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1000 Defining Moments in Movies

From the book Defining Moments in Movies (2007, published by Cassell Illustrated), this list contains 1000 ‘profound, essential, illuminating, and significant’ film scenes, as suggested by 62 contributors.

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1.
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 L'Arrivée d'un Train à la Ciotat
by August & Louis Lumiere
  
2.
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 La chrysalide et le papillon d'or [The Brahmin and the Butterfly]
by Georges Melies
  
3.
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 The Life of an American Fireman (1903)  
4. Great Train Robbery - 100th Anniversay  
5.
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 The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
by Charles Tait
  
6.
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 The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912 short)
by Harold M. Shaw
  
7.
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 Max et son chien Dick [Max and Dog Dick] (1912, René Leprince and Max Linder)  
8. Cabiria
by Giovanni Pastrone
  
9. The Birth of a Nation  
10.
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 Daydreams (Bauer)  
11.
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 The Cheat (1915)
by Cecil B. DeMille
  
12.
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 Hell's Hinges (1916)
by Charles Swickard
  
13. Les Vampires
by Louis Feuillade
  
14. Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
by D.W. Griffith
  
15. The Blue Bird
by Maurice Tourneur
  
16.
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 The Outlaw and His Wife (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru) (1918)
by Victor Sjöström
  
17.
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 The Cook (1918)
by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
  
18. Broken Blossoms
by D.W. Griffith
  
19.
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 The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
by Raymond Longford
  
20. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
by Robert Wiene
  
21.
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 Tih Minh
by Louis Feuillade
  
22. True Heart Susie
by D. W. Griffith
  
23.
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 The 'High Sign' (short, 1921)
by Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
  
24. Foolish Wives  
25. Haxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages) - Criterion Collection  
26. Nanook of the North - Criterion Collection
by Robert J. Flaherty
  
27. Nosferatu (The Ultimate Two-Disc Edition)
by F.W. Murnau
  
28.
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 Sylvesterabend [Sylvester] (1923)
by Lupu Pick
  
29.
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 Safety Last! (1923)
by Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer
  
30.
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 Greed (1924)
by Erich von Stroheim
  
31. Strike
by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
32. The Last Laugh
by F.W. Murnau
  
33. Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr.  
34. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925. Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy)
by Fred Niblo
  
35. Go West  
36. Battleship Potemkin
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
37. The Gold Rush (2 Disc Special Edition)  
38. The Phantom of the Opera (1924) (Silent Film Classic)
by Rupert Julian
  
39.
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 The Big Parade (1925)
by King Vidor
  
40.
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 Egged On
by Ted Sears
  
41.
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 Ménilmontant (1926 short)
by Dimitri Kirsanoff
  
42.
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 Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
by Leo McCarey
  
43.
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 A Page of Madness / Kurutta Ippeji (1926)
by Teinosuke Kinugasa
  
44. The Jazz Singer (DVD) 1927 - Al Jolson
by Alan Crosland
  
45.
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 Springtime Saps (1929, Les Goodwins)  
46. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
47.
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 The Battle of the Century (1927, Clyde Bruckman)  
48.
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 Napoleon
by Abel Gance
  
49. Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Fritz Lang
  
50. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
by F.W. Murnau
  
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Created by fish_beauty on Apr 15, 2008.