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Top Silent Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
2 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 53
3 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
4 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
5 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
6 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
7 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 105
8 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 143
9 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
10 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 181
11 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 209
12 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 223
13 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 261
14 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 264
15 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 296
16 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 337
17 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 364
18 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 410
19 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 446
20 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
21 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 483
22 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 502
23 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 517
24 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 552
25 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 591
26 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 616
27 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian 627
28 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 672
29 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 694
30 The Freshman 1925 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 716
31 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 797
32 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 839
33 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 856
34 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 1020
35 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 1086
36 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1091
37 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1140
38 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1208
39 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 1211
40 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1226
41 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 1237
42 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1375
43 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1415
44 Way Down East 1920 D.W. Griffith 1474
45 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 Walter Ruttmann 1552
46 Spione 1928 Fritz Lang 1560
47 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 1896 Auguste and Louis Lumière 1561
48 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1594
49 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 1687
50 Siegfried 1924 Fritz Lang 1713
51 The Lost World 1925 Harry O. Hoyt 1715
52 The Kid Brother 1927 Ted Wilde 1849
53 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 1887
54 Kriemhild's Revenge 1924 Fritz Lang 1908
55 The Wedding March 1928 Erich von Stroheim 1936
56 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujiro Ozu 1963
57 Storm over Asia 1928 Vsevolod Pudovkin 1992
58 La Roue 1923 Abel Gance 2011
59 Cabiria 1914 Giovanni Pastrone 2020
60 The Sheik 1921 George Melford 2033
61 The Golem 1920 Carl Boese and Paul Wegener 2051
62 The Ten Commandments 1923 Cecil B. DeMille 2113
63 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton 2125
64 Mother 1926 Vsevolod Pudovkin 2133
65 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 2141
66 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 Rex Ingram 2155
67 Fantomas 1913 Louis Feuillade 2162
68 The Black Pirate 1926 Albert Parker 2192
69 Big Business 1929 James W. Horne and Leo McCarey 2227
70 Seventh Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage 2282
71 The Docks of New York 1928 Josef von Sternberg 2288
72 The Last Command 1928 Josef von Sternberg 2363
73 The Cheat 1915 Cecil B. DeMille 2371
74 Un chant d'amour 1950 Jean Genet 2381
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