Films and TV Shows from the 1920s

poster Kino Eye
Kino Eye
(3.5/5)
78mn - Documentary
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand …
poster Red Devils
Red Devils
(3/5)
85mn - Adventure, Drama, Action
Adventures of three Red Army soldiers. Misha, Duniasha and Tom Jackson, an afro-American boy, are fighting against enemies.
poster Polikushka
Polikushka
(3.5/5)
50mn - Drama
"Polikushka" was the only film directed by Aleksandr Sanin, one of Moscow Art Academic Theatre's founders, and is based on Lev Tolstoy's homonym short story. In spite the many differences between the lite…
poster A Spectre Haunts Europe
A Spectre Haunts Europe
70mn - Drama
Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been ban…
poster A Dangerous Woman
A Dangerous Woman
(2.7/5)
80mn - Drama, Crime
The commissioner of an African outpost lives with a woman who drives the white men to their deaths with her seductive ways. The commissioner learns that his brother will be his next assistant, and the wom…
poster America
America
(3.2/5)
141mn - Drama, History, Action
The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
poster Back Pay
Back Pay
(3.3/5)
90mn - Drama
Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life.…
poster Boxing Gloves
Boxing Gloves
(3.4/5)
17mn - Comedy, Family
The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actually mix it up. Harry and Farina notice a rivalry between two very large young kids, Joe and Chubby, that …
poster Butter Fingers
Butter Fingers
(3.0/5)
16mn - Comedy
The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
poster Captain Blood
Captain Blood
(3.2/5)
110mn - War, Action, Adventure
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Span…
poster A Scarlet Angel
A Scarlet Angel
(3.4/5)
77mn - Crime, Romance, Drama
The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all the lights out. In the confusion that arises one of the …
poster All Dolled Up
All Dolled Up
(3.0/5)
50mn - Comedy, Drama
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prev…
poster Dynamite Smith
Dynamite Smith
70mn - Drama
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer purs…
poster Flesh and Blood
Flesh and Blood
(3.1/5)
74mn -
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
poster Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
(2.8/5)
12mn - Comedy, Drama
Fulta Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's known to be the "property" of S…
poster Isn't Life Wonderful
Isn't Life Wonderful
(3.4/5)
115mn - Drama, Romance
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has o…
poster J-U-N-K
J-U-N-K
(2.7/5)
24mn -
A Hank Mann slapstick comedy where he plays a Junk Dealer's Helper.
poster The Ancient Law
The Ancient Law
(3.6/5)
128mn - Drama
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
poster Lazy Days
Lazy Days
(3.2/5)
20mn - Comedy, Family
While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.
poster Le ménage moderne du Madame Butterfly
Le ménage moderne du Madame Butterfly
(3.5/5)
7mn - Romance
Le Ménage moderne du Madame Butterfly is a bisexual, hardcore pornographic film from France. It is notable for being the earliest known adult film to incorporate bisexual and homosexual intercourse. It in…