1920s historical drama films

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1928 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhu...

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October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1928 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms seve...

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Orphans of the Storm

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1921 IMDB Rating: 7.3

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel...

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1923 IMDB Rating: 7.2

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

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Oliver Twist

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1922 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of...

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