Best Movies of 20th Century 1st Quarter by Director
2692
91
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot
Short / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot, Owen Moore
Short / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1912
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Short / Animation / Comedy
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2692
91
1912
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Animation / Short / Fantasy / Family
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2556
81
1920
Mauritz Stiller
Gucken Cederborg, Carl Wallin, Vilhelm Bryde, John Lindlöf, Carina Ari
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2556
81
1917
Mauritz Stiller
Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander, Albin Lavén
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2692
91
1924
Mauritz Stiller
Lars Hanson, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederström, Mona Mårtenson
Drama / Romance / Religion
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2860
104
1923
Mauritz Stiller
Einar Hanson, Hugo Björne, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Pauline Brunius
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2692
91
1922
Jerome Storm
John Gilbert, Barbara Bedford, Barbara La Marr, Herschel Mayall, Bob Kortman
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1919
Jerome Storm
Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Jay Morley, Otto Hoffman, Jack Nelson
Drama / Sports / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2758
94
1921
Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler
Short / Experimental / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
1977
41
1916
Charles Swickard, William S. Hart, Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Clara Williams, Jack Standing
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1906
Charles Tait
Elizabeth Tait, John Tait, Bella Cola, Vera Linden, Frank Mills, Ollie Wilson
Biography / Drama
Australia
English (Silent)
2809
99
1920
William Desmond Taylor
Lewis Sargent, Ernest Butterworth, Clyde Fillmore, Grace Morse, Lila Lee
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1922
George Terwilliger
Marion Davies, John B. O'Brien, Frank Shannon, Wyndham Standing, Carl Miller
Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2421
67
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Lillian Cook, Edwin E. Reed
Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
2493
72
1917
Maurice Tourneur
Mary Pickford
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2585
83
1914
Maurice Tourneur
Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1923
Maurice Tourneur
Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Gareth Hughes, Phyllis Haver, Cyril Chadwick
Drama / Romance / Religion / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1917
Maurice Tourneur
Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Warren Cook, Kathryn Browne-Decker, Edward Roseman
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1913
Laurence Trimble
John Bunny, James Prior, Sidney Hunt, Fred Hornby, Arthur Ricketts, H.P. Owen
Comedy / Short
UK / USA
English (Silent)
2758
94
1912
Laurence Trimble
John Bunny, Flora Finch, Leah Baird, Charles Eldridge, William R. Dunn
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2225
56
1913
George Loane Tucker
Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, Matt Moore, William Welsh
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1916
George Loane Tucker
Gerald Ames, Manora Thew, Kenelm Foss, Douglas Munro, Marga La Rubia
Crime / Detective
UK
English (Silent)
2692
91
1919
George Loane Tucker
Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Joseph J. Dowling, J.M. Dumont, Elinor Fair
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1910
Otis Turner
Patrick Long, Johnnie Mullens, Charles Fuqua, Henry Grammar, Tom Mix
Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1910
unknown
John Bunny, Kate Price
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1914
unknown
Fred Evans
Comedy / Short
UK
English (Silent)
2692
91
1912
unknown
Vinnie Burns, Lillian DeLesque, Nat C. Goodwin, Stuart Holmes, Jack Hopkins
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2758
94
1910
unknown
James J. Jeffries, Jack Johnson
Documentary / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2758
94
1906
unknown
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1922
unknown
Ramon Novarro, Jack Warner, Max Linder, Vola Vale
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1917
unknown
Pedro León
Documentary / Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2758
94
1913
George Veditz
George Veditz
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2556
81
1924
King Vidor
Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1921
King Vidor
Lloyd Hughes, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Bennett, Lillian Leighton, Fred Gamble
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2308
62
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Romance / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, June Elvidge, Truly Shattuck, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Drama | Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1920
James Vincent
Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1924
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Pauline Po, Otto Detlefsen, Mary Odette
Drama
France
French (Silent)
1116
18
1922
Erich von Stroheim
Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2514
76
1919
Erich von Stroheim
Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1920
Erich von Stroheim
Sam De Grasse, Una Trevelyn, Clyde Fillmore, Maude George, Leo White, Mae Busch
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
461
8
1924
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
2333
64
1915
Raoul Walsh
Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson
Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2480
69
1916
Lois Weber
Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Mattie Witting, Jessie Arnold, William V. Mong
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1364
25
1920
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch
Fantasy / Horror / Religion
Germany
German (Silent)
2809
99
1924
F. Harmon Weight
George Arliss, Taylor Holmes, Edith Roberts, Wallie Howe, Redfield Clarke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
422
7
1920
Robert Wiene
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Drama / Horror / Experimental
Germany
English (Silent)
2794
96
1923
Robert Wiene
Gregori Chmara, Elisabeta Skulskaja, Alla Tarasova
Drama / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
2692
91
1924
Herbert Wilcox
Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke, Randle Ayrton
Drama / Romance
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
2692
91
1919
Irvin Willat
Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Forrest, Augustus Phillips, Tully Marshall
Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1919
Irvin Willat
Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, Wallace Beery, James Gordon, Richard Wayne
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1919
Chester Withey
Norma Talmadge, Pedro de Cordoba, Charles K. Gerrard, Stuart Holmes, Marc McDermott
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2758
94
1916
Marion Wong
Violet Wong, Harvey Soo Hoo, Marion Wong, Chin Shee
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1991
43
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2514
76
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2604
84
1919
William Worthington
Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil Sr., Tsuru Aoki
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
99
1921
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2692
91
1920
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
G. Budzhalov, A. Solovyov, Nikolai Kostromskoy, Ye. Sokolova, M. Kudelko
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
