Historical screenplays to read
Browse 4 professional historical screenplays in the ScriptLix catalog. Each script is evaluated for cast size, location count, VFX needs, and overall producibility before publication. Read free sample pages, compare ratings, and own the full script from $6.99. Reader Access is the only licence sold; production, distribution and exclusive rights are not offered.
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Historical screenplays in the catalog
- A DEBT OF TONGUES
Nuremberg, 1945. A German Jewish woman who escaped to America returns as a courtroom interpreter and must translate the testimony of the SS administrator who saved her family in 1942 and later process
108 pages - THE SALT ROAD
In Wyoming Territory, August 1849, a free Black woman traveling west with her children has her wagon seized by a settler party claiming it matches the description in a bill of sale. The wagon contains
110 pages - KILLING FOG
London, December 1952. The Great Smog kills thousands. A Ministry of Health analyst has the verified body count. Her government has ordered silence, citing the election. She has three days, a classifi
106 pages - NIPOMO
A documentary photographer for the federal government returns in 1939 to a California migrant camp where she took her most famous photograph three years earlier. The woman in the photograph tells her
100 pages
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A DEBT OF TONGUES
Hannah Kroner, 32, a German Jewish émigré, arrives at the Palace of Justice in November 1945 as a U.S. War Department interpreter. The defendant assigned to her booth is Klaus Vogler, the SS administrator who forged exit visas for her famil
108 pages
THE SALT ROAD
Cora Bell, a free Black woman from Ohio, is nine months into the overland crossing to Sacramento when the Cross settler party claims her wagon under a bill of sale signed by a dying man. With her freedom papers locked inside the seized wago
110 pages
KILLING FOG
When the Great Smog of London kills four thousand people in five days, junior Ministry of Health official Edith Cross receives a verified mortality analysis that contradicts the government position. Her minister instructs her to falsify the
106 pages
NIPOMO
Margaret Hayes is an FSA documentary photographer who in 1936 took what became the most recognized image of the Great Depression: a woman and three children at a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo, California. When she returns to the camp in 1939,
100 pages
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