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Note: This page does not contain films made in the 1920s about the 1920s. to find those films see:

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Noteworthy Silent Films

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Silent Era: The Silent Film website

•  Silents are Golden

•  Silent Ladies and Gents

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Films about the 1920s:

Al Capone (1959) Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Martin Balsam

Beau James (1957) Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) Jim Caveziel, Claire Forlani

Boy Friend, The (1971) Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle

Brides (2004) Damian Lewis, Victoria Haralabidou, Andréa Ferréol

Bullets Over Broadway (1994) John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly

Capone (1975) Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakeley, Sylvester Stallone

Chaplin (1992) Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, John Thaw

Chariots of Fire (1981) Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson, Ben Cross

Chicago (2002) Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, Queen Latifah, Chita Rivera

Compulsion (1959) Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman

Cotton Club, The (1984) RichardGere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee

Court Martial of Billy, The (1955) Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy

Cross of Fire (1989) William Heard, Dion Anderson, Buzz Barton, Lloyd Bridges

Elmer Gantry (1960) Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger

Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The (1960) Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden

Five Pennies, The (1959) Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong

Funny Girl (1968) Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis

Godfather: Part II, The (1974) Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro

Good News (1947) June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McKracken

Great Gatsby, The (1974) Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black

Great Waldo Pepper, The (1975) Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundlin

Great Ziegfeld, The (1936) William Powell, Myrna Loy, Louise Rainer, Frank Morgan

Helen Morgan Story, The (1957) Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson

Inherit the Wind (1960) Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly

Izzie and Moe (1985) Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Cynthia Harris, Zohra Lampert

King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1960) David Jannsen

Look for the Silver Lining (1959) June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae

Love Me or Leave Me (1955) Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith

Matewan (1987) Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDowell, Will Oldham

Miller's Crossing (1990) Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott

Portrait of a Mobster (1960) Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish, Peter Breck

Public Enemy, The (1931) James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell

River Runs Through It, A (1992) Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt

Roaring Twenties, The (1939) James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart

Sacco e Vanzetti (1971) (Italian) Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack

St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The (1967) Jason Robards, George Segal

Sand Pebbles, The (1966) Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna

Singin' in the Rain (1952) Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debby Reynolds

Some Like It Hot (1959) Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft

Spirit of St. Louis, The (1957) James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith

Splendor in the Grass (1961) Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie

Sunrise at Campobello (1960) Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronin

Swoon (2002) Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby

Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore

Valentino (1951) Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson, Patricia Medina, Joseph Calleia

Valentino (1977) Rudolf Nuryev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Philips, Carol Kane

Wild Party, The (1975), James Coco, Racquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling

Zelig (1983) Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Patrick Horgan
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Movies About the 1920s
Books on Silent Films
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents

1920 Presidential Election Chronology
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