This list is the Letterboxd version of The Oxford History of World Cinema.
The book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the Avant-Garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong, with an international team of distinguished film historians telling the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel. Other chapters outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world - the varied and distinctive filmic traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood.
While putting the list together I noticed a few errors and inconsistencies in the original text that I have corrected. Also note that a small number of films tricky…
This list is the Letterboxd version of The Oxford History of World Cinema.
The book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the Avant-Garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong, with an international team of distinguished film historians telling the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel. Other chapters outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world - the varied and distinctive filmic traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood.
While putting the list together I noticed a few errors and inconsistencies in the original text that I have corrected. Also note that a small number of films tricky to verify aren’t included at this point. To find out which these are check the notes for the first entry: A. Aside from those, the list should be complete.
A full-text, semi-searchable version of the book can be downloaded free of charge from Internet Archive.