Silent film: Encyclopedia II - Silent film - Some notable silent films

Silent film - Some notable silent films

With director and year of release:

Silent film - Before 1915

• 'La Fée au Choux', Alice Guy Blaché, 1896
• Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon), George Méliès, 1902
• The Great Train Robbery, Edwin S. Porter, 1903
• La Presa di Roma, Filoteo Alberini, 1905
• The Night Before Christmas, 1905
• Ben-Hur, Sidney Olcott, 1907
• From the Manger To the Cross, Sidney Olcott, 1912
• Oliver Twist, 1912 (First American feature film made)
• Richard III, 1912 (Second American feature film made and oldest surviving complete feature film)
• A Message from Mars, Sir Charles Hawtrey, 1913
• Cabiria, Giovanne Pastrone, 1914
• The Perils of Pauline, Louis J. Gasnier & Donald MacKenzie 1914
• Kid Auto Races, Charlie Chaplin, 1914

Silent film - 1915 - 1919

• Honeymoon for Three, Sir Charles Hawtrey, 1915
• The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith, 1915
• The Tramp, Charles Chaplin, 1915
• The Awakening, William Desmond Taylor, 1915
• Les Vampires, Louis Feuillade, 1915-16
• Intolerance, D.W. Griffith, 1916
• Cleopatra, J. Gordon Edwards, 1917
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Marshall Neilan, 1917
• Father Sergius, Yakov Protazanov, 1918
• Masks and Faces, with cameo from Sir Charles Hawtrey, George Bernard Shaw and J. M. Barrie, 1918
• Shoulder Arms, Charles Chaplin, 1918
• Broken Blossoms, D. W. Griffith, 1918
• Anne of Green Gables, William Desmond Taylor, 1919
• Within Our Gates, Oscar Micheaux, 1919

Silent film - 1920 - 1925

• Way Down East, D. W. Griffith, 1920
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920
• Huckleberry Finn, William Desmond Taylor, 1920
• The Mark of Zorro, Fred Niblo, 1920
• Destiny, Fritz Lang, 1921
• The Kid, Charlie Chaplin, 1921
• Orphans of the Storm, D. W. Griffith, 1921
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Rex Ingram, 1921
• The Sheik, George Melford, 1921
• Blood and Sand, Fred Niblo, 1922
• Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, 1922
• The Golem, Paul Wegener, 1922
• Beyond the Rocks, Sam Wood, 1922
• Häxan, Benjamin Christensen, 1922
• Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, 1922
• The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. deMille, 1923
• The Thief of Bagdad, Douglas Fairbanks, 1923
• Aelita, Yakov Protazanov, 1924
• Sherlock, Jr., Buster Keaton, 1924
• Strike, Sergei Eisenstein, 1924
• The Iron Horse, John Ford, 1924
• Greed, Erich von Stroheim, 1924
• Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
• Ben-Hur, Charles Brabin, J.J. Cohn, and Fred Niblo, 1925
• The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin, 1925
• Safety Last, Harold Lloyd, 1925
• The Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney, Sr., 1925
• The Big Parade, King Vidor, 1925
• The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau, 1925
• The Joyless Street, G.W. Pabst , 1925
• The Street of Forgotten Men, Herbert Brenon , 1925

Silent film - 1926 - 1930

• Our Hospitality, Buster Keaton, 1926
• The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926
• Mother (film), Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Karl Koch, Lotte Reiniger, 1926
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• Faust, F.W. Murnau, 1926
• Brown of Harvard (Jack Conway), 1926
• The Son of the Sheik, George Fitzmaurice, 1926
• Napoléon, Abel Gance, 1927
• The General, Buster Keaton, 1927
• Sunrise, F.W. Murnau, 1927
• Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
• October: Ten Days That Shook The World, Sergei Eisenstein, 1927
• Berlin, Die Symphonie Einer Grosstaldt, Walther Ruttman, 1927
• Wings, William Wellman, 1927
• The Cat And The Canary, Paul Leni, 1927
• Flesh and the Devil, Clarence Brown, 1927
• The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Alexander Korda, 1927
• Seventh Heaven, Frank Borzage, 1927
• Underworld, Josef von Sternberg, 1927
• The Unknown, Tod Browning, 1927
• Steamboat Bill, Jr, Buster Keaton, 1928
• The Last Command, Josef von Sternberg, 1928
• L'Argent, Marcel L'Herbier, 1928
• The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928
• The Crowd, King Vidor, 1928
• The Wind, Victor Sjöström, 1928
• Beggars of Life, William Wellman, 1928
• Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel, 1928
• The Docks of New York, Josef von Sternberg, 1929
• Diary of a Lost Girl, GW Pabst, 1929
• Pandora's Box, GW Pabst, 1929
• Man With a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, 1929
• Earth, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930

Silent film - 1931 and later

• City Lights, Charlie Chaplin, 1931
• Tabu, F. W. Murnau, Robert Flaherty, 1931
• I Was Born, But..., Ozu Yasujiro, 1932
• Passing Fancy, Ozu Yasujiro, 1933
• A Story of Floating Weeds, Ozu Yasujiro, 1934
• The Goddess, Wu Yonggang, 1934
• Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, 1936
• Silent Movie, Mel Brooks, 1976
• The Call of Cthulhu, 2005

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