Aceasta este o listă de filme biografice lansate înainte de anul 1950.
Înainte de 1950 An Titlu Subiect(e) Distribuție1900Jeanne d'ArcJoan of ArcBleuette Bernon1905The Life of Charles PeaceCharles PeaceWalter Haggar1906The Story of the Kelly Gang ||Ned Kelly ||Frank Mills |- ||1909 ||Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata||Ludwig van Beethoven ||Harry Baur |- ||1909 ||The Life of Moses||Moses ||Pat Hartigan |- |rowspan="2"|1909 |rowspan="2"|Saul and David||King David ||Maurice Costello |- ||King Saul ||William V. Ranous |- ||1910 ||Pyotr Velikiy||Peter the Great ||Pyotr Voinov |- |rowspan="2"|1911 |rowspan="2"|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 |- ||1912 ||From the Manger to the Cross||Jesus ||Robert Henderson-Bland |- ||1913 ||Adrienne Lecouvreur||Adrienne Lecouvreur ||Sarah Bernhardt |- ||1913 ||Beating Back||Al Jennings ||Al Jennings |- ||1913 ||The Life and Works of Richard Wagner||Richard Wagner ||Giuseppe Becce |- ||1913 ||Sixty Years a Queen||Queen Victoria ||Louie Henri |- ||1914 ||Home, Sweet Home||John Howard Payne ||Henry B. Walthall |- ||1914 ||Judith of BethuliaJudithBlanche Sweet1914The Life of General Villa ||Pancho Villa ||Raoul Walsh |- ||1915 ||Florence Nightingale||Florence Nightingale ||Elisabeth Risdon |- ||1915 ||Mistress Nell||Nell Gwyn ||Mary Pickford |- ||1915 ||The Raven||Edgar Allan Poe ||Henry B. Walthall |- ||1916 ||David Garrick||David Garrick ||Dustin Farnum |- ||1916 ||Davy Crockett||Davy Crockett ||Dustin Farnum |- ||1916 ||DisraeliBenjamin DisraeliDennis Eadie1916Joan the Woman ||Joan of Arc ||Geraldine Farrar |- ||1917 ||Betsy RossBetsy RossAlice Brady1917Cleopatra ||Cleopatra VII ||Theda Bara |- ||1917 ||The conqueror||Sam Houston ||William Farnum |- |rowspan="2"|1917 |rowspan="2"|The Fall of the Romanovs||Nicholas II of Russia ||Alfred Hickman |- ||Alexandra Feodorovna ||Nance O'Neil |- ||1917 ||The Lincoln Cycle||Abraham Lincoln ||Benjamin Chapin |- ||1917 ||My Father||Abraham Lincoln ||Benjamin Chapin |- ||1917 ||My Mother||Abraham Lincoln ||Benjamin Chapin |- ||1917 ||Myself||Abraham Lincoln ||Benjamin Chapin |- ||1917 ||Rasputin, the Black Monk||Grigori Rasputin ||Montagu Love |- ||1918 ||Casanova||Giacomo Casanova ||Alfréd Deésy |- ||1918 ||Men Who Have Made Love to Me||Mary MacLane ||Mary MacLane |- ||1918 ||The Life Story of David Lloyd George||Norman Page ||David Lloyd George |- ||1918 ||Why America Will Win||John J. Pershing ||Harris Gordon |- ||1918 ||The Woman the Germans Shot||Edith Cavell ||Julia Arthur |- ||1919 ||Deliverance||Helen Keller ||Ann Mason |- ||1919 ||The Fighting Roosevelts||Theodore Roosevelt ||Herbert Bradshaw |- ||1919 ||Private Peat||Harold R. Peat ||Harold R. Peat |- ||1920 ||Das Schweigen am Starnbergersee||Ludwig II of Bavaria ||Ferdinand Bonn |- ||1920 ||Headin' Home||Babe Ruth ||Babe Ruth |- ||1921 ||DisraeliBenjamin DisraeliGeorge Arliss1922Dick Turpin's Ride to YorkDick TurpinMatheson Lang1922NeroNeroJacques Grétillat1922Peter the GreatPeter the GreatEmil Jannings1922A Prince of LoversLord ByronHoward Gaye1923Bonnie Prince CharlieCharles Edward StuartIvor Novello1923ColumbusChristopher ColumbusFred Eric1923Friedrich Schiller - Eine DichterjugendFriedrich SchillerTheodor Loos1923Guy FawkesGuy FawkesMatheson Lang1923Landru, the Bluebeard of ParisHenri Désiré LandruWilhelm Sichra1923The Little NapoleonNapoleonEgon von Hagen1923PaganiniNiccolò PaganiniConrad Veidt1923The Ten CommandmentsMosesTheodore Roberts1924Beau Brummel ||Beau Brummel ||John Barrymore |- ||1924 ||The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln||Abraham Lincoln ||George A. Billings |- ||1925 ||Karel Havlíček Borovský||Karel Havlíček Borovský ||Jan W. Speerger |- ||1926 ||Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo||Davy Crockett ||Cullen Landis |- ||1926 ||Josef Kajetán Tyl||Josef Kajetán Tyl ||Zdenek Stepánek |- ||1926 ||The Life Story of Charles Chaplin||Charlie Chaplin ||Chick Wango |- ||1926 ||Nell Gwyn||Nell Gwyn ||Dorothy Gish |- ||1926 ||Nelson||Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ||Cedric Hardwicke |- ||1927 ||The King of KingsJesusH. B. Warner1927The Loves of CasanovaGiacomo CasanovaIvan Mozzhukhin1927NapoléonNapoleon BonaparteAlbert Dieudonné1928Dream of LoveAdrienne LecouvreurJoan Crawford1928LutherMartin LutherEugen Klöpfer1928The Passion of Joan of Arc ||Joan of Arc ||Renée Jeanne Falconetti |- ||1928 ||The Patriot||Tsar Paul I of Russia ||Emil Jannings |- ||1929 ||Die Königsloge||Edmund Kean ||Alexander Moissi |- ||1928 ||Tracy the Outlaw||Harry Tracy ||Jack Hoy |- ||1928 ||Una nueva y gloriosa nación||Manuel Belgrano ||Francis X. Bushman |- ||1929 ||DisraeliBenjamin DisraeliGeorge Arliss1929Pierwsza milosc KosciuszkiTadeusz KościuszkoSykstus Lewicki1930Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnWalter Huston1930Billy the Kid ||Billy the Kid ||Johnny Mack Brown |- ||1930 ||Dreyfus||Alfred Dreyfus ||Fritz Kortner |- ||1930 ||A Lady's MoralsJenny LindGrace Moore1930The Loves of Robert BurnsRobert BurnsJoseph Hislop1930Ludwig der Zweite, König von BayernLudwig II of BavariaWilliam Dieterle1931Alexander Hamilton ||Alexander Hamilton ||George Arliss |- ||1931 ||Dreyfus||Alfred Dreyfus ||Cedric Hardwicke |- ||1931 ||A Portuguesa de Nápoles||Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel ||Maria do Ceu Foz |- ||1931 ||Yorck||Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg ||Werner Krauss |- ||1932 ||El canto del ruiseñor||Julián Gayarre ||José Romeu |- ||1932 ||House of Death||Fyodor Dostoyevsky ||Nikolai Khmelyov |- ||1932 ||Jenny Lind||Jenny Lind ||Grace Moore |- |rowspan="2"|1932 |rowspan="2"|Rasputin and the EmpressAlexandra FeodorovnaEthel BarrymoreGrigori RasputinLionel Barrymore1933The Private Life of Henry VIIIHenry VIIICharles Laughton1933Queen ChristinaQueen Christina of SwedenGreta Garbo1933Voltaire ||Voltaire ||George Arliss |- |rowspan="2"|1934 |rowspan="2"|The Barretts of Wimpole Street||Elizabeth Barrett Browning ||Norma Shearer |- ||Robert Browning ||Fredric March |- ||1934 ||Cleopatra||Cleopatra VII ||Claudette Colbert |- ||1934 ||The House of Rothschild||Mayer Rothschild ||George Arliss |- ||1934 ||The Iron Duke||Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ||George Arliss |- ||1934 ||Love Time||Franz Schubert ||Nils Asther |- ||1934 ||The Mighty BarnumP. T. BarnumWallace Beery1934Nell GwynnNell GwynnAnna Neagle1934The Rise of Catherine the Great ||Catherine II of Russia ||Elisabeth Bergner |- ||1934 ||The Scarlet Empress||Catherine II "The Great" of Russia ||Marlene Dietrich |- |rowspan="2"|1934 |rowspan="2"|Strauss' Great Waltz||Johann Strauss II ||Esmond Knight |- ||Johann Strauss I ||Edmund Gwenn |- ||1934 ||Unfinished Symphony||Franz Schubert ||Hans Jaray |- ||1934 ||Viva Villa!||Pancho Villa ||Wallace Beery |- ||1934 ||Waltzes from Vienna||Johann Strauss II ||Esmond Knight |- ||1934 ||Za ranních cervánku||Josef Dobrovský ||Karel Hasler |- ||1935 ||Annie OakleyAnnie OakleyBarbara Stanwyck1935Clive of IndiaRobert Clive, 1st Baron CliveRonald Colman1935Diamond Jim ||Diamond Jim Brady ||Edward Arnold |- ||1935 ||Drake the Pirate||Francis Drake ||Matheson Lang |- ||1935 ||Harmony Lane||Stephen Foster ||Douglass Montgomery |- ||1935 ||Milan Rastislav Štefánik||Milan Rastislav Štefánik ||Zvonimir Rogoz |- ||1935 ||Napoléon Bonaparte||Napoleon Bonaparte ||Albert Dieudonné |- ||1935 ||The Story of Louis Pasteur||Louis Pasteur ||Paul Muni |- ||1936 ||Bocage||Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage ||Raul de Carvalho |- ||1936 ||Daniel Boone||Daniel Boone ||George O'Brien |- ||1936 ||The Great Ziegfeld||Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. ||William Powell |- |rowspan="2"|1936 |rowspan="2"|Hearts DividedElizabeth Patterson BonaparteMarion DaviesJérôme BonaparteDick Powell1936King August the StrongAugustus II the StrongMichael Bohnen1936Let's Go With Pancho Villa ||Pancho Villa ||Domingo Soler |- ||1936 ||The Life and Loves of Beethoven||Ludwig van Beethoven ||Harry Baur |- ||1936 ||Mary of Scotland||Mary, Queen of Scots ||Katharine Hepburn |- ||1936 ||The Plainsman||Wild Bill Hickok ||Gary Cooper |- ||1936 ||The Prisoner of Shark Island||Samuel Mudd ||Warner Baxter |- ||1936 ||Rembrandt||Rembrandt ||Charles Laughton |- ||1936 ||Rhodes of Africa||Cecil Rhodes ||Walter Huston |- ||1936 ||Robin Hood of El Dorado||Joaquin Murrieta ||Warner Baxter |- ||1936 ||The White Angel||Florence Nightingale ||Kay Francis |- ||1937 ||Auld Lang Syne||Robert Burns ||Andrew Cruickshank |- ||1937 ||Fire Over England||Elizabeth I of England ||Flora Robson |- ||1937 ||The Great Garrick||David Garrick ||Brian Aherne |- ||1937 ||The Great John Ericsson||John Ericsson ||Victor Sjöström |- ||1937 ||La paloma||Charlotte of Belgium ||Medea de Novara |- ||1937 ||Lenin in October||Vladimir Lenin ||Boris Shchukin |- ||1937 ||The Life of Émile Zola||Émile Zola ||Paul Muni |- ||1937 ||ParnellCharles Stewart ParnellClark Gable1937Peter the FirstPeter the GreatNikolai Simonov1937The Toast of New YorkJames FiskEdward Arnold1937Victoria the GreatQueen VictoriaAnna Neagle1937William TindaleWilliam TyndaleAlan Wheatley1937Young PushkinAlexander PushkinValentin Litovsky1938Adrienne LecouvreurAdrienne LecouvreurYvonne Printemps1938The Adventures of Marco PoloMarco PoloGary Cooper1938Alexander Nevsky ||Alexander Nevsky ||Nikolay Cherkasov |- ||1938 ||Boys Town||Edward J. Flanagan ||Spencer Tracy |- ||1938 ||The Childhood of Maxim Gorky||Maxim Gorky ||Aleksei Lyarsky |- ||1938 ||The Great Waltz||Johann Strauss II ||Fernand Gravey |- ||1938 ||The Life of Chopin||Frédéric Chopin ||Frank Henderson |- ||1938 ||Marie Antoinette||Marie Antoinette ||Norma Shearer |- ||1938 ||That Mothers Might Live||Ignaz Semmelweis ||Shepperd Strudwick |- ||1938 ||PugachevYemelyan PugachevYevgeny Matveyev1938RasputinGrigori RasputinHarry Baur1938Saint Theresa of LisieuxThérèse of LisieuxIrène Corday1938Sixty Glorious Years ||Queen Victoria ||Anna Neagle |- ||1939 ||Conquest of Peter the Great||Peter the Great ||Nikolai Simonov |- ||1939 ||The Flying Irishman||Douglas Corrigan ||Douglas Corrigan |- ||1939 ||Frontier Marshal||Wyatt Earp ||Randolph Scott |- ||1939 ||The Great Victor HerbertVictor HerbertAllan Jones1939Immortal WaltzJohann Strauss IPaul Hörbiger1939Jesse James ||Jesse James ||Tyrone Power |- ||1939 ||JuarezBenito JuárezPaul Muni1939Kaiss wa leilaQaysBadr LamaLayla Al-AamiriyaAmina Rizk1939Lenin in 1918Vladimir LeninBoris Shchukin1939The Mad EmpressCharlotte of BelgiumMedea de Novara1939Man of ConquestSam HoustonRichard Dix1939Mulan Joins the ArmyHua MulanChen Yunchang1939Nurse Edith CavellEdith CavellAnna Neagle1939On His OwnMaxim GorkyAleksei Lyarsky1939The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ||Elizabeth I of England ||Bette Davis |- ||Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ||Errol Flynn |- ||1939 ||Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes||Robert Koch ||Emil Jannings |- ||1939 ||The Story of Alexander Graham Bell||Alexander Graham Bell ||Don Ameche |- |rowspan="2"|1939 |rowspan="2"|The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle||Vernon Castle ||Fred Astaire |- ||Irene Castle ||Ginger Rogers |- ||1939 ||Young Mr. LincolnAbraham LincolnHenry Fonda1940Abe Lincoln in IllinoisAbraham LincolnRaymond Massey1940Bismarck ||Otto von Bismarck ||Paul Hartmann |- ||1940 ||Brigham YoungBrigham YoungDean Jagger1940Confcius ||Confucius ||Tang Huaiqiu |- ||1940 ||Das Herz der Königin||Mary, Queen of Scots ||Zarah Leander |- ||1940 ||A Dispatch from Reuter'sPaul ReuterEdward G. Robinson1940Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ||Paul Ehrlich ||Edward G. Robinson |- ||1940 ||Edison, the ManThomas A. EdisonSpencer Tracy1940The Heart of a QueenMary, Queen of ScotsZarah Leander1940Kit CarsonKit CarsonJon Hall1940Knute Rockne, All AmericanKnute RocknePat O'Brien1940Lillian Russell ||Lillian Russell ||Alice Faye |- ||1940 ||Lady with Red Hair||Mrs. Leslie Carter ||Miriam Hopkins |- ||1940 ||Rambrandt||Rembrandt ||Jules Verstraete |- ||1940 ||The Return of Frank JamesFrank JamesHenry Fonda1940The RothschildsNathan Mayer RothschildCarl Kuhlmann1940Santa Fe Trail