The Dawn of Cinema

George Méliès

• Fantasies (Cinderella, 1899)
• Historical reconstructions (Benvenuto Cellini, 1904)
• Docudramas (The Dreyfus Affair, 1899)
• Science-fiction adventures (A trip to the Moon, 1902)

German Expresionism

• Stellan Rye (The Student of Prague, 1913)
• Paul Wegener ( The Golem, 1915)
• Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1919)
• Fritz Lang (Destiny, 1921; Mabuse, The Gambler, 1922)
• Friedrich W. Murnau (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror, 1922)

French and Spanish Surrealism

• René Clair (The Crazy Ray, 1923; Entre’acte, 1924)
• Jacques Feyder (L’Atlantide, 1921)
• Jean Cocteau (The Blood of a Poet, 1930)
• Jean Vigo (A Propos de Nice)
• Luis Buñuel (Un chien andalou, 1928; L’Age d’or, 1930)

David W. Griffith

• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Intolerance (1916) 
• Broken Blossoms (1919)
• Way Down East (1920)
• Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Russian Ideological Realism

• Lev Kuleshow:
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
• Dziga Vertov:
  • The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
• Vsevolod I. Pudovkin:
  • The Mechanics of Brain (1925)
  • Mother (1926)
  • The End of St. Petersburg (1927

Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898-1948)

• Do You Hear, Moscow? (1923)
• October (1929)
• The General Line (1929)
• The Battleship Potemkin (1925)

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Orson Welles

• “Citizen Kane” (1940)
• “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1942)
• “The Stranger” (1946)
• “The Lady from Shangai” (1948)
• “Macbeth” (1949)
• “Othello” (1951)
• “Mr. Arkadin” (1955)
• “Touch of Evil” (1958)
• “The Trial” (1962)
• “Chimes at Midnight” (1965)
• “The Immortal Story (1968)

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Horror Film

• Dracula (Tod Browning, Universal, 1931)
• Freaks (Tod Brow ning, MGM, 1932)
• King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, RKO, 1933)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide (Rouben Mamoulian, Paramount, 1931)
• Frankenstein (James Whale, Universal, 1932)
• Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, Universal, 1935)

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Film Noir

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Comedy

Charles Chaplin

• “The Pawnshop” (1916)
• “Easy Street” (1917)
• “The Immigrant” (1917)
• “The Cure” (1917)
• “The Kid” (1921)
• “A Women of Paris” (1923)
• “The Gold Rush” (1925)“
• City Lights” (1931)“
• Modern Times” (1936)

Buster Keaton

• “The Three Ages” (1923)
• “Sherlock Jr.” (1924)
• “The Navigator” (1925)
• “Seven Chances” (1925)
• “The General” (1926)
• “The Cameraman” (1928)

The Marx Brothers

• Animal Crackers (1930)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• “A Night at the Opera” (1935)
• “A Day at the Races” (1937)

Frank Capra

• “Platinum Blonde” (1931)
• “It Happened One Night” (1934)
• “Arsenic and Old Lace” (1944)
• “Mr. Deeds goes to Town” (1936)
• “Mr. Smith goes to Washington” (1939)
• “Meet John Doe” (1941)
• “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)

Howard Hawks

• “Bringing Up Baby” (1938)
• “His Girl Friday” (1940)
• “Ball of Fire” (1941)
• “I Was a War Bride” (1949)
• “Monkey Business” (1952)
• “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (1953)

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The Western

John Ford’s Films:

• Stagecoach (United Artist, 1939)
• The Searchers (Warner Brothers, 1956)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Paramount, 1962)
• Other Master Pieces:
• Red River, directed by Howard Hawks (United Artist, 1948)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone (Alberto Grimaldi, 1966)
• The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah (Warner Brothers, 1969)

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