The List - 1890-1945

The Film: Ab Initio List - 1890-1945

The Lumière Brothers' First Films	1895	The Lumière Brothers
Un homme de tête	1898	Georges Méliès
Cendrillon	1899	Georges Méliès
L'impressionniste fin de siècle	1899	Georges Méliès
L'homme orchestre	1900	Georges Méliès
Barbe-bleue	1901	Georges Méliès
L'homme à la tête de caoutchouc	1901	Georges Méliès
Le voyage dans la lune	1902	Georges Méliès
Le chaudron infernal	1903	Georges Méliès
Le monstre	1903	Georges Méliès
Le mélomane	1903	Georges Méliès
The Great Train Robbery	1903	Edwin S. Porter
Le roi du maquillage	1904	Georges Méliès
Le voyage à travers l'impossible	1904	Georges Méliès
Les cartes vivantes	1904	Georges Méliès
Sorcellerie culinaire	1904	Georges Méliès
Le diable noir	1905	Georges Méliès
Le tripot clandestin	1905	Georges Méliès
Laffing Gas	1914	Charles Chaplin
Mabel's Married Life	1914	Charles Chaplin
Recreation	1914	Charles Chaplin
The Face on the Bar Room Floor	1914	Charles Chaplin
The Good-for-Nothing	1914	Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
The Masquerader	1914	Charles Chaplin
The Rounders	1914	Charles Chaplin
Les vampires	1915	Louis Feuillade
The Birth of a Nation	1915	D.W. Griffith
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	1916	D.W. Griffith
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl	1919	D.W. Griffith
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.	1920	Robert Wiene
Way Down East	1920	D.W. Griffith
Within Our Gates	1920	Oscar Micheaux
Der müde Tod	1921	Fritz Lang
Körkarlen	1921	Victor Sjöström
Orphans of the Storm	1921	D.W. Griffith
The Kid	1921	Charles Chaplin
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit	1922	Fritz Lang
Foolish Wives	1922	Erich von Stroheim
Häxan	1922	Benjamin Christensen
Nanook of the North	1922	Robert J. Flaherty
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens	1922	F.W. Murnau
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate	1923	Charles Chaplin
La roue	1923	Abel Gance
Our Hospitality	1923	John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
Der letzte Mann	1924	F.W. Murnau
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried	1924	Fritz Lang
Greed	1924	Erich von Stroheim
Gösta Berlings saga	1924	Mauritz Stiller
Orlacs Hände	1924	Robert Wiene
Sherlock Jr.	1924	Buster Keaton
The Navigator	1924	Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton
The Thief of Bagdad	1924	Raoul Walsh
Bronenosets Potyomkin	1925	Sergei M. Eisenstein
Seven Chances	1925	Buster Keaton
Stachka	1925	Sergei M. Eisenstein
The Big Parade	1925	King Vidor
The Gold Rush	1925	Charles Chaplin
The Phantom of the Opera	1925	Rupert Julian
The Pleasure Garden	1925	Alfred Hitchcock
Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage	1926	F.W. Murnau
The General	1926	Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Berlin, Symphony of a Great City	1927	Walter Ruttmann
Downhill	1927	Alfred Hitchcock
Metropolis	1927	Fritz Lang
Napoléon	1927	Abel Gance
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	1927	F.W. Murnau
The Jazz Singer	1927	Alan Crosland
The Kid Brother	1927	Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog	1927	Alfred Hitchcock
The Ring	1927	Alfred Hitchcock
The Unknown	1927	Tod Browning
Wings	1927	William A. Wellman
Arsenal	1928	Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Champagne	1928	Alfred Hitchcock
Easy Virtue	1928	Alfred Hitchcock
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc	1928	Carl Theodor Dreyer
L’Argent	1928	Marcel L'Herbier
Oktyabr	1928	Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Spione	1928	Fritz Lang
Steamboat Bill, Jr.	1928	Charles Reisner
Storm Over Asia (Silent)	1928	Vsevolod Pudovkin
The Cameraman	1928	Edward Sedgwick
The Circus	1928	Charles Chaplin
The Crowd	1928	King Vidor
The Docks of New York	1928	Josef von Sternberg
The Farmer's Wife	1928	Alfred Hitchcock
The Wind	1928	Victor Sjöström
Blackmail	1929	Alfred Hitchcock
Chelovek s kino-apparatom	1929	Dziga Vertov
Die Büchse der Pandora	1929	Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Queen Kelly	1929	Erich von Stroheim
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen	1929	Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The Manxman	1929	Alfred Hitchcock
Un chien andalou	1929	Luis Buñuel
All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	Lewis Milestone
Der blaue Engel	1930	Josef von Sternberg
Juno and the Paycock	1930	Alfred Hitchcock
Le sang d'un poète	1930	Jean Cocteau
Morocco	1930	Josef von Sternberg
Murder	1930	Alfred Hitchcock
Zemlya	1930	Sergei Eisenstein, Alexander Dovzhenko
City Lights	1931	Charles Chaplin
Dracula	1931	Tod Browning
Frankenstein	1931	James Whale
La chienne	1931	Jean Renoir
Le million	1931	René Clair
Little Caesar	1931	Mervyn LeRoy
M	1931	Fritz Lang
Rich and Strange	1931	Alfred Hitchcock
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas	1931	F.W. Murnau
The Public Enemy	1931	William A. Wellman
The Skin Game	1931	Alfred Hitchcock
À nous la liberté	1931	René Clair
Boudu sauvé des eaux	1932	Jean Renoir
Freaks	1932	Tod Browning
Number Seventeen	1932	Alfred Hitchcock
Scarface	1932	Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Shanghai Express	1932	Josef von Sternberg
The Face on the Barroom Floor	1932	Bertram Bracken
Trouble in Paradise	1932	Ernst Lubitsch
42nd Street	1933	Lloyd Bacon
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse	1933	Fritz Lang
Duck Soup	1933	Leo McCarey
Gold Diggers of 1933	1933	Mervyn LeRoy
King Kong	1933	Merian C. Cooper , Ernest B. Schoedsack
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège	1933	Jean Vigo
A Story of Floating Weeds	1934	Yasujiro Ozu
Imitation of Life	1934	John M. Stahl
It Happened One Night	1934	Frank Capra
It's a Gift	1934	Norman Z. McLeod
L'atalante	1934	Jean Vigo
Man of Aran	1934	Robert J. Flaherty
Our Daily Bread	1934	King Vidor
The Man Who Knew Too Much	1934	Alfred Hitchcock
The Scarlet Empress	1934	Josef von Sternberg
Waltzes from Vienna	1934	Alfred Hitchcock
A Night at the Opera	1935	Sam Wood
Bride of Frankenstein	1935	James Whale
The 39 Steps	1935	Alfred Hitchcock
The Informer	1935	John Ford
Top Hat	1935	Mark Sandrich
Triumph des Willens	1935	Leni Riefenstahl
Camille	1936	George Cukor
Fury	1936	Fritz Lang
Le crime de Monsieur Lange	1936	Jean Renoir
Modern Times	1936	Charles Chaplin
Naniwa erejî	1936	Kenji Mizoguchi
Partie de campagne	1936	Jean Renoir
Sabotage	1936	Alfred Hitchcock
Secret Agent	1936	Alfred Hitchcock
Things to Come	1936	William Cameron Menzies
La grande illusion	1937	Jean Renoir
Make Way for Tomorrow	1937	Leo McCarey
Pépé le Moko	1937	Julien Duvivier
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	David Hand
The Awful Truth	1937	Leo McCarey
You Only Live Once	1937	Fritz Lang
Young and Innocent	1937	Alfred Hitchcock
Aleksandr Nevskiy	1938	Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Angels with Dirty Faces	1938	Michael Curtiz
Bringing Up Baby	1938	Howard Hawks
Holiday	1938	George Cukor
La bête humaine	1938	Jean Renoir
La femme du boulanger	1938	Marcel Pagnol
Le quai des brumes	1938	Marcel Carné
Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit	1938	Leni Riefenstahl
The Lady Vanishes	1938	Alfred Hitchcock
You Can't Take It with You	1938	Frank Capra
Gone with the Wind	1939	Victor Fleming
Jamaica Inn	1939	Alfred Hitchcock
La règle du jeu	1939	Jean Renoir
Le jour se lève	1939	Marcel Carné
Midnight	1939	Mitchell Leisen
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	Frank Capra
Ninotchka	1939	Ernst Lubitsch
Only Angels Have Wings	1939	Howard Hawks
Stagecoach	1939	John Ford
The Roaring Twenties	1939	Raoul Walsh
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums	1939	Kenji Mizoguchi
The Wizard of Oz	1939	Victor Fleming
Wuthering Heights	1939	William Wyler
Young Mr. Lincoln	1939	John Ford
Fantasia	1940	James Algar, Samuel Armstrong
Foreign Correspondent	1940	Alfred Hitchcock
His Girl Friday	1940	Howard Hawks
Pinocchio	1940	Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Rebecca	1940	Alfred Hitchcock
The Grapes of Wrath	1940	John Ford
The Great Dictator	1940	Charles Chaplin
The Philadelphia Story	1940	George Cukor
The Shop Around the Corner	1940	Ernst Lubitsch
The Thief of Bagdad	1940	Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell
Hellzapoppin'	1941	H.C. Potter
How Green Was My Valley	1941	John Ford
Meet John Doe	1941	Frank Capra
Mr. & Mrs. Smith	1941	Alfred Hitchcock
Sullivan's Travels	1941	Preston Sturges
Suspicion	1941	Alfred Hitchcock
The Lady Eve	1941	Preston Sturges
The Maltese Falcon	1941	John Huston
The Shanghai Gesture	1941	Josef von Sternberg
They Died with Their Boots On	1941	Raoul Walsh
Tobacco Road	1941	John Ford
Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz
Cat People	1942	Jacques Tourneur
Listen to Britain	1942	Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Saboteur	1942	Alfred Hitchcock
The Magnificent Ambersons	1942	Orson Welles
The Palm Beach Story	1942	Preston Sturges
To Be or Not to Be	1942	Ernst Lubitsch
Fires Were Started	1943	Humphrey Jennings
Heaven Can Wait	1943	Ernst Lubitsch
I Walked with a Zombie	1943	Jacques Tourneur
Ossessione	1943	Luchino Visconti
Shadow of a Doubt	1943	Alfred Hitchcock
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
The Ox-Bow Incident	1943	William A. Wellman
Vredens dag	1943	Carl Theodor Dreyer
A Canterbury Tale	1944	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Arsenic and Old Lace	1944	Frank Capra
Aventure Malgache	1944	Alfred Hitchcock
Bon Voyage	1944	Alfred Hitchcock
Double Indemnity	1944	Billy Wilder
Ivan Groznyy I	1944	Sergei M. Eisenstein
Laura	1944	Otto Preminger
Lifeboat	1944	Alfred Hitchcock
Meet Me in St. Louis	1944	Vincente Minnelli
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek	1944	Preston Sturges
The Woman in the Window	1944	Fritz Lang
'I Know Where I'm Going!'	1945	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Brief Encounter	1945	David Lean
Detour	1945	Edgar G. Ulmer
Leave Her to Heaven	1945	John M. Stahl
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne	1945	Robert Bresson
Les enfants du paradis	1945	Marcel Carné
Mildred Pierce	1945	Michael Curtiz
Roma, città aperta	1945	Roberto Rossellini
Scarlet Street	1945	Fritz Lang
Spellbound	1945	Alfred Hitchcock
The Bells of St. Mary's	1945	Leo McCarey