| 1915 | pro-Confederate account of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, portraying the KKK as a heroic force | The Birth of a Nation |
| 1933 | a giant gorilla from Skull Island, called "the eighth wonder of the world", runs amok in NYC and climbs the Empire State Building | King Kong |
| 1937 | a princess hides from her murderous step-mother in a cottage in the woods occupied by several miners | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| 1939 | after being swept away from her Kansas home by a tornado, a young girl embarks on a journey down the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City, befriending three whimsical companions who help her seek a wizard's aid to return home while evading an evil witch | The Wizard of Oz |
| 1939 | set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, a headstrong Southern belle maneuvers through tumultuous romances and personal tragedies in a desperate struggle to save her family's Georgia plantation, Tara | Gone with the Wind |
| 1940 | a wooden puppet, whose nose grows when he tells a lie, comes to life but wishes to become a real boy | Pinocchio |
| 1941 | a private investigator becomes entangled with a group of eccentric criminals who will stop at nothing to track down a priceless statuette of a black bird | The Maltese Falcon |
| 1941 | animated Disney film about a young circus elephant | Dumbo |
| 1941 | following the death of a powerful newspaper tycoon, a reporter scrambles to uncover the meaning of the man’s dying word, "Rosebud" | Citizen Kane |
| 1942 | a young, orphaned deer named navigates the wonders and challenges of life in the forest alongside his friends, a rabbit and a skunk | Bambi |
| 1942 | during World War II, a cynical American expatriate living in Morocco must decide whether to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis or maintain his neutrality to protect his own interests | Casablanca |
| 1946 | when a bank owner from Bedford Falls contemplates ending his life on Christmas Eve, a guardian angel intervenes to show him how different the world would be if he had never been born | It's a Wonderful Life |
| 1948 | in 1920s Mexico, two down-on-their-luck Americans team up with a veteran prospector to hunt for gold in remote mountains | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 1948 | The young Prince of Denmark stages a play in an attempt to prove that his uncle, the new king, murdered the prince's father, the deceased king | Hamlet |
