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Silent War

by Dibyayan_Chakravorty • Created 10 years ago • Modified 7 years ago
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  • Buster Keaton in The General (1926)

    1. The General

    19261h 18mPassed
    8.1 (103K)
    After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
    DirectorsClyde BruckmanBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonMarion MackGlen Cavender
  • Clara Bow and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in Wings (1927)

    2. Wings

    19272h 24mPG-1378Metascore
    7.5 (16K)
    Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
    DirectorsWilliam A. WellmanHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsClara BowCharles 'Buddy' RogersRichard Arlen
  • The Big Parade (1925)

    3. The Big Parade

    19252h 31mNot Rated
    7.9 (7.6K)
    A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
    DirectorsKing VidorGeorge W. HillStarsJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeHobart Bosworth
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    4. The Birth of a Nation

    19153h 15mTV-PG
    6.1 (28K)
    The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. Walthall
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)

    5. Battleship Potemkin

    19251h 6mNot Rated97Metascore
    7.9 (64K)
    In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
    DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy Aleksandrov
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

    6. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    19212h 30mPassed
    7.1 (3.7K)
    An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
    DirectorRex IngramStarsRudolph ValentinoAlice TerryPomeroy Cannon
  • Dolores Del Río, Edmund Lowe, and Victor McLaglen in What Price Glory (1926)

    7. What Price Glory

    19261h 56mApproved
    6.8 (506)
    U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...
    DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVictor McLaglenEdmund LoweDolores Del Río
  • Lillian Gish and George Siegmann in Hearts of the World (1918)

    8. Hearts of the World

    19181h 57mTV-PG
    6.5 (1.1K)
    Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishDorothy GishRobert Harron
  • Shoulder Arms (1918)

    9. Shoulder Arms

    191836mPassedShort
    7.3 (7.8K)
    Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceSyd Chaplin
  • The Lost Battalion (1919)

    10. The Lost Battalion

    19191h 10m
    6.2 (157)
    A battalion of the U. S. Army's 77th Division penetrates deep into the Argonne Forest of France during the First World War. The battalion becomes surrounded and holds out for six long days, awaiting reinforcement and rescue.
    DirectorBurton L. KingStarsRobert AlexanderGeorge G. McMurtryCharles W. Whittlesey
  • Francis X. Bushman Jr., James Hall, Margaret Mann, George Meeker, and Charles Morton in Four Sons (1928)

    11. Four Sons

    19281h 40mPassed
    7.2 (984)
    A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsJames HallMargaret MannCharles Morton
  • Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Wallace Ford, J.M. Kerrigan, and Victor McLaglen in The Lost Patrol (1934)

    12. The Lost Patrol

    19341h 13mApproved
    6.8 (3.8K)
    A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenBoris KarloffWallace Ford
  • James Hall, Pola Negri, George Siegmann, Mauritz Stiller, and Eric Rohman in Hotel Imperial (1927)

    13. Hotel Imperial

    19271h 25m
    6.8 (294)
    During World War I, a hotel maid and Austrian officer in hiding attempt to survive in a Russian-occupied town.
    DirectorMauritz StillerStarsPola NegriJames HallGeorge Siegmann
  • Carry on, Sergeant! (1928)

    14. Carry on, Sergeant!

    19281h 57m
    5.9 (53)
    A group of workers decide to join the army in the Great War. The indulge themselves in the side benefits to being soldiers, and one of them marries a French waitress.
    DirectorBruce BairnsfatherStarsJimmy SavoHugh BucklerNancy Ann Hargreaves
  • Westfront 1918 (1930)

    15. Westfront 1918

    19301h 15mNot Rated
    7.3 (2.6K)
    A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
    DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsFritz KampersGustav DiesslHans-Joachim Möbis
  • Mary Pickford in The Little American (1917)

    16. The Little American

    19171h 20mNot Rated
    6.2 (763)
    A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
    DirectorsCecil B. DeMilleJoseph LeveringStarsMary PickfordJack HoltRaymond Hatton
  • The Surrender of Tournavos (1897)

    17. The Surrender of Tournavos

    18971mNot RatedShort
    5.4 (622)
    In one of his numerous reconstructed newsreels, the indefatigable French director, Georges Méliès, reenacts a fictional scene taking place in a fort at Tyrnavos during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
    DirectorGeorges Méliès
  • Cabiria (1914)

    18. Cabiria

    19142h 28mNot Rated
    7.1 (4.2K)
    Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
    DirectorGiovanni PastroneStarsItalia Almirante-ManziniLidia QuarantaBartolomeo Pagano
  • Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1928)

    19. The Last Command

    19281h 28mNot Rated
    7.9 (4.8K)
    A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
    DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsEvelyn BrentWilliam Powell
  • The Battle (1911)

    20. The Battle

    191117mNot RatedShort
    5.6 (396)
    Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsCharles WestBlanche SweetCharles Hill Mailes
  • The Unbeliever (1918)

    21. The Unbeliever

    19181h 20mNot Rated
    6.0 (152)
    A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters First World War. In the course of his experiences in the trenches and being wounded, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
    DirectorAlan CroslandStarsMarguerite CourtotRaymond McKeeErich von Stroheim
  • Napoleon (1927)

    22. Napoleon

    19275h 30m
    8.2 (9.4K)
    A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
    DirectorAbel GanceStarsAlbert DieudonnéNicolas RoudenkoEdmond Van Daële
  • Gary Cooper and Colleen Moore in Lilac Time (1928)

    23. Lilac Time

    19281h 20m
    6.5 (755)
    All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot's farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men fighting for England in World War I and their airplanes. Then one of the aviators is killed. His replacement is Captain Philip Blythe, who can't help but notice Jeannine: when he lands the first time, she is standing in the middle of his "runway." She makes a more favorable impression when he sees her later by the lilacs. When all of the young men depart on a mission, Blythe promises to return.
    DirectorsGeorge FitzmauriceFrank LloydStarsColleen MooreGary CooperEugenie Besserer
  • Eleanor Boardman and William Haines in Tell It to the Marines (1926)

    24. Tell It to the Marines

    19261h 43mPassed
    7.1 (1.7K)
    A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.
    DirectorGeorge W. HillStarsLon ChaneyWilliam HainesEleanor Boardman
  • Richard Barthelmess in The Patent Leather Kid (1927)

    25. The Patent Leather Kid

    19272h 30m
    6.0 (631)
    A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.
    DirectorAlfred SantellStarsRichard BarthelmessMolly O'DayLawford Davidson

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