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The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1926 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

• February – The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the Weimar Republic, directed by Lotte Reiniger. It is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed).
• August 5 – Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system uses multiple 33+1⁄3 rpm gramophone records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film.
• August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, whose film The Son of the Sheik was currently playing, dies at the age of 31 in New York. Riots occur at the funeral parlor as thousands of people try to see his body.
• October 7 – Warner Brothers release the second Vitaphone film, The Better 'Ole, starring Sydney Chaplin.
• December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin premieres in the United States, at the Biltmore Theatre in Manhattan.^[7]
• Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. The Fox-Case Corp. is formed in an effort to exploit the system, which is given the name Movietone. Fox begin to create Movietone News newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels is of Charles Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris.
• Al Jolson films A Plantation Act, one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for The Jazz Singer
• Ang Tatlong Hambog (The Three Humbugs), the first Filipino film to feature a kissing (make out) scene, is released in the Philippines.

Notable films released in 1926

For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1926

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• 3 Bad Men, directed by John Ford, starring George O'Brien

A

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger – (Germany)
• Aloma of the South Seas (lost), directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Gilda Gray, Warner Baxter and William Powell
• Ang Tatlong Hambog (The Three Humbugs), directed by José Nepomuceno, starring Dimples Cooper – (Philippines)

B

• Bardelys the Magnificent, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman
• The Bat, directed by Roland West, based on the 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood^[8]
• Battling Butler, a Buster Keaton film
• Beau Geste, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Ronald Colman
• The Bells, directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff
• The Better 'Ole, directed by Charles Reisner, starring Syd Chaplin
• Beverly of Graustark, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies and Antonio Moreno
• The Black Pirate, directed by Albert Parker, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Billie Dove
• La Bohème, directed by King Vidor, starring Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
• Bride of Glomdal (Glomdalsbruden), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
• Brown of Harvard, directed by Jack Conway, starring William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian
• Brudeferden i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger), directed by Rasmus Breistein – (Norway)

C

• Cab No. 13 (Einspanner Nr 13), directed by Michael Curtiz – (Germany)
• Cruise of the Jasper B, directed by James W. Horne, starring Rod La Rocque and Mildred Harris

D

• Dangerous Traffic, directed by Bennett Cohen, starring Ralph Bushman and Mildred Harris
• The Devil's Circus, directed by Benjamin Christensen, starring Norma Shearer
• The Devil's Wheel (Chyortovo koleso), directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – (U.S.S.R.)
• Don Juan, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore

F

• Falešná kočička aneb Když si žena umíní (Fake Woman, or When He is a She), directed by Svatopluk Innemann – (Czechoslovakia)
• Faust, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman and Emil Jannings – (Germany)
• Fool's Luck, directed by William Goodrich (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbukle), starring Lupino Lane
• For Heaven's Sake, directed by Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston

G

• The General, directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
• The Golden Butterfly (Der goldene Schmetterling), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita – (Germany)
• The Great Gatsby (lost), directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson and William Powell
• The Great K & A Train Robbery, directed by Lewis Seiler, starring Tom Mix

H

• Hands Up!, directed by Clarence G. Badger, starring Raymond Griffith
• The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg), directed by Arnold Fanck, starring Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany)

I

• Irene, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Colleen Moore
• It Must Be Love (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Colleen Moore

J

• The Johnstown Flood, directed by Irving Cummings, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor

K

• Kid Boots, directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow

L

• The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei), directed by Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi – (Italy)
• Loetoeng Kasaroeng (lost), directed by L. Heuveldorp – (Dutch East Indies)
• Love's Berries (Yagodka lyubvi), directed by Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R.)

M

• Madame Mystery, directed by Richard Wallace and Stan Laurel, starring Theda Bara and Oliver Hardy
• The Magician, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Alice Terry and Paul Wegener
• Manon Lescaut, directed by Arthur Robison, starring Lya De Putti – (Germany)
• Mare Nostrum, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Alice Terry and Antonio Moreno
• Ménilmontant, directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff – (France)
• Michel Strogoff, directed by Viktor Tourjansky, starring Ivan Mozzhukhin - (France)
• Midnight Faces, directed by Bennett Cohen, starring Francis X. Bushman Jr.^[9]
• Miss Mend, directed by Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep – (U.S.S.R.)
• Mother (Mat), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin – (U.S.S.R.)
• My Stars, directed by William Goodrich (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle)

N

• Nana, directed by Jean Renoir – (France)
• Nell Gwyn, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Dorothy Gish – (GB)
• Nelson, directed by Walter Summers, starring Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
• The Non-Stop Flight, directed by Emory Johnson

O

• Old Ironsides, directed by James Cruze, starring Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery and George Bancroft
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