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James Harrison, BBC Archives Researcher, puts that expertise to good use with his ultimate pick reflecting his interest in British moving image (and war) history. But on the way, he also discusses European innovation in defiance of World War I’s intensification and American narrative development. James is also the co-director of South West Silents and Film Noir UK. He has written many articles about classic cinema and was a graduate of the Giornate del Cinema Muto Collegium. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1915! Mentioned media:Britain Prepared (1915) - Charles UrbanA Fool There Was (1915) - Frank PowellThe Italian (1915) - Reginald BarkerRegeneration (1915) - Raoul WalshLes Vampires (1915) - Louis FeuilladeThe World at War (1973-1974)Hollywood (1980)Metropolis (1927) - Fritz LangNosferatu (1922) - F.W. MurnauHave I Got News for You (1990-present)Antiques Roadshow [UK] (1979-present)Antiques Roadshow [US] (1997-present)Hamlet (1921) - Svend Gade and Heinz SchallFantômas (1913) - Louis FeuilladeVendémiaire (1918) - Louis FeuilladeJudex (1916) - Louis FeuilladeThe Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford CoppolaThe Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - D.W. GriffithThe Public Enemy (1931) - William A. WellmanAngels with Dirty Faces (1938) - Michael CurtizGoodfellas (1990) - Martin ScorseseRegeneration (1991) - Pat BarkerThe Godfather Part II (1974) - Francis Ford CoppolaThe Godfather Part III (1990) - Francis Ford CoppolaTraffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane TuckerCleopatra (1917) - J. Gordon EdwardsBeyond the Rocks (1922) - Sam WoodLondon After Midnight (1927) - Tod BrowningThe Unchastened Woman (1925) - James YoungThe Great War (1964)Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925 - Luke McKernanThe Battle of the Somme (1916) - Geoffrey MalinsThe Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks (1917) - Geoffrey MalinsThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - Robert Wiene

Filmmaker, critic, and author Scout Tafoya brings some of his “unloved” sensibilities, as demonstrated in his titular video essay series, to his selections for 1915, although a couple of his picks overlap with films that have come into view as undeniably impactful for this season. Scout, in addition to directing numerous feature films, is the author of books on Tobe Hooper, John Ford, Anthony Mann, and Christophe Gans. His ongoing work can be supported on Patreon. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1915! Mentioned media: Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915) - Maurice TourneurThe Cheat (1915) - Cecil B. DeMilleRegeneration (1915) - Raoul WalshRapsodia Satanica (1915) - Nino OxiliaTrilby (1915) - Maurice TourneurBrotherhood of the Wolf (2001) - Christophe GansThe Devils (1971) - Ken RussellPan’s Labyrinth (2006) - Guillermo del ToroCity of God (2002) - Fernando MeirellesSilent Hill (2006) - Christophe GansBeauty and the Beast (2014) - Christophe GansReturn to Silent Hill (2026) - Christophe GansThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - Robert WieneDracula (1931) - Tod BrowningThe Tramp (1915) - Charlie ChaplinThe Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. GriffithThe Cameraman (1928) - Edward Sedgwick and Buster KeatonSherlock Jr. (1924) - Buster KeatonThe General (1926) - Buster Keaton and Clyde BruckmanCameo Kirby (1923) - John FordHell Bent (1918) - John FordSafe Conduct (2002) - Bertrand TavernierLa Main du diable (1943) - Maurice TourneurAppointment in Honduras (1953) - Jacques TourneurThe Blue Bird (1918) - Maurice TourneurSvengali (1931) - Archie MayoNosferatu (1922) - F.W. MurnauCabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastroneL’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro, and Adolfo PadovanThe Man Who Laughs (1928) - Paul LeniGangs of New York (2002) - Martin ScorseseThere Are Not Thirty-six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse (2020) - Nicolás ZukerfeldThe Big Country (1958) - William WylerTrack of the Cat (1954) - William A. WellmanSunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy WilderAce in the Hole (1951) - Billy WilderKiss Me, Stupid (1964) - Billy WilderScarface (1932) - Howard HawksLittle Caesar (1931) - Mervyn LeRoyThe Sign of the Cross (1932) - Cecil B. DeMilleThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - David LeanAn Actor’s Revenge (1963) - Kon IchikawaThe Hot Rock (1972) - Peter YatesMrs. Soffel (1984) - Gillian ArmstrongThe Tutor (2023) - Jordan RossBlackhat (2015) - Michael MannThe Public Enemy (1931) - William A. WellmanManhattan Melodrama (1934) - W.S. Van DykeThe Last of the Mohicans (1920) - Maurice Tourneur and Clarence BrownThe Twilight Zone (1959-1964)“Billy Wilder 1961-1981 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 9)” - You Must Remember This

Daisuke Miyao, Professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. His ultimate selection factors greatly into that book, but also picks an international array of differing genres and forms. Daisuke is also the author of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy, Le Samouraï: BFI Film Classics, Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies, and The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema. He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema and the co-editor of The World of Benshi with Michael Emerich and Transnational Cinematography Studies with Lindsay Coleman and Roberto Schaefer. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1915! Mentioned media:The Cheat (1915) - Cecil B. DeMilleThe Tramp (1915) - Charlie ChaplinLes Vampires (1915) - Louis FeuilladeThe Golem (1915) - Paul Wegener and Henrik GaleenAssunta Spina (1915) - Gustavo SerenaThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - David LeanThe Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. GriffithCarmen (1915) - Cecil B. DeMilleCabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastroneThe Last Diva (1982) - Gianfranco MingozziThe Last Days of Pompeii (1913) - Eleuterio RodolfiThe Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) - Paul Wegener and Carl BoeseThe Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917) - Paul Wegener and Rochus GlieseKing Kong (1933) - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest SchoedsackFantômas (1913) - Louis FeuilladeIrma Vep (1996) - Olivier AssayasIt’s Tough Being a Man (1969) - Yoji YamadaThe Circus (1928) - Charlie ChaplinThe Ten Commandments (1956) - Cecil B. DeMilleSunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy WilderTemptation (1915) - Cecil B. DeMilleThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - Robert WieneA Page of Madness (1926) - Teinosuke KinugasaDragnet Girl (1933) - Yasujirō OzuThe Kumamoto Cat (1915) - unknownHouse (1977) - Nobuhiko ObayashiCecil B. DeMille's Hollywood - Robert S. Birchard

Filmmaker, musician, and writer Jeremy Mathews takes a couple tacks in his selections for 1915. In addition to a couple National Film Registry entries and another widely praised American drama, he selects an offbeat short comedy and a surreal, macabre, and underseen Russian horror, of a kind. Jeremy’s film criticism has appeared in Eye for Film in the UK and Paste Magazine in the US. He fronts the indie band NSPS as singer, songwriter and guitarist, with upcoming projects including the new NSPS album, No Truth Left to Tell, and a short film called Seize the Initiative, which he directed and edited. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1915! Mentioned media:The Italian (1915) - Reginald BarkerAfter Death (1915) - Yevgeni BauerHypocrites (1915) - Lois WeberRegeneration (1915) - Raoul WalshFox Trot Finesse (1915) - Sidney DrewSunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - F.W. MurnauThe Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. GriffithThe Cheat (1915) - Cecil B. DeMilleCarmen (1915) - Cecil B. DeMilleBurlesque on Carmen (1915) - Charlie ChaplinSuspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips SmalleyThe Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - D.W. GriffithBeauty and the Beast (1991) - Gary Trousdale and Kirk WisePulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin TarantinoHouse of Gucci (2021) - Ridley ScottMetropolis (1927) - Fritz LangRosemary’s Baby (1968) - Roman PolanskiThe Last Laugh (1924) - F.W. MurnauVampyr (1932) - Carl Theodor DreyerThe Crowd (1928) - King VidorThe Iron Horse (1924) - John Ford“The 100 Best Silent Films of All Time” - Jeremy MathewsThe Silent Clowns - Walter KerrMy Mamie Rose: The Story of My Regeneration - Owen KildarePerils of the New Land: Films of the Immigrant Experience (1910-1915)

Anthony Slide, prolific film historian, author, and archivist, personally knew a few people who acted in his selections of 1915. This secondhand view of their production is combined with his wide historical knowledge of their significance to bring valuable insight to the year and period. Anthony is the author of numerous books since 1970 and has served as archivist at the American Film Historian and resident film historian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Perhaps his most relevant book to this conversation is American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon and his works can be found at his site. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1915! Mentioned media:The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) - Wilfrid North and J. Stuart BlacktonThe Warrens of Virginia (1915) - Cecil B. DeMilleHypocrites (1915) - Lois WeberThe Vampire (1915) - Alice Guy-BlacheThe Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. GriffithIntolerance (1916) - D.W. GriffithA Fool There Was (1915) - Frank PowellDracula (1931) - Tod BrowningNosferatu (1922) - F.W. MurnauThe Struggle (1931) - D.W. GriffithWhere Are My Children? (1916) - Lois Weber and Phillips SmalleyThe Squaw Man (1914) - Cecil B. DeMilleThe Cheat (1915) - Cecil B. DeMilleThe Cheat (1931) - George AbbottAnna Christie (1923) - John Griffith WrayThe Painted Lady (1912) - D.W. GriffithGone with the Wind (1939) - Victor FlemingThe Little American (1917) - Cecil B. DeMille and Joseph LeveringHearts of the World (1918) - D.W. GriffithThe Italian (1915) - Reginald BarkerRegeneration (1915) - Raoul WalshEarly American Cinema - Anthony SlideThe Cinema and Ireland - Anthony SlideThe Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company - Anthony SlideInside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers - Anthony SlideHollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins - Anthony Slide"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age - Anthony SlideThe Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché - Anthony SlideButter with My Bread - Olga PetrovaLois Weber: The Director Who Lost Her Way in History - Anthony Slide

To borrow a phrase from an upcoming guest of this season, Jeremy Mathews: 1915 has a white-hooded elephant in the room. D.W. Griffith’s racist epic The Birth of a Nation has to be mentioned when discussing film in this year, and although (spoiler) it was only selected by one guest, its shadow is cast somewhere into each of the conversations and diverse picks to come, addressing both its good and bad influence. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1915! Media mentioned:The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith

While the 1914 season introduction promised the omnipresence of “The Great War,” World War I, if still at least mentioned in every episode, didn’t dominate the conversations. Even still, its representation of sudden disruption, evolution, and modernity is still thematically connected to the aesthetic and industrial developments in film of the year. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to see the list of every submitted film! Mentioned media: Cabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastroneTillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) - Mack SennettFantômas (1914) - Louis FeuilladeDaisy Doodad’s Dial (1914) - Florence TurnerGertie the Dinosaur (1914) - Winsor McCayKid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - Henry LehrmanCaught in the Rain (1914) - Charlie ChaplinMaking a Living (1914) - Henry LehrmanThe Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) - J. Farrell MacDonald

Whether he had a hand in their restoration or not, Bret Wood, filmmaker, author, and SVP and Producer of Archival Releases at Kino Lorber, selects five films that hold some personal connections for him. While they shift back and forth from epic drama and short comedy, these picks also highlight some representative traits of American film in 1914. Among the many projects Bret has worked on at Kino are Pioneers of African-American Cinema and Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers. His films include Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films and he is the author of Tod Browning: une vie avec les freaks. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1914! Media mentioned: Bill Joins the W.W.W.’s (1914) - Edward DillonThe Death Mask (1914) - Thomas InceThe Professional Scapegoat (1914) - Sidney DrewThe Avenging Conscience (1914) - D.W. GriffithJudith of Bethulia (1914) - D.W. GriffithQueen Kelly (1929) - Erich von StroheimThe Great Train Robbery (1903) - Edwin S. PorterHome, Sweet Home (1914) - D.W. GriffithThe Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. GriffithIntolerance (1916) - D.W. GriffithThe King of Kings (1927) - Cecil B. DeMilleA Corner in Wheat (1909) - D.W. GriffithThe Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - D.W. GriffithL’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro, and Adolfo PadovanCabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastronePhantom of the Paradise (1974) - Brian De PalmaDeath’s Marathon (1913) - D.W. GriffithThe Devil’s Needle (1916) - Chester WitheyCurb Your Enthusiasm (1999-2024)Freaks (1932) - Tod BrowningThe Unholy Three (1925) - Tod BrowningThe Devil-Doll (1936) - Tod BrowningAlien (1979) - Ridley ScottAnimal House (1978) - John LandisRodan (1956) - Ishirō HondaStar Wars (1977) - George LucasThe Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) - John Emerson and Christy CabanneCinema’s First Nasty Women

The selections from Beja Margitházi, assistant professor at Eötvös Loránd University's Department of Film Studies, begin in Canada and move eastward. They also jump between genres and culminate in an early directorial effort from Michael Curtiz and a representation of the cinema of her native Hungary. Beja is editor of the film theory and history journal Metropolis. She is also the author of The Cinema of the Face: Close-up and Film Style and co-editor of the anthology Visual Communication. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1914! Media mentioned: The Undesirable (1914) - Michael CurtizBlue Blood (1914) - Nino OxiliaFantômas (1914) - Louis FeuilladeDaisy Doodad’s Dial (1914) - Florence TurnerIn the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) - Edward S. CurtisThe Student of Prague (1913) - Stellan RyeAtlantis (1913) - August BlomIngeborg Holm (1913) - Victor SjöströmCabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastroneNanook of the North (1922) - Robert J. FlahertyFred Ott’s Sneeze (1894) - William K.L. DicksonThe Kiss (1896) - William HeisePhotographing a Female Crook (1904) - Wallace McCutcheonThe Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad

Library professional Brian Darr once maintained a blog about the San Francisco Bay Area screening scene called Hell On Frisco Bay, an alias he still uses on Bluesky and Letterboxd. So some aspect of the theatrical experience, whether he caught a screening or not, comes into the conversation about each of his five picks (all from a different country!) in addition to their aesthetic recommendations. Brian has written on media history for outlets like Senses of Cinema, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, SFGate, Screen Slate, the Independent Lens blog and The Maine Playweek. He's performed several audiovisual presentations at San Francisco's Other Cinema showcase and elsewhere on media history subjects from blacklisted directors to experimental music label Opus One. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1914! Films and resources mentioned: The Masquerader (1914) - Charlie ChaplinDaisy Doodad’s Dial (1914) - Florence TurnerChild of the Big City (1914) - Yevgeni BauerFantômas (1914) - Louis FeuilladeCabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastroneL’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, and Giuseppe De LiguoroIntolerance (1916) - D.W. GriffithMetropolis (1927) - Fritz LangMaciste in Hell (1925) - Guido BrignoneThe Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. GriffithLes Vampires (1915) - Louis FeuilladeJudex (1916) - Louis FeuilladeTih Minh (1918) - Louis FeuilladeFantômas (1920) - Edward SedgwickThe Cameraman (1928) - Edward Sedgwick and Buster KeatonSpite Marriage (1929) - Edward Sedgwick and Buster KeatonMan with a Movie Camera (1929) - Dziga VertovWhere the Winds Blow (1910) - Laurence TrimbleThe Tramp (1915) - Charlie ChaplinHis Trysting Place (1914) - Charlie ChaplinThe Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914) - Charlie ChaplinHollywood Babylon - Kenneth AngerKino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film - Jay Leyda“1,000 Favorites: A Personal Canon” - Jonathan RosenbaumCinema’s First Nasty Women

Elyse Singer, Lecturer in the Department of Theater at Dartmouth College, selects a wide range of forms and genres for her five picks of 1914, from short comedy to serial action to epic tales (one historically dramatic and the other perhaps the first feature comedy). At least two relate to her recent research in female madness in film and the agency of women in serials of the time. Elyse has also taught at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at CUNY and NYU Tisch. Her work has been published in Cinematic Explorations of the Mind, The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science, Faces on Screen, Feminist Media Histories, and Domitor’s Crafts, Trades, and Techniques of Early Cinema. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1914! Films and resources mentioned: Cabiria (1914) - Giovanni PastroneTillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) - Mack SennettFantômas (1914) - Louis FeuilladeThe Perils of Pauline (1914) - Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzieDaisy Doodad’s Dial (1914) - Florence TurnerTrouble in Paradise (1932) - Ernst LubitschPhotographing a Female Crook (1904) - Wallace McCutcheonLaughing Gas (1907) - Edwin S. PorterBlack Panther (2018) - Ryan CooglerWoman Warrior White Rose (1929) - Zhang HuiminLes Vampires (1915) - Louis FeuilladeThe Violin (1908) - Louis FeuilladeTih Minh (1918) - Louis FeuilladeMetropolis (1927) - Fritz LangLillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me - Lillian GishSpecters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes - Maggie Hennefeld“In Your Face: Physiognomy, Photography, and the Gnostic Mission of Early Film” - Tom Gunning

Susan Potter, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Communication and English at the University of Sydney, wrote the book Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. While its scope is broader than any one year, and just one of Susan’s 1914 selections is referenced within it, she also mostly highlights female agency and subversion before and behind the screen with her picks. Susan’s research investigates the relation of cinema as modern mass medium to the intensification of sexuality since the late nineteenth century and audiovisual media's role in queer identity and culture formation. Their essay on Filibus (1915) is forthcoming in The Silent Film Companion: A Recovered and Expanded History, edited by (former guests!) Martin Johnson and Liz Clarke. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1914! Films and resources mentioned: The Perils of Pauline (1914) - Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzieFantômas (1914) - Louis FeuilladeA Florida Enchantment (1914) - Sidney DrewMabel’s Strange Predicament (1914) - Mabel NormandKid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - Henry LehrmanPandora’s Box (1929) - G.W. PabstFilibus (1915) - Mario RoncoroniShoulder Arms (1918) - Charlie ChaplinThe Tramp (1915) - Charlie ChaplinFantômas (1913) - Louis FeuilladeOne A.M. (1916) - Charlie ChaplinMabel’s Dramatic Career (1913) - Mack SennettMädchen in Uniform (1931) - Leontine SaganGilda (1946) - Charles VidorThe Hazards of Helen (1914) - J.P. McGowan and J. Gunnis DavisScreening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood - Julie K. AllenZones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade - Vicki CallahanHokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture - Rob KingA Feminist Reader in Early Cinema - Jennifer Bean and Diane Negra, eds.Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 - Laura Horak

The event that has been foreshadowed the past few seasons comes to pass in 1914: the Great War, or World War I. And while not every facet of the conversations this season relates back to the disruption of the film industry that ensued (to say nothing of the disruption of every other aspect of life), it certainly looms large and provides context for filmmaking language and industrial developments in this year and to come through at least the end of the decade. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1914! Films mentioned: Life’s Shop Window (1914) - J. Gordon EdwardsMaking a Living (1914) - Henry LehrmanKid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - Henry LehrmanThe Squaw Man (1914) - Cecil B. DeMilleJudith of Bethulia (1914) - D.W. GriffithThe Merchant of Venice (1914) - Lois Weber and Phillips SmalleyTillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) - Mack SennettCabiria (1914) - Giovanni Pastrone

The 1913 season introduction episode’s title was “A Milestone Year?” And indeed, the guests for these past five episodes, as well as the representation of listeners based on their submission lists, made the case that it was artistically, industrially, critically, and popularly. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to see the full list of 1913 submissions! Films mentioned: Suspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips SmalleyFantômas (1913) - Louis FeuilladeTraffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane TuckerA House Divided (1913) - Alice Guy-BlachéThe Student of Prague (1913) - Stellan RyeThe Night Before Christmas (1913) - Ladislas StarevichIvanhoe (1913) - Herbert BrenonThe Last Days of Pompeii (1913) - Eleuterio Rodolfi and Mario CaseriniQuo Vadis (1913) - Enrico Guazzoni

Charlie Keil, Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute and the Department of History at the University of Toronto, is the author of Early American Cinema in Transition. His periodization of the transitional era, as explored in that book, ends with 1913 and his take on the traits of the time and how it shifts from the beginning of the period in 1907 defines the conversation. Charlie has also published seven other books, the most recent being The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema, coedited with Rob King. His next book will be Observing Film Art: Themes from the Work of David Bordwell, co-edited with Murray Smith, and due December 2026. Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1913! Films and resource mentioned: Traffic in Souls (1913) - George Loane TuckerSuspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips SmalleyDeath’s Marathon (1913) - D.W. GriffithThe Mothering Heart (1913) - D.W. GriffithThe Evidence of the Film (1913) - Lawrence Marston and Edward ThanhouserThe Story the Biograph Told (1904) - Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.Judith of Bethulia (1914) - D.W. GriffithThe Lonely Villa (1909) - D.W. GriffithThe Physician of the Castle (1908) - unknownMad Max: Fury Road (2015) - George MillerThelma and Louise (1991) - Ridley ScottCitizen Kane (1941) - Orson WellesIngeborg Holm (1913) - Victor SjöströmFantômas (1913) - Louis FeuilladeFalling Leaves (1912) - Alice Guy-BlachéAmerican Cinema’s Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices - Charlie Keil and Shelley Stamp, eds.