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The 1920s have been a popular decade for nostalgic Hollywood films.^[1]^[2] 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)
Chiefs (miniseries) 1920s to 1930s)
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)
Chiefs (miniseries) 1940s
Edison the Man (1940)
Happy Land (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Old Acquaintance (1943)
The Great Gatsby (1949)
The Jolson Story (1946)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
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)
Chiefs (miniseries) 1950s
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)
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Quiet Man (1952)
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
Show Boat (1951)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Valentino (1951)

1960s

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)
W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
Valentino (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)
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 (2010-2015)
Downton Abbey (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)

References

^ Tropiano, Stephen (2006). Rebels & chicks: A history of the Hollywood teen movie. New York: Back Stage. p. 114. ISBN 0823097013.
^ Bednar, Joseph (June 3, 2013). "Right-brain Financial Analysis". Business West. Retrieved June 7, 2024 – via EBSCOHost.

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