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• Buster Keaton starred in several short Slapstick comedies, including:
  • The Blacksmith
  • The Boat
  • Convict 13
  • Cops
  • The Goat
  • Hard Luck
  • The Haunted House
  • The High Sign
  • The Love Nest
  • My Wifes Relations
  • Neighbors
  • One Week
  • The Paleface
  • The Playhouse
  • The Scarecrow
• He also starred in several feature comedies, including
  • The Cameraman
  • The General
  • The Navigator
  • Our Hospitality
  • Seven Chances
  • Sherlock Jr
  • Steamboat Bill Jr — Famous for its By Wall That Is Holey gag
  • Three Ages

• Ditto Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin started to work at a slower pace in the 1920s, but he still made four feature films:
  • The Kid
  • A Woman of Paris
  • The Gold Rush
  • The Circus
• and his last three comedic shorts:
  • The Idle Class
  • Pay Day
  • The Pilgrim

• Harold Lloyd was more prolific than Chaplin and more popular than Keaton. His features from this decade include:
  • Grandma's Boy
  • Dr.Jack
  • Never Weaken
  • Safety Last!
  • Why Worry?
  • Girl Shy
  • Hot Water
  • The Freshman
  • For Heaven's Sake
  • The Kid Brother
  • Speedy
  • Welcome Danger

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) — A masterpiece of the Expressionist movement
• Fantômas
• The Golem, How He Came Into The World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam)
• Huckleberry Finn
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Oliver Twist
• Pollyanna
• Treasure Island
• Wuthering Heights

• Orphans Of The Storm—the last collaboration of star Lillian Gish and director DW Griffith, and Griffith's last commercial hit
• Fritz Lang directed a number of trope making feature films, including
  • Destiny
  • Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) — The first Interplanetary Voyage made with attention to realism.
  • Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse der Spieler) — Invented gangster film tropes that would be used for many years
  • Metropolis — Arguably responsible for nearly every Science Fiction trope we're familiar with in film today.
  • The Nibelungs (Die Nibelungen) — Two-part film adaptation of the mediæval German epic, Das Nibelungenlied (on which Richard Wagner's Ring opera cycle was also partly based): Siegfried , in which zillions of Fantasy tropes are seen on film for the first time, and the grimmer and more realistic Kriemhild's Revenge (Kriemhilds Rache).

• FW Murnau directed several influential silent films including
  • Faust: A German Folk-Legend (Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage)
  • The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann)
  • Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens)
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

• Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
• The Little Rascals
• Nanook Of The North — A pioneering Documentary and the template for all future ones.
• Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame — The first English-language feature film adaptation of the story, and Lon Chaney's Quasimodo is still the ugliest one yet.
• Safety Last!

• The Thief of Bagdad
• Greed — A 9½-hour epic by Erich von Stroheim, edited to 2½ hours against his wishes, the cut footage destroyed ^note (In fact, von Stroheim's producer on Greed said that he had a "footage fetish". Right before he took the film away and cut it down.)
• Wild Oranges

• The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin) — Establishes (among many others) the Baby Carriage trope.
• Ben Hur — The first feature film adaptation of the story.
• The Big Parade — The first major World War One film, notable for realistically depicting combat
• The Freshman
• The Lost World — based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Les Misérables — 6 hour French film, said to be the most accurate adaptation.
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Strike
• The Unholy Three

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed - the oldest surviving animated film
• Flesh And The Devil - made Greta Garbo a star
• La Boheme - without the music!
• The Scarlet Letter - Adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, starring Lillian Gish

• The Cat and the Canary
• The Jazz Singer — First "talkie".
• The Kid Brother
• The Lodger — The first of many suspense thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Napoleon — An epic five 1/2 hour drama about the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Might never be seen in its intact form again thanks to Executive Meddling.
• Our Dancing Daughters
• Wings — A World War One film, and the first film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
• Underworld — The very first gangster picture.
• The Unknown — One of Lon Chaney's finest performances.

• The Burning Of Red Lotus Temple (Huo shao hong lian si) — Genre-defining first Chinese wuxia film. One of the longest films ever made.
• The Crowd
• The Little Rascals
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Le passion de Jeanne d'Arc)
• Show People
• The Wind— the last silent film of Lillian Gish

• Blackmail — The first talkie directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou) — Most remembered for its Eye Scream moment at the beginning.
• The Man With The Movie Camera (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) — Every Camera Trick in the book, and the fastest Montages ever attempted.
• Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) — Heartbreaking drama by G.W. Pabst.
• Sally

• Alice Comedies
• Classic Disney Shorts
  • "Plane Crazy"
  • "Steamboat Willie"
  • "The Skeleton Dance"
• Felix The Cat
• Laurel and Hardy
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit