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These feature films all scored in the top 30 and scored 8.0/10 (7.5 for 1910-1919) or higher in IMDB votes for decade and/or won significant awards. Ratings were as of October 29 2008. www.imdb.com
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IMDB rating 8.1/10. Directors: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. 3 Oscars. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1995. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Lewis Milestone. IMDB rating 8.0/10. Director: Frank Capra; also with Raymond Massey IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Jean Cocteau. 'La Belle et la bête' IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Fred Niblo. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1997. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: William Wyler. Won 7 Oscars incl. Best Picture. BAFTA for Best Film from any Source. Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. IMDB rating 8.4/10. Director: Vittorio De Sica. Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the U.S.A. during 1949. Won Bafta Award for Best Film from any Source. Won Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. IMDB rating 8.7/10. Director: King Vidor. Is the highest grossing silent film of all time, making $22 million during its worldwide release IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Howard Hawks. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1997. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Michael Powel. Won 2 Oscars & a Golden Globe. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: James Whale. IMDB rating 8.1/10. 8. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: David Lean. Winner Grand Prize of the Cannes Film Festival. IMDB rating 7.6/10. Director: D.W.Griffith. IMDB rating 8.8/10. Director: Jack Conway. John Wayne makes his first screen appearance here (uncredited) as a member of the Yale football team. IMDB rating 8.8/10. Director: Michael Curtiz. Won Oscar for Best Picture & 2 others. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. IMDB rating 8.6/10. Directed by Orson Welles. 1 Oscar win & 2 nominations. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. IMDB rating 8.5/10. Director: Charlie Chaplin. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1991. IMDB rating 7.8/10. Director: Marshall Neilan. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: William Wyler. Oscar for Best Art Direction. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1990. IMDB rating 7.9/10. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. IMDB rating 8.5/10. Director: Billy Wilder. 7 Oscar nominations. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1992. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Monta Bell IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Leo McCarey. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1990 IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Robert Z. Leonard IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Harry Beaumont. IMDB rating 7.6/10. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Rex Ingram. Rudolph Valentino's first starring role in a film. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 2005. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: James Whale. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1991 IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Charlie Chaplin. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1992. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Victor Fleming. Director: Gregory La Cava. Winner of 8 Oscars including best Picture. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. Winner of numerous other awards. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: John Ford. Won Oscars for Best Director & Actress in a Supporting Role & 4 nominations. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Charles Chaplin. Nominated for 4 Oscars. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1997. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: David Lean. Winner of 2 Oscars incl. Best Cinematography. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Erich von Stroheim. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1991. IMDB rating 8.0/10. Director: Laurence Olivier. 4 Oscars incl. Best Picture. 2 Golden Globes. 2 Bafta Awards. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: William Wyler. 4 Oscars, 1 Golden Glbe Award. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1996. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Directed by Howard Hawks. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Oscar nomination for Best Picture. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1991. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: D.W.Griffith. National Film Registry Award 1989. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Frank Capra. Won Oscar for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and 2 other Oscars. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1993. Winner of numerous other awards. IMDB rating 8.6/10. Director: Frank Capra. 4 Oscar nominations. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1990. IMDB rating 7.5/10. Director: D.W.Griffith. IMDB rating 8.0/10. Director: John Huston. 1 Oscar. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Charlie Chaplin. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Directors: Ted Wilde & J.A. Howe . IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Robert Hamer. Bafta nomination for Best British Picture. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1991. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Josef von Sternberg. Emil Jannings won the Oscar for best actor in a leading role for this picture. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 2006. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Otto Preminger; also with Vincent Price. Oscar for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1999. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Richard Boleslawski. Runtime USA:305 min. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Jean Renoir. Nominated for Oscar for Best Picture. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: William Wyler. Nominated for 9 Oscars IMDB rating 8.4/10. Director: Sidney Olcott IMDB rating 8.2/10. Directed by Billy Wilder IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Albert Parker IMDB rating 8.5/10. Director: Fritz Lang. IMDB rating 8.4/10. Director: John Huston. 3 Oscar nominations. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Allan Dwan. IMDB rating 8.4/10. Director: Fritz Lang. The first film ever to be registered in the "Memory of the World-Register" of the UNESCO in 2001. IMDB rating 8.0/10. Directors: F. Richard Jones & James Young. IMDB rating 8.0/10. Director: George Seaton. 3 Oscars & a Golden Globe Award. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' IMDB rating 8.4/10. Director: Charlie Chaplin. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director Frank Capra. Numerous Oscar nominations. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Joe May. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Gregory La Cava. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1999 IMDB rating 8.3/10. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 2 Oscar nominations. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 2006. IMDB rating 8.0/10. Director: David Lean IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Tay Garnett. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1991. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: D. W. Griffith. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Jacques Tourneur. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1991. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: William A. Wellman. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1998. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: King Vidor. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: George Cukor. 2 Oscars. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' IMDB rating 8.4/10. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Won 2 Oscars including Best Picture. IMDB rating 7.5/10. Director: Marshall Neilan. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Michael Powell. 2 Oscars. BAFTA for best British Film. #8 0n the BFI list of Best British Films ever made. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Roberto Rossellini. Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Festival 1946. IMDB rating 8.5/10. Director: Raoul Walsh. IMDB rating 8.4/10. Director: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1994. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1991. IMDB rating 7.5/10. Director: Albert Parker. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: King Vidor. Charlie Chaplin appeared (uncredited) as an autograph seeker. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 2003. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Ernst Lubitsch IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Harry Beaumont. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Allan Dwan IMDB rating 7.9/10. Paramount Pictures' biggest hit of 1919. Director: Marshall Neilan. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: F.W. Murnau. Won Oscars for Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production and Best Cinematography. Janet Gaynor won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: George W. Hill. IMDB rating 8.5/10. Directed by Carol Reed. Won Oscar for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Won Bafta Award for Best British Film. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Henry King. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 2007. Photoplay Award Medal of Honor 1921. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Director: Robert Stevenson. IMDB rating 8.1/10. Directors: Mervyn LeRoy IMDB rating 8.5/10. Director: John Huston. 3 Oscars including Best Director. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1990. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Edmund Goulding. Gloria Swanson's 'talkie' debut. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: D. W. Griffith. IMDB rating 8.5/10. Director: Robert G. Vignola. Was the biggest hit of the 1922-23 movie season, ahead of Robin Hood and Safety Last. At the time the most expensive movie ever made with cost an estimated at $1.8 million. IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Victor Sjöström. The film was a major bomb when it came out. It's now regarded as a classic. Selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1993. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Victor Fleming. Wons Oscars for Best music for Original Score & Original Song. National Film Preservation Board, USA 'National Film Registry Award' 1989. IMDB rating 8.2/10. Director: Allan Dwan
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