List of adventure films before 1920
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A list of adventure films released before the 1920s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
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| 1900 | ||||||
| Attack on a China Mission | James Williamson | United Kingdom | Short film | |||
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Clément Maurice | Benoît-Constant Coquelin | France | Short film | ||
| 1907 | ||||||
| Alice Guy-Blaché | France | Short film | ||||
| United States | Short film[1] | |||||
| Løvejagten | Viggo Larsen | Viggo Larsen, Knud Lumbye | Denmark | Short film | ||
| 1908 | ||||||
| The Pirate's Gold | D. W. Griffith | George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson | United States | Short film, pirate film | ||
| 1909 | ||||||
| Mario Caserini | Maria Caserini | Italy | Short film | |||
| 1911 | ||||||
| L'Odissea | Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan | Giuseppe de Liguoro | Italy | |||
| 1912 | ||||||
| Robin Hood | Étienne Arnaud, Herbert Blaché | Robert Frazer, Barbara Tennant, Alec B. Francis | United States | |||
| André Calmettes, Henri Pouctal | , Marcel Vibert, Nelly Cormon, Jean Peyrière | France | ||||
| 1913 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Kathlyn | Francis J. Grandon | Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Charles Clary | United States | Serial | ||
| Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola | Marcel Fabre | Marcel Fabre | Italy | Science fiction adventure, adventure comedy | ||
| Gennaro Righelli | Gennaro Righelli | Italy | ||||
| Ivanhoe | Herbert Brenon | King Baggot, Leah Baird, Herbert Brenon | United States | |||
| Ivanhoe | Leedham Bantock | Lauderdale Maitland | United Kingdom | |||
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford | James K. Hackett, Beatrice Beckley, David Torrence | United States | |||
| The Sea Wolf | Hobart Bosworth | Hobart Bosworth, Herbert Rawlinson, Viola Barry | United States | Sea adventure | ||
| Colin Campbell | Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Charles Clary | United States | ||||
| 1914 | ||||||
| Cabiria | Giovanni Pastrone | Lidia Quaranta, , Bartolomeo Pagano, Italia Almirante Manzini | Italy | Epic adventure | ||
| The Hazards of Helen | J.P. McGowan, | Helen Holmes, Helen Gibson | United States | Railroad adventure. (serial - continued until 1917). | ||
| William Desmond Taylor | Carlyle Blackwell | United States | ||||
| McVeagh of the South Seas | , Harry Carey | Harry Carey, | United States | South sea adventure | ||
| The Pride of Jennico | J. Searle Dawley | House Peters | United States | |||
| William F. Haddock | Dustin Farnum | United States | ||||
| The Spoilers | Colin Campbell | William Farnum | United States | |||
| Zapata's Gang | Urban Gad | Asta Nielsen | German Empire | Adventure comedy | ||
| 1915 | ||||||
| Brigadier Gerard | Bert Haldane | Lewis Waller | United Kingdom | |||
| Captain Macklin | John B. O'Brien | Jack Conway, Lillian Gish | United States | |||
| The Dictator | Oscar Eagle | John Barrymore | United States | Adventure comedy | ||
| The Explorer | George Melford | Lou Tellegen | United States | |||
| Filibus | Mario Roncoroni | Cristina Ruspoli | Italy | |||
| Hearts and the Highway | Wilfrid North | Lillian Walker | United States | |||
| Peer Gynt | Oscar Apfel, Raoul Walsh | Cyril Maude | United States | |||
| Under the Crescent | Burton L. King | Ola Humphrey, William C. Dowlan, Edward Sloman | United States | Serial, romantic adventure | ||
| Under the Red Robe | Wilfred Noy | Owen Roughwood | United Kingdom | |||
| 1916 | ||||||
| 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea | Stuart Paton | , Curtis Benton, | United States | |||
| American Aristocracy | Lloyd Ingraham | Douglas Fairbanks | United States | |||
| Beau Brocade | Thomas Bentley | Mercy Hatton, Charles Rock, Austin Leigh | United Kingdom | |||
| The Beggar of Cawnpore | Charles Swickard | H. B. Warner, Lola May | United States | |||
| Scott Sidney | William Desmond, Bessie Barriscale | United States | ||||
| Daphne and the Pirate | Christy Cabanne | Lillian Gish | United States | Pirate film | ||
| The Three Musketeers | Charles Swickard | Orrin Johnson | United States | |||
| To Have and to Hold | George Melford | Mae Murray, Wallace Reid | United States | |||
| Under Two Flags | J. Gordon Edwards | Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes | United States | |||
| Harry Piel | , , , Victor Janson | German Empire | ||||
| 1917 | ||||||
| Alfred E. Green | Vivian Reed, Will Machin, Charles Le Moyne | United States | ||||
| The Laughing Cavalier | A. V. Bramble, Eliot Stannard | Mercy Hatton, George Bellamy, Edward O'Neill, A.V. Bramble | United Kingdom | |||
| The Man Without a Country | Ernest C. Warde | Florence La Badie, Holmes Herbert, J.H. Gilmour | United States | |||
| The Mystery Ship | Harry Harvey, Henry MacRae | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, Kingsley Benedict | United States | Serial | ||
| Tom Sawyer | William Desmond Taylor | Jack Pickford, Edythe Chapman, Helen Gilmore, Carl Goetz | United States | |||
| When a Man Sees Red | Frank Lloyd | William Farnum | United States | Sea adventure | ||
| The White Terror | Harry Piel | Tilly Bébé, Bruno Eichgrün, | German Empire | |||
| 1918 | ||||||
| Bound in Morocco | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks | United States | |||
| The Claw | Robert G. Vignola | Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills, Jack Holt | United States | |||
| Eye for Eye | Albert Capellani | Alla Nazimova | United States | |||
| The Lion's Claws | Harry Harvey, Jacques Jaccard | Marie Walcamp | United States | Serial | ||
| The Mystery of Bangalore | , Paul Leni | Conrad Veidt, Harry Liedtke, Gilda Langer | German Empire | |||
| The Romance of Tarzan | Wilfred Lucas | Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey | United States | |||
| Tarzan of the Apes | Scott Sidney | Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey | United States | First Tarzan film | ||
| The White Man's Law | James Young | Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Holt, Florence Vidor | United States | |||
| 1919 | ||||||
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Richard Oswald | Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber, Reinhold Schünzel | Germany | |||
| The Elusive Pimpernel | Maurice Elvey | Cecil Humphreys, Marie Blanche, Norman Page | United Kingdom | |||
| Richard Stanton | William Farnum | United States | ||||
| The Mistress of the World | Joe May | Mia May, Michael Bohnen, , Paul Hansen, Hans Mierendorff | Germany | Serial | ||
| Robert N. Bradbury, | Antonio Moreno, Carol Holloway | United States | Serial | |||
| Soldiers of Fortune | Allan Dwan | Norman Kerry, Pauline Starke, Anna Q. Nilsson, Wallace Beery | United States | |||
| Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake | Fritz Lang | Lil Dagover, Carl de Vogt, Georg John, Ressel Orla | Germany | |||
| Vendetta | Georg Jacoby | Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke | Germany | |||
| Victory | Maurice Tourneur | Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery | United States | |||
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