# List of films and TV series set in the 1920s

The 1920s have been a popular decade for nostalgic Hollywood films. The following is a list of films and TV series set in the 1920s.

## 1930s

* Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
* Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
* The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
* The Blue Angel (1930)
* Boys Town (1938)
* The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
* I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
* The Informer (1935)
* It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
* The Key (1934)
* Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
* The Mummy (1932)
* Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
* The Public Enemy (1931)
* The Road Back (1937)
* The Roaring Twenties (1939)
* Scarface (1932)
* Show Boat (1936)
* Vanity Fair (1932)
* Viva Villa! (1934)

## 1940s

* Citizen Kane (1941)
* Edison the Man (1940)
* Happy Land (1943)
* Heaven Can Wait (1943)
* The Great Gatsby (1949)
* It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
* The Jolson Story (1946)
* The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
* The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
* Old Acquaintance (1943)
* One Foot in Heaven (1941)
* The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
* Random Harvest (1942)
* The Razor's Edge (1946)
* Roxie Hart (1942)
* The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
* The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
* Wilson (1944)
* Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

## 1950s

* Anastasia (1956)
* Auntie Mame (1958)
* Beau James (1957)
* The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
* Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
* The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
* Giant (1956)
* The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
* Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
* Houdini (1953)
* Jeanne Eagels (1957)
* Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
* The Quiet Man (1952)
* The Rising of the Moon (1957)
* Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
* Show Boat (1951)
* Singin' in the Rain (1952)
* Some Like It Hot (1959)
* The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
* The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
* Valentino (1951)
* The Wings of Eagles (1957)

## 1960s

* The Big Bankroll (1961)
* The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
* The Carpetbaggers (1964)
* The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
* Doctor Zhivago (1965)
* Elmer Gantry (1960)
* The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
* Funny Girl (1968)
* Gigot (1962)
* Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
* Inherit the Wind (1960)
* Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
* The Sand Pebbles (1966)
* Splendor in the Grass (1961)
* Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
* Tender is the Night (1962)
* Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
* The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
* The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

## 1970s

* 1900 (1976)
* The Boy Friend (1971)
* Caddie (1976)
* F for Fake (1974)
* The Front Page (1974)
* The Godfather Part II (1974)
* The Great Gatsby (1974)
* The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
* Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
* One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
* The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
* The Twelve Chairs (1970)
* Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-1975)
* Valentino (1977)
* W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
* The World's Greatest Lover (1977)

## 1980s

* Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-2013)
* American Pop (1981)
* Before Stonewall (1984)
* Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
* Brideshead Revisited (1981 TV serial)
* Chariots of Fire (1981)
* Chiefs (miniseries, 1983)
* The Color Purple (1985)
* Divinas palabras (1987)
* Doctor Faustus (1982)
* Gandhi (1982)
* The Last Emperor (1987)
* Matewan (1987)
* A Month in the Country (1987)
* Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
* The Natural (1984)
* Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
* Out of Africa (1985)
* A Passage to India (1984)
* Sahara (1983)
* Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
* Sunset (1988)
* The Untouchables (1987)
* Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989)
* Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981 TV serial)
* The Woman in Black (1989)
* Zelig (1983)

## 1990s

* The Babe (1992)
* Balto (1995)
* Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
* Chaplin (1992)
* A Chef in Love (1996)
* The Cider House Rules (1999)
* Enchanted April (1992)
* Evita (1996)
* Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
* Haunted (1995)
* The House of Eliott (1991-1994)
* The Legend of 1900 (1998)
* Legends of the Fall (1994)
* The Lover (1992)
* Malcolm X (1992)
* Michael Collins (1996)
* Miller's Crossing (1990)
* Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
* Nixon (1995)
* No Greater Love (1996)
* Porco Rosso (1992)
* RKO 281 (1999)
* Stalin (1992)
* Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
* Timecop (1994)
* The Wooden Man's Bride (1994)

## 2000s

* Admiral (2008)
* Agatha Christie's Marple (2004-2013)
* Al sur de Granada (2003)
* Amelia (2009)
* Anarchists (2000)
* The Aviator (2004)
* Balto II: Wolf Quest (2002)
* Balto III: Wings of Change (2004)
* Brideshead Revisited (2008 film)
* Bright Young Things (2003)
* The Cat's Meow (2001)
* Century Hotel (2001)
* Changeling (2008)
* Chicago (2002)
* Cinderella Man (2005)
* Coco Before Chanel (2009)
* Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
* The Fall (2006)
* Frida (2002)
* Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005)
* A Good Woman (2004)
* The Gray Man (2007)
* The Great Gatsby (2000)
* Head in the Clouds (2004)
* Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
* The Hours (2002)
* Leatherheads (2008)
* Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
* Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)
* Max (2002)
* Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
* Monster House (2006)
* The Princess and the Frog (2009)
* Sands of Oblivion (2007)
* Seabiscuit (2003)
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* The Tracker (2002)
* Two Brothers (2004)
* La Vie en rose (2007)
* Warm Springs (2005)
* The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

## 2010s

* Babylon Berlin (2017–)
* Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014)
* Cable Girls (2017-)
* The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
* The Danish Girl (2015)
* Derrière les murs (2011)
* Downton Abbey (series, 2010-2015)
* Downton Abbey (film, 2019)
* Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
* The Great Gatsby (2013)
* The King's Speech (2010)
* Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
* The Lost City of Z (2016)
* Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
* Midnight in Paris (2011)
* Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012-2015)
* The Nutcracker in 3D (2010)
* Panzram (2011)
* Peaky Blinders (2013-)

## 2020s

* Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)