233 Films & TV Shows Set In United States of America During The 1920s
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Passing
Illinois The 1920sNothing is black and white. — In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
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12 Mighty Orphans
Texas The 1930s The 1920sBased on the true story of the team that inspired a nation. — Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
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Radium Girls
New Jersey The 1920sYoung women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
California Louisiana England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇳 China Africa - General The 1960s The 1920s The 2020s The 2030s The 2060s The 18th CenturyThe future awaits — Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends—to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Illinois The 1920sIt would be an empty world without the blues. — Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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The Chaperone
New York The 1920sOne trip can change everything — In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.
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The Great Alaskan Race
Alaska The 1920sThe amazing true story of Togo and Balto — In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.
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Sister Aimee
California Sonora The 1920sIn 1926 America’s most famous evangelist is a woman. And she’s looking for a way out. Fed up with her own success, she gets swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico and finds herself on a wild road trip towards the border. Based on true events. Mostly made up.
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Togo
Alaska The 1920s The 1910sThe Untold True Story — The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
New York Scotland England 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria The 1920sFate of One. Future of All. — Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
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The Lover in the Attic: A True Story
California Wisconsin The 1930s The 1920sThis is the lurid, true story about femme fatale Dolly, her murdered husband, and her lover, Otto -- the man in the attic. In the 1930s, Dolly met and seduced her repairman Otto... but she was already married to successful business man Fred.
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Wonderstruck
Minnesota New Jersey The 1970s The 1920sIt's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. — The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Massachusetts New York The 1940s The 1920s The 1930sEver wonder? — The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
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Hello Again
New York The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 2000s The 2010sA Musical Love Affair Spinning Through Time — Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's celebrated musical, originally based on Arthur Schnitzler's play, La Ronde.
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1922
Nebraska The 1930s The 1920sA simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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