1920s Movies

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the...

David Gordon is in love and engaged to be married to Kate Nugent. But the sinister figure of Austen Hawke, Gordon's rival, threatens to eclipse the...

In the South Seas, Samoan village life is portrayed with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized 'Gauguin idyll', the film...

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes...

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris circa October, 1925. Middle-aged Gilberte flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were...

A woman resorts to prostitution out of hunger and commits suicide shortly after, leaving her daughter to embark on an equally cruel path.

Inspired by true events in the 1920s Yucca Valley, a miner named Johnny Lang seals his cannibal son behind an iron door. Generations later, a...

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria...

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied...

The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident...

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

A documentary about the cultural effect of film censorship, focusing on the tumultuous times of the teens and early 1920s in America.

A reimagining of the Greek classic story of the twelve labors of Hercules, set in 1920s Mississippi, where Hercules is reenvisioned as a former...

Dr. Sadik Ahmet fights for the democratic rights of the Western Thrace Turkish minority living in Greece. After graduating from Athens University...

Set against the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, the lives of multiple people intersect in Depression-era San Francisco.

Two brothers who could not have been more different. The eldest, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), was a prominent member of the Nazi regime, head of...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men...

Follows three souls across Edo-period Japan, 1865 New South Wales and 2027 Australia, where each lifetime carries the emotional imprint of the last.

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