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 Rainie's Black Bottom (2020)