| Rank | Year | Director | Country | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1927 | Fritz Lang | Germany | Metropolis | 87%
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| 15 | 1915 | D. W. Griffith | USA | The Birth of a Nation | 83%
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| 4 | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | USA | City Lights | 80%
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| 1 | 1926 | Buster Keaton | USA | The General | 80%
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| 23 | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | USA | The Kid | 77%
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| 5 | 1922 | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Germany | Nosferatu | 73%
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| 6 | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | USA | The Gold Rush | 73%
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| 9 | 1925 | Sergei Eisenstein | USSR | Battleship Potemkin | 70%
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| 16 | 1916 | D. W. Griffith | USA | Intolerance | 69%
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| 8 | 1920 | Robert Wiene | Germany | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 64%
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| 3 | 1927 | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | USA | Sunrise | 60%
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| 17 | 1924 | Buster Keaton | USA | Sherlock, Jr. | 56%
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| 7 | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | France | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 55%
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| 10 | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | USA | Greed | 54%
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| 14 | 1927 | Abel Gance | France | Napoléon | 47%
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| 38 | 1928 | Charles Chaplin | USA | The Circus | 45%
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| 29 | 1927 | William A. Wellman | USA | Wings | 39%
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| 40 | 1929 | Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí | France | An Andalusian Dog | 38%
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| 21 | 1919 | D. W. Griffith | USA | Broken Blossoms | 38%
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| 24 | 1928 | Charles F. Reisner | USA | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 38%
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| 13 | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | USA | The Wind | 38%
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| 30 | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | USSR | Man With The Movie Camera | 37%
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| 11 | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | Pandora's Box | 37%
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| 19 | 1923 | Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | USA | Safety Last! | 37%
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| 12 | 1928 | King Vidor | USA | The Crowd | 37%
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| 53 | 1926 | Alfred Hitchcock | United Kingdom | The Lodger | 37%
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| 68 | 1902 | Georges Méliès | France | Trip to the Moon | 37%
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| 25 | 1925 | Fred Niblo | USA | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | 36%
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| 20 | 1925 | Rupert Julian | USA | The Phantom of the Opera | 36%
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| 32 | 1926 | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Germany | Faust | 35%
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| 31 | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | USA | Nanook of the North | 34%
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| 42 | 1922 | Fritz Lang | Germany | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 32%
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| 80 | 1924 | Sergei Eisenstein | USSR | Strike | 32%
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| 81 | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | USA | The Great Train Robbery | 32%
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| 22 | 1924 | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Germany | The Last Laugh | 30%
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| 18 | 1925 | King Vidor | USA | The Big Parade | 28%
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| 28 | 1923 | Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone | USA | Our Hospitality | 27%
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| 37 | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick | USA | The Cameraman | 26%
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| 59 | 1924 | Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp | USA | The Navigator | 26%
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| 26 | 1924 | Raoul Walsh | USA | The Thief of Bagdad | 26%
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| 34 | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | Sweden | Witchcraft through the Ages | 26%
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| 76 | 1928 | Sergei Eisenstein | USSR | October | 25%
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| 54 | 1925 | Buster Keaton | USA | Seven Chances | 25%
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| 61 | 1931 | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty | USA | Tabu | 24%
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| 41 | 1923 | Wallace Worsley | USA | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 24%
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| 33 | 1920 | D. W. Griffith | USA | Way Down East | 24%
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| 57 | 1921 | D. W. Griffith | USA | Orphans of the Storm | 23%
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| 60 | 1930 | Alexander Dovzhenko | USSR | Earth | 22%
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| 62 | 1915-16 | Louis Feuillade | France | Les Vampires | 22%
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| 74 | 1917 | Charles Chaplin | USA | The Immigrant | 22%
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| 56 | 1922 | Erich von Stroheim | USA | Foolish Wives | 21%
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| 70 | 1927 | Frank Borzage | USA | 7th Heaven | 20%
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| 86 | 1923 | Charles Chaplin | USA | A Woman of Paris | 20%
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| 82 | 1921 | Fritz Lang | Germany | Destiny | 20%
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| 71 | 1927 | Clarence Badger | USA | It | 20%
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| 44 | 1921 | George Melford | USA | The Sheik | 20%
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| 45 | 1924 | Fritz Lang | Germany | Die Nibelungen | 19%
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| 78 | 1922 | Allan Dwan | USA | Robin Hood | 19%
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| 46 | 1925 | Sam Taylor, Fred Newmeyer | USA | The Freshman | 19%
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| 77 | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone | Italy | Cabiria | 18%
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| 49 | 1924 | Victor Sjöström | USA | He Who Gets Slapped | 18%
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| 79 | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | USA | The Docks of New York | 18%
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| 67 | 1920 | Paul Wegener | USA | The Golem | 18%
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| 97 | 1924 | John Ford | USA | The Iron Horse | 18%
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| 36 | 1927 | Tod Browning | USA | The Unknown | 17%
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| 66 | 1922 | Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline | USA | Cops | 16%
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| 90 | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | USSR | Mother | 16%
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| 96 | 1927 | Cecil B. DeMille | USA | The King of Kings | 16%
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| 52 | 1928 | Paul Leni | USA | The Man Who Laughs | 16%
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| 100 | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg | USA | Underworld | 16%
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| 35 | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | The Diary of a Lost Girl | 15%
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| 43 | 1921 | Rex Ingram | USA | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | 15%
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| 83 | 1928 | Ted Wilde | USA | Speedy | 14%
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| 47 | 1920 | Fred Niblo | USA | The Mask of Zorro | 14%
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| 75 | 1918 | Erich von Stroheim | USA | Queen Kelly | 13%
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| 87 | 1920 | John S. Robertson | USA | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 12%
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| 27 | 1927 | Clarence Brown | USA | Flesh and the Devil | 12%
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| 39 | 1928 | King Vidor | USA | Show People | 12%
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| 73 | 1927 | Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe | USA | The Kid Brother | 12%
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| 55 | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | USA | The Last Command | 12%
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| 51 | 1928 | Erich von Stroheim | USA | The Wedding March | 12%
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| 69 | 1926 | George Fitzmaurice | USA | The Son of the Sheik | 11%
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| 84 | 1928 | Raoul Walsh | USA | Sadie Thompson | 10%
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| 91 | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille | USA | The Cheat | 10%
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| 72 | 1925 | Harry O. Hoyt | USA | The Lost World | 10%
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| 63 | 1927 | Ernst Lubitsch | USA | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | 10%
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| 92 | 1925 | E. A. Dupont | Germany | Variety | 10%
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| 50 | 1924 | Sam Taylor, Fred Newmeyer | USA | Girl Shy | 9%
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| 58 | 1926 | William Beaudine | USA | Sparrows | 9%
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| 98 | 1920 | Wallace Worsley | USA | The Penalty | 9%
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| 89 | 1925 | Tod Browning | USA | The Unholy Three | 9%
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| 48 | 1921 | Henry King | USA | Tol'able David | 9%
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| 64 | 1928 | William A. Wellman | USA | Beggars of Life | 8%
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| 95 | 1929 | Allan Dwan | USA | The Iron Mask | 8%
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| 93 | 1924 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | The Joyless Street | 8%
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| 94 | 1929 | James W. Horne | USA | Big Business | 7%
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| 65 | 1927 | Sam Taylor | USA | My Best Girl | 6%
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| 85 | 1922 | John S. Robertson | USA | Tess of the Storm Country | 6%
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| 88 | 1920 | Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown | USA | The Last of the Mohicans | 6%
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| 99 | 1918 | Marshall Neilan | USA | Stella Martis | 4%
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