# Movie of the Year **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 23, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780 "2016-11-23T01:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/1 "2016-11-23T01:02:20Z")
Since the “Year of Death” thread is popular, and the alphabetical movies one we did a while ago was pretty popular, I thought we could do a movie list by year. We’ll start with 1916, name a movie released that year, and go to 2016. If the thread is popular, we can start again. Any movie goes, as long as it was released in some fashion. Any country is fine, TV movies are fine, serials are fine, and go with the year of the first episode if the serial is released over a year. Shorts are fine. The year of release counts. If a movie was three years in filming, two years in post-production, and then another year trying to edit to an “R” rating, and not NC-17, the year of release counts, even though it’s six years from the time filming began. _Queen Kelly_ was filmed in the 1920s, but it wasn’t released until 1985, so for this game, it would count as a 1985 film. If the movie has the same title as a more popular film, you can provide a summary, or list the main actors. Or let people wonder. Up to you. Here’s the first one: **1916: _Birth of a Nation_** ---
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1917: Cleopatra (starring Theda Bara) ---
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1918: Tarzan of the Apes The first Tarzan movie ever made. ---
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1919: Broken Blossoms A Masterpiece ---
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1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari This may be the earliest film I’ve seen. ---
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1921: The Kid Chaplin’s first full-length film as a director ---
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1922: Nosferatu A truly interesting vampire movie, matched by its remake done by Herzog. ---
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> [@panache45](#): > > 1919: Broken Blossoms > > A Masterpiece I love this film. And I have to own up to a mistake: Griffith’s 1916 big-budget film wasn’t _Birth of a Nation_, it was _Intolerance_. I knew that when I started the thread, but I had a brain cramp. **1923: _The Hunchback of Notre Dame_ (Lon Chaney version)** ---
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1924: The Thief of Bagdad The best of Douglas Fairbanks as swashbuckler. Cast of thousands. ---
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1925 - The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, Sr. ---
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1926: Flesh and the Devil John Gilbert loves Greta Garbo, both on and off screen. ---
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1927: The Jazz Singer ---
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1928: The Wind The last, and one of the best, of Lillian Gish’s silent films. ---
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1929: The Broadway Melody ---
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1930: Soup to Nuts The first movie appearance by the Three Stooges. ---
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1931: Both _Dracula_ & _Frankenstein_, and Universal becomes the “monster movie” studio. ---
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1932: Freaks; arguably one of the creepiest films ever made. ---
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1933: King Kong. The great one. ---
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1934: It Happened One Night The first of only three films to win all five major Academy Awards (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress & Screenplay). ---
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1935: The Marx Brothers, _A Night at the Opera_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780.md?page=2)