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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  1. 53 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  2. 59 -

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
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    The Kid

    1921, in 17 top lists Check
  4. 31 -

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 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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    Un chien andalou

    1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 30 -

    The General

    1926, in 34 top lists Check
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    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  9. 34 -

    The Great Train Robbery

    1903, in 11 top lists Check
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    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 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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    Nanook of the North

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
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    Safety Last!

    1923, in 16 top lists Check
  16. 97 -

    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  17. 68 -

    Körkarlen

    1921 — a.k.a. The Phantom Carriage, in 16 top lists Check
  18. 62 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
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    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
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    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  21. 87 -

    The Thief of Bagdad

    1924, in 14 top lists Check
  22. 91 -

    The Unknown

    1927, in 11 top lists Check
  23. 48 -

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
  24. 82 -

    Stachka

    1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check
  25. 92 -

    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
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    The Heart of the World

    2000, in 4 top lists Check
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    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
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    Zemlya

    1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 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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    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
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    Ballet mécanique

    1924, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 17 -

    Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora

    1912 — a.k.a. The Cameraman's Revenge, in 5 top lists Check
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    Le voyage à travers l'impossible

    1904 — a.k.a. The Voyage Across the Impossible, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Scarecrow

    1920, in 4 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
  36. 57 -

    Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

    1924, in 13 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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    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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    Manhatta

    1921, in 5 top lists Check
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    Way Down East

    1920, in 7 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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    Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache

    1924 — a.k.a. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, in 13 top lists Check
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    Kurutta ippêji

    1926 — a.k.a. A Page of Madness, in 12 top lists Check
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    La souriante Madame Beudet

    1923 — a.k.a. The Smiling Madame Beudet, in 3 top lists Check
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    Cabiria

    1914, in 12 top lists Check
  46. 66 -

    Menschen am Sonntag

    1930 — a.k.a. People on Sunday, in 12 top lists Check
  47. 90 -

    Underworld

    1927, in 9 top lists Check
  48. 39 -

    How a Mosquito Operates

    1912, in 1 top list Check
  49. 73 -

    Regen

    1929 — a.k.a. Rain, in 7 top lists Check
  50. 42 -

    It

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
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