List of science fiction films of the 1920s explained

A list of science fiction films released in the 1920s. These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely available with reviews by reputable critics or film historians.

List

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
Algol	Hans Werckmeister		Germany
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	J. Charles Haydon	Sheldon Lewis	United States
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	John S. Robertson	John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Charles Willis Lane, Nita Naldi	United States
Figures of the Night	Richard Oswald	Paul Wegener, Reinhold Schünzel, Conrad Veidt	Germany
The Invisible Ray	Harry A. Pollard	Ruth Clifford, Jack Sherrill, Sidney Bracey	United States	Serial film, lost film
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
Die Blitzzentrale	Valy Arnheim	Valy Arnheim, Victor Colani	Germany
The Mechanical Man	Andre Deed	Gabriel Moreau, Valentina Frascaroli, Fernando Vivas-May	Italy
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
The Man from Beyond	Burton L. King	Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly	United States	^[1]
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
Black Oxen	Frank Lloyd		United States
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
Aelita	Yakov Protazanov		Soviet Union
The Hands of Orlac	Robert Wiene	Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner, Carmen Cartellieri	Austria
Interplanetary Revolution	Nikolay Khodatayev, Zenon Komissarenko, Yuriy Merkulov		Soviet Union	Animated short film. Russian title: Межпланетная революция, tr. Mezhplanetnaya revolyutsiya^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]
L'Inhumaine	Marcel L'Herbier		France
The Last Man on Earth	John G. Blystone	Buck Black, Maurice Murphy, William Steele	United States
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
The Lost World	Harry Hoyt	Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett	United States
Luch Smerti	Lev Kuleshov	Porfiri Podobed, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Aleksandra Khokhlova	Soviet Union	^[7] ^[8]
Paris Qui Dort	René Clair		France	Sci-Fi Comedy
The Power God	Francis Ford, Ben F. Wilson	Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, Mary Crane	United States	Serial film^[9] ^[10]
Wunder Der Schöpfung	Hanns Walter Kornblum	Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos, Oscar Marion	Germany	^[11]
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
Metropolis	Fritz Lang	Alfred Abel, Gustav Froehlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Theodor Loos	Germany
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
Alraune	Henrik Galeen	Brigitte Helm	Germany
colspan="7" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9"
High Treason	Maurice Elvey	Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Jameson Thomas, Milton Rosmer		^[12]
The Mysterious Island	Lucien Hubbard	Lionel Barrymore, Jane Daly, Lloyd Hughes	United States
Woman in the Moon	Fritz Lang	Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Fritz Rasp	Germany

See also

• History of science fiction films

External links

• Science fiction films of the 1920s on Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Book: Weldon, Michael . 1996 . The Psychotronic Video Guide . 351 . Macmillan . 0-312-13149-6 .
2. Web site: Cima . Alessandro . Interplanetary Revolution – 1924 Soviet Animation . Candlelight Stories . 10 January 2011 . 2 November 2021.
3. Web site: Nikolai Khodataev: Interplanetary Revolution . HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN ANIMATION . 25 May 2012 . 2 November 2021.
4. Web site: Crow . Jonathan . Watch Interplanetary Revolution (1924): The Most Bizarre Soviet Animated Propaganda Film You'll Ever See . Open Culture . 2 November 2021.
5. Web site: Soviet dreams of the future, part 2. Now with sepulki . Geeks World . 2 November 2021.
6. Web site: Interplanetary Revolution . Letterboxd . 2 November 2021.
7. Book: Gillespie , David C. . Wallflower Press . 2000 . Early Soviet Cinema: Innovation, Ideology and Propaganda . 30 - 31 . 1-903364-04-3.
8. Book: Telotte, J. P. . 1999 . A Distant Technology: Science Fiction Film and the Machine Age . Wesleyan University Press . 35 - 36 . 0819563463 .
9. Book: Rainey, Buck . 1990 . Those Fabulous Serial Heroines: their lives and films . Scarecrow Press . 0-8108-1911-2 . 53.
10. Book: Benson, Michael . 1985 . Vintage Science Fiction Films, 1896-1949 . McFarland . 0-89950-085-4 . 90 . registration .
11. Web site: Wunder der Schöpfung. Edition Filmmuseum. 15 May 2009.
12. Web site: Hal . Erickson . High Treason (1929) . https://web.archive.org/web/20121021181031/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/95183/High-Treason/overview . dead . 2012-10-21 . Movies & TV Dept. . . Hal Erickson (author) . 2012 . 2009-06-07 .