CINEMA
130 Years of Film History · 1895 – 2024
Every great film is also a historical document — a record of what a society feared, desired, and dreamed. From silent cinema to streaming, masterpieces to legendary disasters.
A 50-second actualities film of a train arriving at a station — legend holds that audiences fled the theatre in terror.
Astronomers travel to the Moon in a cannon shell and encounter the Selenites. The first science-fiction film.
Reconstruction-era Civil War epic that invented modern film grammar — and served as a KKK recruitment tool.
In a dystopian city, a mediator tries to bridge the divide between workers and owners. The first great sci-fi epic.
A newspaper magnate's life is investigated after his death, told through flashbacks and radical cinematography.
In occupied Morocco, a cynical nightclub owner must choose between love and the fight against Nazism.
A poor worker whose bicycle is stolen searches desperately through Rome with his son.
A poor farming village hires seven masterless samurai to protect them from bandits.
Aliens resurrect the dead to stop humanity from building a weapon that could destroy the universe.
A retired detective with a fear of heights becomes obsessively entangled with a mysterious woman.
A troubled Parisian boy, neglected by his parents, falls into petty crime and reform school.
A secretary steals money and checks into a remote motel run by a disturbed young man obsessed with his mother.
British officer T.E. Lawrence unites Arab tribes against the Ottoman Empire in WWI — then watches the British Empire betray them.
Humanity's discovery of a mysterious monolith sets off a voyage to Jupiter, overseen by an increasingly unstable AI.
The aging patriarch of the Corleone crime family transfers control to his reluctant son.
A 1930s private detective uncovers a vast conspiracy involving the Los Angeles water supply and a powerful tycoon.
A great white shark terrorizes a New England beach town, and three men set out to kill it.
An insomniac Vietnam vet becomes a New York City cab driver, slowly descending into violent fantasy as he fixates on a 12-year-old prostitute.
A farm boy joins a rebellion against a galactic empire, guided by an ancient energy called the Force.
A Special Forces captain is sent to assassinate a rogue colonel who has gone insane in the Cambodian jungle.