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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 2351

1900s

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 377
2 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 777
3 The Impossible Voyage 1904 Georges Méliès 2762

1910s

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 369
2 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 448
3 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 1069
4 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 1275
5 Cabiria 1914 Giovanni Pastrone 2692
6 The Immigrant 1917 Charles Chaplin 2848
7 Suspense 1913 Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber 2851
8 The Cheat 1915 Cecil B. DeMille 2941
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