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The following is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
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The following is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The top nine 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Studio | Domestic rentals |
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| 1 | The Big Parade | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $4,990,000 [1] |
| 2 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | $4,359,000 [1] | |
| 3 | The Freshman | Pathé Exchange | $2,600,000 [2] |
| 4 | The Gold Rush | United Artists | $2,500,000 [2] |
| 5 | The Phantom of the Opera | Universal Pictures | $1,550,000 [3] |
| 6 | Stella Dallas | United Artists | $1,500,000 [2] |
| 7 | The Lost World | First National Pictures | $1,300,000 [2] |
| 8 | East Lynne | Fox Film Corporation | $1,100,000 [2] |
| 9 | The Merry Widow | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $1,081,000 [1] |
For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1925
The following is an overview of 1928 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Although some films released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent.
The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1923 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1921 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood".
The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.
1913 was a particularly fruitful year for film as an art form, and is often cited one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1917. The year was one where filmmakers of several countries made great artistic advancements, producing notable pioneering masterpieces such as The Student of Prague, Suspense, Atlantis, Raja Harischandra, Juve contre Fantomas, Quo Vadis?, Ingeborg Holm, The Mothering Heart, Ma l’amor mio non muore!, L’enfant de Paris and Twilight of a Woman's Soul.
The year 1912 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1910 in film involved some significant events.
The Other Person is a 1921 Dutch-British silent mystery film directed by Maurits Binger and B.E. Doxat-Pratt. It was a co-production between a Dutch film company and a British film company.
Esmeralda is a 1922 British silent film and an adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, with more emphasis on the character on Esmeralda rather than Quasimodo. It was directed by Edwin J. Collins and starred Sybil Thorndike as Esmeralda and Booth Conway as the hunchback. The film is considered lost, but extant still photos show a 40-year-old Thorndike who appears to be too old for the role of the young and virginal Esmeralda. This version emphasized romance and melodrama over horror.
Harry Agar Lyons was an Irish-born British actor. He was born in Cork, Ireland in 1878 and died in Wandsworth, London, England in 1944 at age 72.
Madness (German:Wahnsinn) is a 1919 German silent horror film directed by Conrad Veidt and starring Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel and Grit Hegesa. The film's art direction was by Willi Herrmann.