Films of the 1920s

See also: Early Films, Films of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

1920-1928

 * Buster Keaton starred in several short Slapstick comedies, including:
 * The Blacksmith
 * The Boat
 * Convict 13
 * Cops
 * The Goat
 * Hard Luck
 * The Haunted House
 * The High Sign
 * The Love Nest
 * My Wifes Relations
 * Neighbors
 * One Week
 * The Paleface
 * The Playhouse
 * The Scarecrow
 * He also starred in several feature comedies, including
 * The Cameraman
 * The General
 * The Navigator
 * Our Hospitality
 * Seven Chances
 * Sherlock Jr
 * Steamboat Bill Jr — Famous for its By Wall That Is Holey gag
 * Three Ages


 * Ditto Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin started to work at a slower pace in the 1920s, but he still made four feature films:
 * The Kid
 * A Woman of Paris
 * The Gold Rush
 * The Circus
 * and his last three comedic shorts:
 * The Idle Class
 * Pay Day
 * The Pilgrim


 * Harold Lloyd was more prolific than Chaplin and more popular than Keaton. His features from this decade include:
 * Grandma's Boy
 * Dr.Jack
 * Never Weaken
 * Safety Last
 * Why Worry?
 * Girl Shy
 * Hot Water
 * The Freshman
 * For Heaven's Sake
 * The Kid Brother
 * Speedy
 * Welcome Danger

1920

 * An Adventuress
 * After Six Days
 * Anna Boleyn
 * Build Thy House
 * The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) -- A masterpiece of the Expressionist movement
 * Cosmopolis
 * Dangerous Love
 * The Daredevil
 * Daredevil Jack
 * The Deep Purple
 * The Devil's Passkey
 * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 * Erotikon
 * Fantomas
 * The Flapper
 * From Morn To Midnight
 * Genuine
 * The Golem, How He Came Into The World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam)
 * Headin' Home
 * Huckleberry Finn
 * Humoresque
 * Just Pals
 * The Last of the Mohicans
 * Life
 * Life Of The Party
 * The Love Flower
 * The Man From Snowy River
 * The Mark Of Zorro
 * The Mollycoddle
 * Nomads Of The North
 * Oliver Twist
 * Once To Every Woman
 * Out Of The Dust
 * Outside The Law
 * The Penalty
 * Pollyanna
 * Remodeling Her Husband
 * The Restless Sex
 * The Revenge Of Tarzan
 * Robbery Under Arms
 * The Round-Up
 * The Saphead
 * Satanas
 * The Shark
 * Something New
 * Something To Think About
 * The Son Of Tarzan
 * Suds
 * Sumurun
 * Terror Island
 * The Tidal Wave
 * The Toll Gate
 * Treasure Island
 * Vampire
 * The Virgin Of Stamboul
 * Way Down East
 * What Women Want
 * Why Change Your Wife
 * The Witch Woman
 * Within Our Gates
 * Wuthering Heights

1921-1927

 * Orphans of the Storm--the last collaboration of star Lillian Gish and director DW Griffith, and Griffith's last commercial hit
 * Fritz Lang directed a number of trope making feature films, including
 * Destiny
 * Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) -- The first Interplanetary Voyage made with attention to realism.
 * Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse der Spieler) -- Invented gangster film tropes that would be used for many years
 * Metropolis -- Arguably responsible for nearly every Science Fiction trope we're familiar with in film today.
 * The Nibelungs (Die Nibelungen) -- Two-part film adaptation of the mediæval German epic, Das Nibelungenlied (on which Richard Wagner's Ring opera cycle was also partly based): Siegfried, in which zillions of Fantasy tropes are seen on film for the first time, and the grimmer and more realistic Kriemhild's Revenge (Kriemhilds Rache).

1922-1927

 * F.W. Murnau directed several influential silent films including
 * Faust: A German Folk-Legend (Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage)
 * The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann)
 * Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens)
 * Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1922

 * Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
 * The Little Rascals
 * Nanook Of The North -- A pioneering Documentary and the template for all future ones.
 * Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages

1923

 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame -- The first English-language feature film adaptation of the story, and Lon Chaney's Quasimodo is still the ugliest one yet.
 * Safety Last

1924

 * The Thief of Bagdad
 * Greed -- A 9½-hour epic by Erich von Stroheim, edited to 2½ hours against his wishes, the cut footage destroyed.
 * In fact, von Stroheim's producer on Greed said that he had a "footage fetish". Right before he took the film away and cut it down.
 * Wild Oranges

1925

 * The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin) -- Establishes (among many others) the Baby Carriage trope.
 * Ben-Hur -- The first feature film adaptation of the story.
 * The Big Parade -- The first major World War One film, notable for realistically depicting combat
 * The Freshman
 * The Lost World -- based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle.
 * Les Misérables -- 6 hour French film, said to be the most accurate adaptation.
 * The Phantom of the Opera
 * Strike
 * The Unholy Three

1926

 * The Adventures of Prince Achmed - the oldest surviving animated film
 * Flesh and the Devil - made Greta Garbo a star
 * The Scarlet Letter - Adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, starring Lillian Gish

1927

 * The Cat and the Canary
 * The Jazz Singer -- First "talkie".
 * The Lodger -- The first of many suspense thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock
 * Napoleon -- An epic five 1/2 hour drama about the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Might never be seen in its intact form again thanks to Executive Meddling.
 * Our Dancing Daughters
 * Wings -- A World War One film, and the first film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
 * Underworld -- The very first gangster picture.

1928

 * The Burning of Red Lotus Temple (Huo shao hong lian si) -- Genre-defining first Chinese Wuxia film. One of the longest films ever made.
 * The Crowd
 * The Little Rascals
 * The Man Who Laughs
 * The Passion of Joan of Arc (Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc)
 * Show People
 * The Wind-- the last silent film of Lillian Gish

1929

 * Blackmail -- The first talkie directed by Alfred Hitchcock
 * An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou) -- Most remembered for its Eye Scream moment at the beginning.
 * The Man With The Movie Camera (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) -- Every Camera Trick in the book, and the fastest Montages ever attempted.
 * Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) -- Heartbreaking drama by G.W. Pabst.
 * Sally

Other 1920s film series

 * Alice Comedies
 * Classic Disney Shorts
 * "Plane Crazy"
 * "Steamboat Willie"
 * "The Skeleton Dance"
 * Felix the Cat
 * Laurel and Hardy
 * Oswald the Lucky Rabbit