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Tag Archives: 1920s
Moana (1926) Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty, Ta’avale, Fa’amgase, T’ugaita

Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s. Read More »
The Belle of Broadway (1926) Harry O. Hoyt, Betty Compson, Herbert Rawlinson, Edith Murgatroyd

Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. Read More »
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (1920) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John

Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation “Die Spinnen” to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia Read More »
Our Hospitality (1923) John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton

After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family Read More »
Strike (1925) Sergei M. Eisenstein

In Russia’s factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers Read More »
By the law (1926) Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel

A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success Read More »
L’Argent (1928) Marcel L’Herbier, Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Yvette Guilbert

The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. Read More »
You Never Know Women (1926) William A. Wellman, Florence Vidor, Lowell Sherman, Clive Brook

You Never Know Women is a thrilling romance that constructs a combustible love triangle between a Russian dancer Read More »
Napoleon (1927) Abel Gance, Albert Dieudonné

A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays Read More »