Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films

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An official iCheckMovies list (adopted from mjf314).

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This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria.

The list is divided into 5 sections:
I. Narrative Films
Hollywood Genres (with an emphasis on the classical studio era)
II. Non-Fiction Films
III. Animated Films
IV. Experimental/Avant-garde/Underground Films
V. Single-channel Video

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  1. 20 -

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    1903, in 1 top list Check
  2. 25 -

    The Lonely Villa

    1909, in 1 top list Check
  3. 26 -

    A Corner in Wheat

    1909, in 8 top lists Check
  4. 27 -

    His Trust: The Faithful Devotion and...

    1911, in 1 top list Check
  5. 28 -

    The Lonedale Operator

    1911, in 1 top list Check
  6. 29 -

    The New York Hat

    1912, in 1 top list Check
  7. 30 -

    The Musketeers of Pig Alley

    1912, in 8 top lists Check
  8. 34 -

    Cabiria

    1914, in 12 top lists Check
  9. 35 -

    Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine

    1913 — a.k.a. Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine, in 9 top lists Check
  10. 36 +4

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  11. 38 +3

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  12. 39 +3

    The Cheat

    1915, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 40 +4

    The Immigrant

    1917, in 7 top lists Check
  14. 41 +4

    Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru

    1918 — a.k.a. The Outlaw and His Wife, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 42 +4

    Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

    1919 — a.k.a. Broken Blossoms, in 13 top lists Check
  16. 45 +4

    Körkarlen

    1921 — a.k.a. The Phantom Carriage, in 16 top lists Check
  17. 46 +4

    The Blot

    1921, in 1 top list Check
  18. 48 +4

    Po zakonu

    1926 — a.k.a. By the Law, in 10 top lists Check
  19. 50 +4

    Foolish Wives

    1922, in 10 top lists Check
  20. 53 +4

    Der letzte Mann

    1924 — a.k.a. The Last Laugh, in 17 top lists Check
  21. 54 +4

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  22. 56 +4

    Gösta Berlings saga

    1924 — a.k.a. The Saga of Gösta Berling, in 4 top lists Check
  23. 57 +4

    L'inhumaine

    1924 — a.k.a. The Inhuman Woman, in 7 top lists Check
  24. 60 +4

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 top lists Check
  25. 61 +4

    Body and Soul

    1925, in 5 top lists Check
  26. 62 +4

    Die freudlose Gasse

    1925 — a.k.a. The Joyless Street, in 7 top lists Check
  27. 64 +4

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
  28. 65 +4

    Mat

    1926 — a.k.a. Mother, in 9 top lists Check
  29. 66 +4

    Kurutta ippêji

    1926 — a.k.a. A Page of Madness, in 12 top lists Check
  30. 67 +4

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  31. 68 +4

    Konets Sankt-Peterburga

    1927 — a.k.a. The End of St. Petersburg, in 4 top lists Check
  32. 69 +4

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  33. 70 +4

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  34. 71 +4

    The Jazz Singer

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
  35. 72 +4

    Oktyabr

    1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check
  36. 73 +4

    L'argent

    1928 — a.k.a. L'Argent, in 8 top lists Check
  37. 74 +4

    The Crowd

    1928, in 20 top lists Check
  38. 75 +4

    Potomok Chingis-Khana

    1928 — a.k.a. Storm Over Asia, in 8 top lists Check
  39. 76 +4

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  40. 77 +4

    Sous les toits de Paris

    1930 — a.k.a. Under the Roofs of Paris, in 5 top lists Check
  41. 78 +4

    Zemlya

    1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check
  42. 79 +4

    Der blaue Engel

    1930 — a.k.a. The Blue Angel, in 17 top lists Check
  43. 80 +4

    L'âge d'or

    1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check
  44. 81 +4

    Borderline

    1930, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 82 +4

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  46. 83 +4

    The Exile

    1931, in 1 top list Check
  47. 84 +4

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    1932, in 14 top lists Check
  48. 85 +4

    Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège

    1933 — a.k.a. Zero for Conduct, in 17 top lists Check
  49. 86 +4

    Christopher Strong

    1933, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 87 +4

    El compadre Mendoza

    1934 — a.k.a. Godfather Mendoza, in 3 top lists Check
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