100 Silent Films (BFI Screen Guide)
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"100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand – on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment – it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the development of large-scale film production in the United States and Europe. It was the start of our fascination with the moving image as a disseminator of information and as mass entertainment with its consequent celebrity culture."
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The Adventures of Dollie
1908, in 0 top lists Check -
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Alfred Butterworth and Sons, Glebe Mills,...
1901, in 0 top lists Check -
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Alice in Wonderland
1903, in 1 top list Check -
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Ballet mécanique
1924, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Battle of the Somme
1916 — a.k.a. Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands
1927, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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Beggars of Life
1928, in 3 top lists Check -
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Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Big Swallow
1901 — a.k.a. A Photographic Contortion, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Flower
1910, in 1 top list Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Blackmail
1929, in 7 top lists Check -
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Body and Soul
1925, in 5 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
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Cabiria
1914, in 12 top lists Check -
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Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora
1912 — a.k.a. The Cameraman's Revenge, in 5 top lists Check -
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Casanova
1927, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Cheat
1915, in 7 top lists Check -
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Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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A Cottage on Dartmoor
1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check -
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Tianming
1933 — a.k.a. Daybreak, in 1 top list Check -
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Les deux timides
1928 — a.k.a. Two Timid Souls, in 1 top list Check -
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Douro, Faina Fluvial
1931 — a.k.a. Labor on the Douro River, in 2 top lists Check -
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Drifters
1929, in 2 top lists Check -
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Zemlya
1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check -
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La chute de la maison Usher
1928 — a.k.a. The Fall of the House of Usher, in 10 top lists Check -
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Finis terrae
1929, in 4 top lists Check -
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Flesh and the Devil
1926, in 9 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Gold Rush
1925, in 29 top lists Check -
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Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
1920 — a.k.a. The Golem, in 9 top lists Check -
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Gösta Berlings saga
1924 — a.k.a. The Saga of Gösta Berling, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Great Train Robbery
1903, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Great White Silence
1922, in 3 top lists Check -
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Greed
1924, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Heart of the World
2000, in 4 top lists Check -
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Hell's Hinges
1916, in 5 top lists Check -
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How a Mosquito Operates
1912, in 1 top list Check -
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L'Inferno
1911 — a.k.a. Dante's Inferno, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Informer
1929, in 1 top list Check -
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It
1927, in 6 top lists Check -
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Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo
1932 — a.k.a. I Was Born, But..., in 15 top lists Check -
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Japonaiseries
1904 — a.k.a. Japanese Varieties, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Kid
1921, in 17 top lists Check -
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Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda....
1925, in 1 top list Check -
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Liberty
1929 — a.k.a. Criminals at Large, in 1 top list Check -
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Lure of Crooning Water
1920, in 0 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
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