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Barefoot at Dawn
Quebec The 1920s1927: Felix' last year with his family before attending a private college in the fall. Accompanied by Fidor, his faithful friend, he will face adversity, love, death, and will embark on the path of adulthood.
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The Founding of an Army
The 1920sThe Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
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Firangi
The 1920sFirangi is a Hindi movie starring Kapil Sharma and Ishita Dutta in prominent roles. Set in 1920, it is a period drama directed by Rajeev Dhingra, with Kapil Sharma as the producer, forming part of the crew.
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Peaky Blinders: Series 4
England The 1920sIt is 1924, Tommy Shelby is caught in a dangerous web of international intrigue.
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Cable Girls: Season 1
🇪🇸 Spain The 1920sIn 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
New York The 1920sFrom J.K. Rowling's wizarding world. — In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
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Live by Night
Florida Massachusetts The 1920sWitness the price of the American Dream. — A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered on a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
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Genius
New York The 1930s The 1920sMax Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe. — New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
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The Light Between Oceans
Western Australia The 1920s The 1910s The 1940sLove demands everything — A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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On Wings of Eagles
Hebei Province Tianjin The 1920s The 1930sEric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
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The Age of Shadows
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1920sSet in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
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Hidden Figures
Virginia West Virginia Florida The 1960s The 1920sMeet the women you don't know, behind the mission you do. — The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
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The Hero
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920s The 1910s The 2010sAndrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.
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1920 London
England The 1920sFear strikes again. — Shivangi (Meera Chopra) lives in London with her husband Veer Singh. One day, he receives a gift from Rajasthan. From then, strange things happen with Veer and his condition deteriorates.
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Saka: The Martyrs of Nankana Sahib
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1920sBased on the 1921 Nankana Sahib massacre and the events that led up to it.
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Le Ride
🇫🇷 France The 1920sRetracing the 1928 Tour de France — In 1928 an under-resourced and untested team from New Zealand and Australia competed in what is considered to be the toughest sporting event in the world. Many considered the entry of these courageous underdogs, racing as a team of 4 against teams of 10, a joke. One French journalist called their attempt nothing short of murder. 168 riders started the more than 3,500-mile race, only 41 finished. Surprisingly this remarkable story about the achievements of these brave athletes has never been told on film, until now. Phil Keoghan - television personality, adventurer and cycling enthusiast, retraces the 1928 Tour de France route, bringing history to life. Following the original course and schedule, riding a vintage bike, Phil and his team will average 150 miles a day for 22 stages.
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Ethel & Ernest
England The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sA true story. — This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
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Ishti
🇮🇳 India The 1930s The 1920sThe film focuses on a very conservative Namboodiri family in a very regressive social milieu. Ishti centres around two main characters, a 70-year-old Ramavikraman Namboodiri, who is a Vedic scholar who preserves the fire from a Somayagam to light his funeral pyre, and Sreedevi, his young, third wife. Sreedevi stands up against orthodoxy. She manages to inspire her husband’s son from another marriage to read and write. The conflict between these characters and those who revolve around their lives is what the film is generally about. It then also becomes a strong comment on the attempt to balance worldly desires and the rigidity of caste and tradition.
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Mirage d'amour avec fanfare
The 1920s1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love.
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Peaky Blinders: Series 3
England The 1920sThe action has moved on two years to 1924 and as Tommy starts married life he is more determined than ever to go legitimate and keep his family safe. But he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue more lethal than anything he has yet encountered.
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Queen of the Desert
England 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sOne woman can change the course of history — A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Walt Before Mickey
California The 1920sThe true story of a boy whose dreams built a kingdom — Based on the book "Walt Before Mickey" covers the early years of Walt Disney's career. The legendary Walt Disney had a tumultuous childhood, yet he was determined to overcome obstacles in his path, before the creation of his first iconic character: Mickey Mouse.
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The Sound and the Fury
Mississippi The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sMan is the sum of his misfortunes — A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
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The Dressmaker
🇦🇺 Australia The 1950s The 1920sRevenge is back in fashion — In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
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The Danish Girl
🇩🇰 Denmark 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 1920s The 1930sFind the courage to be yourself. — When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
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Thomas and Friends: The Adventure Begins
The 1920sAll aboard for Thomas' very first adventure! A little tank engine discovers a big new world when he arrives on the Island of Sodor. Escapades abound as Thomas explores his new home and meets some Really Useful new friends. Finding the true blue meaning of hard work and friendship, Thomas transforms into the Number 1 engine!
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Bessie
Tennessee The 1930s The 1920sSurvival began with a song — The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
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Nitrate Flames
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇫🇷 France The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sWhat ever happened to Dreyer's Joan of Arc? — French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the center of a tragic story and the obsession of a peculiar filmmaker: a unique opportunity, a sublime performance, so remarkable that nothing would ever be the same for her again…
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Marguerite
🇫🇷 France The 1920sParis in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
England The 1920sLove Knows No Boundaries — An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
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The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale
The 1920sIn 1925 Korea, Japanese rulers demand the last remaining tiger be killed. The tiger easily defeats his pursuers until a legendary hunter takes him on.
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Attabu 2
🇹🇼 Taiwan The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe film documents the rise and fall of the Wufeng Lin family in Wufeng, Taiwan over the turbulent years of Taiwan under the administrations of the Qing dynasty, Japan, and Republic of China.
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Downton Abbey: Series 6
England The 1920sOur time with the Crawleys draws to a close and we see what will finally become of them all. Secrets and rifts threaten the unity of the family, while those below stairs continue to navigate social changes which put their futures in jeopardy. Will Mary choose the right path? Will her sister Edith finally get a break?! Will Carson and Mrs Hughes actually make it up the aisle? And will Anna and Bates overcome the many hurdles that have been set before them?
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Serena
North Carolina The 1930s The 1920sSome loves can never let go. — North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.
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The Imitation Game
England The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe true enigma was the man who cracked the code. — Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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Magic in the Moonlight
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1920sSet in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
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Watchers of the Sky
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇼 Rwanda 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇸🇾 Syria The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1990s The 1940sFive interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
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As Dreamers Do
California Kansas The 1920sThe Man Behind The Mouse — The early life of Walt Disney is explored in this family film with an art house twist. Though his reality was often dark, it was skewed by his ever growing imagination and eternal optimism.
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Kaaviya Thalaivan
The 1920sEpic Hero — The two best disciples of Sivadas Swamigal, the earnest owner of a Drama school, are by design pitted against each other by the guru himself and this create multiple calamities ending in the duo's separation. Years pass by as one finds a good holding and the other wobbles away as a drunk loser only for them to cross paths again when the ongoing Indian Independence Movement gives another chance for the tables to turn!
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Sunstroke
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920s The 1900sIn a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame.
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Gone with the Bullets
Shanghai The 1920sSet in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanyan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets into motion a series of tragic events that change their destinies.
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A Nightingale Falling
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sWhen love is at war. — Set against a backdrop of a turbulent, war-torn Ireland in the early 1920’s, this is a story of three people and the unfolding events from a crucial time in their extradionary and tragic lives.
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Peaky Blinders: Series 2
England The 1920sAs the 1920s begin to roar, business is booming for the Peaky Blinders gang. Shelby sets his sights on wider horizons and his meteoric rise brings him into contact with both the upper echelons of society and astonishing new adversaries from London’s criminal world. All will test him to the core, though in very different ways. Meanwhile, Shelby’s home turf faces new challenges as an enemy from his past returns to the city with plans for a revenge of biblical proportions.
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Downton Abbey: Series 5
England The 1920sSeason 5 finds the Crawley family and the staff struggling with responsibilities and choices as they adjust to life in the Roaring Twenties. A new Labour government heralds changes that are being felt throughout the land, and Robert, Mary and Branson together must navigate these shifting sands to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he can’t help questioning his place in this world. Mary is finally coming to accept that she would like to marry again, but will she ever be able to find the same happiness that she had with Matthew? Meanwhile with still no news of her beloved Gregson, Edith suffers under the burden of her terrible secret. Downstairs, the servants are starting to consider what effect social changes may have on their working lives. While Daisy’s mind is opened to new possibilities, Mrs Patmore views such new and uncertain paths with trepidation. Anna and Bates have weathered many storms and are finally starting to plan their future. But with so much painful history, will they ever be able to completely move on, or will past secrets once again threaten their chance of ever finding happiness?
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The Great Gatsby
New York The 1920sReserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope... I come to the admission that it has a limit. — An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
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The Butler
Alabama California Georgia Tennessee District of Columbia The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 2000sOne quiet voice can ignite a revolution. — A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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The Dance of Reality
🇨🇱 Chile The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1940s“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
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The Wind Rises
🇩🇪 Germany 🇯🇵 Japan The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sWe must live. — A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
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The Immigrant
New York The 1920s1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
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Teenage
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe birth of youth culture — Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.
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