Kells showed more common faith than the townspeople. Kells reproaches one of his gang members, mean Sam Gulden, for killing the old miner, but later has Sam kidnap Joan so he can rekindle their romance. While Kells moves the camp closer to town, Jim and Bunko guard the cabin where Joan is being held against her will. Incensed that Kells is keeping Joan captive, Jim escapes and tells the judge and sheriff where to find her. Kells hopes Jim's rash act will empty the town, so he can rob it, but the suspicious men instead prepare the town for the Legion's arrival. The townspeople explode dynamite and engage in a gunfight against the Legion. Kells and Bunko hide in a saloon where Jim is again being held captive. The three men escape, but Bunko is shot and dies. After Kells tells Jim he is not cut out to be an outlaw, Jim returns for Joan. Kells and Sam team up against Jim and vie for Joan, but when Kells says that she belongs with Jim, Sam shoots him in the back. Kells manages to survive long enough to kill Sam, saving Jim and Joan, and sends them on their way. As the couple rides off for their new life together, Kells slumps in his saddle and dies.
    DirectorHenry HathawayStarsRandolph ScottBarbara FritchieMonte Blue
  • Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, and Henry Wilcoxon in The Last of the Mohicans (1936)

    14. The Last of the Mohicans

    19361h 31mApproved
    6.6 (1.8K)
    During the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two daughters of Fort William Henry commander Colonel Munro -- Alice and Cora -- to safety through.
    DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsRandolph ScottBinnie BarnesHenry Wilcoxon
  • Randolph Scott and Joan Bennett in The Texans (1938)

    15. The Texans

    19381h 32mApproved
    6.3 (398)
    After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
    DirectorJames P. HoganStarsJoan BennettRandolph ScottMay Robson
  • Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert in Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

    16. Drums Along the Mohawk

    19391h 44mApproved
    7.0 (7.1K)
    Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsClaudette ColbertHenry FondaEdna May Oliver
  • Harry O'Neill in America (1924)

    17. America

    19242h 21mPassed
    6.3 (505)
    The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsNeil HamiltonCarol DempsterLionel Barrymore
  • Bette Davis in Jezebel (1938)

    18. Jezebel

    19381h 44mApproved82Metascore
    7.4 (16K)
    In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHenry FondaGeorge Brent
  • Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, and Madeleine Carroll in Blockade (1938)

    19. Blockade

    19381h 25mApproved
    5.6 (671)
    A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage.
    DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsMadeleine CarrollHenry FondaLeo Carrillo
  • Henry Fonda, Don Ameche, and Loretta Young in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

    20. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

    19391h 38mApproved
    7.0 (1.2K)
    The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
    DirectorIrving CummingsStarsDon AmecheLoretta YoungHenry Fonda
  • Henry Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

    21. Young Mr. Lincoln

    19391h 40mApproved91Metascore
    7.5 (9.6K)
    A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaAlice BradyMarjorie Weaver
  • Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster in The Plough and the Stars (1936)

    22. The Plough and the Stars

    19361h 12mApproved
    5.6 (688)
    A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsBarbara StanwyckPreston FosterBarry Fitzgerald
  • Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Wallace Ford, J.M. Kerrigan, and Victor McLaglen in The Lost Patrol (1934)

    23. The Lost Patrol

    19341h 13mApproved
    6.8 (3.8K)
    A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenBoris KarloffWallace Ford
  • The Iron Horse (1924)

    24. The Iron Horse

    19242h 30mPassed
    7.2 (2.7K)
    After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsGeorge O'BrienMadge BellamyCharles Edward Bull
  • Barbara Bedford, Buck Jones, and George Siegmann in The Big Punch (1921)

    25. The Big Punch

    192150m
    4.4 (61)
    While preparing to enter a theological seminary, Buck aids his brother and some friends who are fleeing from justice, and thus implicated he is sent to prison for two years, where he meets again Hope Standish, a Salvation Army girl who had interested him. Returning home, he meets the old district circuit rider and promises to continue the circuit rider's work when he dies. The brother escapes from prison and is converted by Buck, who falls in love with Hope.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsBuck JonesBarbara BedfordJack Curtis

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