'Alas' ('Wings') in 1929
Synopsis: Jack Powell and David Armstrong, two men at odds over the love of Sylvia, actually in love with David, with whom she shares social class and wealth, enlist in the Air Force at the outbreak of the First World War. Although he doesn't know it, Powell leaves behind a love in the humble neighborhood where he comes from: Mary Preston, his best friend, and neighbor, who secretly longs for him and who soon, courageously, will volunteer to do humanitarian work on the front lines.
Winner of 2 Oscars (best film and engineering effects)
'The Broadway Melody' in 1930
Synopsis: Queenie and Hank are two sisters looking to make it big on Broadway as singers and dancers. Queenie falls for Eddie Kearns, but he prefers Hank, and they become a couple. With Eddie's help, they begin a career on the vaudeville stage.
Winner of 1 Oscar (best film)
'All Quiet on the Western Front in 1931
Synopsis: A group of young friends is persuaded by a teacher who invites them with a patriotic and nationalist speech to join the German army in defense of their country. Excited, the young men enlist not knowing what awaited them. At the time of their training, they are called to fight at the front, by living the experience they found that war is nothing more than hunger, fatigue, fear, pain, and death. Disappointment comes into play. The resentment, the fight, the fears, the hunger, and the ability to recognize that the idea they had of war was nothing more than an illusion.
Winner of 2 Oscars (Best Picture and Best Director for Lewis Milestone)
'Cimarron' in 1932
Synopsis: Chronicles the afflictions and tribulations of a family in the Old West over four decades, from their arrival in Oklahoma in 1889 to the emergence of their political aspirations in the 1920s. Loves, struggles, triumphs, and separations, as well as the famous and true stagecoach race.
Winner of 3 Oscars (best film, adapted screenplay, and artistic direction)
'Grand Hotel' in 1933
Synopsis: Dr. Otternschlag, a disfigured World War I veteran and permanent resident of the Grand Hotel in Berlin, watches wryly as "People come and go. Nothing ever happens."
Winner of 1 Oscar (best film)
'Cavalcade' in 1934
Synopsis: The history of Great Britain during the first third of the 20th century is reflected through the misadventures of a family that suffers all kinds of hardships and calamities.
Winner of 3 Oscars (best film, direction for Frank Lloyd, and artistic direction)
'It Happened One Night in 1935
Synopsis: Ellie Andrews, a young and capricious heiress, manages to escape from her father's yacht, which had locked her up to prevent her wedding with an unsavory man. On the bus that she takes, bound for New York, she meets Peter Warne, a nice and attractive reporter, who is looking for a good story. Chance and circumstances will bring Ellie and Peter together on a bumpy and fun trip.
Winner of 5 Oscars (best film, direction for Frank Capra, actor for Clark Gable, actress for Claudette Colbert, and adapted screenplay)
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