Silent Era

76 Films Screened
Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A
The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) 5
The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille, 1915) 2
The General (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, 1927) 3
The Navigator (Buster Keaton, 1924) 2
Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) 4

A-
Battling Butler (Buster Keaton, 1926)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo, 1925)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram, 1921)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Sparrows (William Beaudine, 1926)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch, 1927)

B+
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1927)
J'Accuse (Abel Gance, 1919)
The Kid (Charles Chaplin, 1921)
La Roue (Abel Gance, 1923)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux, 1920)
A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin, 1923)

B
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger and Carl Koch, 1926)
College (Buster Keaton and James W. Horne, 1927)
Häxan [Witchcraft Through the Ages] (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
Safety Last (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, 1923)
Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
Seven Years Bad Luck (Max Linder, 1921)
Spring Fever (Edward Sedgwick, 1927)

B-
It (Clarence C. Badger, 1927)
La Boheme (King Vidor, 1926)
Love (Edmund Goulding, 1927)
Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes, 1923)
Tell It to the Marines (George W. Hill, 1926)
The Three Ages (Buster Keaton, 1923)
Wings (William A. Wellman, 1927)

C+
Beyond the Rocks (Sam Wood, 1922) 2
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
Camille (Ray C. Smallwood, 1921)
The Conquering Power (Rex Ingram, 1921)
Exit Smiling (Sam Taylor, 1926)
Go West (Buster Keaton, 1925)
Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924) 2
Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1924) 2
Moran of the Lady Letty (George Melford, 1922)
The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström, 1926)
The Show (Tod Browning, 1927)
The Toll of the Sea (Chester M. Franklin, 1922)
The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)

C
Ace of Hearts (Wallace Worsley, 1921)
Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni, 1927)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley, 1923)
The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927)
My Best Girl (Sam Taylor, 1927)
Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921)
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1925)
The Temptress (Fred Niblo, 1926)
The Red Lily (Fred Niblo, 1924)
The Symbol of the Unconquered (Oscar Micheaux, 1920)

C-
Cleopatra (Charles L. Gaskill, 1912)
The Dragon Painter (William Worthington, 1919)
The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim, 1925)
The Monster (Roland West, 1925)
Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett, 1914)

D+
The Affairs of Anatol (Cecil B. DeMille, 1921)
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
Phantom (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
Torrent (Monta Bell, 1926)

D
Algie the Miner (Alice Guy, 1912)
The Rag Man (Edward Cline, 1925)

D-
Amarilly of Clothesline Alley (Marshall Neilan, 1918)
Bardelys the Magnificent (King Vidor, 1926)
Two Arabian Knights (Lewis Milestone, 1927)
The Young Rajah (Phil Rosen, 1922)

F
The Delicious Little Devil (Robert Z. Leonard, 1919)
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
Stolen Moments (James Vincent, 1920)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harry A. Pollard, 1927)

Ten Best Films of the Silent Era
1. Sherlock, Jr.
2. The Big Parade
3. The Cheat
4. The Navigator
5. The General
6. Metropolis
7. Nanook of the North
8. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
9. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
10. The Gold Rush

Ten Best Short Films of the Silent Era (in order of release)
Arrive d'un train un gare á La Ciotat [Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat] (August and Louis Lumière, 1895)
Voyage to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902)
The Life of an American Fireman (Edwin S. Porter, 1903)
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903)
Kid Auto Races at Venice (Henry Lehrman, 1914)
The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, 1917)
One Week (Buster Keaton and Edward Cline, 1920)
The Playhouse (Buster Keaton, 1921)
Cops (Buster Keaton, 1922)
Long Fliv the King (Leo McCarey, 1926)

Ten Best Male Performances of the Silent Era (in alphabetical order)
Lon Chaney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lon Chaney, The Phantom of the Opera
Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin, The Kid
John Gilbert, The Big Parade
Sessue Hayakawa, The Cheat
Buster Keaton, The Navigator
Buster Keaton, Sherlock, Jr.
Max Schreck, Nosferatu
Rudolph Valentino, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Ten Best Female Performances of the Silent Era (in alphabetical order)
Renée Adorée, The Big Parade
Eleanor Boardman, Souls for Sale
Clara Bow, It
Lillian Gish, La Boheme
Lillian Gish, The Scarlet Letter
Kathryn McGuire, The Navigator
Alla Nazimova, Camille
Mary Pickford, Sparrows
Edna Purviance, A Woman of Paris
Fanny Ward, The Cheat