Watch The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Odessa Steps sequence, the pram, and the montage theory every editor still learns.

A farmer plans to drown his wife and falls back in love with her in the city; Murnau in Hollywood.

Watch Spartacus, the 1960 epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick (the film is often incorrectly attributed to David Lynch; it stars Kirk Douglas as the Thracian gladiator who leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic). The film is famous for its massive battle scenes, the iconic 'I am Spartacus' sequence, and a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (a blacklisted writer who received credit, helping break the Hollywood blacklist).

A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.

The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.

German Expressionism in painted shadows: a somnambulist, a fairground and the first twist ending.

Murnau's unauthorised Dracula, with Max Schreck's rat-faced count climbing the stairs in shadow.

Chaplin eats his boot and dances with bread rolls in the Klondike.