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1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…
- Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles– moved sets inside to control light
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh– stated the theme in the beginning
- Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
- Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming– made the camera blow in the wind
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
- The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
- One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
- Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
- Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
- The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton– crashed an actual train
- Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
- Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin– based this movie on his childhood
- Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
- The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
- Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
- Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
- Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
- Luke’s Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
- Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
- Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- I Flunked, But… (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
…And the First of its Rebels
- Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty– first nonfiction film
- The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
- Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
- The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
- The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
- The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
- Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
- Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim– used the color of the money to fill the screen at the end for a realizing scene
- Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
- Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor-first to use new york as a location
- The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
- The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
- Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
- Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer– was inspired by the lutheran churches
- The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer– used the color white to be rebelious
- Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
- Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard