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Top Films by Decade (before 1920)

1890s

Rank	Title	Year	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat	1896	Auguste and Louis Lumière	1229
2	Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory	1895	Louis Lumière	2230
3	The Kiss	1896	William Heise	2709

1900s

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	Voyage to the Moon	1902	Georges Méliès	337
2	The Great Train Robbery	1903	Edwin S. Porter	688
3	The Impossible Voyage	1904	Georges Méliès	2473

1910s

Rank	Title	Director(s)	Overall Rank
1	The Birth of a Nation	1915	D.W. Griffith	312
2	Intolerance	1916	D.W. Griffith	314
3	Broken Blossoms	1919	D.W. Griffith	900
4	Les Vampires	1915	Louis Feuillade	903
5	Cabiria	1914	Giovanni Pastrone	1974
6	The Immigrant	1917	Charles Chaplin	2450
7	Fantomas	1913	Louis Feuillade	2682
8	Gertie the Dinosaur	1914	Winsor McCay	2776

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