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. 97 -

    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  2. 96 -

    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
  3. 95 -

    Den hvide slavehandel

    1910, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 94 -

    Way Down East

    1920, in 7 top lists Check
  5. 93 -

    Le voyage à travers l'impossible

    1904 — a.k.a. An Impossible Voyage, in 6 top lists Check
  6. 92 -

    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
  7. 91 -

    The Unknown

    1927, in 11 top lists Check
  8. 90 -

    Underworld

    1927, in 9 top lists Check
  9. 89 -

    Tol'able David

    1921, in 4 top lists Check
  10. 88 -

    The Three Must-Get-Theres

    1922, in 2 top lists Check
  11. 87 -

    The Thief of Bagdad

    1924, in 14 top lists Check
  12. 85 -

    Suspense

    1913, in 5 top lists Check
  13. 84 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  14. 83 -

    Der Student von Prag

    1913 — a.k.a. The Student of Prague, in 5 top lists Check
  15. 82 -

    Stachka

    1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check
  16. 81 -

    Stage Struck

    1925, in 1 top list Check
  17. 79 -

    The Son of the Sheik

    1926, in 5 top lists Check
  18. 78 -

    La souriante Madame Beudet

    1923 — a.k.a. The Smiling Madame Beudet, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 77 -

    Geschlecht in Fesseln

    1928 — a.k.a. Sex in Chains, in 2 top lists Check
  20. 76 -

    The Scarecrow

    1920, in 4 top lists Check
  21. 75 -

    Safety Last!

    1923, in 16 top lists Check
  22. 73 -

    Regen

    1929 — a.k.a. Rain, in 7 top lists Check
  23. 72 -

    Pikovaya dama

    1916 — a.k.a. The Queen of Spades, in 2 top lists Check
  24. 70 -

    The Poor Little Rich Girl

    1917, in 3 top lists Check
  25. 68 -

    Körkarlen

    1921 — a.k.a. The Phantom Carriage, in 16 top lists Check
  26. 67 -

    The Perils of Pauline

    1914, in 2 top lists Check
  27. 66 -

    Menschen am Sonntag

    1930 — a.k.a. People on Sunday, in 12 top lists Check
  28. 65 -

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  29. 64 -

    Paris qui dort

    1925 — a.k.a. At 3:25, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 62 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  31. 61 -

    Kurutta ippêji

    1926 — a.k.a. A Page of Madness, in 12 top lists Check
  32. 60 -

    Die Austernprinzessin

    1919 — a.k.a. The Oyster Princess, in 8 top lists Check
  33. 59 -

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  34. 58 -

    Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache

    1924 — a.k.a. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, in 13 top lists Check
  35. 57 -

    Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

    1924, in 13 top lists Check
  36. 56 -

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  37. 55 -

    Nanook of the North

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  38. 54 -

    Monte Cristo

    1929, in 1 top list Check
  39. 53 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  40. 52 -

    The Marriage Circle

    1924, in 4 top lists Check
  41. 51 -

    Manhatta

    1921, in 5 top lists Check
  42. 50 -

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  43. 48 -

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
  44. 47 -

    Liberty

    1929 — a.k.a. Criminals at Large, in 1 top list Check
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    Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda....

    1925, in 1 top list Check
  46. 45 -

    The Kid

    1921, in 17 top lists Check
  47. 43 -

    Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo

    1932 — a.k.a. I Was Born, But..., in 15 top lists Check
  48. 42 -

    It

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
  49. 41 -

    The Informer

    1929, in 1 top list Check
  50. 40 -

    L'Inferno

    1911 — a.k.a. Dante's Inferno, in 5 top lists Check
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