Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929)

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.

In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.

A chronicle of the trial of Jeanne d'Arc on charges of heresy, and the efforts of her ecclesiastical jurists to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present seventeen minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in ... See full summary »

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.