Episode 1
Introduction
- ✔ Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg
- ✔ Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- ✔ Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- ✔ Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese
- The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin
1895-1918: The World Discovers A New Artform
- ✔ Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
- ✔ The Kiss (1896 film) (aka May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
- ✔ Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
- ✔ Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière
- ✔ Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
- ✔ Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
- ✔ What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
- ✔ Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
- ✔ La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
- ✔ The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith
- Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- ✔ The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
- ✔ The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector
Thrill Becomes Story
- ✔ Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- ✔ Sherlock, Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
- The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé
- The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (aka The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargy and André Calmettes
- ✔ Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
- The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
- Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan
- The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
- Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
- The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström
- Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
- The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille
- ✔ Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
- ✔ Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché
- Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber
- The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Seastrom
- Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908) dir. D. W. Griffith
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
- Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
- ✔ Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Souls on the Road (aka Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata
Episode 2
1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film...
- Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
- Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
- ✔ Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- ✔ Singin' in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
- ✔ The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
- The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
- One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
- ✔ Sherlock, Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
- Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
- Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
- The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
- Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
- Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- ✔ City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
- The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
- Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
- Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
- ✔ Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
- Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
- Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
- Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- I Flunked, But... (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
And the First of its Rebels
- Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
- The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
- Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
- Punk's Not Dead (2007) dir. Susan Dynner
- The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
- The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
- Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
- Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
- Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
- ✔ The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
- The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
- Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
- Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
- ✔ Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Episode 3
1918-1935: The Great Rebel Filmmakers Around the World
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Raoul Walsh
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Robert and Bertram (1915) dir. Max Mack
- The Oyster Princess (1919) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- The Mountain Cat (1921) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- The Marriage Circle (1924) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance
- Napoléon (1927) dir. Abel Gance
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1928) dir. Charles Klein
- The Lodger (1927) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- A Page of Madness (1926) dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
- ✔ Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang
- The Crowd (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. King Vidor
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) dir. F. W. Murnau
- Opus 1 (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann
- Entr'acte (1924) dir. René Clair
- Rien que les heures (1926) dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
- ✔ Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Un Chien Andalou (1929) dir. Luis Buñuel
- Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
- L'Age d'Or (1930) dir. Luis Buñuel
- Kino-Pravda n. 19 (1924) dir. Dziga Vertov
- Glumov's Diary (1923) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- ✔ The Untouchables (1987) dir. Brian De Palma
- Arsenal (1928) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- Earth (1930) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- I Was Born, But... (1932) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Osaka Elegy (1936) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
- Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- ✔ Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz
- Romance of the West Chamber (1927) dir. Hou Yao and Minwei Li
- Scenes of City Life (1935) dir. Yuan Muzhi
- The Goddess (1934) dir. Wu Yonggang
- Center Stage (1992) dir. Stanley Kwan
- New Women (1935) dir. Cai Chusheng
Episode 4
The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres...
- Her Dilemma (aka Confessions of a Co-Ed) (1931) dir. Dudley Murphy
- Love Me Tonight (1930) dir. Rouben Mamoulian
- The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) dir. Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
- Frankenstein (1931) dir. James Whale
- Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju
- Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike
- The Public Enemy (1931) dir. William A. Wellman
- Scarface (1932) dir. Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson
- Scarface (1983) dir. Brian De Palma
- Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) dir. Sergio Leone
- The Iron Horse (1924) dir. John Ford
- My Darling Clementine (1946) dir. John Ford
- Twentieth Century (1934) dir. Howard Hawks
- ✔ Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973) dir. Richard Schickel
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) dir. Winsor McCay
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) dir. Lotte Reiniger
- Plane Crazy (1928) dir. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
- ✔ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman
And the Brilliance of European Film
- The Blood of a Poet (1931) dir. Jean Cocteau
- ✔ Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan
- Zéro de conduite (1933) dir. Jean Vigo
- If.... (1968) dir. Lindsay Anderson
- L'Atalante (1934) dir. Jean Vigo
- Le Quai des brumes (1938) dir. Marcel Carné
- ✔ Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) dir. Marcel Carné
- La Règle du jeu (1939) (aka The Rules of the Game) dir. Jean Renoir
- ✔ La Grande Illusion (1937) dir. Jean Renoir
- Limite (1931) dir. Mário Peixoto
- The Adventures of a Good Citizen (1937) dir. Stefan Themerson
- Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski
- Das Blaue Licht (1932) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- Triumph of the Will (1935) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- Behind the Scenes of the Filming of the Olympic Games (1937) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- Tiefland (1954) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) dir. Ray Müller
- Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Saboteur (1942) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Sabotage (1936) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- The 39 Steps (1935) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Marnie (1964) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Ninotchka (1939) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- ✔ The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
- ✔ Gone with the Wind (1939) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Victor Fleming
Episode 5
1939-1952: The Devastation of War...And a New Movie Language
- Rome, Open City (1945) dir. Roberto Rossellini
- ✔ Stagecoach (1939) dir. John Ford
- Directed by John Ford (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- Osaka Elegy (1936) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- Flesh and the Devil (1926) dir. Clarence Brown
- Follow the Boys (1944) dir. A. Edward Sutherland
- Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
- Me and Orson Welles (2008) dir. Richard Linklater
- Chimes at Midnight (1965) dir. Orson Welles
- Cabiria (1914) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
- ✔ Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
- The General (1926) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
- ✔ The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) dir. William Wyler
- Code Unknown (2000) dir. Michael Haneke
- Sátántangó (1994) dir. Béla Tarr
- ✔ How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco
- Un Homme et une Femme (1966) dir. Claude Lelouch
- ✔ Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann
- Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese
- ✔ Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica
- Pin Up Girl (1944) dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
- ✔ Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
- Portrait of a 66% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder (1982) dir. Annie Tresgot
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) dir. Fritz Lang
- ✔ The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks
- Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks
- ✔ Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Irvin Kershner
- ✔ Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur
- The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino
- Little Caesar (1931) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Le Quai des brumes (1938) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Marcel Carné
- La Chienne (1931) dir. Jean Renoir
- ✔ Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang
- American Cinema: Film Noir (1995) dir. Alain Klarer
- Gun Crazy (1950) dir. Joseph H. Lewis
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) dir. Arthur Penn
- ✔ L.A. Confidential (1997) dir. Curtis Hanson
- ✔ Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
- ✔ The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan
- Shiva (2006) dir. Ram Gopal Varma
- ✔ Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
- 71st Academy Awards (1999) dir. Louis J. Horvitz
- ✔ An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli
- The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
- ✔ Singin' in the Rain (1952) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
- ✔ Flying Down to Rio (1933) dir. Thornton Freeland
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen
- Two for the Road (1967) dir. Stanley Donen
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
- Post Haste (1933) dir. Humphrey Jennings
- Listen to Britain (1942) dir. Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister
- ✔ The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed
- The True Glory (1945) dir. Carol Reed and Garson Kanin
- ✔ Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
Episode 6
1953-1957: The Swollen Story: World Cinema Bursting at the Seams
- ✔ Rebel Without a Cause (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray
- Cairo Station (1958) dir. Youssef Chahine
- Paper Flowers (1959) dir. Guru Dutt
- Raja Harishchandra (1913) dir. Dadasaheb Phalke
- Sant Tukaram (1936) dir. Vishnupant Govind Damle and Sheikh Fattelal
- Pather Panchali (1955) dir. Satyajit Ray
- Devi (1960) dir. Satyajit Ray
- Mother India (1957) dir. Mehboob Khan
- Two Stage Sisters (1964) dir. Xie Jin
- Ikiru (1952) dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Stray Dog (1949) dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Seven Samurai (1954) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Throne of Blood (1957) dir. Akira Kurosawa
- The Godfather (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) dir. John Sturges
- Limite (1931) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Mário Peixoto
- Rio 40 Graus (aka Rio 100 Degrees F.) (1955) dir. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
- Doña Bárbara (1943) dir. Fernando de Fuentes and Miguel M. Delgado
- ✔ The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
- La perla (1947) dir. Emilio Fernández
- Los Olvidados (1950) dir. Luis Buñuel
- All That Heaven Allows (1955) dir. Douglas Sirk
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975) dir. David Helpern
- Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray
- Fireworks (1947) dir. Kenneth Anger
- Scorpio Rising (1964) dir. Kenneth Anger
- Marty (television show) (1953) dir. Delbert Mann
- Marty (1955) dir. Delbert Mann
- On the Waterfront (1954) dir. Elia Kazan
- Red River (1948) dir. Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson
- ✔ Touch of Evil (1958) dir. Orson Welles
- The Searchers (1956) dir. John Ford
- ✔ Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Rio Bravo (1959) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Howard Hawks
- Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean
- O Dreamland (1953) dir. Lindsay Anderson
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- ✔ ...And God Created Woman (1956) dir. Roger Vadim
Episode 7
1957-1964: The Shock of the New - Modern Filmmaking in Western Europe.
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
- Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
- Au hasard Balthazar (1966) dir. Robert Bresson
- ✔ Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Ratcatcher (1999) dir. Lynne Ramsay
- Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
- Mon Oncle (1956) dir. Jacques Tati
- Fellini's Casanova (1976) dir. Federico Fellini
- Nights of Cabiria (1957) dir. Federico Fellini
- 8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
- Stardust Memories (1980) dir. Woody Allen
- Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agnès Varda
- ✔ Last Year at Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais
- ✔ The 400 Blows (1959) dir. François Truffaut
- ✔ À bout de souffle (1959) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- Une femme mariée (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
- Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
- Johnny Guitar (1954) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Nicholas Ray
- Senso (1954) dir. Luchino Visconti
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti
- L'eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos
- The Wheelchair (1960) dir. Marco Ferreri
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Viridiana (1961) dir. Luis Buñuel
- I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) dir. Vilgot Sjöman
- La Maman et la Putain (1973) dir. Jean Eustache
Episode 8
1965-1969: New Waves - Sweep Around the World.
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda
- Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski
- Hamlet (1948) dir. Laurence Olivier
- Knife in the Water (1962) dir. Roman Polanski
- The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski
- The Hand (1965) dir. Jiří Trnka
- ✔ The Fireman's Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
- Daisies (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová
- The Red and the White (1968) dir. Miklós Jancsó
- Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch (2000) dir. Chris Marker
- Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov
- Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands (1988) dir. Levon Grigoryan
- Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima
- Love and Crime (1969) dir. Teruo Ishii
- The Insect Woman (1963) dir. Shōhei Imamura
- Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
- Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970) dir. Shōhei Imamura
- Ajantrik (1958) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
- The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
- Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
- Uski Roti (1970) dir. Mani Kaul
- Black God, White Devil (1964) dir. Glauber Rocha
- I Am Cuba (1964) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
- The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forugh Farrokhzad
- Black Girl (1969) dir. Ousmane Sembène
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) dir. Karel Reisz
- Kes (1969) dir. Ken Loach
- ✔ A Hard Day's Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
- Primary (1960) dir. Robert Drew
- Shadows (1959) dir. John Cassavetes
- Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- 66 Scenes from America (1982) dir. Jørgen Leth
- Blow Job (1963) dir. Andy Warhol
- ✔ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols
- Medium Cool (1969) dir. Haskell Wexler
- Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper
- Making "The Shining" (1980) dir. Vivian Kubrick
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Der Sieger (1922) dir. Walter Ruttmann
Episode 9
1967-1979: New American Cinema.
- ✔ Duck Soup (1933) dir. Leo McCarey
- Artists and Models (1955) dir. Frank Tashlin
- Catch 22 (1970) dir. Mike Nichols
- Mash (1970) dir. Robert Altman
- The Graduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols
- ✔ The Fireman's Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) dir. Miloš Forman
- The Last Movie (1971) dir. Dennis Hopper
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) dir. Robert Altman
- The Conversation (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- Mean Streets (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese
- ✔ Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Italianamerican (1974) dir. Martin Scorsese
- American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
- Light Sleeper (1992) dir. Paul Schrader
- Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
- The Walker (2007) dir. Paul Schrader
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Killer of Sheep (1977) dir. Charles Burnett
- ✔ The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Annie Hall (1977) dir. Woody Allen
- ✔ City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Manhattan (1979) dir. Woody Allen
- The Last Picture Show (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- ✔ The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
- ✔ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) dir. Sam Peckinpah
- ✔ Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick
- Days of Heaven (1978) dir. Terrence Malick
- The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- ✔ Cabaret (1972) dir. Bob Fosse
- The Godfather (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- ✔ Chinatown (1974) dir. Roman Polanski
- ✔ The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
- Jules et Jim (1962) dir. François Truffaut
Episode 10
1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s - Make State of the Nation Movies.
- Fox and His Friends (1975) (aka Faustrecht der Freiheit) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- All That Heaven Allows (1955) dir. Douglas Sirk
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (aka Angst essen Seele auf) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (aka Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- ✔ All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Alice in the Cities (1974) (aka Alice in den Städten) dir. Wim Wenders
- An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey
- Gods of the Plague (1970) (aka Götter der Pest) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978) (aka Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) dir. Margarethe von Trotta
- Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank
- Arabian Nights (1974) (aka Il fiore delle mille e una notte) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Spider's Stratagem (1970) (aka Strategia del ragno) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
- The Conformist (1970) (aka Il conformista) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
- ✔ Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Women in Love (1969) dir. Ken Russell
- Performance (1970) dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg
- Mean Streets (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Walkabout (1971) dir. Nicolas Roeg
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir
- My Brilliant Career (1979) dir. Gillian Armstrong
- Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) dir. Noriaki Tsuchimoto
- The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara
- Black Girl (1966) (aka La noire de...) dir. Ousmane Sembène
- Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) dir. Richard Thorpe
- La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1971) dir. Assia Djebar
- Xala (1975) dir. Ousmane Sembène
- Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty (1997) dir. Beti Ellerson Poulenc
- Badou Boy (1970) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Hyenas (1992) (aka Hyènes/Ramatou) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Kaddu Beykat (1975) (aka Lettre paysanne) dir. Safi Faye
- Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) (aka Mirt sost shi amit) dir. Haile Gerima
- Hope (1970) (aka Umit) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
- Yol (1982) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
- The Battle of Chile (1975/1977/1979) (aka La batalla de Chile) dir. Patricio Guzmán
- The Holy Mountain (1973) (aka La montaña sagrada) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Episode 11
1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture - Around the World.
- The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) dir. Li Han-hsiang
- A Touch of Zen (1971) dir. King Hu
- Enter the Dragon (1973) dir. Robert Clouse
- A Better Tomorrow (1986) dir. John Woo
- Iron Monkey (1993) dir. Yuen Woo-ping
- ✔ The Matrix (1999) dir. Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski
- Once Upon a Time in China (1991) dir. Tsui Hark
- New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) dir. Raymond Lee
- Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dir. K. Asif
- Devi (1960) dir. Satyajit Ray
- Mausam (1975) dir. Gulzar
- Zanjeer (1973) dir. Prakash Mehra
- Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy
- The Message: The Story of Islam (1976) (aka Mohammad, Messenger of God) dir. Moustapha Akkad
- The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) dir. Geoffrey Helman & Christopher Penfold
- The Sparrow (1972) dir. Youssef Chahine
- ✔ The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
- A Guy Named Joe (1943) dir. Victor Fleming
- ✔ Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
- The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1995) dir. Laurent Bouzereau
- ✔ Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) dir. Steven Spielberg
- ✔ Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
- ✔ Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas
- The Hidden Fortress (1958) dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Triumph of the Will (1935) (aka Triumph des Willens) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
Episode 12
The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest - Around the World.
- The Horse Thief (1988) dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Yellow Earth (1985) dir. Chen Kaige
- Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yimou
- House of Flying Daggers (2004) dir. Zhang Yimou
- Repentance (1984) dir. Tengiz Abuladze
- Arsenal (1929) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko (introduced in Episode 3)
- Come and See (1985) dir. Elem Klimov
- Long Goodbyes (1971) dir. Kira Muratova
- A Short Film About Killing (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Wend Kuuni (1983) dir. Gaston Kaboré
- Yeelen (1987) dir. Souleymane Cissé
- Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) (music video) dir. Russell Mulcahy
- Flashdance (1983) dir. Adrian Lyne
- ✔ Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott
- Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
- The Elephant Man (1980) dir. David Lynch
- Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
- ✔ The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed (introduced in Episode 5)
- Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) dir. John Sayles
- ✔ Subway (1985) dir. Luc Besson
- Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) dir. Leos Carax
- ✔ An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli (introduced in Episode 5)
- Labyrinth of Passion (1982) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- ✔ A Hard Day's Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
- The Quince Tree Sun (1992) dir. Víctor Erice
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears
- My Childhood (1972) dir. Bill Douglas
- Gregory's Girl (1981) dir. Bill Forsyth
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) dir. Terence Davies
- ✔ Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith (introduced in Episode 1)
- Young at Heart (1954) dir. Gordon Douglas
- A Zed & Two Noughts (1986) dir. Peter Greenaway
- The Last of England (1988) dir. Derek Jarman
- Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
- Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
- Neighbours (1952) dir. Norman McLaren
- Jesus of Montreal (1989) dir. Denys Arcand
Episode 13
1990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid - Before the Coming of Digital.
- The Apple (1998) dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
- A Moment of Innocence (1996) dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
- And Life Goes On (1991) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
- Through the Olive Trees (1994) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
- Days of Being Wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar-wai
- In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai
- Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas
- A City of Sadness (1989) dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Vive L'Amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
- Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
- La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance
- Ringu (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata
- ✔ The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
- Ugetsu monogatari (1953) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike
- Breaking the Waves (1996) dir. Lars von Trier
- Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) dir. Tom Fontana
- Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier (introduced in Episode 2)
- ✔ La Haine (1995) dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
- Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
- Humanité (1999) dir. Bruno Dumont
- Rosetta (1999) dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
- Touki Bouki (1973) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Beau travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis
- Late Spring (1949) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Crows (1994) dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska
- Wednesday (1997) dir. Victor Kossakovsky
- 24 Realities a Second (2004) dir. Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor
- Code Unknown (2000) (aka Code inconnu) dir. Michael Haneke
- Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke
- Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Episode 14
The 1990s: The First Days of Digital - Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia.
- ✔ Gladiator (2000) dir. Ridley Scott
- ✔ Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
- ✔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) dir. James Cameron
- Anchors Aweigh (1945) dir. George Sidney
- Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) dir. Winsor McCay
- ✔ Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
- ✔ Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
- ✔ Toy Story (1995) dir. John Lasseter
- ✔ The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
- ✔ House of Flying Daggers (2004) dir. Zhang Yimou
- ✔ Goodfellas (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese
- The Great Train Robbery (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak
- ✔ Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino
- Reservoir Dogs (1992) dir. Quentin Tarantino
- City on Fire (1987) dir. Ringo Lam
- ✔ Bande á Part (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- ✔ Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone
- ✔ Miller's Crossing (1990) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- ✔ The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- ✔ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- ✔ The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant
- ✔ The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- ✔ Elephant (2003) dir. Gus Van Sant
- Elephant (1989) dir. Alan Clarke
- Gerry (2002) dir. Gus Van Sant
- Sátántangó (1994) dir. Béla Tarr
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
- Last Days (2005) dir. Gus Van Sant
- Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Psycho (1998) dir. Gus Van Sant
- Cremaster 3 (2002) dir. Matthew Barney
- Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- ✔ RoboCop (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven
- ✔ Starship Troopers (1997) dir. Paul Verhoeven
- An Angel at My Table (1990) dir. Jane Campion
- The Piano (1993) dir. Jane Campion
- ✔ Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
- ✔ Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann
Episode 15
2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle - and the Future of Movies.
- Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach
- Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière
- ✔ Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) dir. Michael Moore
- ✔ The Bourne Supremacy (2004) dir. Paul Greengrass
- Être et avoir (2002) dir. Nicolas Philibert
- Zidane - A Portrait in the 21st Century (2006) dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
- ✔ The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik
- Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
- Climates (2006) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) dir. Cristi Puiu
- The Headless Woman (2008) dir. Lucrecia Martel
- Battle in Heaven (2005) dir. Carlos Reygadas
- Oasis (2002) dir. Lee Chang-Dong
- Memories of Murder (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho
- Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook
- La Lune à un Mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
- ✔ Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir. David Lynch
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky
- Songs from the Second Floor (2000) dir. Roy Andersson
- Way Out West (1937) dir. James W. Horne
- Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen
- ✔ Rules of Attraction (2002) dir. Roger Avary
- Avatar (2009) dir. James Cameron
- Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas
- Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Mother and Son (1997) dir. Alexander Sokurov
- ✔ Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov
- In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (2003) dir. Knut Elstermann
Epilogue the Year 2046
- ✔ Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan
- ✔ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry