A list of adventure films released in the 1920s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | ||||||
| The Deerslayer and Chingachgook | Arthur Wellin | Emil Mamelok, Béla Lugosi | ||||
| The Mark of Zorro | Fred Niblo | Douglas Fairbanks | Swashbuckler | |||
| Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship | Fritz Lang | Lil Dagover, Carl de Vogt, Georg John, Ressel Orla | serial, spies | |||
| The Last Of The Mohicans | Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown | Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall | ||||
| Terror Island | James Cruze | Harry Houdini, Jack Brammall, Lila Lee, Wilton Taylor | Tropical island, submarine | |||
| 1921 | ||||||
| The Indian Tomb | Joe May | Lil Dagover, Conrad Veidt, Lya De Putti, Paul Richter, Olaf Fønss | ||||
| The Big Adventure | B. Reeves Eason | B. Reeves Eason Jr., Fred Herzog, Gertrude Olmstead, Molly Shafer, Lee Shumway | Adventure | |||
| The Three Musketeers | Fred Niblo | Douglas Fairbanks | Swashbuckler | |||
| 1922 | ||||||
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Rex Ingram | Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson | Swashbuckler | |||
| Robin Hood | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse | Swashbuckler, Romantic adventure | |||
| Man from Beyond | Burton King | Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly | ||||
| Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | Allakariallak (Nanook), Nyla, Cunayou | cinema verité | |||
| 1923 | ||||||
| Scaramouche | Rex Ingram | Lloyd Ingraham, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro | swashbuckler | |||
| 1924 | ||||||
| Aelita: Queen Of Mars | Yakov Protazanov | Nikolai Batalov, Varvara Massalitinova, Yuliya Solntseva, Mikhail Zharov | Fantasy adventure | |||
| Captain Blood | David Smith | J. Warren Kerrigan, Jean Paige | swashbuckler | |||
| Die Nibelungen | Fritz Lang | Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph | Fantasy adventure | |||
| Sea Hawk | Frank Lloyd | Milton Sills, Enid Bennett | Swashbuckler | |||
| The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston, Anna May Wong | Fantasy adventure | |||
| The Navigator | Buster Keaton | Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire | desert island, ship board adventure | |||
| 1925 | ||||||
| Adventure | Victor Fleming | Tom Moore, Pauline Starke, Wallace Beery | ||||
| Ben Hur | Fred Niblo | Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson | ||||
| Don Q, Son of Zorro | Donald Crisp | Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Jack McDonald | Swashbuckler | |||
| The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray | Adventure comedy | |||
| Grass | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan | Documentary | |||
| The Lost World | Harry Hoyt, Lewis Stone | Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery | ||||
| 1926 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Prince Achmed | Lotte Reiniger | animated Arabian Nights | ||||
| Beau Geste | Herbert Brenon | Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce | War adventure | |||
| The Black Pirate | Albert Parker | Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Piggott | Swashbuckler | |||
| Cruise of the Jasper B | James W. Horne | Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris, Snitz Edwards | Swashbuckler | |||
| Holy Mountain | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker | mountaineering adventure | |||
| The Sea Beast | Millard Webb | John Barrymore, Dolores Costello | sea adventure | |||
| 1927 | ||||||
| Chang | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Kru, Chantui, Nah | Documentary | |||
| Tarzan and the Golden Lion | J. P. McGowan | James Pierce, Edna Murphy | Jungle adventure | |||
| 1928 | ||||||
| The Trail of '98 | Clarence Brown | Dolores Del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Harry Carey, Karl Dane | Adventure drama | |||
| Beau Sabreur | John S. Waters | Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Noah Beery | Adventure drama | |||
| 1929 | ||||||
| The Iron Mask | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Nigel de Brulier, Marguerite de la Motte | ||||
| The King of the Kongo | Richard Thorpe | Larry Steers, Richard R. Neill, Harry Todd | Secret Service agent | |||
| Noah's Ark | Michael Curtiz | George O'Brien, Dolores Costello | Flood | |||
| Woman in the Moon | Fritz Lang | Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch | space race | |||
| The White Hell of Pitz Palu | Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl | mountaineering adventure | |||
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