# List of adventure films before 1920

A list of adventure films released before the 1920s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
| 1900 |||||
| Attack on a China Mission | James Williamson | | United Kingdom | Short film |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Clément Maurice | Benoît-Constant Coquelin | France | Short film |
| 1907 |||||
| Fanfan la Tulipe | Alice Guy-Blaché | | France | Short film |
| The Fencing Master | | | United States | Short film |
| Løvejagten | Viggo Larsen | Viggo Larsen, Knud Lumbye | Denmark | Short film |
| 1908 |||||
| The Pirate's Gold | D. W. Griffith | George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson | United States | Short film, pirate film |
| 1909 |||||
| I tre moschettieri | Mario Caserini | Maria Caserini | Italy | Short film |
| 1911 |||||
| L'Odissea | Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan | Giuseppe de Liguoro | Italy | |
| 1912 |||||
| Robin Hood | Étienne Arnaud, Herbert Blaché | Robert Frazer, Barbara Tennant, Alec B. Francis | United States | |
| Les Trois Mousquetaires | André Calmettes, Henri Pouctal | Émile Dehelly, Marcel Vibert, Nelly Cormon, Jean Peyrière | France | |
| 1913 |||||
| The Adventures of Kathlyn | Francis J. Grandon | Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Charles Clary | United States | Serial |
| Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola | Marcel Fabre | Marcel Fabre | Italy | Science fiction adventure, adventure comedy |
| Hussein il pirata [it] | Gennaro Righelli | Gennaro Righelli | Italy | |
| Ivanhoe | Herbert Brenon | King Baggot, Leah Baird, Herbert Brenon | United States | |
| Ivanhoe | Leedham Bantock | Lauderdale Maitland | United Kingdom | |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford | James K. Hackett, Beatrice Beckley, David Torrence | United States | |
| The Sea Wolf | Hobart Bosworth | Hobart Bosworth, Herbert Rawlinson, Viola Barry | United States | Sea adventure |
| Thor, Lord of the Jungle | Colin Campbell | Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Charles Clary | United States | |
| 1914 |||||
| Cabiria | Giovanni Pastrone | Lidia Quaranta, Umberto Mozzato, Bartolomeo Pagano, Italia Almirante Manzini | Italy | Epic adventure |
| The Hazards of Helen | J.P. McGowan, James Davis | Helen Holmes, Helen Gibson | United States | Railroad adventure. (serial - continued until 1917). |
| The Last Chapter | William Desmond Taylor | Carlyle Blackwell | United States | |
| McVeagh of the South Seas | Cyril Bruce, Harry Carey | Harry Carey, Fern Foster | United States | South sea adventure |
| The Pride of Jennico | J. Searle Dawley | House Peters | United States | |
| Soldiers of Fortune | William F. Haddock | Dustin Farnum | United States | |
| The Spoilers | Colin Campbell | William Farnum | United States | |
| Zapata's Gang | Urban Gad | Asta Nielsen | German Empire | Adventure comedy |
| 1915 |||||
| Brigadier Gerard | Bert Haldane | Lewis Waller | United Kingdom | |
| Captain Macklin | John B. O'Brien | Jack Conway, Lillian Gish | United States | |
| The Dictator | Oscar Eagle | John Barrymore | United States | Adventure comedy |
| The Explorer | George Melford | Lou Tellegen | United States | |
| Filibus | Mario Roncoroni | Cristina Ruspoli | Italy | |
| Hearts and the Highway | Wilfrid North | Lillian Walker | United States | |
| Peer Gynt | Oscar Apfel, Raoul Walsh | Cyril Maude | United States | |
| Under the Crescent | Burton L. King | Ola Humphrey, William C. Dowlan, Edward Sloman | United States | Serial, romantic adventure |
| Under the Red Robe | Wilfred Noy | Owen Roughwood | United Kingdom | |
| 1916 |||||
| 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea | Stuart Paton | Lois Alexander, Curtis Benton, Wallace Clarke | United States | |
| American Aristocracy | Lloyd Ingraham | Douglas Fairbanks | United States | |
| Beau Brocade | Thomas Bentley | Mercy Hatton, Charles Rock, Austin Leigh | United Kingdom | |
| The Beggar of Cawnpore | Charles Swickard | H. B. Warner, Lola May | United States | |
| Bullets and Brown Eyes | Scott Sidney | William Desmond, Bessie Barriscale | United States | |
| Daphne and the Pirate | Christy Cabanne | Lillian Gish | United States | Pirate film |
| The Three Musketeers | Charles Swickard | Orrin Johnson | United States | |
| To Have and to Hold | George Melford | Mae Murray, Wallace Reid | United States | |
| Under Two Flags | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes | United States | |
| Unter heißer Zone | Harry Piel | Mogens Enger, Martha Novelly, Preben J. Rist, Victor Janson | German Empire | |
| 1917 |||||
| The Lad and the Lion | Alfred E. Green | Vivian Reed, Will Machin, Charles Le Moyne | United States | |
| The Laughing Cavalier | A. V. Bramble, Eliot Stannard | Mercy Hatton, George Bellamy, Edward O'Neill, A.V. Bramble | United Kingdom | |
| The Man Without a Country | Ernest C. Warde | Florence La Badie, Holmes Herbert, J.H. Gilmour | United States | |
| The Mystery Ship | Harry Harvey, Henry MacRae | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, Kingsley Benedict | United States | Serial |
| Tom Sawyer | William Desmond Taylor | Jack Pickford, Edythe Chapman, Helen Gilmore, Carl Goetz | United States | |
| When a Man Sees Red | Frank Lloyd | William Farnum | United States | Sea adventure |
| The White Terror | Harry Piel | Tilly Bébé, Bruno Eichgrün, Preben J. Rist | German Empire | |
| 1918 |||||
| Bound in Morocco | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks | United States | |
| The Claw | Robert G. Vignola | Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills, Jack Holt | United States | |
| Eye for Eye | Albert Capellani | Alla Nazimova | United States | |
| The Lion's Claws | Harry Harvey, Jacques Jaccard | Marie Walcamp | United States | Serial |
| The Mystery of Bangalore | Alexander Antalffy, Paul Leni | Conrad Veidt, Harry Liedtke, Gilda Langer | German Empire | |
| The Romance of Tarzan | Wilfred Lucas | Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey | United States | |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Scott Sidney | Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey | United States | First Tarzan film |
| The White Man's Law | James Young | Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Holt, Florence Vidor | United States | |
| 1919 |||||
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Richard Oswald | Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber, Reinhold Schünzel | Germany | |
| The Elusive Pimpernel | Maurice Elvey | Cecil Humphreys, Marie Blanche, Norman Page | United Kingdom | |
| The Jungle Trail | Richard Stanton | William Farnum | United States | |
| The Mistress of the World | Joe May | Mia May, Michael Bohnen, Henry Sze, Paul Hansen, Hans Mierendorff | Germany | Serial |
| The Perils of Thunder Mountain | Robert N. Bradbury, W. J. Burman | Antonio Moreno, Carol Holloway | United States | Serial |
| Soldiers of Fortune | Allan Dwan | Norman Kerry, Pauline Starke, Anna Q. Nilsson, Wallace Beery | United States | |
| Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake | Fritz Lang | Lil Dagover, Carl de Vogt, Georg John, Ressel Orla | Germany | |
| Vendetta | Georg Jacoby | Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke | Germany | |
| Victory | Maurice Tourneur | Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery | United States | |