This is a list of Canadian films which were released in the 1920s.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
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1920 | |||||
The Great Shadow | Anti-Red drama | [1] | |||
1921 | |||||
Cameron of the Royal Mounted | Gaston Glass, Vivienne Osborne, Irving Cummings | Drama | Produced by Ernest Shipman. A third of the original footage exists in the National Archives.[2] | ||
God's Crucible | Drama | Produced by Ernest Shipman.[3] | |||
1922 | |||||
Canadian Government Arctic Expedition of 1922 | |||||
Madeleine de Verchères | Drama | No print of this early Canadian film is known to exist.[4] | |||
The Man from Glengarry | Drama | Produced by Ernest Shipman. | |||
Nanook of the North | Allakariallak, Nyla, Cunayou, Allee | Documentary | Arguably the most famous film ever shot in Canada, Nanook of the North is technically not Canadian; although, in spirit it certainly is. The money to finance the film came from France. | ||
The Rapids | Drama | Produced by Ernest Shipman. | |||
1923 | |||||
Canadian Government Arctic Expedition of 1923 | [5] | ||||
Glengarry School Days | Drama | Produced by Ernest Shipman.[6] | |||
1924 | |||||
Blue Water | Drama | ||||
Canadian Government Arctic Expedition of 1924 | [7] | ||||
1925 | |||||
Canadian Government Arctic Expedition of 1925 | [8] | ||||
1926 | |||||
La Drogue fatale (also known as The Fatal Drug) | Drama | The film was released only in Quebec and no print is known to exist. Homier is regarded as the first Quebec director of feature films. | |||
1927 | |||||
Policing the Plains | A. D. Kean | Jack Boyd, Ira Boyd, Joe Fleiger, Dorothy Fowler, Senior Heaton, Margaret Lougheed. | Docudrama | Feature film about the history of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, based on the book of the same name by Rev. R. G. MacBeth. Filmed in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario, April 1924-September 1927. Lost.[9] | |
1928 | |||||
The Beaver People | Bill Oliver | Short | The first of several films featuring Archie Belaney, the Englishman who claimed First Nations heritage. The Grey Owl films were made during the late 1920s and 1930s for the National Parks of Canada.[10] | ||
Carry on, Sergeant! | Hugh Buckler, Jimmie Savo, Nancy Ann Hargreaves, | First World War drama | |||
His Destiny | Drama | The film features footage shot at the Calgary Stampede.[11] | |||
In the Shadow of the Pole | Documentary | [12] | |||
1929 | |||||
The Devil Bear | Horror/Drama | [13] |