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The Phantom Carriage

Victor Sjöström
1921 • 106 minutes • 1.37:1 • Sweden
Spine: #579 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, this extraordinarily rich and innovative silent classic (which inspired Ingmar Bergman to make movies) is a Dickensian ghost story and a deeply moving morality tale, as well as a showcase for groundbreaking special effects.

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Häxan

Benjamin Christensen
1922 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • Denmark
Spine: #134 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Häxan is a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

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Nanook of the North

Robert Flaherty
1922 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #33 Edition: DVD

Robert Flaherty’s classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada’s Hudson Bay region.

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Safety Last!

Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
1923 • 73 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #662 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him.

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Body and Soul

Oscar Micheaux
1925 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #371 Edition: Collector’s Sets

Body and Soul, directed by the legendary African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, is a direct critique of the power of the cloth, casting Paul Robeson in dual roles as a jackleg preacher and a well-meaning inventor.

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The King of Kings

Cecil B. DeMille
1927 • 155 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #266 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster.

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Underworld

Josef von Sternberg
1927 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #529 Edition: Collector’s Sets

Josef von Sternberg’s riveting breakthrough is widely considered the film that launched the American gangster genre as we know it.

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Lonesome

Paul Fejos
1928 • 69 minutes • 1.19:1 • United States
Spine: #623 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A buried treasure from Hollywood’s golden age, Lonesome is the creation of a little-known but audacious and one-of-a-kind filmmaker, Paul Fejos (also an explorer, anthropologist, and doctor!).

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The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Th. Dreyer
1928 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #62 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, in which Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, convinced the world that movies could be art.

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The Docks of New York

Josef von Sternberg
1928 • 75 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #531 Edition: Collector’s Sets

Fog-shrouded cinematography by Harold Rosson (The Wizard of Oz), expressionist set design by Hans Dreier (Sunset Boulevard), and sensual performances by Bancroft and Compson make this one of Josef von Sternberg’s finest works, and one of the most exquisitely crafted films of its era.

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The Last Command

Josef von Sternberg
1928 • 88 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #530 Edition: Collector’s Sets

Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra who lands a role playing a version of his former czarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall.

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Pandora’s Box

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
1929 • 133 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #358 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Sensationally modern, G. W. Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu (Louise Brooks), whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with.

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À propos de Nice

Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman
1930 • 23 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Jean Vigo was twenty-five when he made this, his debut film, a silent cinematic poem that reveals, through a thrilling and ironic use of montage, the economic reality hidden behind the facade of the Mediterranean resort town of Nice.

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The Blood of a Poet

Jean Cocteau
1930 • 50 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #67 Edition: Collector’s Sets

One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the “Orphic Trilogy” stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.

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Under the Roofs of Paris

René Clair
1930 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #161 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

In René Clair’s irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. An international sensation upon its release, Under the Roofs of Paris is an exhilarating celebration of filmmaking.

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Borderline

Kenneth Macpherson
1930 • 65 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets
Borderline, the sole feature of British film theorist Kenneth Macpherson, boldly blends Eisensteinian montage and domestic melodrama, and features Paul Robeson and his wife, Eslanda, as lovers caught up in a tangled web of interracial affairs.

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People on Sunday

Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer
1930 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #569 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

People on Sunday, an effervescent, sunlit silent, about a handful of city dwellers (a charming cast of nonprofessionals) enjoying a weekend outing, offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin, would influence generations of film artists around the world.

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M

Fritz Lang
1931 • 110 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany
Spine: #30 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

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Le million

René Clair
1931 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #72 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

By turns charming and inventive, René Clair’s lyrical masterpiece about the journey of a winning lottery ticket had a profound impact on not only the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin but the American musical as a whole.

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À nous la liberté

René Clair
1931 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #160 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

One of the all-time comedy classics, René Clair’s À nous la liberté tells the story of Louis, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns (in the form of old jail pal Emile) to upset his carefully laid plans.

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The Threepenny Opera

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
1931 • 110 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany
Spine: #405 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London, The Threepenny Opera follows underworld antihero Mackie Messer (a.k.a. Mack the Knife) as he tries to woo Polly Peachum and elude the authorities. Set to Kurt Weill’s irresistible score, this film remains a benchmark of early sound cinema.

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Island of Lost Souls

Erle C. Kenton
1932 • 70 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #586 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A twisted treasure from Hollywood’s pre-Code horror heyday, Island of Lost Souls is
a cautionary tale of science run amok, adapted from H. G. Wells’s novel The Island of Dr. Moreau.

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The Most Dangerous Game

Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel
1932 • 63 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #46 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror, The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big-game hunter with a taste for the world’s most exotic prey—his houseguests.

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Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer
1932 • 73 minutes • 1.19:1 • Denmark
Spine: #437 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result is nearly unclassifiable. Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares.

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Trouble in Paradise

Ernst Lubitsch
1932 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #170 Edition: DVD

When thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) meets his true love in pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins), they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). Legendary director Ernst Lubitsch’s masterful touch is in full flower in Trouble in Paradise.

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