i do agree that the general should have be on the top 100 list . buster keaton be the icon of the successful comedy writer or director or actor in the 1920 . it just so happen that the general be a history lesson a well and and scholar at the time felt that this movie be about a authentic look a a matthew brady photograph of the civil war . it contain the most expensive stunt do up to that time the locomotive plunging into the river ( not a model ) . the movie be a labor of love from keaton and crew and deserve to find a place in movie history long after other silents of the era have disintegrate . after view this movie and go on to our relation and the other fine ( and perhaps funny ) movie that keaton make and and discover the two reeler and especially cop . but this one be special . it be right out of your history book .