1920 Movies

Volcanic eruption footage in Japan

The Brand Blotter is a 1920 silent Western.

It contains: departure of the secretary of the United States Embassy; luncheon offered to the ambassador of the United States by the American community in Peru; Maranga airfield; airplane number 1 is christened before the first flight; Captain Juan Leguía rehe...

A young woman and her brothers go up against a gang of moonshiners.

Behind-the-scenes footage of the shooting of Victor Sjöström's Mästerman

It contains: a polo match; the presentation of the Curtiss airplane to President Leguía by the workers of Morococha; the President responding in a speech to the gift from the workers of Morococha; the arrival of the airplane and the presentation of the pilot a...

Film about Ghost-Cat.

It contains: the procession leaving the Lima Cathedral on September 19, 1920; the faithful occupying Santa Apolonia Street; the courts of honor preceding the platform; the Archbishop of Lima and the Metropolitan Chapter escorting the image; Our Lady of Victori...

It contains: the Leoncio Prado airplane after the accident in which pilot Simon and mechanic Wheeler were injured; a view of the injured mechanic; Mr. Cipriano Laos aboard the Ebro; Mr. Percy Batchelor en route to England; the American ambassador to Peru; the...

A 1920 film.

It's a bush-ranging yarn, very popular at the time, about Captain Starlight, played well by Brampton himself, and his co-horts the Marsden family. Dick Marsden is especially well played by Roland Conway, who is the quintessential Aussie bloke.

Adventures of a bunch of skiers: mysteries from the altitudes, strange shapes formed by the snow, beyond the great air, the upper layers of the atmosphere, the great bliss of the white mountain.

The film is a family drama set against the backdrop of the First World War and Latvia's freedom struggle.

Life in Peru in the 1920s.

Campus Smiles uses a playful tone to document the faculty, student body, and life at UW-Madison during the early 1920s. This documentary short is a compelling chronicle of the local culture at one of the nation’s largest universities and offers a glimpse into...

Olli, the spoiled young heir of the Koivumäki manor, is separated from his family and brought to Sweden by his cousin. After running away to Finland, he ends up in an educational institution, from where he escapes with the help of his friend Ränni Pelle and re...

A short portrait.

A bandit group is fighting to help the poor.