1928: World Premieres 1928: Still Left to See 1928: Oscar's Ballot Looking Back Moving Ahead Browse Films by Title / Year / Reviews Home / Blog / E-Mail The Movies of 1928: World Premieres  By Title // By Grade ★ = Full Review   /   ★ = Capsule   /   ★ = Feature or Blog Post   /   ★ = Grain of Salt Updated: 15 Jan 2023, with A Girl in Every Port and Street Angel Top Ten List (January 2023) 1.  Zvenigora Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Nikolai Nademsky, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy A+ 2.  The Passion of Joan of Arc Dir. Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Renée Maria Falconetti A+ 3.  The Fall of the House of Usher Dir. Jean Epstein. Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy A+ 4.  The Crowd Dir. King Vidor. James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach A 5.  The Docks of New York Dir. Josef von Sternberg. George Bancroft, Betty Compson A 6.  The Fall of the House of Usher Dirs. James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber A 7.  The Circus Dir. Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia A 8.  Steamboat Bill, Jr. Dir. Charles Reisner. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence A– 9.   The Wind Dir. Victor Sjöström. Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love A– 10.   The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra Dirs. R. Florey & S. Vorkapich A– Ranked Tiers of Films Screened The Fall of the House of Usher Dir. Jean Epstein. Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy A+ ★ The Passion of Joan of Arc Dir. Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Renée Maria Falconetti A+ ★ Zvenigora Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Nikolai Nademsky, Aleksandr Podorozhnyy A+ The Circus Dir. Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia A The Crowd Dir. King Vidor. James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach A The Docks of New York Dir. Josef von Sternberg. George Bancroft, Betty Compson A ★ The Fall of the House of Usher Dirs. James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber A Un Chien andalou Dir. Luis Buñuel. Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil A– The Last Command Dir. Josef von Sternberg. Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent A– The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra Dirs. R. Florey & S. Vorkapich A– Sadie Thompson Dir. Raoul Walsh. Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore A– ★ Sex in Chains Dir. William Dieterle. William Dieterle, Mary Johnson A– ★ Steamboat Bill, Jr. Dir. Charles Reisner. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence A– ★ The Wind Dir. Victor Sjöström. Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love A– ★ A Girl in Every Port Dir. Howard Hawks. Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong B+ West of Zanzibar Dir. Tod Browning. Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan B+ The Barker Dir. George Fitzmaurice. Milton Sills, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. B ★ The Cameraman Dir. Edward Sedgwick. Buster Keaton, Marceline Day B Speedy Dir. Ted Wilde. Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth B ★ Street Angel Dir. Frank Borzage. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston B ★ The Telltale Heart Dir. Charles Klein. Otto Matieson, William Herford B ★ White Shadows in the South Seas Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. Monte Blue B The Racket Dir. Lewis Milestone. Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost C In Old Arizona Dirs. Raoul Walsh & Irving Cummings. Warner Baxter C– A Ship Comes In Dir. William K. Howard. Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser C–