Top Rated "1920s" Titles

RankRatingTitleVotes
1.8.9Brown of Harvard (1926)807
2.8.5West Point (1927/II)955
3.8.5The Merry Widow (1925)885
4.8.5Four Walls (1928)187
5.8.5The Big Parade (1925)2,354
6.8.5Sadie Thompson (1928)899
7.8.4The Wind (1928)2,250
8.8.4Little Old New York (1923)544
9.8.4Tol'able David (1921)736
10.8.4The Patsy (1928)956
11.8.4Show People (1928)1,386
12.8.4Metropolis (1927)35,030
13.8.4Twelve Miles Out (1927)312
14.8.4When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)571
15.8.4Desert Nights (1929)646
16.8.4Sherlock Jr. (1924)6,116
17.8.4The Patent Leather Kid (1927)253
18.8.4Janice Meredith (1924)446
19.8.4Fine Manners (1926)472
20.8.4Manhandled (1924)526
21.8.4The Trespasser (1929)534
22.8.4The Love of Sunya (1927)500
23.8.4Zaza (1923)457
24.8.4The Cardboard Lover (1928)473
25.8.3The General (1926)17,777
26.8.3Safety Last! (1923)5,059
27.8.3Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)377
28.8.3Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)9,917
29.8.3Ella Cinders (1926)473
30.8.3Stage Struck (1925)461
31.8.3Zander the Great (1925)399
32.8.3The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)1,261
33.8.3Beauty's Worth (1922)417
34.8.3The Fair Co-Ed (1927)400
35.8.3The Red Mill (1927)683
36.8.3The Kid (1921)11,720
37.8.3The Gold Rush (1925)18,541
38.8.2The Cameraman (1928)3,204
39.8.2Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)3,077
40.8.2Lilac Time (1928)422
41.8.2Way Down East (1920)1,706
42.8.2Spring Fever (1927)478
43.8.2Orphans of the Storm (1921)1,498
44.8.2Across to Singapore (1928)436
45.8.2Beverly of Graustark (1926)236
46.8.2The Smart Set (1928)580
47.8.1Why Change Your Wife? (1920)672
48.8.1Queen Kelly (1929)1,175
49.8.1The Extra Girl (1923)518
50.8.1Tell It to the Marines (1926)803

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.