Some notable silent films, with director and year of release:
- Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, 1915
- Intolerance?, D.W. Griffith, 1916
- [Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm]?, [Marshall Neilan]?, 1917
- [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]?, [Robert Wiene]?, 1920
- [Sherlock, Jr]?, [Buster Keaton]?, 1924
- [Battleship Potemkin]?, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
- [The Gold Rush]?, Charlie Chaplin, 1925
- Greed?, [Erich von Stroheim]?, 1925
- [The Lodger]?, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926
- [The General]?, [Buster Keaton]?, 1927
- Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
- [The Passion of Joan of Arc]?, [Carl Theodor Dreyer]?, 1928
- [Pandora's Box]?, [GW Pabst]?, 1929
(Aside from Chaplin and Keaton, something should mention [Harold Lloyd]?, a.k.a. the third genius.)