1. The art of motion pictures grew into full maturity in the "silent era" (1894–1929) before silent films were replaced by "talking pictures" in the late 1920s.
2. Charlie Chaplin was one of the few filmmakers to make silent films in the 1930's, with his physically comedic character, the Tramp.
   

   YEAR	FILM	DIRECTOR	COUNTRY
   1902	Le Voyage dans la Lune	Georges Méliès	France
   1903	The Great Train Robbery	Edwin S. Porter	USA
   1912	Cameraman's Revenge	Ladislas Starevich	Russia
   1915	Birth of a Nation	D. W. Griffith	USA
   1919	Broken Blossoms	D. W. Griffith	USA
   1919	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	Robert Wiene	Germany
   1921	The Kid	Charlie Chaplin	USA
   1922	Nosferatu	F. W. Murnau	Germany
   1922	Nanook of the North	Robert J. Flaherty	USA
   1922	Our Gang	McGowan, Newmeyer, McNamara, Chase	USA
   1923	Safety Last!	S. Taylor/F. Newmeyer	USA
   1925	Strike	Sergei Eisenstein	USSR
   1925	Battleship Potemkin	Sergei Eisenstein	USSR
   1925	The Gold Rush	Charlie Chaplin	USA
   1926	The General	Buster Keaton	USA
   1926	Metropolis	Fritz Lang	Germany
   1928	Passion of Joan of Arc	Carl Theodor Dreyer	Denmark
   1928	The Circus	Charlie Chaplin	USA
   1930	All Quiet on the Western Front	Lewis Milestone	USA
   1931	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin	USA
   1936	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin	USA

   
   

Sources:

http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/film/film/section4.php

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ryahnke/film/cinema1.htm