| Persistence of vision |
Billy Wilder |
| Thaumatrope |
Howard Hawks |
| Phenakistiscope |
Film Noir |
| Zoetrope |
Vittorio De Sica |
| Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre |
Roberto Rossellini |
| Eadweard Muybridge |
Neorealism |
| Series photography |
Federico Fellini |
| Thomas Edison |
Cinema verite |
| William Kennedy Laurie Dickson |
Andre Bazin |
| Kinetograph |
Cahiers du Cinema |
| Kinetoscope |
Nouvelle vague |
| Andrew Holland |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| Fred Ott's Sneeze |
The auteur theory |
| Auguste and Louis Lumiere |
Francois Truffaut |
| Cinematographe |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| Acualites |
Ingmar Bergman |
| Georges Melies |
Syd Field |
| Theatre Robert-Houdin |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Edwin Porter |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| D.W. Griffith |
Constanstin Stanislavski |
| Sergei Eisenstein |
Marlon Brando |
| V.I. Pudovkin |
Sam Peckinpah |
| Frank Capra |
Spike Lee |
| John Ford |
Akira Kurosawa |
| Orson Welles |
Mike Nichols |
| Michael Curtiz |
D.A. Pennebaker |
| Florence Lawrence |
Chris Hegedus |
| F.W. Murnau |
George Stevens |
| Robert Flaherty |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet |