1920s Movies

A song scene of a vaudeville act starring Tommy Lorne as a shopkeeper with a daughter vying for his attention while he is attempting to serve two...

An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in the...

Alba lives inside a 1920s silent film, in black and white. Each day repeats: she stands in the garden of her villa above Trento, watching the city...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his...

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be...

This is a film in the dramatic and adventure genre based on historical and real events — namely an expedition to the North Pole on the...

A travelogue set in the jungles of Borneo.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed...

It is 1920, political unrest is growing in Prague and the Social Democrats are about to betray their historic mission by prioritising their own...

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...

The exploits of General Feng, who defeated the Zhili faction and evicted Pu Yi from the Forbidden City.

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

Released in January of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

In 1926 Vida, a simple, young Slovenian woman leaves fascist Italy due of poverty. She emigrates as a wet nurse to Alexandria in Egypt to support her...