1920s Biographical Movies

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kühne, Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein, Ludwig Hartau, ...

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Lady Hamilton(1921)

1h 40min | Drama, History

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Richard Oswald - With Adele Sandrock, Adolf Klein, Conrad Veidt, Georg Alexander, Georg John, Gertrude Welcker, ...

Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel. The officer attempts to save his life by marrying Natalia’s sister Ekaterina. Returning from his country estate, Pushkin receives anonymous letters and insists on a duel with D’Anthès.

Directed by Vladimir Gardin, Yevgeni Chervyakov - With Yevgeni Chervyakov, Nikolay Cherkasov, Boris Tamarin, Ivan Khudoleyev

Wallenstein, 1. Teil - Wallensteins Macht(1925)

Drama, History

Historical drama about the life of Albrecht von Wallenstein.

Directed by Rolf Randolf - With Fritz Greiner, Eduard von Winterstein, Ernst Rückert, Fritz Kampers, Erna Morena, Claire Rommer, ...

Bismarck, 1. Teil(1925)

1h 50min | History, Drama

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Directed by Ernst Wendt - With Franz Ludwig, Erna Morena, Robert Leffler, Rudolf Lettinger, Bruno Ziener, Carl de Vogt, ...

Vater Radetzky(1929)

1h 30min

A movie by Karl Leiter.

Directed by Karl Leiter - With Karl Forest, Otto Hartmann, Theodor Pištěk, Otto Hartmann, Agnes Esterhazy, Grete Natzler, ...

Bismarck 1862 - 1898(1927)

Drama, History

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Directed by Curt Blachnitzky - With Franz Ludwig, Robert Leffler, Erna Morena, Bruno Ziener, Heinrich Peer, Adolf Klein, ...

Cagliostro(1929)

59min | Drama, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)

Directed by Richard Oswald - With Alfred Abel, Alice Tissot, Andrews Engelmann, Charles Dullin, Edmond Van Daële, Georges Deneubourg, ...

Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures(1929)

2h 4min | Drama

George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo he meets the voluptuous as always Cleo (Bigitte Helm) where they have a whirl wind romance which becomes short lived after she flees from him.

Directed by Victor Tourjansky - With Ivan Mozzhukhin, Brigitte Helm, Heinrich George, Dita Parlo, Harry Hardt, Valy Arnheim, ...

Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend(1923)

1h 51min | Drama, Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters.

Directed by Curt Goetz

Dvorets i krepost(1924)

1h 40min | Drama, History

An adaptation of Olga Frosh's novel about the life of Mikhail Beideman.

Directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky

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Carl Michael Ziehrer, der letzte Walzerkönig(1922)

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Directed by Wilhelm Thiele

La valse de l'adieu(1928)

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Directed by Henry Roussel - With Pierre Blanchar, Marie Bell, Georges Deneubourg, René Maupré

Peter the Great(1922)

1h | Drama, History

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Directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki - With Emil Jannings, Bernhard Goetzke, Dagny Servaes, Fritz Kortner, Walter Janssen, Alexandra Sorina, ...

Manolescu's Memoirs(1920)

1h 54min | Drama, Crime

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Directed by Richard Oswald - With Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena, Hedda Vernon, Hermann Wlach, Clementine Plessner, Rudolf Forster, ...

Lola Montez, die Tänzerin des Königs(1922)

Drama

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Directed by Willi Wolff - With Ellen Richter, Arnold Korff, Fritz Kampers, Frida Richard, Georg Alexander, Arthur Bergen, ...

Andreas Hofer(1929)

1h 31min | History

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A film based on the story of the Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot Andreas Hofer who led an Austrian uprising against Bavarian and French troops during the Napoleonic Wars.

Directed by Hanns Prechtl - With Fritz Greiner, Maly Delschaft, Carl de Vogt, Rolf Pinegger, Grit Haid, Georg John, ...

Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes(1921)

59min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This early film biography of the founder of modern Zionism depicts a young Herzl learning about Jewish persecution throughout the ages and developing his theory of political Zionism, which he saw as the only solution to anti-semitism.

Directed by Otto Kreisler - With Rudolph Schildkraut, Joseph Schildkraut, Ludwig Donath