The Green Pastures (1936)
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noahs Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
To avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I