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1929
1 QUEEN KELLY (Erich von Stroheim)
2 LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
3 THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg)
4 APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian)
5 WOMAN IN THE MOON (Fritz Lang)
6 LUCKY STAR (Frank Borzage)
7 DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (G.W. Pabst)
8 IN OLD ARIZONA (Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings)
9 THE LOVE PARADE (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 BLACKMAIL (Alfred Hitchcock)
1928
1 THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Jean Epstein)
3 THE WIND (Victor Sjöström)
4 THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA SQUARE (Boris Barnet)
5 STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner)
6 SPIES (Fritz Lang)
7 STREET ANGEL (Frank Borzage)
8 PLANE CRAZY (Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks)
9 THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
10 THE LAST COMMAND (Josef von Sternberg)
11 STEAMBOAT WILLIE (Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks)
12 THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim)
13 THE LOVE OF ZERO (William Cameron Menzies and Robert Florey)
1927
1 THE STUDENT PRINCE OF OLD HEIDELBERG (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)
3 COLLEGE (Buster Keaton and James W. Horne)
4 BED AND SOFA (Abram Room)
5 BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Walter Ruttmann)
6 THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)
7 METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
8 THE KID BROTHER (Ted Wilde and J.A. Howe)
9 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich)
10 THE GIRL WITH THE HAT BOX (Boris Barnet)
11 UNDERWORLD (Josef von Sternberg)
12 THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
13 NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
1926
FAUST (F.W. Murnau)
THE SHAMROCK HANDICAP (John Ford)
MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE (Leo McCarey)
BATTLING BUTLER (Buster Keaton)
SO THIS IS PARIS (Ernst Lubitsch)
1925
1 GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
2 THE BIG PARADE (King Vidor)
3 SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
4 THE GOLD RUSH (Charles Chaplin)
5 SALLY OF THE SAWDUST (D.W. Griffith)
6 CHESS FEVER (Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky)
7 MASTER OF THE HOUSE (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8 GO WEST (Buster Keaton)
9 THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein)
10 LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (Ernst Lubitsch)
1924
1 SHERLOCK, JR. (Buster Keaton)
2 STRIKE (Sergei Eisenstein)
3 THE LAST LAUGH (F.W. Murnau)
4 DIE NIBELUNGEN: KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE (Fritz Lang)
5 DIE NIBELUNGEN: SIEGFRIED (Fritz Lang)
6 THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh)
7 HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström)
8 GIRL SHY (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
9 HOT WATER (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
10 ENTR'ACTE (René Clair)
1923
OUR HOSPITALITY (Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone)
PIERROT, PIERRETTE (Louis Feuillade)
WHY WORRY? (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
THE LOVE NEST (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
THREE AGES (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
THE BALLOONATIC (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
1922
DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER (Fritz Lang)
HÄXAN (Benjamin Christensen)
LOVE'S CRUCIBLE (Victor Sjöström)
FOOLISH WIVES (Erich von Stroheim)
NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (F.W. Murnau)
COPS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
THE PALEFACE (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
THE FROZEN NORTH (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
DAYDREAMS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
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 LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5 THE HAUNTED HOUSE (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
6 THE BOAT (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
7 NEVER WEAKEN (Fred C. Newmeyer)
8 THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (Victor Sjöström)
9 DESTINY (Fritz Lang)
1920
1 NEIGHBORS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
2 A DANGEROUS PLEDGE (Victor Sjöström)
3 ONE WEEK (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
4 THE SCARECROW (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
5 THE SPIDERS, PART 2: THE DIAMOND SHIP (Fritz Lang)
6 CONVICT 13 (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
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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