Silent Film Selection for Analysis Homework Assignment & Extra Credit Silent Film Options

Here are some full silent film selections. Please choose at least 1 to watch and analyze. See handout. There are several to choose from, so please pick something you might be interested in. You may watch more films, of course, for extra credit.

If you'd like extra credit, watch and critique one (or more) of these films. Reviews should follow the review format we discussed earlier in the course. All extra credit assignments are due by end of marking period. You may do as many of them as you'd like from this list.

• Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
• Oktober (Sergei Eisenstein, 1927)
• Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922)

Horror & German Expressionism, Mystery/Suspense

• Nosferatu (1922) Full film
• Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (full film with star actor Conrad Veidt)
• Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire (full film, Robert Wiene, 1920)
• The Hands of Orlac (full film, Robert Wiene, 1924 with star actor Conrad Veidt)
• Der Golem (full film)
• The Cat and the Canary (full film - silent)
• The Phantom of the Opera (full film)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (full film)
• Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (full film)
• The Lost World (1925 full film)
• The Lodger (1927) (Alfred Hitchcock's first film, full film)

Adventure/Action, Suspense & Romance:

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

• The Mark of Zorro (1920)
• The Mark of Zorro (1920)
• The 3 Musketeers (1921) 
• Robin Hood (1922)
• The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
• The Black Pirate (1926)

Rudolph Valentino

• The Sheik (1921)
• Camille (1921)
• Blood and Sand (1924) 
• The Eagle (1925) 
• Cobra (1925) 
• The Son of the Sheik (1926)

Mary Pickford

• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) 
• Poor Little Rich Girl
• Pollyanna (1919) 
• Daddy Long Legs (1919)

Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell: 

• 7th Heaven (full film 1927)
• Lucky Star (full film 1929) 
• Sunnyside Up (full film 1929, a talkie!)

Clara Bow

• It 
• Get Your Man (1927) 

Conrad Veidt: 

• The Man Who Laughs (full film 1928)
• Different From Others (full film 1919); 

Lon Chaney, Sr. 

• The Phantom of the Opera (complete silent film, 1925), 
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (full film 1923); 
• Shadows (full film 1922); 
• The Shock (full film 1923); 
• Oliver Twist (full film 1922)

Cecil B. DeMille:

• The King of Kings (Biblical epic: 1927, Cecil B. DeMille)
• Male & Female (full film 1919 with Gloria Swanson, Cecil B. DeMille)

Oscar Micheaux:

• Within Our Gates (1919)
• Body and Soul (1925)
• The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
• The Scar of Shame (1927)

King Vidor:

• Hallelujah! (1929, early talkie)

Charlie Chaplin:

• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Kid (1921)

Buster Keaton:

• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1925)
• The General (1926)

HOMEWORK: Silent Film Analysis sheets are due March 24.