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TOP SILENT FILMS (full results)

Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) 51 14 6
#2 La Passion de Jeanne d'arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928) 41 9 6
#3 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) 26 11 1
#4 The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926) 23 7 1
#5 Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) 17 5 1
#6 Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) 16 6 1
#7 Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927) 11 3 2
Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) 11 3 1
#9 Greed (Eric von Stroheim, 1925) 10 3 -
#10 City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931) 9 4 1
#11 The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) 8 3 -
#12 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1919) 7 2 1
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925) 7 2 -
The Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) 7 3 -
Way Down East (D.W. Griffith, 1920) 7 2 -
#16 Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929) 6 2 -
The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928) 6 2 1
#18 I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932) 5 2 -
Wings (William A. Wellman, 1927) 5 1 1
#20 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo, 1925) 4 1 -
The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924) 4 2 -
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) 4 3 -
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936) 4 2 -
Tih Minh (Louis Feuillade, 1919) 4 1 -
Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921) 3 1 -
#25 The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) 3 1 -
Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930) 3 1 -
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916) 3 1 -
M (Fritz Lang, 1931) 3 1 -
Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff) 3 1 -
The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928) 3 1 -
#31 The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1920) 2 1 -
The River (Frank Borzage, 1929) 2 1 -
The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1928) 2 1 -
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924) 2 1 -
Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) 2 1 -
Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915) 2 2 -
#37 The Cameraman (Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick, 1928) 1 1 -
Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1962-64) 1 1 -
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D.W. Griffith, 1912) 1 1 -
Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923) 1 1 -
Silent Movie (Mel Brooks, 1976) 1 1 -
Spione (Fritz Lang, 1928) 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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