The Golden Twenties

The fabulous decade when we came of age!

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Robert Q. Lewis

Frederick Lewis Allen

Elmer Davis

Red Barber

Allen Prescott

John Barrymore

(Self (archive footage))

Irving Berlin

(Self (archive footage))

William Jennings Bryan

(Self (archive footage))

Billie Burke

(Self (archive footage))

Vilma Banky

(Self (archive footage))

Al Capone

(Self (archive footage))

Enrico Caruso

(Self (archive footage))

Irene Castle

(Self (archive footage))

Charlie Chaplin

((archive footage))

Joseph Conrad

(Self (archive footage))

Calvin Coolidge

(Self (archive footage))

Dolores Costello

(Self (archive footage))

Clarence Darrow

(Self (archive footage))

Jack Dempsey

(Self (archive footage))

Thomas A. Edison

(Self (archive footage))

Douglas Fairbanks

(Self (archive footage))

George Gershwin

(Self (archive footage))

Texas Guinan

(Self (archive footage))

Warren G. Harding

(Self (archive footage))

Herbert Hoover

(Self (archive footage))

Harry Houdini

(Self (archive footage))

Al Jolson

(Self (archive footage))

Harry Lauder

(Self (archive footage))

Pola Negri

(Self (archive footage))

Sergei Rachmaninoff

(Self (archive footage))

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Self (archive footage))

Lillian Case Russell

(Self (archive footage))

Babe Ruth

(Self (archive footage))

Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink

(Self (archive footage))

Gloria Swanson

(Self (archive footage))

Marion Talley

(Self (archive footage))

Rudolph Valentino

(Self (archive footage))

Rudy Vallee

(Self (archive footage))

Johnny Weissmüller

(Self (archive footage))

Paul Whiteman

(Self (archive footage))

Woodrow Wilson

(Self (archive footage))

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

Adolph Zukor

(Self (archive footage))