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| 1915 |
| | | D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin makes The Tramp, giving prominence to the famous character he launched the previous year in Kid Auto Races at Venice | |
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| 1916 |
| | | In his ground-breaking film Intolerance D.W. Griffith intercuts four parallel stories from different historical periods | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd adopts the glasses and the straw hat that become his familiar props | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Comedian Buster Keaton makes his first appearance in a film, The Butcher Boy | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Lillian Gish stars as a Cockney girl in D.W. Griffith's inter-racial film romance Broken Blossoms, set in London's slums | |
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| 1919 |
| | | The actors Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin establish United Artists with the director D.W. Griffith | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Douglas Fairbanks makes the first of his swashbuckling adventure movies, The Mark of Zorro | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is a Hollywood sensation after a three-year affair | |
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