JONATHAN ROSENBAUM'S 1000 ESSENTIAL FILMS: SILENTS

Here are Rosenbaum's 104 favorite films from 1895-1929:

1895
L'arrivee d'un train en Garede la Ciotat (Louis Lumiere)
La Sortie des Usines Lumiere (Lumiere)

1907
Le Tunnel sous le Manche (Georges Melies)

1909
A Corner in Wheat (D.W. Griffith)

1912
Musketeers of Pig Alley (Griffith)

1913-14
Fantomas (Louis Feuillade)

1914
The Avenging Conscience (Griffith)
Child of the Big City (Yevgeni Bauer)
L'enfant de Paris (Leonce Perret)
The Wishing Ring (Maurice Tourneur)

1915-16
Les Vampires (Feuillade)

1916
Carmen (Charlie Chaplin)
Intolerance (Griffith)

1916-18
Judex (Feuillade)

1917
One A.M. (Chaplin)

1918
Tih Minh (Feuillade)

1919
Barrabas (Feuillade)
Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch)
True Heart Susie (Griffith)

1920
The Last of the Mohicans (Maurice Tourneur)
The Parson's Widow (Carl Dreyer)
Die Puppe / The Doll (Lubitsch)

1921
Cops (Buster Keaton)
Destiny (Fritz Lang)
The Kid (Chaplin)
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)

1922
Dr. Mabuse (Lang)
Foolish Wives (Eric von Stroheim)
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
Orphans of the Storm (Griffith)
Raskolnikov (Wiene)
Le souriante Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac)

1923
The Covered Wagon (James Cruze)
The Three Ages (Keaton)

1924
Ballet mecanique (Dudley Murphy/ Fernand Leger)
Greed (Stroheim)
L'inhumaine (Marcel L'Herbier)
Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) (Murnau)
Michael (Dreyer)
Die Niebelungen (Lang)
Paris qui dort (The Crazy Ray) (Rene Clair)
Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon)
Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton)
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)

1925
The Big Parade (King Vidor)
Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin / Nicolai Shipovsky)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
Master of the House (Dreyer)
The Merry Widow (Stroheim)
Metropolis (Lang)
Potemkin (Eisenstein)
Seven Chances (Keaton)
Tartuffe (Murnau)

1926
Dura lex (By the Law) (Lev Kuleshov)
Faust (Murnau)
Fig Leaves (Howard Hawks)
Moana (Flaherty)
Mother (Pudovkin)
A Page of Madness / A Crazy Page (Teinosuke Kinugasa)

1927
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (Clair)
Charleston (Jean Renoir)
The General (Keaton)
La glace a trois faces (Jean Epstein)
It (Clarence Badger)
October (Eisenstein)
The Ring (Alfred HItchcock)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage)
Sunrise (Murnau)

1928
L'argent (L'Herbier)
The Cameraman (Keaton)
Un chien andalou (Luis Bunuel / Salvador Dali)
Le chute de la maison Usher (Epstein)
The Crowd (Vidor)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
Leave 'em Laughing (Clyde Bruckman)
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer)
La petite marchande d'allumettes (Renoir)
Queen Kelly (Stroheim)
Spione (Lang)
Two Tars (James Parrott)

1929
Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko)
Black & Tan (Murphy)
Blackmail (Hitchcock)
Dynamite (Cecil B. DeMille)
The General Line (Eisenstein)
Hallelujah! (Vidor)
Lonesome (Paul Fejos)
The Love Parade (Lubitsch)
The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
The New Babylon (Grigori Kozinstev / Leonid Trauberg)
Thunderbolt (Sternberg)

So Who Owned the Silents? Rosenbaum's auteur scoreboard:

Griffith: 7 Keaton: 6 Feuillade: 5 Lang: 5 Murnau: 5 Chaplin: 4 Dreyer: 4 Eisenstein: 4 Stroheim: 4 Lubitsch: 3 Sternberg: 3 Vidor: 3 Clair: 2 Epstein: 2 Flaherty: 2 Hitchcock: 2 L'Herbier: 2 Lumiere: 2 Pudovkin: 2 Maurice Tourneur: 2 Wiene: 2