The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the First World War is one of the finest films of the British silent era. War 1927 106 mins Walter Summers Blancanieves Pablo Berger’s imaginative black-and-white ‘silent’ movie relocates the story of Snow White to 1920s Spain – complete with bullfighting dwarfs Drama Fantasy 2011 105 mins Pablo Berger Battleship Potemkin A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Historical drama 1925 69 mins Sergei M. Eisenstein The Birth of a Nation D W Griffith's highly controversial and abhorrently racist, yet historically significant American silent epic about the American Civil War and its aftermath. Historical drama 1915 191 mins D.W. Griffith Un Chien Andalou A scabrous study of desire, the subconscious and anti-clericalism - Buñuel and Dalí’s provocative first film is a classic of Surrealist cinema. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1928 16 mins Luis Buñuel A Cottage on Dartmoor Anthony Asquith (Underground) directs this embroiled melodrama, a tale of love and revenge, shot on location on the bleak landscape of Dartmoor. Drama 1930 88 mins Anthony Asquith Downhill Alfred Hitchcock’s fifth film features an early variation on his fabled ‘wrong man’plot, as Ivor Novello stands accused of getting a girl pregnant. Drama 1927 105 mins Alfred Hitchcock The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Ivor Novello plays a strange lodger who may be behind a number of Jack the Ripper-style killings in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent thriller. Crime 1926 91 mins Alfred Hitchcock The Master of the House Carl Theodor Dreyer’s richly detailed tragicomedy of domestic manners is by turns funny, intensely emotional and deeply affecting. Drama 1925 107 mins Carl Th. Dreyer Nosferatu This influential Dracula adaptation contains some of the most famous images of expressionist film, and remains shocking and stylish after 100 years. Horror 1922 89 mins F.W. Murnau The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 'Man of a thousand faces' Lon Chaney stars in the first version of Gaston Leroux's oft-filmed novel. Horror Period drama 1925 91 mins Rupert Julian Turksib With bold and exhilarating flair, Turksib charts the monumental efforts to build a railway linking the regions of Turkestan and Siberia in 1920s USSR. Documentary 1929 75 mins Viktor Turin Underground The BFI National Archive restoration of one of Anthony Asquith's finest silent films set in London's Underground, with a new score. Romance 1928 93 mins Anthony Asquith
