List added by Stehako on 7 October 2009 08:34

Best Film Direction (1900-1929)

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8.8

1. Fritz Lang

#1

Metropolis (1927)

8.1

2. D.W. Griffith

#2

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

#6

Intolerance (1916)

#25

Way Down East (1920)

8.7

3. Charles Chaplin

#3

A Woman of Paris (1923)

#14

The Gold Rush (1924)

#19

The Kid (1921)

9.8

4. Sergei Eisenstein

#4

Battleship Potempkin (1925)

#13

Strike (1925)

9.3

5. Erich von Stroheim

#5

Greed (1924)

9.2

6. Ernst Lubitsch

#7

The Love Parade (1929)

#24

The Patriot (1928)

Stehako's rating:

7.3

7. William A. Wellman

#8

Wings (1927)

8.9

8. Buster Keaton

#9

The General (1926)

#20

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

7.3

9. King Vidor

#10

The Crowd (1928)

#23

The Big Parade (1925)

8.9

10. F.W. Murnau

#11

Sunrise (1927)

#16

Nosferatu (1922)

#29

The Last Laugh (1924)

11. Rex Ingram

#12

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

12. Clarence Brown

#15

Flesh and the Devil (1926)

13. Roy Del Ruth

#17

Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)

8.8

14. Carl Theodor Dreyer

#18

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

15. Robert J. Flaherty

#21

Nanook of the North (1922)

16. Victor Fleming

#22

The Way of All Flesh (1927)

8.5

17. Winsor McCay

#26

The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)

18. James Cruze

#27

The Covered Wagon (1923)

7.4

19. Cecil B. DeMille

#28

The King of Kings (1927)

20. Irving Cummings

#30

In Old Arizona (1929)

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The Pioneering directors! Still some of the best directors, with the technology they had. Here are my 30 favorite examples of great directing at the beginning of the film industry.


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