Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo in The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

Welcome to 1940! THE WAR IS ON!!! That's the big difference between 1939 and 1940. Now there is no vague hints who the enemies are. No tip-toeing around the political climate. It's full-on propaganda!!! Most films had references to the enemy, fitting or not to the movie, it was forced in. A gloomier Hollywood starting slowly to detached itself from the jolly pace of the 1930s cinema. Non-English cinema suffered greatly from the war. Perhaps the strongest foreign scene was Germany's own agenda driven machine delivering some strong and repulsive outings unique to it's time. A fascinating year.

Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in The Great Dictator (1940)

This is a list of historical (set pre-1800) or historical-fantasy films produced before 1949 - the start point for all the other Peplum Paradise lists.  

The list is alphabetical using the most common English titles (where applicable), so the IMDb titles may appear to be all over the place alphabetically. 

This list is certainly far from complete and a work in progress, so I would welcome any suggestions of titles I may have omitted. 

I will be updating the list regularly with occasional reviews and any new titles that I may discover. 

Latest Updates:- Review: Sinbad, The Sailor (1947) Review: Scipio Africanus: The Defeat Of Hannibal (1937) Review: Captain Blood (1935)

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This list is a companion piece to my other lists:  Peplum Paradise Part 1: Italian Historical and Fantasy films 1949-1969 (http://www.imdb.com/list/9zpI-Wdt6pU/)  Peplum Paradise Part 2: Italian Historical and Fantasy films from 1970 onwards (http://www.imdb.com/list/ZRRuOUh_u_o/)  Peplum Paradise Part 3: International Historical and Fantasy films 1949 onwards (http://www.imdb.com/list/R3yu3z-zETE/)  Peplum Paradise Part 4: Asian Historical and Fantasy films 1949 onwards (http://www.imdb.com/list/EzDXbxNzBXI/)

Peplum Paradise Part 6: Historical and Fantasy films - Pre-1949

Turhan Bey, Lucille Bremer, Arturo de Córdova, and Noreen Nash in Adventures of Casanova (1948)

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