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F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
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Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
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Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
4
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
5
Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton
Action Comedy • Comedy • Crime Comedy
6
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan
Drama • Silent Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Alfred Abel, Heinrich George, Fritz Alberti
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot • Dystopian Film
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Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor • Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy of Errors
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
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Robert Wiene • Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher
Costume Horror • German Expressionist Film • Gothic Film
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Victor Sjöström • Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
Drama • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
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Charles Chaplin • Starring: George Davis, Al Ernest Garcia, Charles Chaplin
Adventure • Romance • Romantic Adventure
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Dziga Vertov • Starring: Mikhail Kaufman
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Culture and Society
14
Charles Reisner • Starring: Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence
Action Comedy • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
15
Edward Sedgwick • Starring: Buster Keaton, Sidney Bracey, Dick Alexander
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman, Camilla Horn
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge
Adventure Comedy • Comedy • Romance
21
Benjamin Christensen • Starring: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio
Docudrama • Documentary • Drama
22
Abel Gance • Starring: Albert Dieudonné, Edmond Van Daële, Gina Manès
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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King Vidor • Starring: James Murray, Bert Roach, Daniel G. Tomlinson
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
24
Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Romance
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Erich von Stroheim • Starring: ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt
26
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel
Avant-garde / Experimental • Mindbender • Satire
27
Rupert Julian • Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
28
Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Fredereick Vroom
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Tod Browning • Starring: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry
Drama • Horror • Romance
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Action • Adventure • Combat Films
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Police Detective Film
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King Vidor • Starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Anti-War Film • Drama • Romance
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Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Comedy • Short Film • Silent Film
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Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor • Starring: Brooks Benedict, Harold Lloyd, James Anderson
Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy • Silent Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph
Adventure • Fantasy Adventure • Fantasy
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Victor Sjöström • Starring: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love
Drama • Psychological Drama • Silent Film
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Lotte Reiniger
Adventure • Animation • Fairy Tales and Legends
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fantasy Adventure
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June
Crime • Horror • Psychological Horror
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Paul Leni • Starring: Conrad Veidt, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Costume Romance
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Robert Florey, Joseph Santley • Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Nicholas Soussanin
Drama • Melodrama • Period Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke
Fantasy • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama • Epic • Foreign Language Film
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Ted Wilde • Starring: Harold Lloyd
Action Comedy • Action • Adventure Comedy
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Robert J. Flaherty • Starring: Berry Kroeger
Documentary • History • Silent Film
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
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Carl Boese, Paul Wegener • Starring: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Louise Brooks, Andre Roanne, Josef Rovensky
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
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Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor • Starring: Richard Daniels, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston
Comedy • Silent Film
51
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline • Starring: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox
Chase Movie • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
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Victor Sjöström • Starring: Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
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Larry Semon • Starring: Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Dwan
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Foreign Language Film • Silent Film • Spy Film
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Ted Wilde • Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Donald Calthrop
Based-on-Theatre • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Wallace Worsley • Starring: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
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Fred Niblo • Starring: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, Betty Bronson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
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Teinosuke Kinugasa • Starring: Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Psychological Drama
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Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Edward F. Cline
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook
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D.W. Griffith • Starring: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton • Starring: Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Comedy • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
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Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Adventure Comedy • Comedy • Silent Film
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Frank Borzage • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Melodrama
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D.W. Griffith • Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut
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Walter Ruttmann
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Documentary
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Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov • Starring: Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Docudrama • Drama • Epic
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James W. Horne • Starring: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley
Comedy Drama • Silent Film • Sports Comedy
71
Jean Epstein • Starring: Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
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King Vidor • Starring: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Gustav von Wangenheim, Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch
Adventure • Foreign Language Film • Romance
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Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair • Starring: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
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Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery
76
Clarence G. Badger • Starring: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
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Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Walter James
78
Fred Niblo • Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Period Film
79
Erich von Stroheim • Starring: Erich Von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont
Drama • Melodrama • Silent Film
80
Pál Fejös • Starring: Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
81
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety
82
Paul Leni • Starring: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley
Comedy • German Expressionist Film • Horror Comedy
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Walt Disney
Animation • Cartoon • Short Film
85
Albert Parker • Starring: Billie Dove, Donald Crisp, Sam de Grasse
86
Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
87
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Kitty Bradbury
88
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane
Comedy • Musical • Musical Romance
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John S. Robertson • Starring: John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
90
Robert Wiene • Starring: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner
Body Horror • Crime • Drama
91
Abel Gance • Starring: Séverin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French Impressionist Film
92
Clarence Brown • Starring: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson
93
Ub Iwerks • Starring: Walt Disney
94
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton • Starring: Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Black Comedy • Short Film • Silent Film
95
Harry O. Hoyt • Starring: Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery
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Allan Dwan • Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse
Action • Adventure • Fairy Tales and Legends
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Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur • Starring: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
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Dimitri Kirsanoff • Starring: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy Drama • French Impressionist Film
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Fred C. Newmeyer • Starring: Harold Lloyd, John T. Prince, Eric Mayne
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Wallace Worsley • Starring: Lon Chaney, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason
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