The Best Movies From The 1910s
“What are the best 1910s Movies?” We looked at 182 of the top 1910s films, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 14 films, all appearing on 3 or more “Best 1910s” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 150+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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Top 14 Best 1910s Movies Ever Made
14 .) 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1916) directed by Stuart Paton
Lists It Appears On:
- Eskify
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver – a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.
13 .) A Dog’s Life (1918) directed by Charlie Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- List Challenges
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
12 .) Behind The Screen (1916) directed by Charles Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Eskify
- Flick Chart 2
- IMDB
Charlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.
11 .) Easy Street (1917) directed by Charles Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- IMDB
When Charlie the Tramp wanders into a mission he is smitten by Edna and puts back the collection box which he has taken. Reformed, he becomes a policeman and is assigned to rough-and-tumble Easy Street. Unable to trick or beat Eric the Tough, he puts Eric’s head in a gas pipe and anesthetizes him. A hero, he now helps many poor people living on Easy Street. Eric escapes jail, Edna is kidnapped, but Charlie (recharged after sitting on a doper’s needle) conquers all. Easy Street is transformed as is Eric. ×
10 .) J’accuse! (1919) directed by Abel Gance
Lists It Appears On:
- Eskify
- Flick Chart 2
- IMDB
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other’s wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
9 .) Les Vampires (1916) directed by Louis Feuillade
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- List Challenges
Two journalists attempt to uncover the truth behind the criminal organisation, known as The Vampires, who are terrorizing Paris.
8 .) Shoulder Arms (1918) directed by Charlie Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- Frame Trek
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
7 .) The Student Of Prague (1913) directed by Paul Wegener, Stellan Rye
Lists It Appears On:
- Eskify
- Flick Chart 2
- Frame Trek
A poor student rescues a beautiful countess and soon becomes obsessed with her. A sorcerer makes a deal with the young man to give him fabulous wealth and anything he wants, if he will sign his name to a contract. The student hurriedly signs the contract, but doesn’t know what he’s in for.
6 .) Cabiria (1914) directed by Giovanni Pastrone
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- Frame Trek
- List Challenges
Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna. She is sold as a slave in Carthage, and as she is just going to be sacrificed to god Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by both Fulvio Axilla, a Roman noble, and his giant slave Maciste. Maciste is captured just after having confided Cabiria to Sophinisbe’s safe keeping, while Fulvio Axilla manages to escape from Carthage. Ten years went away with Punic wars before he is able to come back to Carthage… ×
5 .) The Doll (1919) directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
4 .) The Birth of a Nation (1915) directed by D.W. Griffith
Lists It Appears On:
- Eskify
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- List Challenges
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith’s controversial Civil War epic. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie’s congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
3 .) Frankenstein (1910) directed by J. Searle Dawley
Lists It Appears On:
- Eskify
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- IMDB
- Ranker
- Scifist
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
2 .) Broken Blossoms (1919) directed by D.W. Griffith
Lists It Appears On:
- Eskify
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- List Challenges
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
1 .) Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) directed by D.W. Griffith
Lists It Appears On:
- Eskify
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart 2
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
The 150+ Additional Best 1910s Films
| # | Movies | Directors | List Challenges |
| 15 | A Day’s Pleasure (1919) | Charles Chaplin | Flick Chart 2 |
| – | – | – | IMDB 2 |
| 16 | A Man There Was (1917) | Victor Sjöström | Flick Chart 2 |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 17 | A Trip to Mars | Flick Chart 2 | |
| – | – | – | Scifist |
| 18 | After Death (1916) | Yevgeny Bauer | Flick Chart 2 |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 19 | Blind Husbands (1919) | Eskify | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 20 | Dante’s Inferno (1911) | Flick Chart 2 | |
| – | – | – | Frame Trek |
| 21 | Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde | John S. Robertson | Flick Chart 2 |
| – | – | – | IMDB 2 |
| 22 | Male and Female (1919) | Flick Chart 2 | |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| 23 | One A.M. | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 24 | Ramona | Ranker | |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 25 | The Adventurer | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 26 | The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) | Wladyslaw Starewicz | Flick Chart 2 |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 27 | The Champion | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 28 | The Cheat (1915) | Cecil B. DeMille | Flick Chart 2 |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 29 | The Cure | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 30 | The Immigrant | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 31 | The Pawnshop | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 32 | The Rink | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 33 | The Sinking of the ‘Lusitania’ (1918) | Winsor McCay | Flick Chart 2 |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 34 | The Tramp | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 35 | The Vagabond | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart 2 |
| 36 | Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) | Flick Chart 2 | |
| – | – | – | Frame Trek |
| 37 | True Heart Susie (1919) | D.W. Griffith | Flick Chart 2 |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 38 | When the Clouds Roll by (1919) | Victor Fleming | Frame Trek |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 39 | A Christmas Carol | Ranker | |
| 40 | A Message from Mars | Scifist | |
| 41 | A Modern Musketeer | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 42 | A Night in the Show | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 43 | A Night Out | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 44 | A Romance of the Western Hills | Ranker | |
| 45 | A Thief Catcher | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 46 | A Woman | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 47 | Alias Jimmy Valentine | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 48 | Alice in Wonderland | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 49 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Ranker | |
| 50 | All on Account of the Milk | Ranker | |
| 51 | An Interplanetary Marriage | Scifist | |
| 52 | Ask Father | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 53 | Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life (1913) | Mack Sennett | IMDB |
| 54 | Battleship Potemkin (1925) | Sergei M. Eisenstein | IMDB 2 |
| 55 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) | Fred Niblo | IMDB 2 |
| 56 | Between Showers | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 57 | Billy Blazes, Esq. | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 58 | Blackmail (1929) | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDB 2 |
| 59 | Bumping Into Broadway | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 60 | Burlesque on Carmen | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 61 | By The Sea | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 62 | Cinderella | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 63 | Cleopatra (1917) | List Challenges | |
| 64 | Coney Island | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 65 | Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | IMDB 2 |
| 66 | Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924) | Fritz Lang | IMDB 2 |
| 67 | Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) | Fritz Lang | IMDB 2 |
| 68 | Different from the Others | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 69 | Don Juan (1926) | Alan Crosland | IMDB 2 |
| 70 | Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) | Fritz Lang | IMDB 2 |
| 71 | Falling Leaves | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 72 | Fantômas – À l’ombre de la guillotine | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 73 | Fantomas Against Fantomas | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 74 | Faust (1926) | F.W. Murnau | IMDB 2 |
| 75 | Gertie the Dinosaur | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 76 | Getting Acquainted | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 77 | Good Night, Nurse! | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 78 | Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925) | Merian C. Cooper | IMDB 2 |
| 79 | Greed (1924) | Erich von Stroheim | IMDB 2 |
| 80 | Harakiri (1919) | List Challenges | |
| 81 | Head over Heels | Ranker | |
| 82 | Hearts and Planets | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 83 | Hell’s Hinges | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 84 | His Musical Career | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 85 | Homunculus | Scifist | |
| 86 | Hypocrites (1915) | Lois Weber | IMDB |
| 87 | I Don’t Want to Be a Man | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 88 | In the Border States | Ranker | |
| 89 | Judex | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 90 | Just Neighbors | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 91 | Juve Against Fantomas | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 92 | Kitchener’s Great Army in the Battle of the Somme (1916) | Geoffrey Malins | IMDB |
| 93 | Madame DuBarry (1919) | Ernst Lubitsch | IMDB |
| 94 | Making a Living | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 95 | Man with a Movie Camera (1929) | Dziga Vertov | IMDB 2 |
| 96 | Metropolis (1927) | Fritz Lang | IMDB 2 |
| 97 | Moonshine (1918) | Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle | IMDB |
| 98 | Napoleon (1927) | Abel Gance | IMDB 2 |
| 99 | Nosferatu (1922) | F.W. Murnau | IMDB 2 |
| 100 | Our Hospitality (1923) | John G. Blystone | IMDB 2 |
| 101 | Pandora’s Box (1929) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | IMDB 2 |
| 102 | Police | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 103 | Pride of the Range | Ranker | |
| 104 | Queen Kelly (1932) | Erich von Stroheim | IMDB 2 |
| 105 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 106 | Regeneration | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 107 | Riders of the Plains | Ranker | |
| 108 | Shanghaied | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 109 | Sherlock Jr | Buster Keaton | IMDB 2 |
| 110 | Sir Arne’s Treasure (1919) | Mauritz Stiller | IMDB |
| 111 | Sparrows (1926) | William Beaudine | IMDB 2 |
| 112 | Spies (1928) | Fritz Lang | IMDB 2 |
| 113 | Stella Maris | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 114 | Strike (1925) | Sergei M. Eisenstein | IMDB 2 |
| 115 | Sunnyside | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 116 | Sunrise (1927) | F.W. Murnau | IMDB 2 |
| 117 | Suspense | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 118 | Take a Chance | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 119 | Tarzan of the Apes | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 120 | Teddy at the Throttle | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 121 | The Bank | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 122 | The Battle of the Somme | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 123 | The Big Parade (1925) | King Vidor | IMDB 2 |
| 124 | The Black Pirate (1926) | Albert Parker | IMDB 2 |
| 125 | The Blue Bird | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 126 | The Butcher Boy | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 127 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) | Robert Wiene | IMDB 2 |
| 128 | The Cinema Murder | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 129 | The Conquest of the Pole | Scifist | |
| 130 | The Count | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 131 | The Coward | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 132 | The Crowd (1928) | King Vidor | IMDB 2 |
| 133 | The Docks of New York (1928) | Josef von Sternberg | IMDB 2 |
| 134 | The Dying Swan (1917) | Yevgeny Bauer | IMDB |
| 135 | The End of the World | Scifist | |
| 136 |
The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola
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Scifist | |
| 137 | The Fireman | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 138 | The Floorwalker | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 139 | The Freshman (1925) | Fred C. Newmeyer | IMDB 2 |
| 140 | The Fugitive | Ranker | |
| 141 | The General (1926) | Clyde Bruckman | IMDB 2 |
| 142 | The Gold Rush (1925) | Charles Chaplin | IMDB 2 |
| 143 | The Golem (1915) | List Challenges | |
| 144 | The Golem (1920) | Carl Boese | IMDB 2 |
| 145 | The Hoodlum | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 146 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I) (1923) | Wallace Worsley | IMDB 2 |
| 147 | The Insects’ Christmas | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 148 | The Kid (1921) | Charles Chaplin | IMDB 2 |
| 149 | The Kid Brother (1927) | Ted Wilde | IMDB 2 |
| 150 | The Knockout | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 151 | The Last Command (1928) | Josef von Sternberg | IMDB 2 |
| 152 | The Last Laugh (1924) | F.W. Murnau | IMDB 2 |
| 153 | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) | Alfred Hitchcock | IMDB 2 |
| 154 | The Magic Cloak of Oz | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 155 | The Man Who Laughs (1928) | Paul Leni | IMDB 2 |
| 156 | The Murderous Corpse | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 157 | The Musketeers of Pig Alley | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 158 | The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) | John Emerson | IMDB |
| 159 | The Non-Stop Kid | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 160 | The Outlaw and His Wife | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 161 | The Oyster Princess | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 162 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) | Carl Theodor Dreyer | IMDB 2 |
| 163 | The Perils Of Pauline (1914) | Eskify | |
| 164 | The Phantom Carriage (1921) | Victor Sjöström | IMDB 2 |
| 165 | The Phantom of the Opera (1925) | Rupert Julian | IMDB 2 |
| 166 | The Pirates of 1920 | Scifist | |
| 167 | The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) | Maurice Tourneur | IMDB |
| 168 | The Rough House | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 169 |
The Spiders, Part I: The Golden Lake
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Flick Chart 2 | |
| 170 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) | Ernst Lubitsch | IMDB 2 |
| 171 | The Tales of Hoffmann | Scifist | |
| 172 | The Ten Commandments (1923) | Cecil B. DeMille | IMDB 2 |
| 173 | The Two Brothers | Ranker | |
| 174 | The Unchanging Sea | Ranker | |
| 175 | The Wind (1928) | Victor Sjöström | IMDB 2 |
| 176 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Ranker | |
| 177 | Traffic in Souls | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 178 | Tumbleweeds (1925) | King Baggot | IMDB 2 |
| 179 | Vive la France! | Flick Chart 2 | |
| 180 | Wagon Tracks (1919) | Lambert Hillyer | IMDB |
| 181 | Wings (1927) | William A. Wellman | IMDB 2 |
| 182 | Work | Flick Chart 2 |
9 Best 1910s Film Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| Eskify | 10 Best Films Of The 1910s |
| Flick Chart | The Best Movies of the 1910s |
| Flick Chart 2 | The Top 100 Movies of the 1910s |
| Frame Trek | Best Movies of All Time Episode 2: Top 10 Films of the 1910s |
| IMDB | 25 Best Films of the 1910s |
| IMDB 2 | Top 50 Films from the 1910’s to the 1920’s |
| List Challenges | 10 Best 1910s Movies – How many have you seen? |
| Ranker | Best Movies of 1910 | Top Films Released in 1910 |
| Scifist | Top 10 Sci-Fi Films of the 1910s |
