My 20 favorite films of the Silent Era (pre-1930)

20. Pandora's Box (Pabst)
19. Greed (von Stroheim)
18. Sherlock Jr. (Keaton)
17. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
16. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein/Aleksandrov)
15. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Reisner/Keaton)
14. The Man With the Movie Camera (Vertov)
13. The Man Who Laughs (Leni)
12. The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh)
11. Faust (Murnau)
10. Our Hospitality (Blystone/Keaton)
09. Nosferatu (Murnau)
08. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
07. Sunrise (Murnau)
06. The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein)
05. The Last Laugh (Murnau)
04. The General (Bruckman/Keaton)
03. Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel)
02. Seven Chances (Keaton)
01. Metropolis (Lang)