Combined Film Canon - 1890 / 1929

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The �Combined Film Canon� is a list of 2,000 great movies, assembled by combining the �They Shoot Pictures Don�t They� list of 1,000 movies and a �Doubling the Canon� list, created by participants on the IMDb Classic Film message board, which added an additional 1,000 great movies. The result is a list of 2,000 movies, which includes feature films, shorts, TV-movies, and TV mini-series. It does not include TV series or music videos.

Because of its unwieldy size, the Combined Film Canon will be posted as nine lists: 1890-1929, 1930�s, 1940�s, 1950�s, 1960�s, 1970�s, 1980�s, 1990�s, and 2000-present. These lists will be updated regularly, as They Shoot Pictures and the �Doubling the Canon� project make revisions.

On each of the nine Combined Film Canon lists, movies are first listed chronologically, and then alphabetically within the years.

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  1. 1.
    L'Arrivée d'un Train à la Ciotat
    by August & Louis Lumiere

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    A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune) [1902]
    by Georges Melies

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  3. 3.
    The Great Train Robbery
    by Edwin S. Porter

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  4. 4.
    Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend
    by Edwin S. Porter & Wallace McCutcheon

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  5. 5.
    Fantasmagorie
    by Émile Cohl

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  6. 6.
    A Corner in Wheat (1909 Short)
    by D.W. Griffith

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  7. 7.
    The Cameraman's Revenge (Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora)
    by Wladyslaw Starewicz

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  8. 8.
    Fantomas
    by Louis Feuillade

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  9. 9.
    Cabiria
    by Giovanni Pastrone

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  10. 10.
    Gertie the Dinosaur
    by Winsor McCay

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  11. 11.
    After Death (Posle smerti)(1915)
    by Y. Bauer

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  12. 12.
    The Birth of a Nation

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  13. 13.
    Les Vampires
    by Louis Feuillade

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  14. 14.
    Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
    by D.W. Griffith

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  15. 15.
    The Dying Swan (Umirayushchii lebed) (1917)
    by Y. Bauer

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  16. 16.
    Easy Street (1917)
    by Charlie Chaplin

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  17. 17.
    The Immigrant (1917)
    by Charlie Chaplin

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    The Outlaw and His Wife (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru) (1918)
    by Victor Sjöström

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  19. 19.
    Broken Blossoms
    by D.W. Griffith

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  20. 20.
    The Oyster Princess (1919)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  21. 21.
    True Heart Susie
    by D. W. Griffith

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  22. 22.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
    by Robert Wiene

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  23. 23.
    The Golem
    by Paul Wegener

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  24. 24.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by Clarence Brown

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  25. 25.
    The Mark of Zorro
    by Fred Niblo

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  26. 26.
    Neighbors
    by Buster Keaton

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  27. 27.
    One Week (1920)
    by Buster Keaton

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  28. 28.
    The Parson's Widow : Three Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  29. 29.
    Way Down East
    by D.W. Griffith

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  30. 30.
    Destiny (1921) aka Der müde Tod
    by Fritz Lang

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  31. 31.
    The Goat
    by Bustor Keaton

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  32. 32.
    The 'High Sign' (short, 1921)
    by Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline

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    The Kid
    by Charlie Chaplin

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  34. 34.
    The Phantom Carriage (Korkarlen)
    by Victor Sjostrom

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  35. 35.
    The Play House (1921)
    by Buster Keaton

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  36. 36.
    Cops (short, 1922)
    by Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline

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  37. 37.
    Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler
    by Fritz Lang

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  38. 38.
    Foolish Wives

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  39. 40.
    Nanook of the North - Criterion Collection
    by Robert J. Flaherty

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  40. 41.
    Nosferatu - Special Edition
    by F.W. Murnau

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  41. 42.
    Felix In Hollywood (Animated Short, 1923)
    by Otto Messmer

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    The Frogs Who Wanted a King
    by Wladyslaw Starewicz

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  43. 44.
    Our Hospitality (1923)
    by Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone

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    The Pilgrim (1923)
    by Charlie Chaplin

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  45. 46.
    La Roue
    by Abel Gance

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  46. 47.
    Safety Last! (1923)
    by Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer

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    Voice of the Nightingale (La voix du rossignol)
    by Wladyslaw Starewicz

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  48. 49.
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    A Woman Of Paris (1923)
    by Charlie Chaplin

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  49. 50.
    Ballet mécanique
    by Fernand Léger / Dudley Murphy

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Created by lee109 on Nov 15, 2006.
 

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Dreda457
Burlingame

Hope you don't mind... — 14 weeks ago

I started revising this list to match the new 08/09 versions of the lists described.


Re-did ''Peter Pan'' listing — 2 years ago

Replaced the entry with one linked to the Kino Video edition on amazon.com.