100 silent films / Bryony Dixon.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-245) and index.

The adventures of Dollie / D.W. Griffith -- Alfred Butterworth & Sons, Leaving the works, Glebe Mills, Hollinford / Mitchell & Kenyon -- Alice in Wonderland / Percy Stow -- Ballet mécanique / Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy -- The battle of the Somme / William F. Jury -- The battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands / Walter Summers -- The battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potyomkin / Sergei M. Eisenstein -- Beggars of life / William Wellman -- Berlin, symphony of a city/Berlin, die Sinfonie der Grossstadt / Walter Ruttmann -- The big swallow / James Williamson -- The birth of a flower / F. Percy Smith -- The birth of a nation / D.W. Griffith -- Blackmail / Alfred Hitchcock -- Body and soul / Oscar Micheaux -- The cabinet of Dr. Caligari/Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari / Robert Wiene -- Cabiria / Giovanni Pastrone -- The cameraman's revenge/Mest' kinematograficeskogo operatora / Ladislas Starewicz -- Casanova / Alexandre Volkoff -- The cheat / Cecil B. DeMille -- Un chien andalou / Luis Buñuel -- A cottage on Dartmoor / Anthony Asquith -- Daybreak/Tianming / Sun Yu -- Les deux timides/Two timid souls / Réne Clair -- Douro, faina fluvial/Labour on the Douro River / Manoel de Oliveira -- Drifters / John Grierson -- Earth/Zemlya / Aleksandr Dovzhenko -- En dirigeable sur les champs de bataille / Lucien Le Sainte -- The fall of the House of Usher/La chute de la maison Usher / Jean Epstein -- Finis terrae / Jean Epstein -- Flesh and the Devil / Clarence Brown -- The General / Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton -- The gold rush / Charles Chaplin -- Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam/The golem : how he came into the world / Paul Wegener, Carl Boese -- Gosta Berlings Saga / Mauritz Stiller -- The great train robbery / Edwin S. Porter -- The great white silence / Herbert Ponting -- Greed / Erich von Stroheim -- The heart of the world / Guy Maddin -- Hell's hinges / Charles Swickard -- Les hotes de I'air/Glimpses of bird life / Oliver Pike -- How a mosquito operates / Winsor McCay -- I was born, but ... /Otona no miru ehon: umarete wa mita keredo / Yasujiro Ozu. L'inferno / Giuseppe Beradi Arturo Busnego -- The informer / Arthur Robison -- It / Clarence Badger -- Japonaiseries / Gaston Velle -- The kid / Charles Chaplin -- Lenin Kino-Pravda No. 21/Leninskaia Kino-Pravda / Dziga Vertov -- Liberty / Leo McCarey -- The lodger: a story of the London fog / Alfred Hitchcock -- The lure of crooning water / A.H. Rooke -- Man with a movie camera/Chelovek s kinoapparatom / Dziga Vertov -- Manhatta / Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand -- La Mariée du chateau maudit / Albert Capellani -- The marriage circle / Ernst Lubitsch -- Metropolis / Fritz Lang -- Monte Cristo / Henri Fescourt -- Nanook of the north: a story of life and love in the actual Arctic / Robert J. Flaherty -- Napoleon/Napoléon vu par Abel Gance / Abel Gance -- The Nibelungen saga/Die Nibelungen Saga / Fritz Lang -- Nosferatu : a symphony of horrors/Nosferatu : eine Symphonie des Grauens / F.W. Murnau -- The oyster princess/Die Austernprinzessin / Ernst Lubitsch -- Page of madness/Kurutta ippeiji / Teinosuke Kinugasa -- Pandora's box/Die Buchse der Pandora / G.W. Pabst -- Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un bateau / Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière -- Paris qui dort/The crazy ray / Rène Clair -- The passion of Joan of Arc/La passion de Jeanne d'Arc / Carl Theodor Dreyer -- People on Sunday/Menschen am Sonntag / Robert Siodmak, Edgar Ulmer, Rochus Gleise -- The perils of Pauline / Louis Gasnier, Donald Mackenzie -- The phantom carriage/Korkarlen / Victor Sjostrom -- Policeman/Keisatsukan / Tomu Uchida -- Poor little rich girl / Maurice Tourneur -- Premier prix de violoncelle / Pathé Frères -- The queen of spades/Pikovaya dama / Yakov Protazanov -- Regen/Rain / Joris Ivens, M.H.K. Franken -- Revolutionshochzeit/the last night / A.W. Sandberg -- Safety last! / Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor -- The scarecrow / Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline -- Sex in chains/Geschlecht in Fesseln / Wilhelm Dieterle -- The smiling Madame Beudet/La souriante Madame Beudet / Germaine Dulac -- The son of the sheik / George Fitzmaurice -- The spirit of his forefathers / British Mutoscope and Biograph Company -- Stachka/Strike / Sergei M. Eisenstein -- Stage struck / Allan Dwan -- The student of Prague/Der Student von Prag / Stellan Rye -- Sunrise : a song of two humans / F.W. Murnau -- Suspense / Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley -- The talisman/Pied de mouton / Albert Capellani -- The thief of Bagdad / Raoul Walsh -- Three-must-get-theres / Max Linder -- Tol'able David / Henry King -- Topical Budget 93-1: The Derby 1913 / Topical Film Company -- Underworld / Josef von Sternberg -- The unknown / Todd Browning -- Les vampires / Louis Feuillade -- Voyage à travers I'impossible/The impossible voyage / Georges Méliès -- Way down east / D.W. Griffith -- The white slave trade/Den hvide slavehandel / August Blom -- The wind / Victor Sjostrom -- Witchcraft through the ages/Haxan / Benjamin Christensen.

This illuminating guide provides a selection of one hundred key films of the silent period (1895-1930), featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and directors, together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information.