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1001 Movies to See Before You Die (1900 to 1929)

This list is drawn from Steven Jay Schneider’s 1001 Movies to See Before You Die. There is a complete list available, but I got tired of it changing every year when the new edition came out (especially when the new picks are worse (I’ll miss you City of God)). Given that none of the new editions have deleted a film before the 1980s, this list should stand awhile.
1.
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 A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune) [1902]
by Georges Melies
  
2. Great Train Robbery - 100th Anniversay  
3. The Birth of a Nation  
4. Les Vampires
by Louis Feuillade
  
5. Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
by D.W. Griffith
  
6.
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 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
by Robert Wiene
  
7. Broken Blossoms
by D.W. Griffith
  
8. Way Down East  
9. Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux)
by Oscar Micheaux
  
10.
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 The Phantom Carriage (Korkarlen)
by Victor Sjostrom
  
11. Orphans of Storm (Silent) (B&W)
by D.W. Griffith
  
12.
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 Le souriante Madame Beudet
by Germaine Dulac
  
13.
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 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
by Fritz Lang
  
14. Nanook of the North - Criterion Collection
by Robert J. Flaherty
  
15. Nosferatu - Special Edition
by F.W. Murnau
  
16. Haxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages) - Criterion Collection  
17. Foolish Wives  
18.
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 Our Hospitality
by John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton
  
19.
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 La Roue (1923)
by Abel Gance
  
20. The Thief of Bagdad (Deluxe Edition)
by Raoul Walsh
  
21. Stachka ( Strike )
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
22.
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 Greed (1924)
by Erich von Stroheim
  
23.
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 Sherlock, Jr.
by Buster Keaton
  
24. F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh [Import, All-region] (Dvd)
by F.W. Murnau
  
25. Seven Chances  
26. The Phantom of the Opera (1924) (Silent Film Classic)
by Rupert Julian
  
27. Battleship Potemkin (The Ultimate Edition) (2pc) (Full B&W)
by Sergei Eisenstein
  
28. The Gold Rush (2 Disc Special Edition)  
29.
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 The Big Parade (1925)
by King Vidor
  
30. Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Fritz Lang
  
31. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans  
32. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
33.
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 The Unknown (1927)
by Tod Browning
  
34.
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 October (1927)
by Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
35. The Jazz Singer (DVD) 1927 - Al Jolson
by Alan Crosland
  
36.
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 Napoleon (1927)
by by Abel Gance
  
37.
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 The Kid Brother (1927)
by Ted Wilde
  
38.
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 The Crowd (1928)
by King Vidor
  
39.
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 The Docks of New York
by Josef von Sternberg
  
40. Un Chien Andalou  
41. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
42. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
by Charles Reisner
  
43. Storm over Asia
by Vsevolod Pudovkin
  
44. Blackmail/Easy Virtue  
45. Man With the Movie Camera
by Dziga Vertov
  
46. Pandora's Box - Criterion Collection  
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Created by jriekse on Sep 20, 2007.