1920s

Eisenstein montage theory made flesh. The Odessa Steps sequence, a baby carriage rolling down amid massacre, is maybe the most stu...

Keaton plays a Confederate railroad engineer chasing his stolen locomotive in the greatest of silent comedies. Real trains, real s...

A towering city of the future divided between planners above and workers below. Lang imagery, the robot Maria and the machine made...

Murnau, fresh from German expressionism, brought moving cameras and painted light to Hollywood. A farmer tempted to murder his wif...

Maria Falconetti, shot mostly in stark closeups, carries the trial and martyrdom of Joan. Dreyer discarded sets and makeup for raw...