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1940s Historical Movies

Public list by WPS with 119 movies or TV shows/series

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The Ox-Bow Incident(1943)

NR
| 1h 16min | Western, Drama
3.9/5 (with 159 votes)

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Tall in the Saddle(1944)

NR
| 1h 27min | Western
3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.

The Fighting Kentuckian(1949)

1h 40min | Western, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.

Return of the Bad Men(1948)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama, Western, Action
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.

The Kansan(1943)

NR
| 1h 19min | Romance / Love, Western
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.

The Queen of Spades(1949)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.

Whispering Smith(1948)

NR
| 1h 28min | Western
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).

The Valley of Decision(1945)

NR
| 1h 59min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.

The Man from Colorado(1948)

NR
| 1h 40min | Action, Drama, Western
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.

A Royal Scandal(1945)

NR
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Edison, the Man(1940)

NR
| 1h 47min | History, Drama
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

The House of the Seven Gables(1940)

NR
| 1h 29min | Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

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Tap Roots(1948)

NR
| 1h 49min | Drama, War, Western
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

Saratoga Trunk(1945)

NR
| 2h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love, Western
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.

Monsieur Vincent(1947)

1h 51min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

Klondike Kate(1943)

1h 4min | Action, Drama, Music, Western
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.

Directed by William Castle

Don Quixote(1947)

2h 17min | Drama, Adventure
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.

Directed by Rafael Gil - With Fernando Rey, Sara Montiel, Félix Fernández, Rafael Durán, Francisco Rabal, Rafael Romero Marchent, ...

Magnificent Doll(1946)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.

Wilson(1944)

NR
| 2h 34min | Romance / Love, Drama, History, Music
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.

Experiment Perilous(1944)

NR
| 1h 31min | Romance / Love, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

Honky Tonk(1941)

NR
| 1h 45min | Western, Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Blanche Fury(1948)

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.

The Naughty Nineties(1945)

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami(1947)

1h 52min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

The Heart of a Queen(1940)

1h 43min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.

Ivy(1947)

NR
| 1h 39min | Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.

The Woman in White(1948)

2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.

Lillian Russell(1940)

NR
| 2h 7min | Drama, Music
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Station West(1948)

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.

The Corsican Brothers(1941)

NR
| 1h 51min | Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.

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