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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Beggars of Life
1928, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Body and Soul
1925, in 5 top lists Check -
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Cabiria
1914, in 12 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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A Cottage on Dartmoor
1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check -
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Den hvide slavehandel
1910, in 0 top lists Check -
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Die Büchse der Pandora
1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 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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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
1924, in 13 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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Geschlecht in Fesseln
1928 — a.k.a. Sex in Chains, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Gold Rush
1925, in 30 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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Greed
1924, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Informer
1929, in 1 top list Check -
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The Kid
1921, in 17 top lists Check -
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Körkarlen
1921 — a.k.a. The Phantom Carriage, in 16 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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L'Inferno
1911 — a.k.a. Dante's Inferno, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927, in 12 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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Metropolis
1927, in 36 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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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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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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Pikovaya dama
1916 — a.k.a. The Queen of Spades, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917, in 3 top lists Check -
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Revolutionshochzeit
1928 — a.k.a. The Last Night, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Son of the Sheik
1926, in 5 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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Stachka
1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 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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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
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Tianming
1933 — a.k.a. Daybreak, in 1 top list Check -
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Tol'able David
1921, in 4 top lists Check -
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Underworld
1927, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Unknown
1927, in 11 top lists Check -
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Way Down East
1920, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Wind
1928, in 14 top lists Check -
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Zemlya
1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check
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