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1. Nanook of the North

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

It has an average vote of 7.105 on TMDB.

2. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (Октябрь)

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.

It has an average vote of 6.822 on TMDB.

3. Battleship Potemkin (Броненосец Потёмкин)

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.

4. The Soldier's Courtship

Britain's first drama film.

It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.

5. The Assassination of the Duke de Guise (L'assassinat du duc de Guise)

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.

6. Zombies und Dromomanen - Die blinden Vögel unterwegs (Zombies und Dromomanen - Die blinden Vögel unterwegs)

Two men who have been friends for quite some time and who live in different cities maintain a correspondence with Super 8 film reels that they occasionally send to each other. One of these film reels shows a woman who reminds the addressee of a former girlfriend. Immediately and without paying attention to his obligations to the company, he drives the company car to the city of his childhood friend, 780 km away. There he finds out that she has been the secret lover of his Super 8 friend for years. After about three or four weeks, which they spend on the coast of another country without any significant difficulties, the lover of the childhood friend rows his boat alone across the Atlantic after an obviously frame-up rescue operation.

7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari)

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

It has an average vote of 7.931 on TMDB.

8. The Star Rover

Based on the novel The Star Rover by Jack London .

9. The Call of the Cumberlands

An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.

It has an average vote of 4.2 on TMDB.

10. Broken Blossoms

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

It has an average vote of 6.886 on TMDB.

11. Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora)

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

12. The Phantom of the Opera

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

13. The Half of a Boy (Egy fiúnak a fele)

In English known informally as "The Half of a Boy" and "Stepmother". Based on the novel by Kálmán Mikszáth. After his wife's death Gáthy Lörinc remarries and in secret he takes his son born from this second marriage to the same foster parents who take care his first son born from his first marriage and left without mother. Five years later, when both boys return home, his wife does not know which is her own child, and which is the child of the previous wife, so the husband's desire is fulfilled, his orphaned son doesn't have step-mother, because his wife loves both boys equally, as her sweet children.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

14. The Family Secret

The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

15. The Rediscovered Paradise (Das wiedergefundene Paradies)

Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden. They discover that flowers can bring both joy and solace.

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

16. Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle

A gin bottle is personified with a spirit. As the gin bottle changes hands the spirit of the bottle tempts the various possessors to take a drink. A pro-prohibition movie, the story exemplifies the tragedies of drinking.

It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.

17. La défense du drapeau (La défense du drapeau)

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.

18. The Birth of a Nation

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

It has an average vote of 6.028 on TMDB.

19. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with British Film Institute in 2004.

It has an average vote of 7.853 on TMDB.

20. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc)

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

It has an average vote of 8.011 on TMDB.