1920s Movies

Released in 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

The story of the Bugattis of Milan and Molsheim, the eccentric family behind the brand: Carlo, the patriarch and furniture designer; Rembrandt, the...

A chronicle of alleged ghosts, haunted landmarks and the otherworldly doings of Tinseltown, including a cursed script and haunted homes of the stars....

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Charlie, an ambitious young man, must go out of his comfort form to seduce Virginia and eventually earn her trust and heart.

In 1926 Vida, a simple, young Slovenian woman leaves fascist Italy due of poverty. She emigrates as a wet nurse to Alexandria in Egypt to support her...

When the communists decide to renovate the city and try to demolish a badly positioned church, the religious citizens decide to fight for what is...

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several...

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

Released in November of 1920. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The story of two women, a mother and her daughter, who during the Cristero War set traps for government soldiers passing by their house, using...

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

Released in 1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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...

The ascent of the Zinalrothorn filmed by Frederick Burlingham in September 1916. Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinematographed the...

A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in...

A film that evokes the period between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929. For some, it was the golden age of pleasure...