
Syncopation
6.5
1942
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Covering a quarter-century of American syncopated music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer, from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. Prior to the making of the film RKO held a contest for the readers of The Saturday Evening Post to vote on the musicians to make up the All-American Dance Band featured in the film; the magazines readers chose, in the above-the-title listing: Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Jack Jenney. Gene Krupa, Alvino Rey, Joe Venuti, and singer Connee Boswell.
Syncopation

Native Land
6.4
1942
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Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. In dramatizations, we see a Michigan farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man murdered in an apartment in Cleveland, two sharecroppers near Fort Smith Arkansas shot by men deputized by the local sheriff, a spy stealing the names of union members, and a dead Chicago union man eulogized. In archival footage we witness police and goons beating lawfully assembled union organizers, and we see men at work and union families at play. The narration celebrates patriotism and democracy.
Native Land

Sergeant York
7.8
1941
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A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Sergeant York

That Hamilton Woman
7.3
1941
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The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
That Hamilton Woman

Western Union
6.8
1941
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When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Western Union

Santa Fe Trail
1
1940
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In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.
Santa Fe Trail

The Eternal Jew
8.1
1940
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Nazi documentary about the Jews being filthy, evil, corrupt, and intent on world domination. Street scenes are shown, along with clips from Jewish cinema of the day and photos of Jewish celebrities, while the narrator explains the Jewish problem. The climax and resolution of the film is Hitlers 1939 announcement that the Jewish race will meet its annihilation.
The Eternal Jew

North West Mounted Police
6.6
1940
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In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper whos wanted for murder and whos stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
North West Mounted Police

Brigham Young
6.4
1940
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In 1844, after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and follow him to a new promised land in Utah.
Brigham Young

The Howards of Virginia
6.2
1940
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Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.
The Howards of Virginia

The Sea Hawk
7.8
1940
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Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword.
The Sea Hawk

The Return of Frank James
6.7
1940
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Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.
The Return of Frank James

Four Sons
6.3
1940
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When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier.
Four Sons

Lillian Russell
6
1940
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Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Lillian Russell

Virginia City
6.8
1940
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Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.
Virginia City

The Grapes of Wrath
8.1
1940
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An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
The Grapes of Wrath

Pilgrim Porky
5.4
1940
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The Pilgrims, led by captain Porky Pig, set sail from Plymouth for America. We get a series of ocean sailing blackout gags, including a running bit between our narrator and the cook, looking for a fish suitable for dinner, a singing trio interrupted by seasickness, flying fish (in airplanes). Then, The Rains Came. A collision with an iceberg is narrowly averted. Land is sighted. The pilgrims are welcomed by Chief Sitting Bull.
Pilgrim Porky

Northwest Passage
7.1
1940
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Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Northwest Passage

Little Old New York
2.7
1940
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Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesnt. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
Little Old New York

The Fighting 69th
6.8
1940
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Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that hell prove himself in the end.
The Fighting 69th

Gone with the Wind
8.3
1939
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The manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Gone with the Wind

Tower of London
6.7
1939
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In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Tower of London

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
7.1
1939
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A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Drums Along the Mohawk
7.1
1939
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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.
Drums Along the Mohawk