20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 1920s

  #. Movie Title - (Directors Name)

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  1. Man with a Movie Camera - (Dziga Vertov)
  2. Un chien andalou - (Luis Buñuel)
  3. Pandora's Box - (G.W. Pabst)
  4. The Broadway Melody - (Harry Beaumont)
  5. Blackmail - (Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. Hallelujah! - (King Vidor)
  7. The Love Parade - (Ernst Lubitsch)
  8. Diary of a Lost Girl - (G.W. Pabst)
  9. The Cocoanuts - (Robert Florey & Joseph Santley)
10. Applause - (Rouben Mamoulian)
11. Woman in the Moon - (Fritz Lang)
12. Big Business - (James W. Horne & Leo McCarey)
13. Arsenal - (Alexander Dovzhenko)
14. Piccadilly - (E.A. Dupont)
15. The Skeleton Dance - (Walt Disney)
16. Gold Diggers of Broadway - (Roy Del Ruth)
17. Lucky Star - (Frank Borzage)
18. The General Line - (Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Alexandrov)
19. A Cottage on Dartmoor - (Anthony Asquith)
20. Rain - (Mannus Franken & Joris Ivens)

  1. The Passion of Joan of Arc - (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. The Crowd - (King Vidor)
  3. Steamboat Willie - (Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks)
  4. The Circus - (Charles Chaplin)
  5. The Cameraman - (Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick)
  6. Steamboat Bill, Jr. - (Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner)
  7. The Wind - (Victor Sjöström)
  8. October: Ten Days That Shook the World - (Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Alexandrov)
  9. The Last Command - (Josef von Sternberg)
10. In Old Arizona - (Irving Cummings)
11. The Docks of New York - (Josef von Sternberg)
12. The Man Who Laughs - (Paul Leni)
13. Fall of the House of Usher - (Jean Epstein)
14. Storm over Asia - (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
15. Show People - (King Vidor)
16. Street Angel - (Frank Borzage)
17. Spione - (Fritz Lang)
18. Sadie Thompson - (Raoul Walsh)
19. The Wedding March - (Erich von Stroheim)
20. Lonesome - (Paul Fejos)

  1. Metropolis - (Fritz Lang)
  2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - (F.W. Murnau)
  3. The Jazz Singer - (Alan Crosland)
  4. Napoléon - (Abel Gance)
  5. Wings - (William A. Wellman)
  6. Seventh Heaven - (Frank Borzage)
  7. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog - (Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. The Unknown - (Tod Browning)
  9. Underworld - (Josef von Sternberg)
10. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City - (Walter Ruttmann)
11. It - (Clarence G. Badger & Josef von Sternberg)
12. The Kid Brother - (Ted Wilde & J.A. Howe)
13. The Cat and the Canary - (Paul Leni)
14. The King of Kings - (Cecil B. DeMille)
15. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg - (Ernst Lubitsch)
16. The End of St. Petersburg - (Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mikhail Doller)
17. My Best Girl - (Sam Taylor)
18. College - (Buster Keaton & James W. Horne)
19. The Girl with the Hat Box - (Boris Barnet)
20. The Battle of the Century - (Clyde Bruckman)

  1. The General - (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
  2. Faust - (F. W. Murnau)
  3. Flesh and the Devil - (Clarence Brown)
  4. The Adventures of Prince Achmed - (Lotte Reiniger)
  5. The Black Pirate - (Albert Parker)
  6. Mother - (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
  7. Don Juan - (Alan Crosland)
  8. Ménilmontant - (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
  9. A Page of Madness - (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
10. For Heaven's Sake - (Sam Taylor)
11. The Scarlet Letter - (Victor Sjöström)
12. Moana - (Robert J. Flaherty)
13. La Bohème - (King Vidor)
14. Sparrows - (William Beaudine)
15. What Price Glory? - (Raoul Walsh)
16. Battling Butler - (Buster Keaton)
17. The Son of the Sheik - (George Fitzmaurice)
18. The Winning of Barbara Worth - (Henry King)
19. 3 Bad Men - (John Ford)
20. By the Law - (Lev Kuleshov)

  1. Battleship Potemkin - (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
  2. The Gold Rush - (Charles Chaplin)
  3. The Big Parade - (King Vidor)
  4. The Phantom of the Opera - (Rupert Julian)
  5. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - (Fred Niblo)
  6. Strike - (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
  7. Seven Chances - (Buster Keaton)
  8. The Freshman - (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
  9. The Lost World - (Harry O. Hoyt)
10. The Merry Widow - (Erich von Stroheim)
11. Grass - (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
12. Lady Windermere's Fan - (Ernst Lubitsch)
13. The Unholy Three - (Tod Browning)
14. Joyless Street - (G.W. Pabst)
15. Variety - (E. A. Dupont)
16. Go West - (Buster Keaton)
17. Master of the House - (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
18. Paris qui dort - (René Clair)
19. The Eagle - (Clarence Brown)
20. Stella Dallas - (Henry King)

  1. Sherlock Jr. - (Buster Keaton)
  2. Greed - (Erich von Stroheim)
  3. The Last Laugh - (F. W. Murnau)
  4. The Thief of Bagdad - (Raoul Walsh)
  5. The Navigator - (Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp)
  6. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried - (Fritz Lang)
  7. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge - (Fritz Lang)
  8. He Who Gets Slapped - (Victor Sjöström)
  9. The Iron Horse - (John Ford)
10. Entr'acte - (René Clair)
11. Girl Shy - (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
12. Michael - (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
13. Peter Pan - (Herbert Brenon)
14. Ballet mécanique - (Fernand Léger)
15. The Marriage Circle - (Ernst Lubitsch)
16. The Saga of Gösta Berling - (Mauritz Stiller)
17. The Hands of Orlac - (Robert Wiene)
18. Kino Eye - (Dziga Vertov)
19. Aelita - (Yakov Protazanov)
20. Waxworks - (Paul Leni & Leo Birinski)

  1. Safety Last! - (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
  2. Our Hospitality - (Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone)
  3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - (Wallace Worsley)
  4. La Roue - (Abel Gance)
  5. The Ten Commandments - (Cecil B. DeMille)
  6. A Woman of Paris - (Charles Chaplin)
  7. Cœur fidèle - (Jean Epstein)
  8. The Smiling Madame Beudet - (Germaine Dulac)
  9. Three Ages - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
10. The Covered Wagon - (James Cruze)
11. Why Worry? - (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
12. The Pilgrim - (Charles Chaplin)
13. Scaramouche - (Rex Ingram)
14. Little Old New York - (Sidney Olcott)
15. Warning Shadows - (Arthur Robison)
16. Merry-Go-Round - (Rupert Julian)
17. Flaming Youth - (John Francis Dillon)
18. The Extra Girl - (F. Richard Jones)
19. Souls for Sale - (Rupert Hughes)
20. Rosita - (Ernst Lubitsch)

  1. Nosferatu - (F.W. Murnau)
  2. Nanook of the North - (Robert J. Flaherty)
  3. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler Part One: The Great Gambler - (Fritz Lang)
  4. Häxan - (Benjamin Christensen)
  5. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler Part Two: Inferno - (Fritz Lang)
  6. Foolish Wives - (Erich von Stroheim)
  7. Cops - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
  8. Robin Hood - (Allan Dwan)
  9. Blood and Sand - (Fred Niblo)
10. Grandma's Boy - (Fred C. Newmeyer)
11. The Great White Silence - (Herbert G. Ponting)
12. Pay Day - (Charles Chaplin)
13. The Electric House - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
14. When Knighthood Was in Flower - (Robert G. Vignola)
15. Salomé - (Charles Bryant)
16. Phantom - (F.W. Murnau)
17. The Paleface - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
18. Crainquebille - (Jacques Feyder)
19. Dr. Jack - (Fred C. Newmeyer)
20. Beyond the Rocks - (Sam Wood)

  1. The Kid - (Charles Chaplin)
  2. The Phantom Carriage - (Victor Sjöström)
  3. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - (Rex Ingram)
  4. Destiny - (Fritz Lang)
  5. Orphans of the Storm - (D.W. Griffith)
  6. The Sheik - (George Melford)
  7. Tol'able David - (Henry King)
  8. The Playhouse - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
  9. The Boat - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
10. The Three Musketeers - (Fred Niblo)
11. The High Sign - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
12. Manhatta - (Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand)
13. The Goat - (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair)
14. El Dorado - (Marcel L'Herbier)
15. The Idle Class - (Charles Chaplin)
16. Never Weaken - (Fred C. Newmeyer)
17. The Wildcat - (Ernst Lubitsch)
18. L'Atlantide - (Jacques Feyder)
19. A Sailor-Made Man - (Fred C. Newmeyer)
20. The Affairs of Anatol - (Cecil B. DeMille)

  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - (Robert Wiene)
  2. Way Down East - (D. W. Griffith)
  3. One Week - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
  4. The Golem: How He Came into the World - (Paul Wegener & Carl Boese)
  5. The Mark of Zorro - (Fred Niblo)
  6. Within Our Gates - (Oscar Micheaux)
  7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - (John S. Robertson)
  8. The Last of the Mohicans - (Maurice Tourneur & Clarence Brown)
  9. The Penalty - (Wallace Worsley)
10. The Parson's Widow - (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
11. Erotikon - (Mauritz Stiller)
12. The Scarecrow - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
13. Anna Boleyn - (Ernst Lubitsch)
14. L'homme du large - (Marcel L'Herbier)
15. Neighbors - (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
16. The Flapper - (Alan Crosland)
17. Humoresque - (Frank Borzage)
18. Pollyanna - (Paul Powell)
19. Leaves from Satan's Book - (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
20. From Morn to Midnight - (Karlheinz Martin)