Man with a Movie CameraMan with a Movie Camera
A cameraman roams Soviet cities from dawn to dusk in a wordless, restlessly inventive portrait of modern life and of filmmaking itself.
Landmarks of Cinema
Films that changed what movies could do: the first trip to the Moon on film, Nanook of the North, Man with a Movie Camera, the first Best Picture winner, and Salt of the Earth, made by blacklisted filmmakers in 1954. If you're starting a film education, start here.
Man with a Movie Camera
All Quiet on the Western FrontAll Quiet on the Western Front
A class of German schoolboys enlists in the First World War full of patriotic fire and learns in the trenches what the war really costs.
A Trip to the MoonA Trip to the Moon
A congress of astronomers fires itself to the moon in a giant shell, lands in the Man in the Moon's eye, and escapes the moon's strange inhabitants.
MetropolisMetropolis
In a towering future city split between idle rulers and underground workers, the ruler's son falls for a prophet of the workers, and an inventor builds a robot in her image.
NosferatuNosferatu
A real-estate clerk travels to the Carpathians to close a sale with the reclusive Count, who then follows him home bringing plague and death.
WingsWings
Two small-town rivals for the same girl become fighter pilots and best friends in the skies over WWI France. It won the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
SunriseSunrise
A farmer tempted by a woman from the city plots to drown his wife, then spends a long, redemptive day in the city falling in love with her again.
The CrowdThe Crowd
An ambitious young man arrives in New York sure he'll be somebody, then struggles through marriage, loss and a job as one more clerk in the crowd.
Nanook of the NorthNanook of the North
Robert Flaherty's landmark portrait of an Inuit family's year on the Hudson Bay coast: hunting, travel and building an igloo against the Arctic cold.
The Blue AngelThe Blue Angel
A strict schoolteacher goes to a cabaret to catch his students and falls for its singer, Lola Lola, a love that costs him everything. Marlene Dietrich's breakthrough.
Salt of the EarthSalt of the Earth
When Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico strike and an injunction bars them from the picket line, their wives take their place.