Category:1916, Top Films

1912 -- 1913 -- 1914 -- 1915

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1917 -- 1918 -- 1919 -- 1920

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• #1. Intolerance' (Griffith) <YouTube> -- The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
• #3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Paton) -- A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
• #--. Christus (Antamoro) ITA

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Notable Mention

• @ {en} Hell’s Hinges (USA 1916 Swickard) <YouTube> -- In the wayward western town known as Hell's Hinges, a local tough guy is reformed by the faith of a good woman.

• @ {en} Joan the Woman (USA 1916 DeMille) <YouTube> -- A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.

• {en} When Little Lindy Sang (USA 1916 Warrenton) <YouTube> -- Lindy, the lone African American, is ostracized by her classmates except for one little girl. When Lindy is a heroine during a school fire attitudes change.

Additional Films

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• {en} [The] Call of the Cumberlands (USA 1916 Lloyd) <YouTube> -- A family feud erupts in the mountains of Kentucky.

• {en} Civilization (USA 1916 Barker) <YouTube> -- Christ takes on the form of a pacifist count to end a senseless war. (IMDb 1915)

• {en} Flirting with Fate (USA 1916 Cabanne) <YouTube> -- In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's hired to end his life.

• {en} Going Straight (USA 1916 Franklin) <YouTube> -- A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of their old gang shows up and threatens to expose them if they don't help him pull a heist.

• {en} Little Mary Sunshine (USA 1916 King) <YouTube> -- Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.

• {ru} [The] Queen of Spades (RUS 1916 Protazanov) <YouTube> -- While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order...

• {en} [The] Polish Dancer / Bestia (POL 1916 Hertz) <YouTube> -- An immoral small-town girl steals money from her drunk lover in order to go to a big city. There she becomes a cabaret star and seduces a wealthy married entrepreneur.

• {en} [The] Right to Be Happy (USA 1916 Julian) <lost> -- A heartwarming retelling of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' where Ebeneezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits in an attempt to save his soul.

• {en} Snow White (USA 1916 Dawley) <YouTube> -- Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.

• {en} Tom Brown's Schooldays (GBR 1916 Wilson) <YouTube> -- A squire's mischievous son becomes a boarder at Rugby.

Critical Reception

Flickchart, Best Films

• #1. Intolerance (Griffith)
• #2. The Rink (Chaplin)
• #3. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Paton)
• #4. The Pawnshop (Chaplin)
• #5. One A.M. (Chaplin)
• #6. The Vagabond (Chaplin)
• #7. The Floorwalker (Chaplin)
• #8. Behind the Screen (Chaplin)
• #9. Judex (Feuillade)
• #10. Hell’s Hinges (Swickard)

• #11. The Fireman (Chaplin)
• #12. The Count (Chaplin)
• #13. Police! (Chaplin)
• #14. Fatty and Mabel Adrift (Arbuckle)
• #15. The Battle of the Somme (Malins, McDowell)
• #16. Burlesque on Carmen (Chaplin) (see 1915)
• #17. The End of the World (Blom)
• #18. Snow White (Dawlew)
• #19. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Emerson)
• #20. Blind Justice [Haevnens nat] (Christensen)

History of Cinema, Best Films

-- *** Intolerance (Griffith) -- ** Hell's Hinges (Swickard) -- ** Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Paton) -- ** Behind the Screen (Chaplin -- ** Joan the Woman (DeMille) -- ** The Dumb Girl of Portici (Smalley, Weber) -- ** One A.M. (Chaplin)

-- Where Are My Children? (Smalley, Weber) -- Tigre reale (Pastrone) -- Judex (Feuillade) -- The Battle of the Somme (Malins, McDowell) -- The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Emerson) -- Hoodoo Ann (Ingraham) -- Blind Justice [Haevnens nat] (Christensen) -- Vingarne (Stiller) -- Homunculus (Rippert) -- The Ocean Waif (Guy-Blache)

Silent Era, Best Films

-- #16. Intolerance

-- #109. Hell’s Hinges (Swickard) -- #191. The Rink (Chaplin) -- #192. Behind the Screen (Chaplin) -- #200. The Pawnshop (Chaplin) -- #214. Joan the Woman -- #230. The Dumb Girl of Portici -- #278. One A.M. (Chaplin) -- #290. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

-- #300+. The Count (Chaplin) -- Fatty and Mabel Adrift (Arbuckle) -- The Fireman (Chaplin) -- The Floorwalker (Chaplin) -- The Golden Chance -- Gretchen the Greenhorn -- He Did and He Didn’t -- A Natural Born Gambler -- Police! (Chaplin) -- The Vagabond (Chaplin)

Silent Films Ranked, Best Films

-- #17. Intolerance (Griffith) -- #67. Les vampires (Feuillade)

Paste Magazine, Best Films

-- #42. Intolerance -- #88. Il fuoco / The Flame (Pastrone)

Schneider, Best Films

-- Intolerance

External links

• 1916 in film -- Wikipedia