Are you looking to brush up on the history of cinema? Are you trying to cram for a film history class and looking for a cheat sheet? Here is a broad overview of cinematic history condensed into under 8 minutes. You can find the full list of films at the bottom of the description for ease of reference.

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1878— The Horse in Motion
1888— The Roundhay Garden Scene
1889 — Leisurely Pedestrians, Open-Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses
1895 — The Watered Waterer
1896 — The Cabbage Fairy from Alice Guy-Blanche
1897 —After the Ball
1898 —The Four Troublesome Heads
1899 — Beauty and the Best
1900 —Joan of Arc
1901 — What is Seen Through the Keyhole
1902 — La Voyage Dans la Lune
1903 — The Great Train Robbery
1904 — The Voyage Across the Impossible
1905 — The Seven Ages
1906 — The Story of the Kelly Gang
1907 — The Prodigal Son
1908 — Fantasmagorie
1909 — The Yiddisher Boy
1910 — Edison’s Frankenstein
1911 — Little Nemo
1912 — Friends
1913 — Arizona
1914 — The World, The Flesh, and the Devil
1915 — Birth of a Nation
1917 —The Gulf Between
1918 — A Dog’s Life
1919 — Daddy Long Legs
1920 — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 — The Kid
1922 — Nosferatu
1923 — Safety Last
1924 — The Last Laugh
1925 — The Lost World
1926 — The General
1927 — The Jazz Singer
1928 — Steamboat Willie
1929 — Un Chien Andalou
1930 — All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 — M
1932 — Freaks
1933 — King Kong
1934 — It Happened One Night
1935 —Triumph of the Will
1936 —Modern Times
1937 — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938 — The Lady Vanishes
1939 — Gone with the Wind + The Wizard of Oz
1940 — The Great Dictator
1941 — Citizen Kane
1942 — Casablanca
1943 — Meshes of the Afternoon
1944 — Double Indemnity
1945 — The Lost Weekend
1946 — It’s a Wonderful Life
1947 — Brute Force
1948 — Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 — Stray Dog
1950 — Rashomon
1951 — Ace in the Hole
1952 — Ikiru
1953 — The Wages of Fear
1954 — On the Waterfront
1955 — Pather Panchali
1956 — A Man Escaped
1957 — 12 Angry Men
1958 — Vertigo
1959 — Shadows
1960 — Breathless
1961 — Last Year at Marienbad
1962 — Lawrence of Arabia
1963 — 8 ½
1964 – Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965 — Repulsion
1966 — the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1967 — Bonnie & Clyde + the Graduate (New Hollywood movement kickstarted)
1968— Night of the Living Dead
1969 — Midnight Cowboy
1970 — Five Easy Pieces
1971 — McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1972 — The Godfather
1973 — The Exorcist
1974 — Chinatown
1975 — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 — Network
1977 — Eraserhead
1978 — The Deer hunter
1979 — Apocalypse Now
1980 — Raging Bull
1981 — Reds
1982 — Fitzcarraldo
1983 — Project A
1984 — Paris, Texas
1985 — Come and See
1986 — Blue Velvet
1987 — Wings of Desire
1988 — Die Hard
1989 — The Killer
1990 — Goodfellas
1991 — The Lovers on the Bridge
1992 — Malcolm X
1993 — Three Colors: Blue
1994 — Pulp Fiction
1995 — Heat
1996 — Fargo
1997 — Boogie Nights
1998 — The Truman Show
1999 — The Matrix
2000 — Requiem for a Dream
2001 — Mulholland Drive
2002 — City of God
2003 — Oldboy
2004 — Before Sunset
2005 — Cache
2006 — Children of Men
2007 — No Country for Old Men
2008 — Synecdoche New York
2009 — Dogtooth
2010 — The Social Network
2011 — A Separation
2012 — The Hunt
2013 — 12 Years a Slave
2014 — Birdman
2015 — Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 — Moonlight
2017 — The Square
2018 — Burning
2019 —The Irishman
2020 —Another Round
2021 —The Worst Person in the World
2022 —Everything Everywhere All at Once