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Are you looking to brush up on the history of cinema? Are you trying to cram for a film history class and looking for a cheat sheet? Here is a broad overview of cinematic history condensed into under 8 minutes. You can find the full list of films at the bottom of the description for ease of reference.
Check out my video essays: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLWo4eAfFcpvnRlli7fOMusIb2lMLWb0T
Read my horror novel "South of the Mason-Dixon" hellboundbookspublishing.com/masondixon.html
Read my post-apocalyptic revenge novel "The Fall of Polite" amazon.com/dp/B084V2CKGQ
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/Brickwall_
1878— The Horse in Motion
1888— The Roundhay Garden Scene
1889 — Leisurely Pedestrians, Open-Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses
1895 — The Watered Waterer
1896 — The Cabbage Fairy from Alice Guy-Blanche
1897 —After the Ball
1898 —The Four Troublesome Heads
1899 — Beauty and the Best
1900 —Joan of Arc
1901 — What is Seen Through the Keyhole
1902 — La Voyage Dans la Lune
1903 — The Great Train Robbery
1904 — The Voyage Across the Impossible
1905 — The Seven Ages
1906 — The Story of the Kelly Gang
1907 — The Prodigal Son
1908 — Fantasmagorie
1909 — The Yiddisher Boy
1910 — Edison’s Frankenstein
1911 — Little Nemo
1912 — Friends
1913 — Arizona
1914 — The World, The Flesh, and the Devil
1915 — Birth of a Nation
1917 —The Gulf Between
1918 — A Dog’s Life
1919 — Daddy Long Legs
1920 — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 — The Kid
1922 — Nosferatu
1923 — Safety Last
1924 — The Last Laugh
1925 — The Lost World
1926 — The General
1927 — The Jazz Singer
1928 — Steamboat Willie
1929 — Un Chien Andalou
1930 — All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 — M
1932 — Freaks
1933 — King Kong
1934 — It Happened One Night
1935 —Triumph of the Will
1936 —Modern Times
1937 — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938 — The Lady Vanishes
1939 — Gone with the Wind + The Wizard of Oz
1940 — The Great Dictator
1941 — Citizen Kane
1942 — Casablanca
1943 — Meshes of the Afternoon
1944 — Double Indemnity
1945 — The Lost Weekend
1946 — It’s a Wonderful Life
1947 — Brute Force
1948 — Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 — Stray Dog
1950 — Rashomon
1951 — Ace in the Hole
1952 — Ikiru
1953 — The Wages of Fear
1954 — On the Waterfront
1955 — Pather Panchali
1956 — A Man Escaped
1957 — 12 Angry Men
1958 — Vertigo
1959 — Shadows
1960 — Breathless
1961 — Last Year at Marienbad
1962 — Lawrence of Arabia
1963 — 8 ½
1964 – Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965 — Repulsion
1966 — the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1967 — Bonnie & Clyde + the Graduate (New Hollywood movement kickstarted)
1968— Night of the Living Dead
1969 — Midnight Cowboy
1970 — Five Easy Pieces
1971 — McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1972 — The Godfather
1973 — The Exorcist
1974 — Chinatown
1975 — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 — Network
1977 — Eraserhead
1978 — The Deer hunter
1979 — Apocalypse Now
1980 — Raging Bull
1981 — Reds
1982 — Fitzcarraldo
1983 — Project A
1984 — Paris, Texas
1985 — Come and See
1986 — Blue Velvet
1987 — Wings of Desire
1988 — Die Hard
1989 — The Killer
1990 — Goodfellas
1991 — The Lovers on the Bridge
1992 — Malcolm X
1993 — Three Colors: Blue
1994 — Pulp Fiction
1995 — Heat
1996 — Fargo
1997 — Boogie Nights
1998 — The Truman Show
1999 — The Matrix
2000 — Requiem for a Dream
2001 — Mulholland Drive
2002 — City of God
2003 — Oldboy
2004 — Before Sunset
2005 — Cache
2006 — Children of Men
2007 — No Country for Old Men
2008 — Synecdoche New York
2009 — Dogtooth
2010 — The Social Network
2011 — A Separation
2012 — The Hunt
2013 — 12 Years a Slave
2014 — Birdman
2015 — Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 — Moonlight
2017 — The Square
2018 — Burning
2019 —The Irishman
2020 —Another Round
2021 —The Worst Person in the World
2022 —Everything Everywhere All at Once
Are you looking to brush up on the history of cinema? Are you trying to cram for a film history class and looking for a cheat sheet? Here is a broad overview of cinematic history condensed into under 8 minutes. You can find the full list of films at the bottom of the description for ease of reference.
Check out my video essays: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLWo4eAfFcpvnRlli7fOMusIb2lMLWb0T
Read my horror novel "South of the Mason-Dixon" hellboundbookspublishing.com/masondixon.html
Read my post-apocalyptic revenge novel "The Fall of Polite" amazon.com/dp/B084V2CKGQ
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/Brickwall_
1878— The Horse in Motion
1888— The Roundhay Garden Scene
1889 — Leisurely Pedestrians, Open-Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses
1895 — The Watered Waterer
1896 — The Cabbage Fairy from Alice Guy-Blanche
1897 —After the Ball
1898 —The Four Troublesome Heads
1899 — Beauty and the Best
1900 —Joan of Arc
1901 — What is Seen Through the Keyhole
1902 — La Voyage Dans la Lune
1903 — The Great Train Robbery
1904 — The Voyage Across the Impossible
1905 — The Seven Ages
1906 — The Story of the Kelly Gang
1907 — The Prodigal Son
1908 — Fantasmagorie
1909 — The Yiddisher Boy
1910 — Edison’s Frankenstein
1911 — Little Nemo
1912 — Friends
1913 — Arizona
1914 — The World, The Flesh, and the Devil
1915 — Birth of a Nation
1917 —The Gulf Between
1918 — A Dog’s Life
1919 — Daddy Long Legs
1920 — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 — The Kid
1922 — Nosferatu
1923 — Safety Last
1924 — The Last Laugh
1925 — The Lost World
1926 — The General
1927 — The Jazz Singer
1928 — Steamboat Willie
1929 — Un Chien Andalou
1930 — All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 — M
1932 — Freaks
1933 — King Kong
1934 — It Happened One Night
1935 —Triumph of the Will
1936 —Modern Times
1937 — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938 — The Lady Vanishes
1939 — Gone with the Wind + The Wizard of Oz
1940 — The Great Dictator
1941 — Citizen Kane
1942 — Casablanca
1943 — Meshes of the Afternoon
1944 — Double Indemnity
1945 — The Lost Weekend
1946 — It’s a Wonderful Life
1947 — Brute Force
1948 — Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 — Stray Dog
1950 — Rashomon
1951 — Ace in the Hole
1952 — Ikiru
1953 — The Wages of Fear
1954 — On the Waterfront
1955 — Pather Panchali
1956 — A Man Escaped
1957 — 12 Angry Men
1958 — Vertigo
1959 — Shadows
1960 — Breathless
1961 — Last Year at Marienbad
1962 — Lawrence of Arabia
1963 — 8 ½
1964 – Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965 — Repulsion
1966 — the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1967 — Bonnie & Clyde + the Graduate (New Hollywood movement kickstarted)
1968— Night of the Living Dead
1969 — Midnight Cowboy
1970 — Five Easy Pieces
1971 — McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1972 — The Godfather
1973 — The Exorcist
1974 — Chinatown
1975 — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 — Network
1977 — Eraserhead
1978 — The Deer hunter
1979 — Apocalypse Now
1980 — Raging Bull
1981 — Reds
1982 — Fitzcarraldo
1983 — Project A
1984 — Paris, Texas
1985 — Come and See
1986 — Blue Velvet
1987 — Wings of Desire
1988 — Die Hard
1989 — The Killer
1990 — Goodfellas
1991 — The Lovers on the Bridge
1992 — Malcolm X
1993 — Three Colors: Blue
1994 — Pulp Fiction
1995 — Heat
1996 — Fargo
1997 — Boogie Nights
1998 — The Truman Show
1999 — The Matrix
2000 — Requiem for a Dream
2001 — Mulholland Drive
2002 — City of God
2003 — Oldboy
2004 — Before Sunset
2005 — Cache
2006 — Children of Men
2007 — No Country for Old Men
2008 — Synecdoche New York
2009 — Dogtooth
2010 — The Social Network
2011 — A Separation
2012 — The Hunt
2013 — 12 Years a Slave
2014 — Birdman
2015 — Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 — Moonlight
2017 — The Square
2018 — Burning
2019 —The Irishman
2020 —Another Round
2021 —The Worst Person in the World
2022 —Everything Everywhere All at Once
