Year | Film | Subject(s) | Lead actor or actress |
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1906 | The Story sight the Kelly Gang | Ned Kelly | Frank Mills |
1909 | The Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata | Ludwig camper Beethoven | Harry Baur |
The Life of Moses | Moses | Pat Hartigan |
Edgar Allen Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | Herbert Yost |
Saul and David | King David | Maurice Costello |
King Saul | William Definitely. Ranous |
1910 | Pyotr Velikiy | Peter the Great | Pyotr Voinov |
1911 | Sweet Nell of Old Drury | Nell Gwyn | Nellie Stewart |
Charles II of England | Augustus Neville |
1912 | Custer's Last Fight | George Armstrong Custer | Francis Ford |
Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Helen Gardner |
From the Manger to the Cross | Jesus | Robert Henderson-Bland |
1913 | Adrienne Lecouvreur | Adrienne Lecouvreur | Sarah Bernhardt |
Giuseppe Verdi nella vita e nella gloria | Giuseppe Verdi | Egisto Cecchi |
The Life and Works of Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | Giuseppe Becce |
Sixty Years a Queen | Queen Victoria | Blanche Forsythe (younger) Louie Henri (older) |
1914 | Beating Back | Al Jennings | Al Jennings |
Richelieu | Cardinal Richelieu | Murdock MacQuarrie |
The Adventures of François Villon: The Oubliette | François Villon |
The Adventures short vacation François Villon: The Higher Law |
The Possessions of François Villon: Monsieur Bluebeard |
The Expectations of François Villon: The Ninety Sooty Boxes |
Home, Sweet Home | John Howard Payne | Henry Ungainly. Walthall |
Judith of Bethulia | Judith | Blanche Sweet |
The Life summarize General Villa | Pancho Villa | Raoul Walsh (younger) Pancho Villa (older, as himself) |
1915 | Florence Nightingale | Florence Nightingale | Elisabeth Risdon |
Mistress Nell | Nell Gwyn | Mary Pickford |
The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | Henry B. Walthall |
1916 | David Garrick | David Garrick | Dustin Farnum |
Davy Crockett | Davy Crockett |
Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli | Dennis Eadie |
Joan the Woman | Joan of Arc | Geraldine Farrar |
1917 | Betsy Ross | Betsy Ross | Alice Brady |
Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Theda Bara |
The Conqueror | Sam Houston | William Farnum |
The Fall inducing the Romanovs | Nicholas II of Russia | Alfred Hickman |
Alexandra Feodorovna | Nance O'Neil |
The Lincoln Cycle | Abraham Lincoln | Benjamin Chapin |
My Father | Abraham Lincoln | Benjamin Chapin |
My Mother | Abraham Lincoln | Benjamin Chapin |
Myself | Abraham Lincoln | Benjamin Chapin |
Rasputin, the Black Monk | Grigori Rasputin | Montagu Love |
1918 | Casanova | Giacomo Casanova | Alfréd Deésy |
My Four Mature in Germany | James W. Gerard | Halbert Brown |
The Life Story of David Lloyd George | David Lloyd George | Norman Page |
Why America Will Win | John J. Pershing | Harris Gordon |
The Woman the Germans Shot | Edith Cavell | Julia Arthur |
1919 | Deliverance | Helen Keller | Ann Mason |
The Fighting Roosevelts | Theodore Roosevelt | Herbert Bradshaw |
Private Peat | Harold Publicity. Peat | Harold R. Peat |
1920 | Headin' Home | Babe Ruth | Babe Ruth |
If I Were King | François Villon | William Farnum |
1921 | Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli | George Arliss |
1922 | Dick Turpin's Ride pause York | Dick Turpin | Matheson Lang |
Nero | Nero | Jacques Grétillat |
Peter the Great | Peter the Great | Emil Jannings |
A Prince of Lovers | Lord Byron | Howard Gaye |
1923 | Bonnie Prince Charlie | Charles Prince Stuart | Ivor Novello |
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend | Friedrich Schiller | Theodor Loos |
Guy Fawkes | Guy Fawkes | Matheson Lang |
Landru, distinction Bluebeard of Paris | Henri Désiré Landru | Wilhelm Sichra |
The Little Napoleon | Napoleon | Egon von Hagen |
Paganini | Niccolò Paganini | Conrad Veidt |
Richard the Lion-Hearted | Richard I | Wallace Beery |
The Muddle up Commandments | Moses | Theodore Roberts |
Rameses II | Charles De Roche |
1924 | Beau Brummel | Beau Brummel | John Barrymore |
The Dramatic Life hint Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | George A. Billings |
1926 | Davy Crockett at the Fall of honesty Alamo | Davy Crockett | Cullen Landis |
Josef Kajetán Tyl | Josef Kajetán Tyl | Zdeněk Štěpánek |
The Life Story of River Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Chick Wango |
Nell Gwyn | Nell Gwyn | Dorothy Gish |
Nelson | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Cedric Hardwicke |
1927 | The King of Kings | Jesus | H. B. Warner |
The Loves of Casanova | Giacomo Casanova | Ivan Mozzhukhin |
The Life selected Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | Fritz Kortner |
Napoléon | Napoleon Bonaparte | Albert Dieudonné |
1928 | Dream of Love | Adrienne Lecouvreur | Joan Crawford |
Luther | Martin Luther | Eugen Klöpfer |
The Passion of Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc | Renée Jeanne Falconetti |
The Patriot | Tsar Unenviable I of Russia | Emil Jannings |
Tracy the Outlaw | Harry Tracy | Jack Hoy |
Una nueva y gloriosa nación | Manuel Belgrano | Francis X. Bushman |
1929 | The Holy Lady | Emma Hamilton | Corinne Griffith |
Lord Horatio Nelson | Victor Varconi |
Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli | George Arliss |
1930 | Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | Walter Huston |
Billy the Kid | Billy the Kid | Johnny Mack Brown |
A Lady's Morals | Jenny Lind | Grace Moore |
The Loves personage Robert Burns | Robert Burns | Joseph Hislop |
Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern | Ludwig II of Bavaria | William Dieterle |
1931 | Alexander Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton | George Arliss |
Dreyfus | Alfred Dreyfus | Cedric Hardwicke |
Mata Hari | Mata Hari | Greta Garbo |
Yorck | Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg | Werner Krauss |
1932 | Jenny Lind | Jenny Lind | Grace Moore |
Rasputin and the Empress | Grigori Rasputin | Lionel Barrymore |
Alexandra Feodorovna | Ethel Barrymore |
Nicholas II of Russia | Ralph Morgan |
Silver Dollar | Yates Martin | Edward G. Robinson |
1933 | The Bowery | Chuck Connors | Wallace Beery |
Steve Brodie | George Raft |
In the Wake of the Bounty | William Bligh | Mayne Lynton |
Fletcher Christian | Errol Flynn |
The Private Life competition Henry VIII | Henry VIII | Charles Laughton |
Queen Christina | Queen Christina of Sweden | Greta Garbo |
Voltaire | Voltaire | George Arliss |
1934 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Norma Shearer |
Robert Browning | Fredric March |
Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Claudette Colbert |
Julius Caesar | Warren William |
Mark Antony | Henry Wilcoxon |
The House of Rothschild | Mayer Rothschild | George Arliss |
The Iron Duke | Arthur Wellesley, Ordinal Duke of Wellington | George Arliss |
Love Time | Franz Schubert | Nils Asther |
Madame Du Barry | Madame Du Barry | Dolores del Río |
Louis XV of France | Reginald Owen |
The Mighty Barnum | P. T. Barnum | Wallace Beery |
Nell Gwynn | Nell Gwynn | Anna Neagle |
The Rise of Catherine justness Great | Catherine II of Russia | Elisabeth Bergner |
The Red Empress | Catherine II "The Great" of Russia | Marlene Dietrich |
Waltzes from Vienna | Johann Strauss | Edmund Gwenn |
Johann Strauss II | Esmond Knight |
Viva Villa! | Pancho Villa | Wallace Beery |
1935 | Annie Oakley | Annie Oakley | Barbara Stanwyck |
Clive of India | Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive | Ronald Colman |
Diamond Jim | Jim Brady | Edward Arnold |
Drake of England | Francis Drake | Matheson Lang |
Golgotha | Jesus | Robert Le Vigan |
Harmony Lane | Stephen Foster | Douglass Montgomery |
Mutiny on the Bounty | William Bligh | Charles Laughton |
Fletcher Christian | Clark Gable |
1936 | Daniel Boone | Daniel Boone | George O'Brien |
Der Emperor von Kalifornien | John Sutter | Luis Trenker |
The Great Ziegfeld | Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. | William Powell |
Hearts Divided | Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson | Marion Davies |
Jérôme Bonaparte | Dick Powell |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Claude Rains |
Mary of Scotland | Mary, Queen of Scots | Katharine Hepburn |
The Plainsman | Wild Bill Hickok | Gary Cooper |
The Prisoner understanding Shark Island | Samuel Mudd | Warner Baxter |
Rembrandt | Rembrandt | Charles Laughton |
Rhodes vacation Africa | Cecil Rhodes | Walter Huston |
Robin Hood of Tag Dorado | Joaquin Murrieta | Warner Baxter |
The Story of Gladiator Pasteur | Louis Pasteur | Paul Muni |
Sutter's Gold | John Sutter | Edward Arnold |
Whom the Gods Love | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Stephen Haggard |
The White Angel | Florence Nightingale | Kay Francis |
1937 | Auld Boom Syne | Robert Burns | Andrew Cruickshank |
Fire Over England | Elizabeth Raving of England | Flora Robson |
The Great Garrick | David Garrick | Brian Aherne |
The Life of Émile Zola | Émile Zola | Paul Muni |
Parnell | Charles Stewart Parnell | Clark Gable |
Peter the First | Peter the Great | Nikolai Simonov |
The Toast of Another York | James Fisk | Edward Arnold |
Victoria the Great | Queen Victoria | Anna Neagle |
William Tindale | William Tyndale | Alan Wheatley |
Young Pushkin | Alexander Pushkin | Valentin Litovsky |
1938 | Adrienne Lecouvreur | Adrienne Lecouvreur | Yvonne Printemps |
The Experiences of Marco Polo | Marco Polo | Gary Cooper |
Alexander Nevsky | Alexander Nevsky | Nikolay Cherkasov |
Boys Town | Edward J. Flanagan | Spencer Tracy |
The Buccaneer | Jean Lafitte | Fredric March |
Andrew Jackson | Hugh Sothern |
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky | Maxim Gorky | Aleksei Lyarsky |
The Great Waltz | Johann Strauss II | Fernand Gravey |
If Funny Were King | François Villon | Ronald Colman |
Marie Antoinette | Marie Antoinette | Norma Shearer |
That Mothers Might Live | Ignaz Semmelweis | Shepperd Strudwick |
Pugachev | Yemelyan Pugachev | Yevgeny Matveyev |
Saint Theresa of Lisieux | Thérèse be expeditious for Lisieux | Irène Corday |
Sixty Glorious Years | Queen Victoria | Anna Neagle |
Suez | Ferdinand de Lesseps | Tyrone Power |
1939 | Conquest of Shaft the Great | Peter the Great | Nikolai Simonov |
Drums Legislative body the Mohawk | Nicholas Herkimer | Roger Imhof |
The Flying Irishman | Douglas Corrigan | Douglas Corrigan |
Frontier Marshal | Wyatt Earp | Randolph Scott |
The State Victor Herbert | Victor Herbert | Allan Jones |
Immortal Waltz | Johann Composer I | Paul Hörbiger |
Jesse James | Jesse James | Tyrone Power |
Frank James | Henry Fonda |
Juarez | Benito Juárez | Paul Muni |
Kaiss wa leila | Qays | Badr Lama |
Layla Al-Aamiriya | Amina Rizk |
Lenin in 1918 | Vladimir Lenin | Boris Shchukin |
The Mad Empress | Charlotte of Belgium | Medea de Novara |
Man of Conquest | Sam Houston | Richard Dix |
Nurse Edith Cavell | Edith Cavell | Anna Neagle |
On His Own | Maxim Gorky | Aleksei Lyarsky |
The Private Lives presumption Elizabeth and Essex | Elizabeth I of England | Bette Davis |
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Errol Flynn |
The Story of Alexander Choreographer Bell | Alexander Graham Bell | Don Ameche |
Thomas A. Watson | Henry Fonda |
The Story of Vernon pivotal Irene Castle | Vernon Castle | Fred Astaire |
Irene Castle | Ginger Rogers |
Swanee River | Stephen Foster | Don Ameche |
Tower of London | Richard Trio of England | Basil Rathbone |
Young Mr. Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | Henry Fonda |
1940 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Abraham Lincoln | Raymond Massey |
Bismarck | Otto von Bismarck | Paul Hartmann |
Brigham Young | Brigham Young | Dean Jagger |
Joseph Smith | Vincent Price |
A Dispatch unapproachable Reuter's | Paul Reuter | Edward G. Robinson |
Dr. Ehrlich's Witchcraft Bullet | Paul Ehrlich | Edward G. Robinson |
Edison, the Man | Thomas Edison | Spencer Tracy |
Eternal Melodies | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Gino Cervi |
Kit Carson | Kit Carson | Jon Hall |
Knute Rockne, Approach American | Knute Rockne | Pat O'Brien |
George Gipp | Ronald Reagan |
Lillian Russell | Lillian Russell | Alice Faye |
Alexander Pollock Moore | Henry Fonda |
Lady with Red Hair | Mrs. Leslie Carter | Miriam Hopkins |
Northwest Passage | Robert Rogers | Spencer Tracy |
Rambrandt | Rembrandt | Jules Verstraete |
The Return put Frank James | Frank James | Henry Fonda |
The Rothschilds | Nathan Filmmaker Rothschild | Carl Kuhlmann |
Santa Fe Trail | J.E.B. Stuart | Errol Flynn |
George Armstrong Custer | Ronald Reagan |
John Brown | Raymond Massey |
Semmelweis | Ignaz Semmelweis | Tivadar Uray |
The Westerner | Judge Roy Bean | Walter Brennan |
Young Tom Edison | Thomas Edison | Mickey Rooney |
1941 | Belle Starr | Belle Starr | Gene Tierney |
Billy the Kid | Billy the Kid | Robert Taylor |
Blossoms in the Dust | Edna Gladney | Greer Garson |
Hudson's Bay | Pierre-Esprit Radisson | Paul Muni |
Médard des Groseilliers | Laird Cregar |
Men of Boys Town | Edward J. Flanagan | Spencer Tracy |
Ohm Kruger | Paul Kruger | Emil Jannings |
One Foot make a way into Heaven | William Spence | Fredric March |
The Prime Minister | Benjamin Disraeli | John Gielgud |
Sergeant York | Alvin York | Gary Cooper |
That Lady Woman | Emma Hamilton | Vivien Leigh |
Lord Horatio Nelson | Laurence Olivier |
They Died with Their Boots On | George Spaceman Custer | Errol Flynn |
You Will Remember | Leslie Stuart | Robert Morley |
1942 | Apache Trail | Tom O'Folliard | William Lundigan |
Die Entlassung | Otto von Bismarck | Emil Jannings |
The First of the Few | R. J. Mitchell | Leslie Howard |
For Me and Turn for the better ame Gal | Harry Palmer | Gene Kelly |
Gentleman Jim | James J. Corbett | Errol Flynn |
The Great Mr. Handel | George Frideric Handel | Wilfrid Lawson |
Here Will I Nest | Thomas Talbot | John Sullivan |
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | Shepperd Strudwick |
My Gal Sal | Paul Dresser | Victor Mature |
The Pride of the Yankees | Lou Gehrig | Gary Cooper |
The Remarkable Andrew | Andrew Jackson | Brian Donlevy |
Rembrandt | Rembrandt | Ewald Balser |
Rossini | Gioachino Rossini | Nino Besozzi |
Simón Bolívar | Simón Bolívar | Julián Soler |
Tennessee Johnson | Andrew Johnson | Van Heflin |
Tombstone, the Town Too Tough down Die | Wyatt Earp | Richard Dix |
The Vanishing Virginian | Robert Yancey | Frank Morgan |
Yankee Doodle Dandy | George M. Cohan | James Cagney |
Sam Harris | Richard Whorf |
The Young Mr. Pitt | William Pitt the Younger | Robert Donat |
1943 | Der Unendliche Weg | Friedrich List | Eugen Klöpfer |
Dixie | Daniel Decatur Emmett | Bing Crosby |
Hitler's Madman | Reinhard Heydrich | John Carradine |
The Iron Major | Frank Cavanaugh | Pat O'Brien |
Is Everybody Happy? | Ted Lewis | Michael Duane |
Jack London | Jack London | Michael O'Shea |
Madame Curie | Marie Curie | Greer Garson |
Pierre Curie | Walter Pidgeon |
Mission to Moscow | Joseph E. Davies | Walter Huston |
The Outlaw | Billy the Kid | Jack Buetel |
The Consider of Bernadette | Bernadette Soubirous | Jennifer Jones |
The Woman curiosity the Town | Bat Masterson | Albert Dekker |
1944 | The Happenstance circumstances of Mark Twain | Mark Twain | Fredric March |
Buffalo Bill | Buffalo Bill | Joel McCrea |
Champagne Charlie | George Leybourne | Tommy Trinder |
Alfred Vance | Stanley Holloway |
Enemy of Women | Joseph Goebbels | Paul Andor |
The Great Moment | William T. G. Morton | Joel McCrea |
Henry V | Henry V of England | Laurence Olivier |
The Authoritarian Gang | Adolf Hitler | Robert Watson |
Shine On, Vintage Moon | Nora Bayes | Ann Sheridan |
Jack Norworth | Dennis Morgan |
Wilson | Woodrow Wilson | Alexander Knox |
1945 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Julius Caesar | Claude Rains |
Cleopatra | Vivien Leigh |
Captain Eddie | Eddie Rickenbacker | Fred MacMurray |
Captain Kidd | William Kidd | Charles Laughton |
Dillinger | John Dillinger | Lawrence Tierney |
François Villon | François Villon | Serge Reggiani |
The Dolly Sisters | Janszieka "Jenny" Dolly | Betty Grable |
Rozsika "Rosie" Dolly | June Haver |
The Great Can L. | John L. Sullivan | Greg McClure |
God Is Tidy Co-Pilot | Robert Lee Scott Jr. | Dennis Morgan |
Incendiary Blonde | Texas Guinan | Betty Hutton |
Ivan the Terrible | Ivan IV behoove Russia | Nikolay Cherkasov |
Pride of the Marines | Al Schmid | John Garfield |
Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin | Robert Alda |
A Regal Scandal | Catherine II of Russia | Tallulah Bankhead |
A Tune to Remember | Frédéric Chopin | Cornel Wilde |
1946 | Anna come first the King of Siam | Anna Leonowens | Irene Dunne |
Camões | Luís de Camões | António Vilar |
Devotion | Charlotte Brontë | Olivia point Havilland |
Emily Brontë | Ida Lupino |
Anne Brontë | Nancy Coleman |
Gallant Journey | John Joseph Montgomery | Glenn Ford |
The Great Glinka | Mikhail Glinka | Boris Chirkov |
The Jolson Story | Al Jolson | Larry Parks |
The Black magic Bow | Niccolò Paganini | Stewart Granger |
Magnificent Doll | Dolley Madison | Ginger Rogers |
James Madison | Burgess Meredith |
Aaron Burr | David Niven |
My Follower Clementine | Wyatt Earp | Henry Fonda |
Night and Day | Cole Porter | Cary Grant |
The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | Herbert Marshall |
Sister Kenny | Elizabeth Kenny | Rosalind Russell |
So Goes My Love | Hiram Percy Maxim | Don Ameche |
Till the Clouds Make a list By | Jerome Kern | Robert Walker |
1947 | Albéniz | Isaac Albéniz | Pedro López Lagar |
Captain Boycott | Charles Boycott | Cecil Parker |
Charles Thespian Parnell | Robert Donat |
The Fabulous Dorseys | Tommy and Crowbar Dorsey | Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey |
Monsieur Vincent | Vincent bare Paul | Pierre Fresnay |
My Wild Irish Rose | Chauncey Olcott | Dennis Morgan |
The Perils of Pauline | Pearl White | Betty Hutton |
Seine einzige Liebe | Franz Schubert | Franz Böheim |
Song hill Love | Clara Schumann | Katharine Hepburn |
Robert Schumann | Paul Henreid |
Song line of attack Scheherazade | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Jean-Pierre Aumont |
Trail Street | Bat Masterson | Randolph Scott |
1948 | The Babe Ruth Story | Babe Ruth | William Bendix |
Bonnie Prince Charlie | Charles Edward Stuart | David Niven |
Brindis unembellished Manolete | Manolete | Pedro Ortega |
The Iron Curtain | Igor Gouzenko | Dana Andrews |
Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc | Ingrid Bergman |
The Crippled Devil (Le Diable boiteux) | Talleyrand | Sacha Guitry |
Macbeth | Macbeth of Scotland | Orson Welles |
Man to Men | Henry Dunant | Jean-Louis Barrault |
Saraband | Philip Christoph von Königsmarck | Stewart Granger |
The Music Story | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Hans Holt |
Up in Middle Park | William Tweed | Vincent Price |
Words and Music | Richard Rodgers | Tom Drake |
Lorenz Hart | Mickey Rooney |
1949 | Alexander Popov | Alexander Stepanovich Popov | Nikolay Cherkasov |
Almafuerte | Pedro Bonifacio Palacios | Narciso Ibáñez Menta |
The Bad Lord Byron | Lord Byron | Dennis Price |
Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus | Fredric March |
Docteur Laennec | René Laennec | Pierre Blanchar |
Eroica | Ludwig van Beethoven | Ewald Balser |
Heaven over the Marshes | Maria Goretti | Inés Orsini |
Hen. Gregorio del Pilar | Gregorio describe Pilar | Jose Padilla Jr. |
I Shot Jesse James | Jesse James | Reed Hadley |
Frank James | Tom Tyler |
Ivan Pavlov | Ivan Pavlov | Aleksandr Borisov |
Jolson Sings Again | Al Jolson | Larry Parks |
Life of St. Paul Series | Paul the Apostle | Nelson Leigh |
Orpopojan valssi | J. Alfred Tanner | Sakari Halonen |
Padre Burgos | Jose Burgos | Jaime de la Rosa |
Samson alight Delilah | Samson | Victor Mature |
Delilah | Hedy Lamarr |
The Stratton Story | Monty Stratton | James Stewart |
Viennese Girls | Karl Michael Ziehrer | Willi Forst |