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1920-1929
- Buster Keaton starred in several short Slapstick comedies, including:
- He also starred in several feature comedies, including
- Ditto Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin started to work at a slower pace in the 1920s, but he still starred in three feature films:
- and his last three comedic shorts:
- Harold Lloyd was more prolific than Chaplin and more popular than Keaton. His features and short films from this decade include:
1920
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari)
- The Daughter of Dawn
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Golem, How He Came into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam)
- Huckleberry Finn
- Humoresque
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Man from Kangaroo
- The Mark of Zorro
- Oliver Twist
- Romeo And Juliet In The Snow
- The Penalty
- Pollyanna
- Something New
- The Symbol of the Unconquered
- Way Down East
- Within Our Gates
- Wuthering Heights
1921
- The Ace of Hearts
- The Blot
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Leap Year
- Little Lord Fauntleroy
- The Love Light
- Miss Lulu Bett
- Orphans of the Storm
- The Phantom Carriage
- The Sheik
- The Three Musketeers — Douglas Fairbanks version
- Tol'able David
- The Wildcat
1922
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse der Spieler)
- Foolish Wives
- Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
- The Headless Horseman
- Nanook of the North
- Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror
- The Prisoner of Zenda (Lewis Stone version)
- Robin Hood
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sky High
- The Toll of the Sea
- When Knighthood Was in Flower
1923
- The Covered Wagon
- The Extra Girl
- Faithful Heart
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Little Old New York
- Rosita
- La Roue
- Salome
- Scaramouche
- Souls for Sale
- The Ten Commandments
- Warning Shadows
- Where the North Begins
- The White Sister
- A Woman of Paris
- Zaza
1924
- Aelita
- America
- The Chechahcos
- The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom
- The City Without Jews
- Dante's Inferno
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
- The Family Secret
- The Great White Silence
- Greed
- The Hands of Orlac
- He Who Gets Slapped
- The Iron Horse
- The Last Laugh
- Michael
- Die Nibelungen
- Peter Pan
- The Sea Hawk
- The Thief of Bagdad
- Waxworks
- Wild Oranges
1925
- The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin)
- Ben-Hur
- The Big Parade
- Body and Soul
- The Circle
- Clash of the Wolves
- Cobra
- The Eagle
- Grass
- Lady of the Night
- Lady Windermere's Fan
- Little Annie Rooney
- Lord Jim
- The Lost World
- Master of the House
- The Merry Widow
- Les Misérables
- The Monster
- Orochi
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Plastic Age
- The Pleasure Garden
- The Red Kimono
- Sally of the Sawdust
- Stage Struck
- Stella Dallas
- Strike
- Tartuffe
- Too Many Kisses
- Tumbleweeds
- The Unholy Three
- Variety
- The Wizard of Oz
1926
- 3 Bad Men
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed
- Beverly of Graustark
- The Blackbird
- The Black Pirate
- La Bohème - without the music!
- The Boob - yes, that's the title
- Don Juan
- Ella Cinders
- Exit Smiling
- Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
- Flesh and the Devil
- The Flying Ace
- The General
- Hands Up!
- The Johnstown Flood
- The Magician
- Mare Nostrum
- Miss Mend
- Mother
- A Page of Madness
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Son of the Sheik
- So's Your Old Man
- Sparrows
- The Strong Man
- Tell It to the Marines
- The Temptress
- Torrent
- What Price Glory
- The Winning of Barbara Worth
1927
- Annie Laurie
- The Cat and the Canary
- Chang
- Downhill
- Get Your Man
- It
- The Jazz Singer
- The Kid Brother
- The King of Kings
- The Lodger
- London After Midnight
- Love
- Metropolis
- Mockery
- Mr. Wu
- Napoleon
- Our Dancing Daughters
- The Red Mill
- The Ring
- The Scar of Shame
- 7th Heaven
- The Show
- Spring Fever
- Stark Love
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- Two Arabian Knights
- Underworld
- The Unknown
- Wings
1928
- Across to Singapore
- The Burning of Red Lotus Temple (Huo shao hong lian si)
- Champagne
- The Cossacks
- The Crowd
- The Docks of New York
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- In Old Arizona
- The Last Command
- Lights of New York
- Lonesome
- The Man Who Laughs
- The Mating Call
- The Mysterious Lady
- October
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc)
- The Patsy
- The Power of the Press
- The Racket
- Sadie Thompson
- Street Angel
- Show People
- Spies
- Storm Over Asia
- The Viking
- The Wedding March
- West of Zanzibar
- White Shadows in the South Seas
- The Wind
1929
- Alibi
- Applause
- Blackmail
- The Broadway Melody
- Bulldog Drummond
- The Cocoanuts
- Desert Nights
- Diary of a Lost Girl
- Disraeli
- Hallelujah!
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- The Iron Mask
- The Kiss
- The Letter
- Linda
- The Love Parade
- Lucky Star
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
- Marianne
- On with the Show!
- Our Modern Maidens
- The Pagan
- Pandora's Box
- Piccadilly
- Sally
- The Single Standard
- Sunny Side Up
- The Thirteenth Chair
- A Throw of Dice
- Weary River
- Where East Is East
- Why Be Good?
- Wild Orchids
- Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond)
The Silent Age Of Animation
- Alice Comedies
- Bobby Bumps (1920-25)
- "Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid"
- Classic Disney Shorts
- Dinky Doodle
- Felix the Cat
- Interplanetary Revolution
- Newman Laugh-O-Grams
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
- Out of the Inkwell
- Screen Songs — series debuts in 1929
- Talkartoons — series debuts in 1929
Notable Live-Action Shorts
- The Beau Brummels (1928)
- Black and Tan (1929)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- Entr'acte (1924)
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- Lambchops (1929)
- Laurel and Hardy started making comic short films in 1927
- The Battle of the Century (1927)
- Big Business (1929)
- Double Whoopee (1929)
- The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928)
- The Little Rascals aka Our Gang — silent shorts from 1922 to 1929, when they converted to sound. The series lasted until 1944.
- Manhatta
- Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
- Pass the Gravy (1928)
- The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
- La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922)
- St. Louis Blues (1929)
- A Straightforward Boy (1929)
- There It Is (1928)