Silent Era's The Top 300 Silent Era Films

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The top 300 best silent era films are based on the votes on the silentera.com website. The list is not limited to features exclusively. True silent films (like City Lights) not made in the default silent cinema timeline (1891-1929) are also accepted. Films receiving votes must still exist somewhere and in some viewable form. We limit the list to films that were produced to be silent films exclusively (synchronized music tracks are acceptible, but part-talkies and talkies that have only survived as silents are out).

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  1. 2 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  2. 3 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  3. 4 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  4. 6 -

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 30 top lists Check
  5. 7 -

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  6. 10 -

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  7. 11 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  8. 12 -

    The Crowd

    1928, in 20 top lists Check
  9. 13 -

    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
  10. 14 -

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  11. 15 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  12. 16 -

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  13. 18 -

    The Big Parade

    1925, in 13 top lists Check
  14. 21 -

    Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

    1919 — a.k.a. Broken Blossoms, in 13 top lists Check
  15. 22 -

    Der letzte Mann

    1924 — a.k.a. The Last Laugh, in 17 top lists Check
  16. 23 -

    The Kid

    1921, in 17 top lists Check
  17. 24 -

    Steamboat Bill, Jr.

    1928, in 13 top lists Check
  18. 25 -

    Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ

    1925 — a.k.a. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 6 top lists Check
  19. 27 -

    Flesh and the Devil

    1926, in 9 top lists Check
  20. 29 -

    Wings

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
  21. 32 -

    Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage

    1926 — a.k.a. Faust, in 15 top lists Check
  22. 33 -

    Way Down East

    1920, in 7 top lists Check
  23. 35 -

    Tagebuch einer Verlorenen

    1929 — a.k.a. Diary of a Lost Girl, in 8 top lists Check
  24. 36 -

    The Unknown

    1927, in 11 top lists Check
  25. 41 -

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    1923, in 5 top lists Check
  26. 43 -

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    1921, in 7 top lists Check
  27. 44 -

    The Sheik

    1921, in 3 top lists Check
  28. 45 -

    Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

    1924, in 13 top lists Check
  29. 46 -

    Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache

    1924 — a.k.a. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, in 13 top lists Check
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    Tol'able David

    1921, in 4 top lists Check
  31. 50 -

    He Who Gets Slapped

    1924, in 8 top lists Check
  32. 52 -

    The Wedding March

    1928, in 6 top lists Check
  33. 53 -

    The Man Who Laughs

    1928, in 10 top lists Check
  34. 54 -

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
  35. 56 -

    The Last Command

    1928, in 9 top lists Check
  36. 57 -

    Foolish Wives

    1922, in 10 top lists Check
  37. 58 -

    Orphans of the Storm

    1921, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 59 -

    Sparrows

    1926, in 3 top lists Check
  39. 61 -

    Zemlya

    1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check
  40. 62 -

    Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

    1931, in 11 top lists Check
  41. 64 -

    The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

    1927, in 5 top lists Check
  42. 65 -

    Beggars of Life

    1928, in 3 top lists Check
  43. 70 -

    The Son of the Sheik

    1926, in 5 top lists Check
  44. 71 -

    7th Heaven

    1927, in 11 top lists Check
  45. 74 -

    The Kid Brother

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
  46. 75 -

    The Immigrant

    1917, in 7 top lists Check
  47. 76 -

    Queen Kelly

    1932, in 8 top lists Check
  48. 77 -

    Oktyabr

    1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check
  49. 78 -

    Cabiria

    1914, in 12 top lists Check
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    The Docks of New York

    1928, in 9 top lists Check
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