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Top Ten Lists 1915-1929

1915-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

 


-- 1910s & 1920s --

#1: Sunrise (dir: F.W. Murnau)
#2: The Crowd (dir: King Vidor)
#3: Greed (dir: Erich von Stroheim)
#4: The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
#5: Potemkin (dir: Sergei Eisenstein)
#6: The Wind (dir: Victor Seastrom)
#7: The Big Parade (dir: King Vidor)
#8: The Birth of a Nation (dir: D.W. Griffith)
#9: Metropolis (dir: Fritz Lang)
#10: Nosferatu (dir: F.W. Murnau)
#11: The General (dir: Buster Keaton)
#12: Intolerance (dir: D.W. Griffith)
#13: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir: Robert Wiene)
#14: The Lodger (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#15: Pandora's Box (dir: G.W. Pabst)
#16: Sherlock, Jr. (dir: Buster Keaton)
#17: The Gold Rush (dir: Charles Chaplin)
#18: The Navigator (dir: Buster Keaton)
#19: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (dir: Rex Ingram)
#20: Blackmail (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#21: A Tale of Two Cities (dir: Frank Lloyd)
#22: La Boheme (dir: King Vidor)
#23: The Cameraman (dir: Edward Sedgwick)
#24: Steamboat Bill, Jr. (dir: Charles S. Riesner)
#25: College (dir: James W. Horne)

 


-- 1929 --

#1:  Blackmail (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#2:  Disraeli (dir: Alfred E. Green)
#3:  The Kiss (dir: Jacques Feyder)
#4:  The Manxman (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#5:  Wild Orchids (dir: Sidney Franklin)

 

-- 1928 --

#1:  The Crowd (dir: King Vidor)
#2:  The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer)
#3:  The Wind (dir: Victor Seastrom)
#4:  Pandora's Box (dir: G.W. Pabst)
#5:  The Cameraman (dir: Edward Sedgwick)

 

-- 1927 --

#1:  Sunrise (dir: F.W. Murnau)
#2:  The General (dir: Buster Keaton)
#3:  College (dir: James W. Horne)
#4:  Easy Virtue (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#5:  The Ring (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

 

-- 1926 --

#1:  Metropolis (dir: Fritz Lang)
#2:  The Lodger (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)
#3:  La Boheme (dir: King Vidor)
#4:  Ben-Hur (dir: Fred Niblo)
#5:  Don Juan (dir: Alan Crosland)

 

-- 1925 --

#1:  Greed (dir: Erich von Stroheim)
#2:  Potemkin (dir: Sergei Eisenstein)
#3:  The Big Parade (dir: King Vidor)
#4:  The Gold Rush (dir: Charles Chaplin)
#5:  The Phantom of the Opera (dir: Rupert Julian)

 

-- 1920-1924 --

#1:  Nosferatu (dir: F.W. Murnau)
#2:  Sherlock, Jr. (dir: Buster Keaton)
#3:  The Navigator (dir: Buster Keaton)
#4:  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (dir: Rex Ingram)
#5:  The Ten Commandments (dir: Cecil B. DeMille)

 

-- 1915-1919 --

#1:  The Birth of a Nation (dir: D.W. Griffith)
#2:  Intolerance (dir: D.W. Griffith)
#3:  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir: Robert Wiene)
#4:  A Tale of Two Cities(dir: Frank Lloyd)
#5:  Tarzan of the Apes (dir: Scott Sidney)

 


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David Perry
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