Historical Screenplays for Sale
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 $19. Production rights are licensed separately.
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
107 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
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 family in 1942 and later processed transport lists for Auschwitz. The court convicts Klaus and sentences him to fifteen years. Hannah translates the verdict in her own voice, returns to the empty booth after the trial closes, and folds her headphones. A single tear hits the transcript.
107 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 wagon, Cora walks three miles back on the trail and finds the real dead man's wagon, proving the two wagons are entirely different. Her private confrontation with Cross fails. At Sweetwater Crossing, before forty assembled travelers, she presents her case with physical evidence. The resolution hinges on Ruth Cross, who has known the wagon was wrong since the morning of the seizure. Ruth speaks. The wagon is returned.
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 data before the election. Working alone through procedural channels, Cross routes the evidence to a Parliamentary committee. Her mother dies in a hospital that has run out of oxygen. Cross presents the mortality tables to the Parliamentary Health Committee using a procedural mechanism never before invoked. An official inquiry is announced. The Clean Air Act passes four years later.
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, she finds the woman still there, and learns that the caption she wrote was wrong. The woman's husband did not leave for work in another county. He stayed in Dalhart, Texas, and died on Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. He was not killed by the storm. He was killed for what he was trying to do the following day. The film follows Margaret's investigation from the California camps to the Texas Panhandle and back: what she finds, what it costs, and what she finally decides to do with the camera.
100 pages