CHAPTER ONE: THE SHOCK OF THE NEW The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (Louis and Auguste Lumière; France, 1895) The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith; US, 1915) Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux; US, 1920) Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (F.W. Murnau; Germany, 1922) Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty; US/France, 1922) The Battleship Potemkin ( Sergei Eisenstein; Soviet Union, 1925) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer; France, 1928) CHAPTER TWO: A WORLD IN FLUX L''Age d''Or (Luis Buñuel; France, 1932) L''Atalante (Jean Vigo; France, 1934) Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl; Germany, 1935) The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin; US, 1940) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles; US, 1941) Rome, Open City (Roberto Rosselini; Italy, 1945) Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa; Japan, 1950) Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray; India, 1955) The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman; Sweden, 1957) Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder; US, 1959) CHAPTER THREE: BREAKING ALL THE RULES À bout de soufflé (Jean-Luc Godard; France, 1960) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock; US, 1960) Victim (Basil Dearden; UK, 1961) Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnés Varda; France, 1962) The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo; Italy, 1966) Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn; US, 1967) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick; US/UK, 1968) Wanda (Barbara Loden; US, 1970) Sweet Sweetback''s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles; US, 1971) Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty; Senegal, 1973) Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Ackerman; Belgium, 1975) Jaws (Steven Spielberg; US, 1975) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola; US, 1979) CHAPTER FOUR: INDEPENDENCE AND INDUSTRY Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog; West Germany, 1982) Shoah (Claude Lanzmann; France, 1985) The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris; US, 1988) A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kiewslowski, 1988) Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee; US, 1989) Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston; US, 1990) Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash; US, 1991) Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron; US, 1991) Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino; US, 1992) Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai; Hong Kong, 1994) La Haine (Matthieu Kassovitz; France, 1995) The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez; US, 1999) CHAPTER FIVE: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov; Russia, 2002) Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee; USA, 2005) United 96 (Paul Greengrass; US, 2006) Tangerine (Sean Baker; USA, 2015) Get Out (Jordan Peele; US, 2017) Atlantics (Mati Diop; France/Senegal, 2019) For Sama (Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts; UK/Syria/US, 2019) Parasite (Bong Joon-ho; South Korea, 2019).