List of Films Based On Actual Events - 1930s

1930s

• Rasputin and the Empress (1932) — Passion and politics at the Czar's house.
• In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) — Australian film about the mutiny.
• Cleopatra (1934) — Retelling of the story of Cleopatra VII.
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) — First Hollywood telling of the mutiny-at-sea tale, with Gable and Laughton.
• San Francisco (1936) — Hurly-burly of the Barbary Coast is quickly quashed by the infamous 1906 temblor.
• You Only Live Once (1937) — Though called Eddie & Joan, they are loosely Bonnie and Clyde, just three years after the outlaws' deaths.
• Marie Antoinette (1938) — Based on the life of Marie Antoinette from her betrothal to Louis XVI through her reign as the last queen of France to her execution.
• Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) — The future President (Henry Fonda) finds success as a lawyer — and finds himself a wife (Marjorie Weaver).