Combined Film Canon - 1890 / 1929

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Updated, Jul. 2009.

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

  2. 2.
    A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune) (1902)
    by Georges Méliès

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

  4. 4.
    Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
    by Edwin S. Porter & Wallace McCutcheon

  5. 5.
    Fantasmagorie
    by Émile Cohl

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

  7. 7.

  8. 8.
    Fantômas (1913)
    by Louis Feuillade

  9. 9.
    Cabiria
    by Giovanni Pastrone

  10. 10.
    Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
    by Winsor McCay

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

  12. 12.
    The Birth of a Nation
    by D.W. Griffith

  13. 13.
    Les Vampires
    by Louis Feuillade

  14. 14.
    Intolerance
    by D.W. Griffith

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

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

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

  18. 18.
    The Outlaw and His Wife (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru) (1918)
    by Victor Sjöström

  19. 19.
    Broken Blossoms (Deluxe Edition)
    by D.W. Griffith

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

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

  22. 22.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Wiene

  23. 23.
    The Golem
    by Paul Wegener

  24. 24.
    Last of Mohicans
    by Clarence Brown

  25. 25.
    The Mark of Zorro
    by Fred Niblo

  26. 26.
    Neighbors (1920)
    by Buster Keaton

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

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

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

  30. 30.
    Destiny
    by Fritz Lang

  31. 31.
    The Goat
    by Buster Keaton

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

  33. 33.
    The Kid
    by Charlie Chaplin

  34. 34.
    The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen)(1921)
    by Victor Sjöström

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

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

  37. 37.
    Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler

  38. 38.
    Foolish Wives

  39. 39.
    Haxan (The Criterion Collection)
    by Benjamin Christensen

  40. 40.
    Nanook of the North (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert J. Flaherty

  41. 41.
    Nosferatu
    by F.W. Murnau

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

  43. 43.
    The Frogs Who Wanted a King
    by Wladyslaw Starewicz

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

  45. 45.
    The Pilgrim (1923)
    by Charlie Chaplin

  46. 46.
    La Roue
    by Abel Gance

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

  48. 48.
    Voice of the Nightingale (La voix du rossignol)
    by Wladyslaw Starewicz

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

  50. 50.
    Ballet mécanique (1924)
    by Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy

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Created by lee109 on Nov 15, 2006.
 

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Hope you don't mind... — 2 years ago

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


Re-did ''Peter Pan'' listing — 4 years ago

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




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