Top 10 Film Directors of the 1920s

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1	F.W. Murnau	3.2930	21	1910s - 1 1920s - 18 1930s - 2	1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 2. Letzte Mann, Der (1924) 3. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (1922) 4. Faust (1926) See all F.W. Murnau movie rankings
2	Fritz Lang	2.9498	45	1910s - 5 1920s - 10 1930s - 7 1940s - 9 1950s - 13 1960s - 1	1. Metropolis (1927) 2. Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die (1924) 3. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (1922) 4. Spione (1928) See all Fritz Lang movie rankings
3	Buster Keaton	2.5637	34	1910s - 1 1920s - 23 1930s - 10	1. General, The (1927) 2. Navigator, The (1924) 3. Three Ages (1923) 4. Our Hospitality (1923) See all Buster Keaton movie rankings
4	Fred Niblo	2.4447	40	1910s - 12 1920s - 23 1930s - 5	1. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) 2. Mark of Zorro, The (1920) 3. Blood and Sand (1922) 4. Mysterious Lady, The (1928) See all Fred Niblo movie rankings
5	Sam Taylor	2.4224	19	1920s - 11 1930s - 6 1940s - 1 1950s - 1	1. Why Worry? (1923) 2. Freshman, The (1925) 3. Safety Last! (1923) 4. My Best Girl (1927) See all Sam Taylor movie rankings
6	Alfred Hitchcock	2.4097	57	1920s - 10 1930s - 15 1940s - 14 1950s - 11 1960s - 5 1970s - 2	1. Blackmail (1929) 2. Lodger, The (1927) 3. Manxman, The (1929) 4. Champagne (1928) See all Alfred Hitchcock movie rankings
7	King Vidor	2.3915	55	1910s - 7 1920s - 21 1930s - 12 1940s - 8 1950s - 6 1980s - 1	1. Crowd, The (1928) 2. Hallelujah! (1929) 3. Big Parade, The (1925) 4. Patsy, The (1928) See all King Vidor movie rankings
8	Alan Crosland	2.3088	63	1910s - 12 1920s - 31 1930s - 20	1. Beloved Rogue, The (1927) 2. Jazz Singer, The (1927) 3. Don Juan (1926) 4. Old San Francisco (1927) See all Alan Crosland movie rankings
9	Sergei M. Eisenstein	2.2694	23	1920s - 6 1930s - 7 1940s - 9 1980s - 1	1. Stachka (1925) 2. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 3. Oktyabr (1927) 4. Dnevnik Glumova (1923) See all Sergei M. Eisenstein movie rankings
10	D.W. Griffith	2.2668	427	1910s - 249 1920s - 14 1930s - 2	1. America (1924) 2. Way Down East (1920) 3. Orphans of the Storm (1921) 4. Sorrows of Satan, The (1926) See all D.W. Griffith movie rankings

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