Top Rated "1920s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.9Brown of Harvard (1926)803
2.8.9Four Walls (1928)184
3.8.6Twelve Miles Out (1927)308
4.8.6West Point (1927/II)953
5.8.5The Merry Widow (1925)883
6.8.5Tol'able David (1921)731
7.8.5Sadie Thompson (1928)898
8.8.5The Big Parade (1925)2,341
9.8.5Little Old New York (1923)543
10.8.4The Wind (1928)2,225
11.8.4The Patsy (1928)945
12.8.4When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)570
13.8.4Desert Nights (1929)644
14.8.4Show People (1928)1,384
15.8.4Metropolis (1927)34,758
16.8.4Janice Meredith (1924)445
17.8.4Fine Manners (1926)471
18.8.4The Patent Leather Kid (1927)252
19.8.4Zaza (1923)456
20.8.4Manhandled (1924)525
21.8.4The Cardboard Lover (1928)472
22.8.4The Trespasser (1929)533
23.8.4The Love of Sunya (1927)499
24.8.4The Fair Co-Ed (1927)397
25.8.4Beauty's Worth (1922)415
26.8.4Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)374
27.8.4Sherlock Jr. (1924)6,068
28.8.4The General (1926)17,643
29.8.3Safety Last! (1923)5,025
30.8.3Ella Cinders (1926)472
31.8.3Zander the Great (1925)398
32.8.3Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)9,820
33.8.3Stage Struck (1925)460
34.8.3The Red Mill (1927)681
35.8.3The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)1,253
36.8.3The Kid (1921)11,579
37.8.3Spring Fever (1927)476
38.8.3The Gold Rush (1925)18,402
39.8.3The Cameraman (1928)3,184
40.8.2Lilac Time (1928)419
41.8.2Way Down East (1920)1,693
42.8.2Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)3,060
43.8.2Beverly of Graustark (1926)235
44.8.2Something to Think About (1920)403
45.8.2Across to Singapore (1928)435
46.8.2Orphans of the Storm (1921)1,491
47.8.2The Extra Girl (1923)516
48.8.2Why Change Your Wife? (1920)669
49.8.2The Smart Set (1928)579
50.8.2Lights of Old Broadway (1925)248

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 50 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:

 weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C 
where:
  • R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
  • v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
  • m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 50 (currently 100)
  • C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8)

for the Top 50, only votes from regular voters are considered.