SILENT FILMS


Examples


Silent Films
Part 1 | Examples

Note: Most of the films in the following list were produced in the US, although the exceptions are noted.
Selection of Greatest Silent Films:
(chronological order)
Pre-1920
Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902, Fr.)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
David Copperfield (1913, England)
A Traffic in Souls (1913)
Cabiria (1914, Italy)
Gertie, The Trained Dinosaur (1914)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
The Squaw Man (1914)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
Les Vampires (1915-16, France)
Regeneration (1915)
Intolerance (1916)
The Apostle (1917, Argentina) (aka El Apóstol) (lost film)
Cleopatra (1917) (lost film)
The Immigrant (1917)
Joan the Woman (1917)
The Outlaw and His Wife (1917, Sweden)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
Stella Maris (1918)
Blind Husbands (1919)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Male and Female (1919)
True Heart Susie (1919)

1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Germany)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
The Golem (1920, Germany)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
The Mark of Zorro (1920)
The Penalty (1920)
Way Down East (1920)

1921
Destiny (1921, Germany)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
The Kid (1921)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
The Phantom Carriage (1921, Swe.
The Sheik (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
Tol'able David (1921)

1922
Blood and Sand (1922)
Cops (1922)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922, Germany)
Foolish Wives (1922)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nosferatu, the Vampire (1922, Germany)
Robin Hood (1922)
Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922, Sweden) (aka Haxan)

1923
Anna Christie (1923)
The Covered Wagon (1923)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Safety Last (1923)
Scaramouche (1923)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
A Woman of Paris (1923)

1924
Aelita (1924)
America (1924)
Girl Shy (1924)
Greed (1924)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The Iron Horse (1924)
Isn't Life Wonderful? (1924)
Kriemhild's Revenge (1924, Germany)
The Last Laugh (1924, Germany)
The Marriage Circle (1924)
The Navigator (1924)
Peter Pan (1924)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Strike (1924, USSR)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

1925
The Big Parade (1925)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Body and Soul (1925)
The Freshman (1925)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Go West (1925)
The Joyless Street (1925, Germany)
The Lost World (1925)
The Merry Widow (1925)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Seven Chances (1925)
Tumbleweeds (1925)
The Unholy Three (1925)
1926
Battling Butler (1926)
Beau Geste (1926)
The Black Pirate (1926)
Don Juan (1926)
Faust (1926, Germany)
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
For Heaven's Sake (1926)
Hands Up! (1926)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926, England)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
Sparrows (1926)
The Strong Man (1926)
The Student of Prague (1926, Germany)
What Price Glory? (1926)

1927
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
College (1927)
Flesh and the Devil (1927)
The General (1927)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1927) (lost film)
The Great Gatsby (1927) (lost film)
It (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927) (mostly silent)
The Kid Brother (1927)
The King of Kings (1927)
London After Midnight (1927) (lost film)
Man, Woman and Sin (1927)
Metropolis (1927, Germany)
My Best Girl (1927)
Napoleon (1927, France)
Seventh Heaven (1927) (aka 7th Heaven)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Sunrise (1927)
Underworld (1927)
The Unknown (1927)
The Way of All Flesh (1927)
Wings (1927)

1928
Abie's Irish Rose (1928) (partially lost)
Beggars of Life (1928)
The Cameraman (1928)
The Circus (1928)
The Crowd (1928)
The Docks of New York (1928)
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
The Last Command (1928)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
October (1928, USSR)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, France)
Queen Kelly (1928)
Sadie Thompson (1928)
Show People (1928)
Speedy (1928)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
The Wedding March (1928)
West of Zanzibar (1928)
The Wind (1928)

1929
Big Business (1929)
Un Chien Andalou (1929, France) (short)
The Diary of a Lost Girl (1929, Germany)
The Iron Mask (1929)
Liberty (1929)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929, USSR)
Pandora's Box (1929, Germany)
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
A Woman of Affairs (1929)

1930
Earth (1930, USSR)

1931
City Lights (1931)
Tabu (1931)

1936
Modern Times (1936) (mostly silent)


Post Silent Era:
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) (short)
The Red Balloon (1956, Fr.) (aka Le ballon rouge) (short)
Playtime (1967, Fr.)
The Artist (2011)



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