Watch Man with a Movie Camera

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

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.

Buster Keaton chases a stolen locomotive through the Civil War, doing every stunt himself.

Lang's 1927 city of the future: the Maschinenmensch, the workers below and a look every sci-fi film borrowed.

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