Best of the 1920s · 1001 canon

Silent at its peak

Silent cinema reached its strongest form in the 1920s before sound arrived and reset the medium. German Expressionism, Soviet montage, slapstick comedy, and the Hollywood epic all crystallize here. Watching the canonical 1920s is the closest thing cinema has to reading Homer.

40 films from this decade are in the canon. Tick what you've seen — your progress saves on this device.