Few movies in the history of the medium have been more relegated to the “film school” shelf than Battleship Potemkin:
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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Phantom of the Opera might be the most adapted horror story this side of Dracula.
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The Eagle (1925)
Clarence Brown is one of Hollywood’s great success stories you’ve probably never heard of:
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
It takes a special breed of actor for the name alone to be a brand and a promise to the viewer, but Douglas Fairbanks achieved that during his career.
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Greed (1924)
They call it the white whale, the Holy Grail of lost films.
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The Great White Silence (1924)
The doomed Terra Nova expedition for the South Pole in 1912 ranks behind only one other event, the sinking of the RMS Titanic, in the public imagination of early 20th century English tragedies.
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Sherlock Jr. (1924)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who watches too many movies will be a dweeb.
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Strike (1925)
Soviet montage cinema is one of the most idiosyncratic movements in movie history, and also one of the most influential.
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The Last Laugh (1924)
The Last Laugh is tightly bound to the time and place in which it was created.
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La Roue (The Wheel) (1923)
Silent cinema is full of legendary figures, but none is quite so mythic as Abel Gance.