Sijmen's List of Mainstream Classics
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1929
Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst / Germany)


1928
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
The Crowd (King Vidor)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer / France)
The Wind (Victor Sjöström)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)


1927
The General (Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman)
The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang / Germany)
Napoleon (Abel Gance / France)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage)
Wings (William Wellman)


1926
Faust (F.W. Murnau / Germany)
The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock / United Kingdom)


1925
The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein / U.S.S.R.)
The Big Parade (King Vidor)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
Strike (Sergei M. Eisenstein / U.S.S.R.)
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian)


1924
Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang / Germany)
Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau / Germany)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)


1923
Safety Last (Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor)


1922
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang / Germany)
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (W.F. Murnau / Germany)
Witchcraft Through the Ages (Benjamin Christensen / Sweden)


1921
The Kid (Charles Chaplin)


1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene / Germany)
The Golem (Paul Wegener, Carl Boese / Germany)


1919
Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith)

1916
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)

1915
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
Les Vampires (Luois Feuillade / France)

1914
Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone / Italy)

1902
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès / France)

1895
L'Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat (Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière / France)



















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