Best American Motion Picture of the Year 1920
*Among surviving American films of the year 1920
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- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRichard BarthelmessMrs. David LandauA naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
- DirectorWallace WorsleyStarsCharles ClaryDoris PawnJim MasonA deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsJohn BarrymoreMartha MansfieldBrandon HurstDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsRussell SimpsonJim MasonHelene ChadwickOn board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.
- DirectorFred NibloStarsDouglas FairbanksMarguerite De La MotteNoah BeeryA seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsF.A. TurnerHarry ToddBobby KelsoA lonely old riverboat man is left a child by a dying mother. The old man and the boy grow to love each other. The village snoop feels that the boy would be better off in an orphanage, and the sheriff is sent to try to take him away.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsBuck JonesHelen FergusonGeorgie StoneSmall-town tramp befriends runaway boy.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsLewis SargentErnest Butterworth Jr.Clyde FillmoreThe story of an orphan boy who, due to the cruelty of others, is drawn into a life of sin on the streets prior to the redemption of a caring foster family.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsGaston GlassVera GordonAlma RubensThe matriarch of a poor Jewish family nurtures her talented son's dream of being a great violinist, but as an adult, global events call for him to postpone his dream.
- DirectorJ. Parker Read Jr.StarsHobart BosworthRowland V. LeeJean CalhounWealthy contractor J. C. MacNeir becomes greatly attached to young French engineer Jean Saval, whom he meets during the course of one of the drunken sprees in which he indulges between jobs. After a night spent in cheap lodgings, MacNeir offers Saval employment and they both start on a construction job in Chinook where the Frenchman falls in love with Sylvia Harris. Soon after, he is called to defend France during World War I, but before leaving extracts a promise from MacNeir to look after Sylvia. When word comes of Saval's death, and Sylvia discovers that she is pregnant, MacNeir offers to marry her. Four years later, Saval returns after his release from a German prisoner-of-war camp and accuses his friend of treachery. MacNeir finally convinces the Frenchman that he has only acted as Sylvia's guardian. It is then left to Sylvia to choose her husband, and she picks Saval, leaving MacNeir to accept defeat gracefully.