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1920-1929

1920
1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Germany)
2. The Penalty (Wallace Worsley, USA)
3. The Scarecrow (Edward F. Cline, USA)

4. Algol: Tragedy of Power (Hans Werckmeister, Germany) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1928)
5. Number, Please? (Hal Roach/Fred C. Newmeyer, USA)
6. Get Out and Get Under (Hal Roach, USA)
7. Distilled Love (Vin Moore, USA)
8. While New York Sleeps (Charles Brabin, USA)

9. Just Pals (John Ford, USA)

10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (John S. Robertson, USA)
11. The Symbol of the Unconquered (Oscar Micheaux, USA)


1921
1. The Kid (Charles Chaplin, USA)
2. The Golem (Paul Wegener, Germany)
3. The Ace of Hearts (Wallace Worsley, USA)

4. Destiny (Fritz Lang, Germany) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1924)

5. The Haunted Castle (F.W. Murnau, Germany) (NO USA RELEASE)
6. The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram, USA) 

7. The Conquering Power (Rex Ingram, USA)

8. Journey into the Night (F.W. Murnau, Germany)

9. A Sailor Made Man (Fred C. Newmeyer, USA)

1922
1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, German) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1929)
2. Haxan (Benjamin Christensen, Sweden) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1929)
3. Dr. Mabuse The Gambler (Fritz Lang, Germany) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1927)
4. Doctor Jack (Fred C. Newmeyer, USA)

5. The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjostrom, Sweden

6. Felix Saves the Day (Otto Messmer, USA)
7. Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, USA/France)
8. Grandma’s Boy (Fred C. Newmeyer, USA)
9. Pay Day (Charles Chaplin, USA)

10. When Knighthood Was in Flower (Robert G. Vignola, USA)

11. The Toll of the Sea (Chester M. Franklin, USA)

1923
1. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer, USA)
2. La Roue (Abel Gance) (NO USA RELEASE)
3. Warning Shadows (Arthur Robison, Germany) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1927)

4. The Pilgrim (Charles Chaplin, USA)
5. The Shock (Lambert Hillyer, USA)

6. North of Hudson Bay (John Ford, USA)
7. The White Sister (Henry King, USA)
 

8. Second Fiddle (Frank Tuttle, USA)

9. The Ten Commandments (Cecile B. Demille, USA)

1924
1. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
2. He Who Get Slapped (Victor Sjostrom, USA)

3. The Navigator (Donald Crisp/Buster Keaton, USA)
4. The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, Austria/Germany) (Released in USA in 1928)

5. The Signal Tower (Clarence Brown, USA)
6. Isn't Life Wonderful (D. W. Griffith, USA)

7. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, USA)
8. The Iron Horse (John Ford, USA)
9. Forbidden Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
10. Mind the Baby (Al Herman, USA)
11. L’Inhumaine (Marcel L’Herbier, France) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1926)

12. Black Oxfords (Del Lord, USA)

13. Lizzies of the Field (Del Lord, USA)

14. Ten Dollars or Ten Days (Del Lord, USA)

1925
1. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, USA)
2. The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer, USA)

3. The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, USA)
4. The Big Parade (King Vidor, USA)

5. Tartuffe (F.W. Murnau, Germany) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1927)
6. The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, USA)

7. Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet Union) (NO USA RELEASE)

8. The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
9. Kentucky Pride (John Ford, USA)

10. Lady of the Night (Monta Ball, USA)

11. The Iron Mule (William Goodrich/Grover Jones, USA)

12. Oh, Doctor! (Harry A. Pollard, USA)

13. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo, USA)
14. Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack, USA)

15. The Nightingale's Voice (Wladyslaw Starewicz, Poland)

1926
1. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein, Soviet Union)
2. Battling Butler (Buster Keaton, USA)

3. Faust (F. W. Murnau, Germany)

4. The Temptress (Fred Niblo, USA)
5. The Magician (Rex Ingram, USA)
6. Miss Mend (Boris Barnet/Fyodor Otsep, Soviet Union) (NO USA RELEASE)

7. 3 Bad Men (John Ford, USA)

8. The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjostrom, USA)
9. The First Year (Frank Borzage, USA)
10. It’s the Old Army Game (Edward Sutherland, USA)

11. Going Crooked (George Melford, USA)

12. The Fire Brigade (William Nigh, USA)
13. Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, USA)


1927
1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, USA)
2. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Germany)
3. The General (Clyde Bruckman/Buster Keaton, USA)

4. The Unknown (Tod Browning, USA)
5. Underworld (Josef von Sternberg, USA)

6. Paid to Love (Howard Hawks, USA)
7. Feu Mathias Pascal (Marcel L’Herbier, France)

8. 7th Heaven (Frank Borzage, USA) 

9. It (Clarence G. Badger, USA)
10. Two Arabian Knights (Lewis Milestone, USA)
11. Mockery (Benjamin Christensen, USA)

12. Upstream (John Ford, USA)
13. The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni, USA)
14. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)

15. Blonde or Brunette (Richard Rosson, USA)
16. East Side, West Side (Allan Dwan, USA)

17. The King of Kings (Cecil B. DeMille, USA)

18. Duck Soup (Fred Guiol, USA)

1928
1. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon, USA)
2. The Wind (Victor Sjostrom, USA)

3. The Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson/Melville Webber, USA)
4. The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni, USA)
5. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, France) (NO USA RELEASE)
6. West of Zanzibar (Tod Browning, USA)

7. Street Angel (Frank Borzage, USA)

8. Four Sons (John Ford, USA)
9. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner, USA)

10. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick, USA)
11. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim, USA)

​12. The Circus (Charles Chaplin, USA)
13. The Racket (Lewis Milestone, USA)

14. The Last Warning (Paul Leni, USA)

15. Hangman's House (John Ford, USA)

16. The River Pirate (William K. Howard, USA)
17. Show People (King Vidor, USA)

18. Steamboat Willie (Ub Iwerks, USA)

1929
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, France)
2. Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang, Germany) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1929)

3. Welcome Danger (Silent Version) (Malcolm St. Clair, USA)
4. Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
5. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union)
6. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, France) (NO USA RELEASE)

7. Good Night Nurse (Lupino Lane, USA)

8. Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Soviet Union)

9. Hell's Heroes (William Wyler, USA)

10. Why Be Good? (William A. Seiter, USA)

11. Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick, USA)

12. The Kiss (Jacques Feyder, USA)

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