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Lost Films of the Silent Era

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Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest, Held at Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910 (1910)

5.7

Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest, Held at Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910 (1910)...

The Jeffries-Sharkey Contest (1899)

Earliest lost film, first film shot in artificial light.

The Music Master (1908)

Early D.W. Griffith appearance.

7.3

Saved from the Titanic (1912)

First film about the sinking of the Titanic, starring a survivor.

7.5

6.9

The Vampire (1913)

Britain's first feature length horror film.

The Werewolf

The first Werewolf film.

7.2

6.9

The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

(The film from 1914, not 1959, obviously.)
First dramatic feature film in color.

5.9

Her Friend the Bandit (1914)

Only lost film starring Chaplin.

The Two Orphans (1915)

One of Theda Bara's lost films. Remade by D.W. Griffith as Orphans of the Storm.

The Serpent

Another of Theda Bara's lost films.

5.6

The Fall of a Nation (1916)

Sequel to The Birth of a Nation.

6.7

The Great Love (1918)

Contained footage of England and France during WWI, including an air raid and a battle.

6.9

The Homesteader (1919)

First film starring an all black cast and crew for a black audience.

8.1

Humor Risk

The first Marx Brothers film.

7.5

Experience (1921)

Allegory in which all the characters are named for a human emotion.

Number 13 (1922)

Uncompleted Hitchcock film which would have been his first.

7.4

Human Wreckage (1923)

Film about drug addiction based on Wallace Reid.

7.5

7.4

Dracula's Death (1921)

First filmed Dracula story.

6.3

That Royle Girl (1925)

Directed by D.W. Griffith and starring W.C. Fields, amazingly used 24 airplane propellers to create a tornado sequence.

6.7

A Woman of the Sea (1926)

Film destroyed by Chaplin as part of a tax write-off.

The Mountain Eagle

The only feature length lost Hitchcock film.

7.5

6.9

The Way of All Flesh (1927)

The only Academy Award winner to be lost.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Whether because of improper care, studio fires, or lack of preservation, it is estimated that 80 percent of films from the Silent Era are lost or incomplete.

There is nothing more upsetting to me than a lost film or a lost piece of artwork, it is simply heart-wrenching. But what really gets to me is knowing all the lost work from what I think is the most innovative and influential period in film history.

This is a list of those lost films. While there have been many films lost past 1930, this is focusing only on the lost silents of significant value.

This is still in progress, so if there's a valuable film you think should be on here, leave a comment.