FYC: THE SILENT ERA

By: spartac​ula

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: THE SILENT ERA is a work in progress.

not in the ‘auteurs’ database:

- THE UNHOLY NIGHT (‘29) – Lionel Barrymore
- UNCLE TOM’S CABIN (‘27) – Harry A. Pollard
- MOCKERY (’27) – Benjamin Christensen
- SOULS FOR SALE (‘23) – Rupert Hughes
- THE MAGICIAN (’26) – Rex Ingram
- SHADOWS (‘22) – Tom Forman
- WHEN A MAN LOVES (’27) – Alan Crosland
- IN THE BORDER STATES (‘10) – D.W. Griffith
- THE SUNBEAM (’12) – D.W. Griffith
- THE MONSTER (’25) -

The following list includes only films produced in the sound era with the specific artistic intention of being silent:

UN CHIEN ANDALOU (‘29) – Salvador Dali / Luis Buñuel
CITY GIRL (’30) – F.W. Murnau
BORDERLINE (‘30) – Kenneth MacPherson
EARTH (’30) – Aleksandr Dovzhenko
CITY LIGHTS (‘31) – Charlie Chaplin
TABU (’31) – F. W. Murnau / Robert Flaherty
I WAS BORN, BUT… (‘32) – Yasujiro Ozu
A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS (’34) – Yasujiro Ozu
THE GODDESS (‘34) – Wu Yonggang
MODERN TIMES (’36) – Charlie Chaplin

• 01
  The Phantom Carriage
  Victor Sjöström
• 02
  Nosferatu
  F.W. Murnau
• 03
  The King of Kings
  Cecil B. DeMille
• 04
  The Unholy Three
  Tod Browning
• 05
  Way Down East
  D.W. Griffith
• 06
  West of Zanzibar
  Tod Browning
• 07
  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  Fred Niblo
• 08
  Nanook of the North
  Robert J. Flaherty
• 09
  White Shadows in the South Seas
  W.S. Van Dyke
• 10
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  Wallace Worsley
• 11
  The Lost World
  Harry O. Hoyt
• 12
  The Mark of Zorro
  Fred Niblo
• 13
  Battleship Potemkin
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 14
  The Patsy
  King Vidor
• 15
  The Sheik
  George Melford
• 16
  The Unknown
  Tod Browning
• 17
  The Matinee Idol
  Frank Capra
• 18
  Cartoon Factory
  Dave Fleischer
• 19
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 20
  Orphans of the Storm
  D.W. Griffith
• 21
  Card Party
  Georges Méliès
• 22
  Arrival of a Train
  Auguste Lumière
• 23
  The Great Train Robbery
  Edwin S. Porter
• 24
  A Trip to the Moon
  Georges Méliès
• 25
  The Birth of a Nation
  D.W. Griffith
• 26
  Les vampires
  Louis Feuillade
• 27
  The Musketeers of Pig Alley
  D.W. Griffith
• 28
  The Cheat
  Cecil B. DeMille
• 29
  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  D.W. Griffith
• 30
  The Crowd
  King Vidor
• 31
  The Girl and Her Trust
  D.W. Griffith
• 32
  The Mothering Heart
  D.W. Griffith
• 33
  For His Son
  D.W. Griffith
• 34
  Those Awful Hats
  D.W. Griffith
• 35
  A Corner in Wheat
  D.W. Griffith
• 36
  The Heart of an Indian
  Thomas H. Ince
• 37
  The Phantom of the Opera
  Rupert Julian
• 38
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 39
  The Iron Horse
  John Ford
• 40
  Phantom
  F.W. Murnau
• 41
  Laugh, Clown, Laugh
  Herbert Brenon
• 42
  The Racket
  Lewis Milestone
• 43
  The Sea Hawk
  Frank Lloyd
• 44
  The Trail of '98
  Clarence Brown
• 45
  Wild Oranges
  King Vidor
• 46
  Four Sons
  John Ford
• 47
  Beau Brummel
  Harry Beaumont
• 48
  The Pagan
  W.S. Van Dyke
• 49
  Traffic in Souls
  George Loane Tucker
• 50
  Un chien andalou
  Luis Buñuel
• 51
  City Girl
  F.W. Murnau
• 52
  Borderline
  Kenneth Macpherson
• 53
  City Lights
  Charlie Chaplin
• 54
  Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
  F.W. Murnau
• 55
  I Was Born, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 56
  A Story of Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 57
  The Goddess
  Wu Yonggang
• 58
  Modern Times
  Charlie Chaplin
• 59
  Captain Salvation
  John S. Robertson
• 60
  Where East Is East
  Tod Browning
• 61
  Mr. Wu
  William Nigh
• 62
  He Who Gets Slapped
  Victor Sjöström
• 63
  Sparrows
  William Beaudine
• 64
  The Kiss
  Jacques Feyder
• 65
  The Last of the Mohicans
  Clarence Brown