| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1920 |
| The Deerslayer and Chingachgook |
Arthur Wellin |
Emil Mamelok, Béla Lugosi |
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| 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 Schoen, 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, William Dowling |
Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery |
|
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| 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 |
