101 Films: 1926-1930

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy, and the ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

A film about the French general's youth and early military career.

The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.

Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.

Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.

In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.

A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

A salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.

Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.