Ian Haydn Smith is a London-based writer. He is the update editor on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and is the editor of BFI Filmmakers Magazine and Curzon Magazine. Ian is also the author of Selling the Movie: The Art of the Film Poster, The Short Story of Photography and Cult Filmmakers.

Introduction
THE SHOCK OF THE NEW: 1895–1929
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station: Auguste and Louis Lumière
Women in Film
The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith
Within Our Gates: Oscar Micheaux
Nosferatu: F.W. Murnau
German Expressionism
Nanook of the North: Robert Flaherty
Battleship Potemkin: Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Cinema
The Passion of Joan of Arc: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sound in Film
A WORLD IN FLUX: 1930–1959
The Golden Age: Luis Buñuel
Avant-Garde Cinema
L’Atalante: Jean Vigo
Triumph of the Will: Leni Riefenstahl
Propaganda on Film
The Great Dictator: Charles Chaplin
Citizen Kane: Orson Welles
Auteur Cinema
Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini
Italian Neorealism
Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa
Pather Panchali: Satyajit Ray
The Seventh Seal: Ingmar Bergman
Art Film
The Rise of Animation
Some Like It Hot: Billy Wilder
BREAKING ALL THE RULES: 1960–1979
Breathless: Jean-Luc Goddard
The French New Wave
Psycho: Alfred Hitchcock
New Adventures in Horror
Victim: Basil Dearden
Cleo from 5 to 7: Agnès Varda
The Battle of Algiers: Gillo Pontecorvo
Bonnie and Clyde: Arthur Penn
New Hollywood
2001: A Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick
Wanda: Barbara Loden
Feminist Film
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss: Melvin Van Peebles
Black Cinema in the US
Touki Bouki: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Cinema of Transgression
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Chantal Akerman
Jaws: Steven Spielberg
Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola
Developments in Sound
INDEPENDENCE AND INDUSTRY: 1980–1999
Fitzcarraldo: Werner Herzog
An Epic Cinema
Shoah: Claude Lanzmann
The Thin Blue Line: Errol Morris
A Short Film About Killing: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Changing the World
Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee
Paris is Burning: Jennie Livingston
New Queer Cinema
Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: James Cameron
Reservoir Dogs: Quentin Tarantino
US Indie Cinema
Chungking Express: Wong Kar-wai
Cinema in Hong Kong, China
Recent New Waves
La Haine: Mathieu Kassovitz
The Blair Witch Project: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
Recent Horror
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN: 2000–PRESENT
Russian Ark: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cinema and Time
Digital Cinema
Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee
United 93: Paul Greengrass
Cinema Post-9/11
Tangerine: Sean Baker
Get Out: Jordan Peele
Film and Black Lives Matter
Change for the Future
Atlantics: Mati Diop
For Sama: Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Citizen Journalism
Parasite: Bong Joon-Ho

Glossary
Further Reading
Picture Credits
Index