They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? Starting List of 7900+ Most Notable Films (1893-1929)

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Here it is, for your viewing pleasure. The starting list (of over 7900 films), from which They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? select annually the 1000 Greatest Films. The list itself is created from various film critics and filmmakers’ "best-films-of-all-time" lists/ballots, as well as annual film magazine polls.

To make it more easier to shift through, this list will be organized chronologically, then alphabetically by title, and finally catagorized by decade (in nine parts). The exception is this one, which will include the earliest films in history from years 1893 to 1929.

Enjoy some of the greatest silents along with the earliest talkies!

Part 1 of 9

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  1. 1.
    Blacksmith Scene (1893 Short)
    by William K. L. Dickson

  2. 2.
    Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894 Short)
    by William K.L. Dickson

  3. 3.
    L'Arrivée d'un Train à la Ciotat
    by August & Louis Lumiere

  4. 4.
    L'Arroseur arrosé (1895)
    by Louis Lumière

  5. 5.
    La Sortie des usines Lumière (1895)
    by Louis Lumière

  6. 6.
    The Kiss (1896 Short)
    by William Heise

  7. 8.
    L' Homme à la tête en caoutchouc
    by Georges Méliès.

  8. 9.
    Star Theatre (1901 documentary short)
    by Frederick S. Armitage

  9. 10.
    A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune) (1902)
    by Georges Méliès

  10. 11.
    The Great Train Robbery (1903)
    by Edwin S. Porter

  11. 12.
    Le mélomane (1903)
    by Georges Méliès

  12. 13.
    Balle traversant une bulle de savon (1910)
    by Lucien Bull

  13. 14.
    Le Voyage a travers l'impossible (1904)
    by Georges Méliès

  14. 15.
    Westinghouse Works (1904 short)
    by G.W. Bitzer

  15. 16.

  16. 17.
    Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
    by Edwin S. Porter & Wallace McCutcheon

  17. 18.
    The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
    by Charles Tait

  18. 19.
    Le tunnel sous la manche (1907)
    by Georges Méliès

  19. 20.
    L' Assassinat du duc de Guise (1908)
    by André Calmettes & Charles Le Bargy

  20. 21.
    El hotel eléctrico (1908)
    by Segundo de Chomón

  21. 22.
    Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908)
    by J. Searle Dawley and Edwin S. Porter

  22. 23.
    A Corner in Wheat (1909 Short)
    by D.W. Griffith

  23. 24.
    Lady Helen's Escapade (1909 short)
    by D.W. Griffith

  24. 25.
    Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909 short)
    by J. Stuart Blackton

  25. 26.
    The Lonedale Operator (1911)
    by D.W. Griffith

  26. 27.

  27. 28.
    From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
    by Sidney Olcott

  28. 29.
    The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
    by D.W. Griffith

  29. 30.
    How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
    by Winsor McCay

  30. 31.
    The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912 short)
    by Harold M. Shaw

  31. 32.
    The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
    by D.W. Griffith

  32. 33.
    The Old Actor (1912)
    by D.W. Griffith

  33. 34.
    The Painted Lady (1912)
    by D.W. Griffith

  34. 35.
    Evidence of the Film (1913 Short)
    by Lawrence Marston

  35. 36.
    Fantômas (1913)
    by Louis Feuillade

  36. 37.
    Ingeborg Holm (1913)
    by Victor Sjöström

  37. 38.
    Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913 short)
    by Alice Guy

  38. 39.
    The Mothering Heart (1913)
    by D.W. Griffith

  39. 40.
    The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag)(1913)
    by Stellan Rye & Paul Wegener

  40. 41.

  41. 42.
    The Avenging Conscience (1914)
    by D.W. Griffith

  42. 43.
    Cabiria
    by Giovanni Pastrone

  43. 45.
    L'enfant de Paris (1913)
    by Léonce Perret

  44. 46.
    The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
    by Louis J. Gasnier, George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton

  45. 47.
    Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
    by Winsor McCay

  46. 48.
    In the Land of the Head-Hunters (1914 Documentary)
    by Edward S. Curtis

  47. 49.
    The Squaw Man
    by Cecil B. DeMille

  48. 50.
    Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
    by Edwin S. Porter

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Created by Dreda457 on Jan 20, 2009.
 

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