Martial arts films of the 1930s
46 films: 41 boxing films, 3 jidaigeki (period dramas), 2 samurai films.
1930
1931
1932
- Battling Bosko (1932) – Hugh Harman
- They Never Come Back (1932) – Fred C. Newmeyer
- Winner Take All (1932) – Roy Del Ruth
1933
- King for a Night (1933) – Kurt Neumann
- Money Talks (1933) – Norman Lee
- The Big Chance (1933) – Albert Herman
- The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) – Archie Mayo
- The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) – W. S. Van Dyke
1934
- Palooka (1934) – Benjamin Stoloff
- Punch Drunks (1934) – Lou Breslow
- The Personality Kid (1934) – Alan Crosland
1935
- Aerograd (1935) – Oleksandr Dovzhenko
- Knockout (1935) – Karel Lamač
- The Irish in Us (1935) – Lloyd Bacon
- The Million Ryo Pot (1935) – Sadao Yamanaka
1936
- Akanishi Kakita (1936) – Mansaku Itami
- Cain and Mabel (1936) – Lloyd Bacon
- Conflict (1936) – David Howard
- Excuse My Glove (1936) – Redd Davis
- Orphan of the Wilderness (1936) – Ken G. Hall
- The Milky Way (1936) – Leo McCarey
- Toby Tortoise Returns (1936) – Wilfred Jackson
- Two-Fisted Gentleman (1936) – Gordon Wiles
1937
- Fifty-Shilling Boxer (1937) – Maclean Rogers
- Flying Fists (1937) – Robert F. Hill
- Keep Fit (1937) – Anthony Kimmins
- Kid Galahad (1937) – Michael Curtiz
- The Kings of Sport (1937) – Pierre Colombier
- When's Your Birthday? (1937) – Harry Beaumont
1938
- Count Me Out (1938) – Ben Hardaway
- Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938) – David Howard
- Little Orphan Annie (1938) – Ben Holmes
- Porky & Daffy (1938) – Bob Clampett
- Spirit of Youth (1938) – Harry L. Fraser
- The Abe Clan (1938) – Hisatora Kumagai
- The Crowd Roars (1938) – Richard Thorpe
- The Giant (1938) – Mansaku Itami
- The Kid Comes Back (1938) – B. Reeves Eason
1939
- Golden Boy (1939) – Rouben Mamoulian
- I, His Father (1939) – Mario Bonnard
- Keep Punching (1939) – John Clein
- There Ain't No Justice (1939) – Pen Tennyson
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