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Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
3
Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Romance
4
Rupert Julian • Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
5
King Vidor • Starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Anti-War Film • Drama • Romance
6
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor • Starring: Brooks Benedict, Harold Lloyd, James Anderson
Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy • Silent Film
7
Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama • Epic • Foreign Language Film
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Larry Semon • Starring: Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Dwan
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
9
Fred Niblo • Starring: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, Betty Bronson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
10
Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Adventure Comedy • Comedy • Silent Film
11
Harry O. Hoyt • Starring: Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery
Adventure • Fantasy Adventure • Fantasy
12
Tod Browning • Starring: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore
Crime Thriller • Crime • Silent Film
13
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Lil Dagover, Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy of Manners • Comedy
14
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Johannes Meyer, Astrid Holm, Karin Nellemose
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
15
Ewald André Dupont • Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti
Crime • Drama • Psychological Drama
16
Leander de Cordova • Starring: Betty Blythe, Heinrich George, Mary Odette
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Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
18
Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack • Starring: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison
Culture and Society • Documentary • Silent Film
19
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky • Starring: Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Yakov Protazanov
Comedy • Short Film • Silent Film
20
Erich von Stroheim • Starring: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy
Black Comedy • Drama • Romantic Drama
21
Jacques Feyder • Starring: Jean Forest, Victor Vina, Pierrette Houyez
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
22
Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Agnes Esterhazy
Drama • Ensemble Film • Foreign Language Film
23
Frank Borzage • Starring: Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones, ZaSu Pitts
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
24
René Clair • Starring: Henri Rollan, Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils
Chase Movie • Comedy • Fantasy
25
Donald Crisp • Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Jack McDonald
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
26
Augusto Genina • Starring: Pierre Magnier, Angelo Ferrari, Linda Moglia
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Period Film
27
George B. Seitz • Starring: Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Malcolm McGregor
Silent Film • Western
28
Scott Sidney • Starring: Syd Chaplin, Ethel Shannon, James E. Page
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
29
Oscar Micheaux • Starring: Paul Robeson, Mercedes Gilbert, Julia Theresa Russell
Drama • Silent Film
30
Roland West • Starring: Lon Chaney, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmstead
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
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Del Lord • Starring: Madeline Hurlock
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Wesley Ruggles • Starring: Clara Bow, Donald Keith, Henry B. Walthall
Comedy Drama • Romance • Romantic Comedy
33
George Chesebro, Bruce M. Mitchell • Starring: George Chesebro, Roy Watson, Milburn Morante
Drama • Horror • Monster Film
34
Guido Brignone • Starring: Bartolomeo Pagano, Franz Sala, Elena Sangro
Costume Adventure • Fantasy • Horror
35
King Baggot • Starring: William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield
Silent Film • Traditional Western • Western
36
D.W. Griffith • Starring: Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, Alfred Lunt
Comedy • Drama • Melodrama
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Clarence Brown • Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Louise Dresser
Action • Adventure Comedy • Adventure
38
Frank Borzage • Starring: Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
39
Monta Bell • Starring: Norma Shearer, Malcolm McGregor, Dale Fuller
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
40
Clarence G. Badger • Starring: Raymond Griffith, Betty Compson, Tom Santschi
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Crime
41
Joseph Henabery • Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Hector Sarno, Nita Naldi
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
42
Edward F. Cline • Starring: Jackie Coogan, Max Davidson, William Conklin
Comedy Drama • Drama • Family
43
Leo McCarey • Starring: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Oliver Hardy
Comedy • Parody/Spoof • Short Film
44
Ward Hayes • Starring: Billy West, Oliver Hardy, Ethelyn Gibson
45
Louis J. Gasnier • Starring: Clara Bow, Donald Keith, Lillian Leighton
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
46
Del Lord • Starring: Billy Bevan
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Leo McCarey • Starring: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Jane Sherman
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Bud Barsky • Starring: Kenneth MacDonald, Claire de Lorez, Fay Wray
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
49
Jean Renoir • Starring: Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French Impressionist Film
50
Noel M. Smith • Starring: Rin Tin Tin, Nanette, Charles Farrell
Adventure • Animal Picture • Silent Film
51
Leo McCarey • Starring: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Lucien Littlefield
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Ben F. Wilson • Starring: Yakima Canutt, Helene Rosson, Edward Cecil
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Hunt Stromberg • Starring: Elaine Hammerstein, Theodore Von Eltz, Mrs. Charles Craig
Drama • Melodrama • Silent Film
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Sidney Franklin • Starring: Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman, George K. Arthur
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Silent Film
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Harry S. Webb • Starring: Jack Perrin, Josephine Hill, Tom London
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Alfred J. Goulding • Starring: Harry Langdon, June Marlowe
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Walter Lang, Dorothy Davenport • Starring: Priscilla Bonner, Nellie Bly Baker, Carl Miller
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Prostitution Film
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Robert DeLacy • Starring: Frances Dare, Frankie Darro, David Dunbar
Action • Period Film • Silent Film
59
Harry Edwards • Starring: Harry Langdon
60
Clarence Brown • Starring: Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, Constance Bennett
61
William Beaudine • Starring: Mary Pickford, William Haines, Walter James
Comedy • Drama • Silent Film
62
Unknown • Starring: Louis B. Mayer, Irving G. Thalberg, Howard Hawks
Documentary • Media Documentary • Short Film
63
Lloyd Bacon
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Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Lillian Rich, Rod La Rocque, Vera Reynolds
Drama
65
Paul Leni
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film • Silent Film
66
James Cruze • Starring: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Erwin Connelly
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Manners
67
Paul Sloane • Starring: Richard Dix, William Powell, Frances Howard
Comedy • Drama • Romance
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Allan Dwan • Starring: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor
Comedy • Silent Film
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin
70
Dziga Vertov
Documentary • Short Film • Silent Film
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Hanns Walter Kornblum • Starring: Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
72
René Clair • Starring: Albert Préjean, Sandra Milovanoff, Georges Vaultier
Drama • Fantasy • Ghost Film
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Franz Osten, Himansu Rai • Starring: Himansu Rai, Seeta Devi, Sarada Ukil
74
Henry King • Starring: Ronald Coleman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
75
Robert F. McGowan • Starring: Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels
Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy • Family
76
Buntarô Futagara • Starring: Tsumasaburô Bandô, Utako Tamaki, Misao Seki
Action • Drama • Foreign Language Film
77
Leo McCarey • Starring: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Gale Henry
78
George W. Hill • Starring: Marion Davies, Harrison Ford (II), Holbrook Blinn
Action • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy Drama
79
Malcolm St. Clair • Starring: Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
80
Unknown
Short Film • Silent Film
81
Henri Chomette
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Documentary
82
Arthur von Gerlach • Starring: Arthur Kraußneck, Paul Hartmann, Rudolf Forster
Drama • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
83
Benjamin Stoloff
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Animal Picture
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Herbert Blaché • Starring: Hoot Gibson, Virginia Brown Faire, Pierre Faunce
Romance • Romantic Drama • Silent Film
86
Tod Browning • Starring: Aileen Pringle, Conway Tearle, Mitchell Lewis
87
Frank E. Kleinschmidt
Family • Holiday Film • Short Film
88
Julien Duvivier • Starring: André Heuzé, Henry Krauss, Charlotte Barbier-Krauss
Comedy Drama • Drama • Silent Film
89
John G. Blystone • Starring: Tom Mix, Alan Hale, Kathleen Myers
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Period Film
90
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Sueko Ito, Shirô Kato, Kentaro Kawamata
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Rural Drama
91
Harry Edwards • Starring: Harry Langdon, Marie Astaire, Vernon Dent
92
Herbert Brenon • Starring: Betty Bronson, Esther Ralston, Henry Vibart
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Fairy Tales and Legends
93
Paul Sehnert • Starring: Leoniide Jürisson, Mihkel Lepper, Kalju Raag
94
Mikhail Fokine • Starring: Anna Pavlova
Dance Film • Musical • Short Film
95
Jean de Rovera
Documentary • Sports and Recreation
96
Lita Lawrence • Starring: Nance Newman, George E. Patton, Adelaide M. Chase
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Lynn Reynolds • Starring: Tom Mix, Mabel Ballin, Harold Goodwin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Silent Film • Traditional Western
100
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