history of film

  • the first film

    the first film
    The earliest films were in black and white, under a minute long and without recorded sound. During the 1890s films became several minutes long and started to consist of several shots. The first film studios were built in 1897. The first rotating camera for taking panning shots was built in 1898.
  • the great train robbery

    the great train robbery
    One hundred years on from 1855, Michael Robbins wrote a detailed feature about this incident called The Great South-Eastern Bullion Robbery in The Railway Magazine May 1955 issue. ... The true story of the robbery can be found in the book by David C. Hanrahan: The First Great Train Robbery.
  • psycho

    psycho
    Psycho, said to be Hitchcock's greatest-ever film, was adapted for the big screen from a novel based on the life of American serial killer Ed Gein. It has grossed an estimated £52million worldwide since its US release in 1960
  • The Godfather

    The Godfather
    Vito (Marlon Brando), the head of the Corleone Mafia family, is known to friends and associates as "Godfather." He and Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), the Corleone family lawyer, are hearing requests for favors because, according to Italian tradition, "no Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day."
  • Exorcist

    Exorcist
    The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller. The film is part of The Exorcist franchise.
  • Jaws

    Jaws
    When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach resort, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches
  • The Shining

    The Shining
  • Goodfellas

    Goodfellas
    Based on a true story, the plot revolves around Henry and his two unstable friends Jimmy and Tommy as they gradually climb the ladder from petty crime to violent murders. The lowly, blue-collar side of New York's Italian mafia is explored in this crime biopic of wiseguy Henry Hill.
  • jurassic park

    jurassic park
    jurassic park is a movie of dinosaur that how they reborn again and how they destroyed jurassic park
  • titanic

    titanic
    The movie is about the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. The two play characters who are of different social classes. They fall in love after meeting aboard the ship, but it was not good for a rich girl to fall in love with a poor boy in 1912.
  • gladiator

    gladiator
    A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. ... Maximus is then relegated to fighting to the death in the gladiator arenas.