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Harvard University's Suggested Film Viewing List: Narrative Films (2012)

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This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria.

Source: https://ves.fas.harvard.edu/files/ves/files/fvs_suggested_viewing_2012.pdf

1
69%

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

 

 

2
63%

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

 

 

3
65%

The Sprinkler Sprinkled

 

 

4
52%

Baby's Meal

 

 

5
62%

The Vanishing Lady

 

 

6
77%

A Trip to the Moon

 

 

7
70%

The Kingdom of the Fairies

 

 

8
55%

The Magic Lantern

 

 

9
70%

The Impossible Voyage

 

 

10
64%

Annabelle Serpentine Dance

 

 

11
55%

The Kiss

 

 

12
52%

Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory

 

 

13
25%

Electrocuting an Elephant

 

 

14
53%

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

 

 

15
43%

Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King

 

 

16
56%

Circular Panorama of Electric Tower

 

 

17
55%

Pan-American Exposition by Night

 

 

18
63%

Life of an American Fireman

 

 

19
56%

Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show

 

 

20
47%

Uncle Tom's Cabin

 

 

21
56%

The Gay Shoe Clerk

 

 

22
46%

A Romance of the Rail

 

 

23
68%

The Great Train Robbery

 

 

24
52%

The 'Teddy' Bears

 

 

25
56%

The Lonely Villa

 

 

26
59%

A Corner in Wheat

 

 

27
42%

His Trust

 

 

28
56%

The Lonedale Operator

 

 

29
52%

The New York Hat

 

 

30
59%

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

 

 

31
48%

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

 

 

32
52%

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

 

 

33
53%

A House Divided

 

 

34
65%

Cabiria

 

 

35
56%

The Birth of a Nation

 

 

36
69%

The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris

 

 

37
70%

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

 

 

38
57%

The Cheat

 

 

39
69%

The Immigrant

 

 

40
65%

The Outlaw and His Wife

 

 

41
65%

Broken Blossoms

 

 

42
63%

Sunnyside

 

 

43
77%

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

 

 

44
77%

The Phantom Carriage

 

 

45
61%

The Blot

 

 

46
75%

Nosferatu

 

 

47
67%

By the Law

 

 

48
74%

Häxan

 

 

49
64%

Foolish Wives

 

 

50
78%

Safety Last!

 

 

51
58%

Kino Eye

 

 

52
74%

The Last Laugh

 

 

53
72%

Greed

 

 

54
79%

Sherlock Jr.

 

 

55
72%

The Saga of Gosta Berling

 

 

56
67%

L'Inhumaine

 

 

57
68%

The Iron Horse

 

 

58
75%

Battleship Potemkin

 

 

59
79%

The Gold Rush

 

 

60
60%

Body and Soul

 

 

61
66%

The Joyless Street

 

 

62
78%

The General

 

 

63
70%

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

 

 

64
67%

Mother

 

 

65
67%

A Page of Madness

 

 

66
79%

Metropolis

 

 

67
70%

The End of St. Petersburg

 

 

68
78%

Napoleon

 

 

69
76%

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

 

 

70
63%

The Jazz Singer

 

 

71
71%

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

 

 

72
69%

L'Argent

 

 

73
76%

The Crowd

 

 

74
64%

Storm Over Asia

 

 

75
78%

The Passion of Joan of Arc

 

 

76
66%

Under the Roofs of Paris

 

 

77
66%

Earth

 

 

78
73%

The Blue Angel

 

 

79
69%

L'Âge d'or

 

 

80
50%

Borderline

 

 

81
80%

M

 

 

82
57%

The Exile

 

 

83
78%

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

 

 

84
69%

Zero for Conduct

 

 

85
58%

Christopher Strong

 

 

86
66%

El compadre Mendoza

 

 

87
74%

L'Atalante

 

 

88
73%

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

 

 

89
73%

The 39 Steps

 

 

90
82%

Modern Times

 

 

91
72%

Sisters of the Gion

 

 

92
77%

Grand Illusion

 

 

93
70%

Alexander Nevsky

 

 

94
75%

Daybreak

 

 

95
78%

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

 

 

96
75%

The Rules of the Game

 

 

97
74%

The Thief of Bagdad

 

 

98
45%

Süss, the Jew

 

 

99
79%

Citizen Kane

 

 

100
76%

Day of Wrath

 

 

101
76%

Le Corbeau

 

 

102
75%

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

 

 

103
79%

Children of Paradise

 

 

104
79%

Rome, Open City

 

 

105
78%

Brief Encounter

 

 

106
76%

Paisan

 

 

107
70%

The Murderers Are Among Us

 

 

108
77%

La Terra Trema

 

 

109
80%

The Red Shoes

 

 

110
80%

Bicycle Thieves

 

 

111
75%

Diary of a Country Priest

 

 

112
78%

The Third Man

 

 

113
80%

The Young and the Damned

 

 

114
81%

Sunset Boulevard

 

 

115
79%

Rashomon

 

 

116
69%

The River

 

 

117
76%

Forbidden Games

 

 

118
74%

The Earrings of Madame de...

 

 

119
80%

Tokyo Story

 

 

120
78%

The Wages of Fear

 

 

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