The Mubi Forum Users' Top 20 Films, 2013 -- Silent Film Edition

What follows is twenty movies chosen by Mubi forum board members over about three months of voting, strategy, and no lack of controversy. Users were asked to submit a top 20 list of silent films (not necessarily silent era films) of their own, at which point the movies were collected and organized by amount submitted with a point valuation; the users were then compelled to vote titles up and down while titles dropped from the bottom. The original list had 361 titles; this list reflects what survived the devastation.

It is in the nature of lists such as these that someone not involved with the process comes along and sez, “BUT...