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- DirectorP.J.C. JanssenSeries of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874.Oldest Footage
This 6 Second clip of the 1874 footage of the transit of The Planet Venus In 1874 It Is The First footage of anything ever.
It Is sometimes regarded to be the first movie ever. - DirectorEadweard MuybridgeStarsGilbert DommSallie GardnerThe clip shows a jockey, Gilbert Domm, riding a horse, Sallie Gardner. The clip is not filmed; instead, it consists of 24 individual photographs shot in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using a zoopraxiscope.Oldest Dated Footage That Claims To Be A Film
This film was the 2nd oldest film that IMDB Classes a movie,Even Though it isn't recorded. - DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceA frame sequence featuring a man walking around a corner.Earliest Live Recording
While Not classed as a film or movie,Man Walking Around the Corner is considered the first recorded footage ever,This Was Shot by a 16mm camera. - DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceStarsAnnie HartleyAdolphe Le PrinceJoseph WhitleyIn the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.The First Movie
This Film that was recorded in Leeds,UK In October 1888,Is widely regarded as the 1st movie ever made. - DirectorÉmile ReynaudLost 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud about a wanderer who orders a good beer ("Un bon bock") and meets a traveler who also orders a beer. They enter an argument because a kitchen boy steals their beers.First Animated Film
Not Much Is Known about this movie,However,This Is the first animated movie ever created. - DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsWilliam K.L. DicksonThe earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.First Use Of Sound
This Short 17 Second Movie depicts 3 men,One Who Plays A Violin,The 2 Others dancing along with it,Along With sound being audible. - DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonFirst Lost Film
This Movie Is Completely lost as only one still frame from the supposed movie still exists online,their have been similar films from not long from the supposed relase date to not along ago modern times.
It Is also to be the first film to explore the issue of drug use. - DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsHenry Welton"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)First Movie To Feature Cats
This Short film produced and made by The Thomas Edison Company's shows 2 Cats Boxing as A Man And Possible Offscreen Onlookers watch the fight,If you Disregard Sallie Gardner at a Gallop,This Is an early example in animals in movies and films. - DirectorLouis LumièreWorkers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.The First Movie Shown To An Audience
This Film was screened under a French café in 1896 along with many others including Arrival Of A Train,This Was also the first movie to be screened by a projector. - DirectorBirt AcresA policeman catches a pickpocket, who slips from his jacket but is caught by a sailor.The First Crime Film
This 30 Second Film depicts a pickpocket running away from a policeman,Then The pickpocket runs into a sailor and gets captured and arrested,This Is The oldest film of the genre of crime. - DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsAnnabelle MooreAnnabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.First Colour Film
Even Though Edmund Ray Turner's 110 year Old Home Footage from 1902 that was discovered In September 2012 Was first considered the first colour film,Later versions of a old 1895 Film Called Annabelle Serpentine Dance were hand tinted with multiple colours,Making Those versions the first colour films instead. - DirectorAlfred ClarkStarsRobert ThomaeMrs. Robert L. ThomasThis short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.The First Use Of Camera Tricks
This Movie Depicts the execution of the infamous famous queen in Scotland in the pre 1800's,This Reconstruction of the famous execution uses a camera trick that involves a split second change from the actress being there and the second being replaced by a dummy,It Can easily be seen but many people thought it was real. - DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsWith the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.The First Horror Film
Even Though strange and boring,This Film was and still is considered by many to be the first film with a horror related storyline,Maybe The first movie with a storyline at all. - DirectorWilliam HeiseStarsMay IrwinJohn C. RiceIn a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.The First Movie For Demanded Censorship
This Movie is a simple 1 Minute video about 2 broad-way stars kissing,The Public somehow didn't like it and wanted it to be censored,There Would be so many movies that would go on to break this record of complaints. - DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJeanne BradyJehanne d'AlcyThe first film to ever show a nudity scene on screen is a simple presentation of a servant preparing a bath for another woman.First Nudity Illusion
This Film involves a woman after a ball,Getting Into her bath while she is nude,However they used a trick during this scene to make it look like the actress nude. - DirectorJan KrízeneckýStarsJosef Sváb-MalostranskýFirst Czech Film
Not Much is known about this film,However it is the earliest known screened film in the country. - DirectorWalter Pfeffer DandoWilliam K.L. DicksonHerbert Beerbohm TreeStarsHerbert Beerbohm TreeDora TullochCharles SeftonKing John does whatever it takes to keep himself on the throne of England, making enemies of the pope, France, and his nephew along the way.The First Adaption Film
The First Film To be based on some other piece of fiction was King John In 1899,It Shows the death scene of one of Shakespere's characters King John. - First Film To Have Football In It
While There might have been a couple of football scenes in earlier movies before this 1902 Flick,However It Is the first film with the famous football teams Burnley And Manchester United In It. - DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.First Major Successful Film/First Sci-Fi Film
The Trip To The Moon Is considered the first film to become an iconic masterpiece ever,Also The First Film to have a sci-fi related storyline ever made. - DirectorGeorge S. FlemingEdwin S. PorterStarsEdwin S. PorterVivian VaughanArthur WhiteA fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.First Use Of Cross-Cutting
This Important Flick was the first film to use the first use of cross-cutting,A Camera Trick that switches between different scenes,This Use of the infamous camera trick can be scene throughout the movie. - DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonA.C. AbadieGeorge BarnesA group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.The First Successful Film In America
The Great Train Robbery only came out a year after A Trip To the Moon,Both Of witch are remembered as Great Successes,The Only Difference is that they were made in different regions. - DirectorCharles TaitStarsElizabeth TaitJohn TaitNicholas BrierleyOriginally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.The First Feature Length Film
This story about the infamous Australian Outlaws is estimated to run at 70 Minutes Long Making it the world's first feature length film - DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsMary FullerCharles OgleAugustus PhillipsThe first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.First Frankenstein Movie
This 16 Minute movie from 1910 Shows the famous monster following his owner around after creation. - StarsNat C. GoodwinVinnie BurnsCharley RogersAn orphan in early 19th century England escapes the poorhouse only to fall among a gang of pickpockets in London.First American Movie
This Movie is the first official American Movie ever commercially made. - DirectorOscar ApfelCecil B. DeMilleStarsDustin FarnumMonroe SalisburyWinifred KingstonA chivalrous British officer takes the blame for his cousin's embezzlement and journeys to the American West to start a new life on a cattle ranch.First Feature Length Western Movie
This Movie About A British Officer in the western united states is the first movie with a western related storyline. - DirectorMack SennettCharles BennettStarsCharles ChaplinMarie DresslerMabel NormandA con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.First Feature Length Comedy Film
This Charlie Chaplin Film about how the poor main character falls in love with a rich girl is considered the first comedy movie that is a feature length movie. - DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.The First Controversial Movie/The First Epic Movie/First 3 Hour Long Film
This Film Is Well known for it's racist theme as the movie glorifies The KKK as they kill black people who are stereotyped as Rapists.
This Film was considered the first 'epic' film,It's Basically A Bunch of genres like Action,Beauty,Adventure,Etc Combined.
It Also is the earliest film to be over 3 Hours long in 1915. - DirectorThomas Dixon Jr.StarsLorraine HulingPercy StandingArthur ShirleyThree acts and a prologue. Act 1: A nation falls. Act 2: The heel of the conqueror. Act 3: The uprising two years later.The First Sequel Film
Despised Being Lost,The Fall Of A Nation is considered the first sequel to the very Clever And Racist film released a year earlier. - DirectorRobert WieneStarsWerner KraussConrad VeidtFriedrich FeherHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.The First Feature Length Horror Movie
This Famous And Successful German Expression Film is about 60+ Minutes Long.
It Might also contain the first surprise ending/plot twist ever in a movie. - DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von WangenheimVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.First Movie To Get Sued
This Famous Horror Flick is about a vampire who wreaks havoc in His Castle,A Boat,And The Main Town.
However,Since this film was based on Dracula,Witch they didn't get the rights to,The Widow of the author sued the film makers,The Court issued the destruction of all copies,But Some still remained causing the film still to be re-filmed years later. - DirectorNat G. DeverichHarry K. FairallStarsElliott SparlingBarbara BedfordNoah BeeryBecause of his financial trouble, Don Almeda (Noah Beery) promises his daughter, Maria (Barbara Bedford), to Don Alvarez (Albert Prisco). But Maria does not love Don Alvarez, and, in fact, she falls in love with Terry O'Neil (Elliott Sparling), a stranger who has been wounded by robbers associated with Alvarez. O'Neil takes Alvarez's place at a masked ball. Alvarez, in turn, robs the old Padre (John Herdman) of some pearls and stabs him to deal with O'Neil's knife. He then accuses O'Neil of the murder and tries to shoot him, but wounds Maria instead, because she has thrown herself in front of him. Maria recovers, and, after proving that Alvarez is a thief and a killer, weds O'Neil.First 3D Movie
As Bizarre as it sounds indeed,This 1922 movie is indeed the first 3D Movie With 3D Glasses. - DirectorChester M. FranklinStarsAnna May WongKenneth HarlanBeatrice BentleyWhile visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.The First 2 Technicolor Film
This Romance Movie is the first movie to use 2 Technicolor. - DirectorAllan DwanStarsDouglas FairbanksWallace BeerySam De GrasseA nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.First Hollywood Film
This Movie about the famous outlaw bandit is estimated to be the first movie to have a Hollywood Premiere. - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.First Propaganda Film
This Movie based on the infamous Russian Revolution,Shows workers revolting against the staff of the ship,Witch leads to the workers on land to start protesting to the army,Witch Results in disaster.
This Movie Was Banned In The UK,France,West Germany,And Norway for inspiration for possible communist revolution in those countries.
This Was also the first movie to have a montage,It Can be seen in The Odessa Steps Sequence - DirectorHarry O. HoytStarsWallace BeeryBessie LoveLloyd HughesThe first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.First Feature Length Sci-Fi Movie
This Movie About Dinosaurs in the modern era is estimated to be the first feature length movie with a Sci-Fi Related storyline. - DirectorLotte ReinigerCarl KochA handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.First Feature Length Animated Movie
This Movie About A Prince was made in 1926 And Is 81 Minutes long. - DirectorAlan CroslandStarsAl JolsonMay McAvoyWarner OlandThe son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.First Talkie Film
While Sound And Music in film is amazing,Audible Dialogue is another step further,This Movie is about a Jewish Man Defying his family's tradition and becoming a Jazz Singer. - DirectorUb IwerksWalt DisneyStarsWalt DisneyMickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsArthur LakeBetty CompsonJoe E. BrownA musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.First All Colour And All Talkie Film
This Movie is the first all sound and all colour film in the movie/film industry. - DirectorMillard WebbStarsMary EatonEddie CantorHelen MorganThe rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".First Use Of The Word "Damn"
This Movie Is the First Movie to use the swear word.
In One Of the scenes,One Of the characters says "Damn It" As A Nearby character looks at them. - DirectorHoward HughesEdmund GouldingJames WhaleStarsBen LyonJames HallJean HarlowBrothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.First Use Of The Phrase "Son Of A B*tch"
In One of the scenes in this film,One Of the pilots shouts "Son Of A B*tch" as he flies the plane. - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.First Anti-War Movie
This Epic Movie about the first world war was a smash hit with a message of peace and unity.
Many Regimes in the 1930s and 1940's went through many types of executions to stop illegal screenings as they banned the film throughout their empires,One Used By The Nazis was to pour gas and rats into the cinema to get the people to come out. - DirectorVictor HalperinStarsBela LugosiMadge BellamyJoseph CawthornA young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.First Zombie Movie
This 1932 White And Black Sound film is the first use of the term of zombies.
These Zombies are mindless slaves of a rich man called "Murder" Who feeds quests mind controlling liquids. - DirectorBurt GillettStarsClarence NashEsther CampbellPinto ColvigA jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celebrates the wedding.First Use Of 3 Technicolor
This Animated Short Film is the first movie to use 3 Technicolor. - DirectorFriz FrelengHugh HarmanStarsThe GuardsmenRochelle HudsonRudolf IsingBosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.First Use Of The F Word
In One of the scenes,The Main Character points to the one of the other characters and says "That Dirty *beep*" As he looked at the audience and then looking back to the character. - DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.First Movie To Win All Types Of Oscars
This Romance/Drama Feature Length Epic is the first film to win all types Oscars Like Best Actors/Actresses And Best Director. - DirectorWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.First Cell-Animated Feature Length Film That Grossed Over 100 Million+ In The Box Office
This Classic Disney film from 1937 Is the first ever film to gross a box office milestone of that time Over 100 Million+ Dollars. - DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.First Film To Be Broadcasted On TV
This Wonderful film from 1939 was the first film to be able to be the first film to be filmed from the big screen to the small screen. - DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.First Film With Stereo Sound
This Epic Animated Film is the first to witch it's sound and music could be transmitted from the screen To The Stereos. - DirectorByron HaskinStarsGene BarryAnn RobinsonLes TremayneA small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.First Alien Invasion Movie
This 1953 Hit is the earliest movie with a plot relating to an alien invasion. - DirectorMike NicholsStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonGeorge SegalA bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.First PG Rated Film
This Movie About an alcoholic elderly couple is the first movie to get the official PG Rating. - DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRobert BlakeScott WilsonJohn ForsytheTwo ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.First Use Of The Word "Bullsh*t"
In One Of Scenes,A Characters Remarks "$43 And A Smile,And Bullsh*t",While They Talk. - DirectorJoseph StrickStarsMilo O'SheaBarbara JeffordMaurice RoëvesJames Joyce's masterpiece incarnated: The story of two seperated Dublin wanderers, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, struggling to control their personal lives.First Major Movie To Use The F Word
This Epic Historical Film Set In 1904 Ireland is the first movie to use The F Word A-Lot. - DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanJon VoightSylvia MilesA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.First X-Rated Movie
This 1969 Flick is the first movie to get an X-Rating.
It Is also the first movie to use the word "F*got",Because In one scene,As One of the characters walks away,Another one calls them a "F*got" As they walk away. - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsKenneth NelsonPeter WhiteLeonard FreyTempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.The First Use Of The C Word
In One Of The Scenes One Of The Characters calls the other one a *beep* Resulting the other to respond with "Oh I Thought you would never say it" Pointing out how it was the first use of the swear word in a movie. - DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsSe-hie YunShin Seong-ilAm ParkA new teacher organizes a volleyball game to boost school spirit and self confidence while fighting with the conservative school board and chauvanistic principal. Two of her students run away and the teacher's liberal methods and free thinking are blamed. The teacher is fired and tries to sneak away during the volleyball match which she succeeded in pushing through.First VHS Movie
This Film is the first VHS movie ever created. - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.First Movie To Get A 9 Rating
This Movie about a big mafia empire is the first movie to get a 9 Rating witch is 9.2,It Has good acting and music in it. - DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry PirkanenDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.First Movie To Get The Director Arrested
Even The Title alone can make anyone cringe for what is about to come in the 95 minute long hell ride,Gore,Sex,Voilence,And Brutality Are all included in this movie.
This Outraged the public and authorities so much that days later after it's release in Italy,All Cinemas In The Country were swatted with police as they confiscated all film material and arrested Film Director Ruggero Deodato.
Much Of The Public Thought that the actors were really being murdered on camera,The Actors later appeared in public to disprove such theories. - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.First Epic Horror Film
With A:
-Great Atmosphere
-Great Acting
-And Great Scares
This Movie is widely considered to be one of the first horror movies with an epic feel to it. - DirectorJohn MiliusStarsPatrick SwayzeC. Thomas HowellLea ThompsonIt is the dawn of World War III. In the west mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.First PG-13 Movie
This Movie About teenagers defending their town from communist soviet forces is the first movie with the rating of PG-13. - DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonEdward FurlongA cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.First Movie With Over 100 Million+ Budget
This Epic Robots VS Humans Movie is the first movie with a over 100 Million+ Budget. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsSam NeillLaura DernJeff GoldblumA pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.First Movie To Use DTS Sound
This Dinosaur Movie is the first movie to use DTS Sound. - DirectorBrad SilberlingStarsBill PullmanChristina RicciCathy MoriartyAn afterlife therapist and his daughter meet a friendly young ghost when they move into a crumbling mansion in order to rid the premises of wicked spirits.First Lead Movie Character To Be Made In CGI
This Cheesy movie based on the widely to date popular TV Shows And Comics is the first movie to have a main character who is CGI. - DirectorJohn LasseterStarsTom HanksTim AllenDon RicklesA cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.First Fully CGI Animated Film
This Epic Animated film about alive toys is the first movie to use CGI Entirely instead of some instances. - DirectorBen StillerStarsJim CarreyMatthew BroderickLeslie MannA designer makes a grievious mistake when he rejects the friendship of a borderline cable guy.First Movie To Give An Actor 200 Million Cash
This Weird 1996 Movie is about a mentally disturbed cable guy Is The first movie to give one of the actors 200 Million Cash. - DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsWill SmithBill PullmanJeff GoldblumThe aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.First Movie To Gross Over 100 Million+ On It's First Week
This Epic Destruction Filled Alien Invasion Movie is the first film to gross Over 100 Million+ Over A 7 Day Period. - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.First Movie To Gross 100 Billion Dollars
This American Epic is based on the 1912 Naval Disaster is a must see for the hard-core epic fans,This Is the first movie to Gross 100 Billion In The Us in the box office.
Fact:100 Billion American Dollars In British Pounds Is About 70,357,250 British Pounds. - DirectorAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsJohnny DeppHeather GrahamIan HolmAfter five ritualistic murders are committed in 1888 London, Inspector Abberline's assignment is to investigate the "Jack the Ripper" murders. Along with a string of mutilated prostitutes, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the government.First Alan Moore Adaptation Movie
Alan Moore Is regarded as one of best graphic novel writers of all time,In 2001 One of his novels called From Hell Was Released as a film adaption. - DirectorGeorge LucasStarsHayden ChristensenNatalie PortmanEwan McGregorTen years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.First Major Movie Shot Entirely On Digital Film
This Sequel To the highly successful "Star Wars Episode 1:The Phantom Menace" Is The first movie to be shot on digital film. - DirectorGore VerbinskiStarsNaomi WattsMartin HendersonBrian CoxA journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.First Remake Of A Japanese Film In The West
This Infamous horror film about a killer tape is the first western film remade from a Japanese Movie. - DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.A controversial, explicitly racist, but landmark American film masterpiece - the most important picture of the silent era.
It also had tremendous budget, at $112,000.
he propagandistic film was one of the biggest box-office money-makers in the history of film, partly due to its exorbitant charge of $2 per ticket - unheard of at the time. This 'first' true blockbuster made $18 million by the start of the talkies. It clearly demonstrated that film-making could be lucrative. - DirectorNat G. DeverichHarry K. FairallStarsElliott SparlingBarbara BedfordNoah BeeryBecause of his financial trouble, Don Almeda (Noah Beery) promises his daughter, Maria (Barbara Bedford), to Don Alvarez (Albert Prisco). But Maria does not love Don Alvarez, and, in fact, she falls in love with Terry O'Neil (Elliott Sparling), a stranger who has been wounded by robbers associated with Alvarez. O'Neil takes Alvarez's place at a masked ball. Alvarez, in turn, robs the old Padre (John Herdman) of some pearls and stabs him to deal with O'Neil's knife. He then accuses O'Neil of the murder and tries to shoot him, but wounds Maria instead, because she has thrown herself in front of him. Maria recovers, and, after proving that Alvarez is a thief and a killer, weds O'Neil.The Power of Love (1922) - now a lost film - was the first 3-D feature film shown to a paying film audience, at the Ambassador Hotel's 'theater' in Los Angeles in September, 1922. The stereoscopic film was projected 'dual-strip' in the red/green anaglyph format, making it both the earliest known film that utilized dual strip projection and the earliest known film in which anaglyph glasses were used. The film utilized and may have been the only commercial film produced in the dual-camera, dual-projector system developed by Harry K. Fairhall and Robert F. Elder. Another 3-D stereoscopic film screening to a paying audience was in December, 1922. It was a stereoscopic print of the 14 minute documentary film Movies of the Future (1922), shown at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. It was mostly a travelogue of NYC.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.F. W. Murnau's American debut. A beautiful, atmospheric, lyrical and poetic work of art with roots in the German Expressionist movement.
Won the only Oscar® ever given for "Most Artistic Film", which was almost a 2nd best picture award; Sunrise won 3 Oscars® for 1928. - DirectorAlan CroslandStarsAl JolsonMay McAvoyWarner OlandThe son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.It was Warner Bros that took the 1st leap into the all-talking movie with the Jazz Singer in 1927. Though there are instances of sound being used earlier this film is the 1st feature-length motion-pic with synchronized dialogues. Directed by Alan Crosland, it starred Al Jolson performing the 6 songs in the Movie.
- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce CabotA film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.A phenomenal, influential landmark film that raised the bar for special effects for many decades - due to the genius of chief technical-special effects man Willis H. O'Brien, famed for his first feature film The Lost World (1925). It utilized sequences with stop-motion animation, miniature models about 18 inches high, trick photography, and one of the earliest uses of back- (or rear) projection. It was extremely influential on up-and-coming special effects artist Ray Harryhausen.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry BergmanThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.One of the last great "silent" comedy masterpieces, with music, sound effects, and very limited gibberish dialogue/singing, and the last screen appearance of Charlie Chaplin's memorable character, The Little Tramp. Chaplin's next film after the successful City Lights (1931), about the dehumanizing and frustrating effects of the machine age - even in the 1930s.
- DirectorWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.The first full-length animated feature (83 minutes in length) in color and with sound, one of Disney's greatest films, and a pioneering classic tale in film history. It was the first commercially successful film of its kind and a technically brilliant, innovative example of Disney animation.
It was the first film with an official soundtrack and the first film to release a motion picture soundtrack album. - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.The most beloved, enduring and popular film of all time - cinema's greatest, star-studded, historical epic film of the Old South during wartime that boasted an immortal cast in a timeless, classic tale of a love-hate romance.
This big-screen, blockbuster adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 best-selling novel was a 228-minute Civil War epic drama that went on to profitably gross almost $200 million (domestic) (and $400 million worldwide) - highest-grossing film status at the time.
Adjusted for inflation, this remains the highest grossing film ever made (at $1.676 billion), and one of the original blockbusters on the silver screen. - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Considered by most film critics as the greatest, or one of the top ten films ever made. It rewrote the rules of Hollywood cinema, setting Hollywood on its ear when first released. The film was co-written, directed, and starred in by 25-year old radio star Orson Welles in his first film effort and on a low budget.
It is famous for its innovative cinematic techniques, quick cuts, use of shadows to intensify the drama, limited close-ups when they were in style, deep-focus photography, and dissolves. - DirectorDelmer DavesStarsJames StewartJeff ChandlerDebra PagetTom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.This groundbreaking Western marked a turning point in the Hollywood representation of Indians, and contributed to present Delmer Daves as one of the first pro-Indian Hollywood film directors.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames DeanNatalie WoodSal MineoA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.This reactionary film is considered Hollywood's best 50's film of rebellious and restless youth (and sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll) that spawned many other lesser teen exploitation films in its wake.
This film made James Dean an anti-hero icon for generations to come - this was the second of his three films and the best archetypal 50s film of its kind regarding the generation gap. - DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsBen CarruthersLelia GoldoniHugh HurdCassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.Pioneering independent filmmaker, writer/director John Cassavetes' low-budget ($40,000), controversial, pre-cinema-verité first feature film has often been cited as the start of the independent (or indie) feature film movement in the US with its daring subject matter (about an inter-racial love affair), mostly improvised dialogue, and a non-professional cast and crew. The film was first shot in 1957 (with a16 mm hand-held camera), then screened, re-edited and re-shot in the following years, and re-released.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.Psycho broke all film conventions and redefined cinema by displaying its leading female protagonist (Janet Leigh) having a lunchtime affair in her sexy white undergarments in the first scene (to cheat the Production Code); also by photographing a toilet bowl - and flush - in a bathroom (a first in an American film), and killing off its major 'star' a third of the way into the film - something duplicated by many films since. It also included such taboo topics as transvestism, implied incest, and hints of necrophilia.
A shocking, brilliantly-edited, and notorious 3-minute shower murder scene, accompanied by screeching violins (Bernard Herrmann's famous score with shrieking, harpie-like piercing violins), included about 90 different shots pieced together as a montage. - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.It boasted spectacular visuals, landmark special effects, classical music, a psychedelic light-show ride (that appealed to late 60s 'tripping' viewers) and the memorable, flawed HAL supercomputer (with the uncredited voice of Douglas Rain). The memorable anthropomorphic character of HAL, a computer that could see, speak, hear, and think like its human colleagues, was omnipresent aboard the spaceship.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.The flesh-eating zombie sub-genre of films was given a boost with George A. Romero's cheap, stark black and white horror flick - a B picture cult classic and one of the most successful independent films ever made. His debut film was an influential, milestone 'splatter' film. Its controversial and unconventional themes included cannibalism, matricide, and a heroic black protagonist (a rarity in the 1960s).
- DirectorMelvin Van PeeblesStarsMelvin Van PeeblesHubert ScalesJohn DullaghanAfter saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.The blaxploitation film genre, with anti-Hollywood films aimed at a primarily African-American audience, was launched with Melvin Van Peebles' groundbreaking film -- it was the first commercially-successful black-themed film. It was the top-grossing independent movie of 1972.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.The phenomenal epic space opera generated a remarkable two sequels (for the original trilogy) and three prequels (in a second trilogy), and led to the equally-successful collaboration between Spielberg and Lucas for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). It created a massive dedicated fan-base for the first film - and all films following.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsChristopher ReeveMargot KidderGene HackmanAn alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.Director Richard Donner's first big blockbuster comic book adaptation movie was a major A-level Hollywood feature hit, grossing over $300 million (with a mega-budget of $55 million). It was a major production: from its casting (with prominent actors in supporting roles), to its soaring music, visual effects (making Superman fly realistically), and its record length end-titles (7 minutes).
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.Apocalypse Now (1979) is producer/director Francis Ford Coppola's visually beautiful, ground-breaking masterpiece with surrealistic and symbolic sequences detailing the confusion, violence, fear, and nightmarish madness of the Vietnam War.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.Many now consider this the best sports film ever.
Robert De Niro's performance was the most overwhelming of his career - he completely immersed himself in the role by altering his physical appearance in an ultimate Method-acting performance. As a lean boxer, he rigorously trained with La Motta for the boxing sequences, and then bloated out with over fifty pounds more weight for the film's ending as a defeated has-been. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHenry ThomasDrew BarrymorePeter CoyoteA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) is the immensely popular magical fantasy movie myth, Steven Spielberg's very personal, heartwarming sci-fi masterpiece (with special effects produced by George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic Company).
Much of the film was deliberately shot from a lower camera angle - from a child's point-of-view to manipulatively encourage younger viewers to identify with the characters. - DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.Blade Runner (1982), rising director Ridley Scott's follow-up to his hit Alien (1979), is one of the most popular and influential science-fiction films of all time - and it has become an enduring cult classic favorite.
This ambitious, enigmatic, visually-complex film is a futuristic film noir detective thriller with all its requisite parts - an alienated hero of questionable morality, a femme fatale, airborne police vehicles called "Spinners", dark sets and locations in a dystopic Los Angeles of 2019, and a downbeat voice-over narration.
It can be considered the best example (and one of the few) of cyberpunk movies. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting that tends to focus on society as "high tech low life". It was popular in the eaerly 80s and its plots often center on conflict among artificial intelligences, hackers, and among megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than in the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.[3] The settings are usually post-industrial dystopias but tend to feature extraordinary cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its original inventors. - DirectorSteven LisbergerStarsJeff BridgesBruce BoxleitnerDavid WarnerA computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.Walt Disney Studios' visually-pioneering, state of the art (at its time) landmark film was the first true CGI-animated (Computer-generated imagery) film. It was released as both a feature film and an arcade video game.
This ground-breaking, escapist film was heralded as the first live action film with over 20 minutes of full 3D graphics and computer animation.
The greatest testament to this film's unique visual effects, soundtrack, costuming, art direction and set decoration is that none of it has ever been duplicated, and remains unique to this day.
At the Oscars, TRON was disqualified for a Best Visual Effects award because the Academy believed that it "cheated" by using a computer - the concept of using computers to craft environments, rather than drawing them by hand, was considered inauthentic in these early years. In reality, the process was an extremely arduous one for animators. - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenMia FarrowPatrick Horgan"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.An early example of mockumentary, Zelig is a spoof documentary on the 'legendary' Leonard Zelig. His progress from medical marvel to celebrity in the 1920's and 1930's is charted in 'vintage' newsreels, recordings and interviews with contemporary intellectuals.
Woody Allen's film demonstrated the technical accomplishment of laboriously matching and interweaving authentic and older period film (newsreels and documentary footage) from the 1920s and 30s with newer, flickering B/W film shot by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Gordon Willis, to make the film appear authentically 'historic'. - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsBob HoskinsChristopher LloydJoanna CassidyWhen a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.A technically-marvelous film blending animated, ink-and-paint cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood live actors, in a convincing comedy/mystery noir thriller, set in Los Angeles in 1947. Earlier efforts to combine humans and ink-and-paint cartoon characters side-by-side in a film, such as Disney's Song of the South (1946) and Mary Poppins (1964), can be considered primitive next to this film.
Its revolutionary animation: (1) used light and shadows in new ways to produce remarkably realistic, 3-D effects; (2) extensively panned and moved the camera to reduce a static look; and (3) had the car'toon' characters interact flawlessly with real-world objects and flesh-and-blood people as much as possible. - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."Winner of richly-deserved Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, Clint Eastwood’s meditation on the morality of the Old West is simultaneously revisionist and fiercely traditional.
The nominated original screenplay by David Webb Peoples is taut, revisionist and believable, radically redefining, and realistically debunking and demythologizing the grandeur and romanticism of the Western genre. - DirectorDavid LynchStarsBill PullmanPatricia ArquetteJohn RoseliusAnonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.In "Lost Highway" Lynch continues his exploration of the unknown and delivers a dreamlike meditation on reality, identity and paranoia.
Filmmakers such as Lynch deserve our admiration for creating new cinematic idioms and exploring new ground. At the same time, "Lost Highway" often feels like a stunt -- like an arcane, deliberately perverse game that Lynch knew would never make sense.
David Sterritt (on Christian Science Monitor)
The film actually deserves four stars for its imaginative style and astonishing suspense, zero stars for its shameless exploitation of violent shocks and loveless sensuality. - DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.This kinetic, action-oriented, science-fiction virtual reality film combined many innovative visual and special effects elements comprising about 20 percent of the entire film. This groundbreaking action film became a smash hit, featuring elaborate fighting and stunt sequences with complex editing. Its convoluted screenplay that blurred the edge between reality and fantasy, still did not lose the audience's grasp of the story.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreCharlton HestonMarilyn MansonFilmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.The Best Documentary Feature Academy Award-winner, presented the US' trigger-happy obsession with gun rights, violence and the high US crime rate, the US as an aggressor nation, institutionalized violence, and the American culture of fear.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.