Historical Screenplays for Sale
Browse 2 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 choose the edition that fits your project — Reader, Producer, or Collector.
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
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