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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
38 Metropolis 1927 Lang, Fritz Germany DUPS
49 Nosferatu 1922 Murnau, F.W. Germany DU
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
77 Sunrise 1927 Murnau, F.W. USA D
95 City Lights 1931 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
116 The General 1927 Keaton, Buster / Bruckman, Clyde USA DU
121 Pandora's Box 1929 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany D
138 Earth 1930 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union DU
146 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
149 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Keaton, Buster USA Y
160 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
166 The Gold Rush 1925 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
167 Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DU
172 Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler 1922 Lang, Fritz Germany D
173 Un Chien Andalou 1928 Buñuel, Luis France D
174 Modern Times 1936 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
182 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
185 Greed 1924 von Stroheim, Erich USA Y
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
263 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Vertov, Dziga Soviet Union DUS
311 La Roue 1923 Gance, Abel France D
359 The Crowd 1928 Vidor, King USA Y
451 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Walsh, Raoul USA DU
458 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Julian, Rupert / Laemmle, Ernst / Sedgwick, Edward USA Y
494 Nanook of the North 1922 Flaherty, Robert J. USA YU
500 The Wind 1928 Sjöström, Victor USA Y
524 The Big Parade 1925 Vidor, King USA V
554 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Wiene, Robert Germany DU
559 Broken Blossoms 1919 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
635 The Last Laugh 1924 Murnau, F.W. Germany D
697 Our Hospitality 1923 Keaton, Buster / Blystone, John G. USA Y
763 The Cameraman 1928 Keaton, Buster / Sedgwick, Edward USA Y
768 Les Vampires 1915 Feuillade, Louis France YU
850 The Kid 1921 Chaplin, Charles USA YUPS
872 Seven Chances 1925 Keaton, Buster USA Y
906 Safety Last! 1923 Newmeyer, Fred C. / Taylor, Sam USA D
945 The Docks of New York 1928 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
951 October (Ten Days That Shook the World) 1928 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union YU
956 The Kid Brother 1927 Wilde, Ted / Howe, J.A. / Lloyd, Harold / Milestone, Lewis USA D
1095 The Last Command 1928 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
1110 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1121 The Freshman 1925 Newmeyer, Fred C. / Taylor, Sam USA D
1167 Mother 1926 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union YU
1192 The Navigator 1924 Keaton, Buster / Crisp, Donald USA Y
1196 Storm Over Asia 1928 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union YU
1216 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Keaton, Buster / Reisner, Charles USA YU
1235 The Cure 1917 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1235 Easy Street 1917 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1239 Le Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 Méliès, Georges France DU
1246 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1249 Within Our Gates 1920 Micheaux, Oscar USA Y
1276 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Porter, Edwin S. USA YU
1289 Foolish Wives 1922 von Stroheim, Erich USA YU
1291 Ben-Hur 1925 Niblo, Fred / Brabin, Charles / Cabanne, Christy / Cohn, J.J. / Ingram, Rex USA DU
1326 Cabiria 1914 Pastrone, Giovanni Italy D
1346 The Golem 1920 Wegener, Paul / Boese, Carl Germany D
1381 The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Epstein, Jean France / USA Y
1389 The Adventurer 1917 Chaplin, Charles USA DU
1439 Way Down East 1920 Griffith, D.W. USA DU
1488 The Black Pirate 1926 Parker, Albert USA D
1504 Häxan 1922 Christensen, Benjamin Denmark / Sweden D
1507 Faust 1926 Murnau, F.W. Germany Y
1508 An Italian Straw Hat 1927 Clair, René France Y
1521 Cops 1922 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1524 One A.M. 1916 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1532 Orphans of the Storm 1921 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
1537 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 Ruttmann, Walter Germany Y
1548 The Wedding March 1928 von Stroheim, Erich USA Y
1557 Wings 1927 Wellman, William A. USA Y
1564 The Immigrant 1917 Chaplin, Charles USA DU
1577 Moana 1926 Flaherty, Robert J. USA
1577 Queen Kelly 1929 von Stroheim, Erich / Boleslawski, Richard / Goulding, Edmund / Thalberg, Irving / Wood, Sam USA Y
1577 Spies 1928 Lang, Fritz Germany Y
1585 Destiny 1921 Lang, Fritz Germany YU
1603 Arsenal 1928 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union / Ukraine Y
1605 Show People 1928 Vidor, King USA Y
1605 Tol'able David 1921 King, Henry USA DU
1609 The Cheat 1915 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
1614 Hell's Hinges 1916 Swickard, Charles / Hart, William S. / Smith, Clifford USA D
1614 Lady Windermere's Fan 1925 Lubitsch, Ernst USA D
1616 Two Tars 1928 Parrott, James USA YU
1634 I Was Born, But... 1932 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
1642 Seventh Heaven 1927 Borzage, Frank USA
1653 Big Business 1929 Horne, James W. / McCarey, Leo USA YU
1672 The Heart of the World 2000 Maddin, Guy Canada Y
1710 La Souriante Madame Beudet 1922 Dulac, Germaine France
1726 Three Ages 1923 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1729 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 Ingram, Rex USA Y
1729 The Poor Little Rich Girl 1917 Tourneur, Maurice USA
1731 The Man Who Laughs 1927 Leni, Paul USA D
1757 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg 1927 Lubitsch, Ernst / Stahl, John M. USA
1772 Behind the Screen 1916 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1772 The Pawnshop 1916 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1772 Underworld 1927 von Sternberg, Josef / Rosson, Arthur USA
1775 Körkarlen 1921 Sjöström, Victor Sweden
1792 College 1927 Keaton, Buster / Horne, James W. USA Y
1792 Go West 1925 Keaton, Buster USA Y
1792 One Week 1920 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1792 Spite Marriage 1929 Keaton, Buster / Sedgwick, Edward USA Y
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1799 Grass 1925 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA Y
1799 Regeneration 1915 Walsh, Raoul USA Y
1809 The Lodger 1926 Hitchcock, Alfred UK Y
1819 It 1927 Badger, Clarence G. / von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
1819 Last of the Mohicans 1920 Brown, Clarence / Tourneur, Maurice USA Y
1819 Peter Pan 1924 Brenon, Herbert USA Y
1820 The Circus 1928 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
1828 The Great K & A Train Robbery 1926 Seiler, Lewis USA
1828 The Mark of Zorro 1920 Niblo, Fred USA DU
1828 Tumbleweeds 1925 Baggot, King / Hart, William S. USA D
1828 Why Worry? 1923 Newmeyer, Fred C. / Taylor, Sam USA D
1840 La Boheme 1926 Vidor, King USA D
1840 Male and Female 1919 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
1840 Robin Hood 1922 Dwan, Allan USA DU
1840 Stella Maris 1918 Neilan, Marshall USA D
1840 Variety 1925 Dupont, Ewald André Germany
1873 Old and New 1929 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union
1886 You're Darn Tootin' 1928 Kennedy, Edgar USA DU
1902 La Sortie des usines Lumière 1895 Lumière, Louis France Y
1902 L'Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat 1895 Lumière, Auguste / Lumière, Louis France Y
1925 The Ring 1927 Hitchcock, Alfred UK D
1931 The Scarecrow 1920 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1958 Richard III 1912 Keane, James / Calmettes, André France / USA D
1959 For Heaven's Sake 1926 Taylor, Sam USA D
1959 4 Clowns 1970 Youngson, Robert USA
1959 Lonesome 1928 Fejös, Pál USA
1959 30 Years of Fun 1963 Youngson, Robert USA D
1959 Thunderbolt 1929 von Sternberg, Josef USA
1964 Qué Viva México! 1932 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union / USA / Mexico Y
1966 The Son of the Sheik 1926 Fitzmaurice, George USA DU
1972 Beggars of Life 1928 Wellman, William A. USA
1972 The Count 1916 Chaplin, Charles USA DU
1972 The Fireman 1916 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1972 The Floorwalker 1916 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1972 The Rink 1916 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1972 The Vagabond 1916 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
1975 The Unknown 1927 Browning, Tod USA D
1990 The Balloonatic 1923 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 Battling Butler 1926 Keaton, Buster USA Y
1990 The Blacksmith 1922 Keaton, Buster / St. Clair, Malcolm USA Y
1990 The Boat 1921 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 Convict 13 1920 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 Daydreams 1922 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 The Electric House 1922 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 The Frozen North 1922 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 The Goat 1921 Keaton, Buster / St. Clair, Malcolm USA Y
1990 Hard Luck 1921 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 The Haunted House 1921 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 The High Sign 1921 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 The Love Nest 1923 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 My Wife's Relations 1922 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 Neighbors 1920 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 The Paleface 1922 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1990 The Playhouse 1921 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
2017 Tunnel sous la manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais 1907 Méliès, Georges France
2022 A Corner in Wheat 1909 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
2028 The Beloved Rogue 1927 Crosland, Alan USA D
2028 Chang 1927 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA D
2028 The Chaplin Revue 1959 Chaplin, Charles UK / USA D
2028 Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany D
2028 The Great Chase 1962 Killiam, Paul / Cort, Harvey / Turell, Saul J. USA V
2028 Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's 1965 Youngson, Robert USA DS
2028 South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition 1919 Hurley, Frank Australia / UK D
2028 3 Bad Men 1926 Ford, John USA D
2043 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Reiniger, Lotte / Koch, Carl Germany D
2043 The Love of Jeanne Ney 1927 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany D
2043 The Nut 1921 Reed, Theodore USA V
2043 The Outlaw and His Wife 1918 Sjöström, Victor Sweden V
2043 The Student of Prague 1926 Galeen, Henrik Germany D
2043 When the Clouds Roll by 1919 Fleming, Victor / Reed, Theodore USA
2047 A Child of the Big City 1914 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia
2047 Judex 1916 Feuillade, Louis France Y
2047 The Merry Widow 1925 von Stroheim, Erich USA
2047 Michael 1924 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Germany
2047 The Musketeers of Pig Alley 1912 Griffith, D.W. USA DU
2047 The Parson's Widow 1920 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Sweden / Denmark YU
2049 Flesh and the Devil 1926 Brown, Clarence USA D
2077 The Blue Bird 1918 Tourneur, Maurice USA D
2077 Civilization 1916 Ince, Thomas H. / Barker, Reginald / West, Raymond B. / Edwards, Walter / Hartford, David / Hunt, Jay / Read, J. Parker Jr. USA Y
2077 The Exploits of Elaine 1914 Gasnier, Louis J. / Seitz, George B. / Wharton, Leopold USA
2077 Gertie the Dinosaur 1914 McCay, Winsor USA Y
2077 Hands Up! 1926 Badger, Clarence G. USA
2077 The Lost World 1925 Hoyt, Harry O. / Dowling, William USA DU
2077 Sky High 1922 Reynolds, Lynn USA
2077 The Strong Man 1926 Capra, Frank USA D
2077 Tess of the Storm Country 1914 Porter, Edwin S. USA
2077 Traffic in Souls 1913 Tucker, George Loane USA V
2077 Where Are My Children? 1916 Smalley, Phillips / Weber, Lois USA
2077 Wild and Wooly 1917 Emerson, John USA D
2109 The Doll 1919 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany
2109 Passing Fancy 1933 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
2109 True Heart Susie 1919 Griffith, D.W. USA
2122 Piccadilly 1929 Dupont, E.A. UK
2174 Asphalt 1929 May, Joe Germany D
2174 Beau Brummel 1924 Beaumont, Harry USA D
2174 The Iron Horse 1924 Ford, John USA D
2174 Kid Auto Races at Venice 1914 Lehrman, Henry USA D
2174 The Sheik 1921 Melford, George USA DU
2174 Shooting Stars 1927 Bramble, A.V. / Asquith, Anthony UK
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2174 Stella Dallas 1925 King, Henry USA
2174 Twilight of a Woman's Soul 1913 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia D
2174 The Winning of Barbara Worth 1926 King, Henry USA D
2186 Unknown Chaplin 1983 Brownlow, Kevin / Gill, David UK D
2188 Tih Minh 1918 Feuillade, Louis France
2195 The New Babylon 1929 Kozintsev, Grigori / Trauberg, Leonid Soviet Union
2211 L'Argent 1928 L'Herbier, Marcel France
2218 The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes 1971 Brakhage, Stan USA D
2218 The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse, Part IV: Charmed Particles 1979 Noren, Andrew USA
2218 At Land 1944 Deren, Maya USA Y
2218 The Avenging Conscience; Thou Shalt Not Kill 1914 Griffith, D.W. USA
2218 Ballet mécanique 1924 Léger, Fernand / Murphy, Dudley France D
2218 Barrabas 1919 Feuillade, Louis France
2218 Breakfast 1976 Snow, Michael Canada
2218 Burlesque on Carmen 1915 Chaplin, Charles USA YU
2218 By the Law 1926 Kuleshov, Lev Soviet Union Y
2218 Charleston 1927 Renoir, Jean France
2218 Chartres Series 1994 Brakhage, Stan USA
2218 Chess Fever 1925 Pudovkin, Vsevolod / Shpikovsky, Nikolai Soviet Union Y
2218 The Covered Wagon 1923 Cruze, James USA Y
2218 Fantômas 1913 Feuillade, Louis France
2218 Fig Leaves 1926 Hawks, Howard USA
2218 From the Pole to the Equator 1987 Gianikian, Yervant / Lucchi, Angela Ricci West Germany / Italy
2218 La Glace à trois faces 1927 Epstein, Jean France D
2218 La Petite marchande d'allumettes 1928 Renoir, Jean / Tédesco, Jean France D
2218 Leave 'em Laughing 1928 Bruckman, Clyde USA YU
2218 L'Enfant de Paris 1913 Perret, Léonce France
2218 L'Inhumaine 1924 L'Herbier, Marcel France
2218 Master of the House 1925 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark
2218 The Oyster Princess 1919 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany
2218 A Page of Madness 1926 Kinugasa, Teinosuke Japan
2218 Paris qui dort 1925 Clair, René France Y
2218 Raskolnikow 1923 Wiene, Robert Germany
2218 Tartuffe 1926 Murnau, F.W. Germany Y
2218 That Night's Wife 1930 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan
2218 The Wishing Ring:
An Idyll of Old England
1914 Tourneur, Maurice USA
2219 Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Watson, James Sibley / Webber, Melville USA D
2245 Phantom 1922 Murnau, F.W. Germany D
2251 The Land Beyond the Sunset 1912 Shore, Dorothy G. USA Y
2256 Street Angel 1928 Borzage, Frank USA
2260 Awakening of Rip 1896 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 Blacksmith Scene 1893 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 A Bronx Morning 1931 Leyda, Jay USA Y
2260 The Chechahcos 1924 Moomaw, Lewis H. USA D
2260 Clash of the Wolves 1925 Smith, Noel M. USA Y
2260 Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther 1939 Dowidat, Ray / Dowidat, Esther USA
2260 The Curse of Quon Gwon 1916 Wong, Marion USA
2260 Early Abstractions #1-5,7,10 1956 Smith, Harry USA V
2260 Empire 1964 Warhol, Andy USA
2260 Evidence of the Film 1913 Marston, Lawrence / Thanhouser, Edwin USA
2260 Exit of Rip and the Dwarf 1896 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 Fatty's Tintype Tangle 1915 Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty' USA
2260 From Stump to Ship 1930 Ames, Alfred / Kahn, Howard USA
2260 From the Manger to the Cross 1912 Olcott, Sidney USA YU
2260 H2O 1929 Steiner, Ralph USA D
2260 In the Land of the Head Hunters 1914 Curtis, Edward S. USA Y
2260 In the Street 1948 Levitt, Helen USA
2260 Intrepid Shadows 1966 Clah, Alfred USA
2260 The Italian 1915 Barker, Reginald USA
2260 Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest 1910 unknown USA
2260 Kannapolis, NC 1941 Waters, H. Lee USA
2260 The Kiss 1896 Heise, William USA
2260 Lady Helen's Escapade 1909 Griffith, D.W. USA
2260 The Life and Death of 9413:
A Hollywood Extra
1928 Florey, Robert / Vorkapich, Slavko USA D
2260 The Making of an American 1920 Hedlund, Guy USA
2260 Manhatta 1921 Strand, Paul / Sheeler, Charles USA D
2260 Matrimony's Speed Limit 1913 Guy-Blaché, Alice USA Y
2260 Mighty Like a Moose 1926 McCarey, Leo USA D
2260 Miss Lulu Bett 1921 de Mille, William C. USA DU
2260 The Navajo Silversmith 1966 Nelson, Johnny USA
2260 A Navajo Weaver 1966 Benally, Susie USA
2260 Old Antelope Lake 1966 Anderson, Mike USA
2260 Our Day 1938 Kelly, Wallace USA
2260 Pass the Gravy 1928 McCarey, Leo / Guiol, Fred USA
2260 Power of the Press 1928 Capra, Frank USA
2260 President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol 1901 Edison, Thomas USA
2260 President McKinley Taking the Oath 1901 Edison, Thomas USA
2260 Princess Nicotine;
or the Smoke Fairy
1909 Blackton, J. Stuart USA D
2260 Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow 1896 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 Rip Meeting the Dwarf 1896 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 Rip Passing Over the Mountain 1896 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 Rip's Toast 1896 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 Rip's Toast to Hudson 1896 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep 1896 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2260 Salome 1923 Bryant, Charles USA YU
2260 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire April 18, 1906 1906 unknown USA
2260 Second Weaver 1966 Benally, Susie USA
2260 The Shallow Well Project 1966 Nelson, Johnny USA
2260 The Spirit of the Navajos 1966 Tsosie, Mary J. / Tsosie, Maxine USA
2260 Star Theatre 1901 Armitage, Frederick USA D
2260 There It Is 1928 Muller, Harold / Bowers, Charles R. USA Y
2260 Westinghouse Works 1904 Bitzer, G.W. USA
2279 He Who Gets Slapped 1924 Sjöström, Victor USA
2279 Ingeborg Holm 1913 Sjöström, Victor Sweden
2279 Zvenigora 1928 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union
2282 The Adventures of Dollie 1908 Griffith, D.W. / Bitzer, G.W. USA D
2282 The Adventures of Kathlyn 1913 Grandon, Francis J. USA
2282 The Affairs of Anatol 1921 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
2282 Afgrunden 1910 Gad, Urban Denmark
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2282 Alf's Button 1920 Hepworth, Cecil M. UK
2282 Alice in Wonde