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Best of the Decade
1 DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER (Fritz Lang)
2 STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner)
3 GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
4 OUR HOSPITALITY (Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone)
5 THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)
6 BATTLING BUTLER (Buster Keaton)
7 THE BIG PARADE (King Vidor)
8 A GIRL IN EVERY PORT (Howard Hawks)
9 SHERLOCK, JR. (Buster Keaton)
10 FOUR SONS (John Ford)
1929
1 QUEEN KELLY (Erich von Stroheim)
2 LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
3 APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian)
4 WOMAN IN THE MOON (Fritz Lang)
5 THE LOVE PARADE (Ernst Lubitsch)
6 BERTH MARKS (Lewis R. Foster)
7 LUCKY STAR (Frank Borzage)
8 DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (G.W. Pabst)
9 THE NEW GENTLEMEN (Jacques Feyder)
10 THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg)
1928
1 STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner)
2 A GIRL IN EVERY PORT (Howard Hawks)
3 FOUR SONS (John Ford)
4 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Jean Epstein)
5 THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
6 SPIES (Fritz Lang)
7 THE WIND (Victor Sjöström)
8 THE CAMERAMAN (Edward Sedgwick)
9 THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA SQUARE (Boris Barnet)
10 THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
1927
1 THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)
2 THE STUDENT PRINCE OF OLD HEIDELBERG (Ernst Lubitsch)
3 SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)
4 PAID TO LOVE (Howard Hawks)
5 BED AND SOFA (Abram Room)
6 EVE'S LOVE LETTERS (Leo McCarey)
7 7TH HEAVEN (Frank Borzage)
8 SHOULD MEN WALK HOME? (Leo McCarey)
9 COLLEGE (Buster Keaton and James W. Horne)
10 THE KID BROTHER (Ted Wilde and J.A. Howe)
1926
1 BATTLING BUTLER (Buster Keaton)
2 FAUST (F.W. Murnau)
3 THE SORROWS OF SATAN (D.W. Griffith)
4 BROMO AND JULIET (Leo McCarey)
5 MUM'S THE WORD (Leo McCarey)
6 NOW YOU TELL ONE (Charles Bowers and Harold L. Muller)
7 AN UNFORGETTABLE GRUDGE (Daisuke Ito)
8 THE STRONG MAN (Frank Capra)
9 MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE (Leo McCarey)
10 GRIBICHE (Jacques Feyder)
1925
1 GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
2 THE BIG PARADE (King Vidor)
3 SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
4 LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (Ernst Lubitsch)
5 NO FATHER TO GUIDE HIM (Leo McCarey)
6 GO WEST (Buster Keaton)
7 THE RAT'S KNUCKLES (Leo McCarey)
8 LAZYBONES (Frank Borzage)
9 THE GOLD RUSH (Charles Chaplin)
10 PLAIN AND FANCY GIRLS (Leo McCarey)
1924
1 SHERLOCK, JR. (Buster Keaton)
2 THE LAST LAUGH (F.W. Murnau)
3 DIE NIBELUNGEN: KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE (Fritz Lang)
4 GIRL SHY (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
5 DIE NIBELUNGEN: SIEGFRIED (Fritz Lang)
6 THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh)
7 THE NAVIGATOR (Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp)
8 HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström)
9 SITTIN' PRETTY (Leo McCarey)
10 STRIKE (Sergei Eisenstein)
1923
1 OUR HOSPITALITY (Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone)
2 THE BALLOONATIC (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
3 PIERROT, PIERRETTE (Louis Feuillade)
4 WHY WORRY? (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
5 THE LOVE NEST (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
6 THREE AGES (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
7 THE BURNING CRUCIBLE (Ivan Mozzhukhin)
8 SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
9 NORTH OF HUDSON BAY (John Ford)
1922
1 DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER (Fritz Lang)
2 COPS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
3 HÄXAN (Benjamin Christensen)
4 LOVE'S CRUCIBLE (Victor Sjöström)
5 FOOLISH WIVES (Erich von Stroheim)
6 NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (F.W. Murnau)
7 THE BLACKSMITH (Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair)
8 MY WIFE'S RELATIONS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
9 THE PALEFACE (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
10 GRANDMA'S BOY (Fred C. Newmeyer)
1921
1 THE GOAT (Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair)
2 THE 'HIGH SIGN' (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
3 THE PLAY HOUSE (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
4 DESTINY (Fritz Lang)
5 THE HAUNTED HOUSE (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
6 LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7 THE BOAT (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
8 NEVER WEAKEN (Fred C. Newmeyer)
9 FOUR AROUND A WOMAN (Fritz Lang)
10 THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (Victor Sjöström)
1920
1 ONE WEEK (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
2 A DANGEROUS PLEDGE (Victor Sjöström)
3 THE SCARECROW (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
4 CONVICT 13 (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
5 NEIGHBORS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
5 THE SPIDERS, PART 2: THE DIAMOND SHIP (Fritz Lang)
7 THE PARSON'S WIDOW (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8 LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown)
9 ROMEO UND JULIA IM SCHNEE (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 DAS KABINETT DES DOKTOR CALIGARI (Robert Weine)
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