Silent film
Top-grossing silent films in the United States
The following are American films from the silent film era that had earned the highest gross income as of 1932. The amounts given are gross rentals (the distributor's share of the box-office) as opposed to exhibition gross.

Silent film

Section Title: Top-grossing silent films in the United States
Table Section Text: The following are American films from the silent film era that had earned the highest gross income as of 1932. The amounts given are gross rentals (the distributor's share of the box-office) as opposed to exhibition gross.

Title	Year	Director(s)	Gross rental	Ref.

The Birth of a Nation	1915	D. W. Griffith	$10,000,000

The Big Parade	1925	King Vidor	$6,400,000

Ben-Hur	1925	Fred Niblo	$5,500,000

Way Down East	1920	D. W. Griffith	$5,000,000

The Gold Rush	1925	Charlie Chaplin	$4,250,000

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	1921	Rex Ingram	$4,000,000

The Circus	1928	Charlie Chaplin	$3,800,000

The Covered Wagon	1923	James Cruze	$3,800,000

The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1923	Wallace Worsley	$3,500,000

The Ten Commandments	1923	Cecil B. DeMille	$3,400,000

Orphans of the Storm	1921	D. W. Griffith	$3,000,000

For Heaven's Sake	1926	Sam Taylor	$2,600,000

7th Heaven	1927	Frank Borzage	$2,500,000

What Price Glory?	1926	Raoul Walsh	$2,400,000

Abie's Irish Rose	1928	Victor Fleming	$1,500,000

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In 1915, The Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith was the biggest-budgeted silent film.

final_sentence: In 1915, The Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith was the biggest-budgeted silent film.