1930s

Chaplin made a silent film four years into the talkie era, and won completely. The Tramp loves a blind flower girl and funds her c...

Lang first sound film uses silence as a weapon: a whistle, a balloon, a child gone. Peter Lorre as a child killer, hunted by polic...

Willis OBrien stop motion animation gave the eighth wonder of the world a soul. Kong astride the Empire State Building is the sing...

A runaway heiress and a cynical reporter share a bus, a motel room divided by a blanket wall, and the fastest courtship in movies....

Disney bet the studio on the first full length animated feature made in America. Critics called it folly until it became the top g...

Nine strangers ride through Apache country, and John Wayne becomes a star with one slow camera turn. Ford shot Monument Valley int...

The Civil War and Reconstruction as romantic spectacle, produced at record scale by David O. Selznick. Hattie McDaniel became the ...

Judy Garland sings Over the Rainbow and a Kansas farm girl learns there is no place like home. The sepia to Technicolor transition...

The Tramp fights the machine age: feeding machines, assembly lines, and a nervous breakdown. Chaplin held out against talkies for ...

The first great anti war film, made while the trenches were fresh. German boys march off to patriotic cheers and meet gas, shellfi...

The rare sequel that tops its original. Whale traded gothic gloom for wit, Expressionism, and a wounded monster who learns to spea...