Film List, Including Directors

(organized by date)

Silent Cinema 1895-1929

Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, 1915, US
Intolerance, D.W. Griffith, 1915, US
The Golem, Paul Wegener, 1920, Germany
Nosferatu, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1921, Germany
Witchcraft Through the Ages, Benjamin Christensen, 1921, Sweden
Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, 1922, US
Greed, Erich Von Stroheim, 1924, US
Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, Russia
Pandora's Box, G.W. Pabst, 1928, Germany

Sound Cinema 1930-1960

City Light, Charlie Chaplin, 1931, US
M, Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, 1936, US
It Happened One Night, Frank Capra, 1934, US
Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir,1936, France
Lost Horizon, Frank Capra, 1937, US
Bringing Up Baby, Howard Hanks, 1938, US
Stagecoach, John Ford,1939, USA
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles 1941, US
Casablanca , Michael Curtiz 1942, US
Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder, 1944, US
The Big Sleep, Howard Hanks, 1946, US
The Bicycle Thief , Vittoria De Sica 1948, Italy
An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli, 1951, US
High Noon, Fred Zinneman, 1952, US
Seven Sarmurai, Akira Kurosawa, 1954, Japan.
On the Waterfront, 1954, US
Man with the Golden Arm, Otto Preminger, 1955, US
The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman, 1957,Sweden
The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut,1959, France

Modern Cinema 1960-1995

La Dolce Vita,Federico Fellini, 1960, Italy
La Strada, Federico Fellini, 1960, Italy
North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock, 1959, US
Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, US
West Side Story, 1961, US
Jules et Jim, Francois Truffaut, 1961, France
Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick, 1964, England
Repulsion, Roman Polanski, 1965, US
Blow-up, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966, Italy
Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, 1967, US
The Graduate, Mike Nichols, 1967, US
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Stanley Kramer, 1967, US
Belle de jour, Luis Bunuel, 1967, Spain
Hours of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman, 1968, Sweeden
2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick 1969, England
A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick 1970, England
The French Connection,William Friedkin, 1970, US
The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola,1972, US
Aguirre, Wrath of God, Werner Herzog, 1972, Germany
Day for Night, Francois Truffaut, 1973, France
Chinatown, Roman Polanski, 1974, US
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir, 1975, Australia
Nashville, Robert Altman, 1975, US
Taxi Driver, Scorsese, 1976, US
Annie Hall , Woody Allen 1977, US
Apocalypse, Now , Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, US
My Brilliant Career, Gillian Armstrong,1980, Australia
All that Jazz, Bob Fosse, 1980, US
Das Boot, Wolfgang Petersen, 1980-1, Germany
Round Midnight, Bertrand Travernier, 1986, US
Blue Velvet, David Lynch, 1986, US
The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris, 1988, USA
Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppi Tornatore, 1989, Italy
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee 1989, US
Fargo, Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996, US