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. 92 -

    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
  2. 56 -

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  3. 54 -

    Monte Cristo

    1929, in 1 top list Check
  4. 67 -

    The Perils of Pauline

    1914, in 2 top lists Check
  5. 12 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  6. 33 -

    Gösta Berlings saga

    1924 — a.k.a. The Saga of Gösta Berling, in 4 top lists Check
  7. 87 -

    The Thief of Bagdad

    1924, in 14 top lists Check
  8. 53 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  9. 16 -

    Cabiria

    1914, in 12 top lists Check
  10. 94 -

    Way Down East

    1920, in 7 top lists Check
  11. 36 -

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
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    Casanova

    1927, in 2 top lists Check
  13. 58 -

    Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache

    1924 — a.k.a. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, in 13 top lists Check
  14. 69 -

    Keisatsukan

    1933 — a.k.a. Policeman, in 1 top list Check
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    Tianming

    1933 — a.k.a. Daybreak, in 1 top list Check
  16. 65 -

    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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    Flesh and the Devil

    1926, in 9 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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    The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

    1927, in 0 top lists Check
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    Geschlecht in Fesseln

    1928 — a.k.a. Sex in Chains, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 68 -

    Körkarlen

    1921 — a.k.a. The Phantom Carriage, in 16 top lists Check
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    The Lure of Crooning Water

    1920, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 14 new

    Body and Soul

    1925, in 5 top lists Check
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    Beggars of Life

    1928, in 3 top lists Check
  25. 57 -

    Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

    1924, in 13 top lists Check
  26. 43 -

    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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    Revolutionshochzeit

    1928 — a.k.a. The Last Night, in 0 top lists Check
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    Tol'able David

    1921, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 top lists Check
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    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
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    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  33. 48 -

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    1927, in 12 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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    Häxan

    1922, in 17 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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    Les deux timides

    1928 — a.k.a. Two Timid Souls, in 1 top list Check
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    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Marriage Circle

    1924, in 4 top lists Check
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    Der Student von Prag

    1913 — a.k.a. The Student of Prague, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Informer

    1929, in 1 top list Check
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    Stachka

    1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check
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    Finis terrae

    1929, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Great White Silence

    1922, in 3 top lists Check
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    Underworld

    1927, in 9 top lists Check
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    Nanook of the North

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
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    Zemlya

    1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 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
  49. 75 -

    Safety Last!

    1923, in 16 top lists Check
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    Menschen am Sonntag

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