List of Films Based On Actual Events - 1920s

1920s

• The Battleship Potemkin (1925) — Sergei Eisenstein's classic silent film based on a mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime.
• The Johnstown Flood (1926)
• Chicago (1927) — Phyllis Haver plays Roxie Hart in this silent film based on the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, inspired by the stories of jazz babies on death row Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan.
• The General (1927) — Silent film chronicling the 1862 theft of a railroad locomotive and its recovery by an overlooked "little guy."
• Napoléon (1927) — Sweeping French epic tells the tale of Bonaparte.