1.	View Larger Image	The Art of Buster Keaton Actor: Buster Keaton
		From Amazon.com Buster Keaton was arguably the cinema's first modernist, an old-fashioned romantic with a 20th-century mind behind a deadpan visage. His films brim with some of the most breathtaking stunts and ingenious gags ever put on film, all perfectly engineered to look effortless. And, as Kino's magnificent 11-disc boxed set The Art of Buster Keaton conclusively shows, they are among the funniest ... more Buy from Amazon

2.	View Larger Image	The Birth of a Nation Actors: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall Director: D.W. Griffith
		From Amazon.com essential video A pivotal moment in film history. After The Birth of a Nation, nothing was the same: not the way audiences watched movies, not the way filmmakers created them. D.W. Griffith's jumbo-size saga of the Civil War expanded the boundaries of storytelling on the screen, conveying a richer, more complicated (and certainly longer) tale than anyone had seen in a movie before. ... more Buy from Amazon

3.	View Larger Image	The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection Actors: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
		From Amazon.com essential video Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc is as truly mythic as any film ever shot, its artistic achievement rivaled by its turbulent history. The focal point of controversy when released in 1928, the original film was lost for a half-century until an intact copy of Dreyer's original version was recovered in the early '80s. Seeing Joan of Arc today ... more Buy from Amazon

4.	View Larger Image	Man With the Movie Camera Director: Dziga Vertov
		From Description Described by director Dziga Vertov as an experiment in the language of pure cinema, "The Man With the Movie Camera" is perhaps the most dazzling and sophisticated, not only of Soviet, but of world silent cinema. Music by the Alloy Orchestra. ... more Buy from Amazon

5.	View Larger Image	Landmarks of Early Film, Vol. 1 Director: Alice Guy
		From Amazon.com A magnificent collection for anyone interested in the earliest days of film history, this compilation of films spans the years from 1886 to 1913, from the first experiments in "serial photography" to the emergence of narrative shorts and the dawn of the feature-length film. It's a veritable archive of nearly every important film from the birth of the medium, including Edison ... more Buy from Amazon

6.	View Larger Image	Les Vampires Director: Louis Feuillade
		From Amazon.com This legendary seven-hour silent French serial, one of the earliest and most original gangster films, combines realism and fantasy. Written and directed by Louis Feuillade, Les Vampires concerns an intrepid reporter's pursuit of a strange gang of jewel thieves terrorizing Paris. The gang ambitiously seeks political, psychological, and sexual domination of the city's social elite, with the seductive Irma Vep (an ... more Buy from Amazon

7.	View Larger Image	The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 1 (Modern Times / The Great Dictator / The Gold Rush / Limelight) Actor: Charlie Chaplin
		From Amazon.com essential video Charles Spencer Chaplin, the London ragamuffin who became the most popular man of his era, gets his proper due with this deluxe package of four classics. Each two-disc set begins with an excellent new digital transfer of the picture and remastered sound. The Gold Rush, Chaplin's 1925 masterpiece, puts the Little Tramp into the snowy Yukon; it includes such celebrated sequences ... more Buy from Amazon

8.	View Larger Image	The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon Actors: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (II), Charlie Watts, Ron Wood Director: Bruce Gowers
		From Amazon.com Like any good brand, the Rolling Stones know to preserve the formula even when updating the package, and this long-form concert video underscores that market strategy. As with each of their tours since the early '80s, the quartet, augmented by a discreet auxiliary of backup musicians, gives the fans new eye candy while dishing up a familiar set list spiked with ... more Buy from Amazon

9.	View Larger Image	The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913 Actor: Film Preservation Associates
		From Amazon.com The home-video revolution has yielded a wealth of valuable compilations, but few are as miraculously definitive as The Movies Begin. Equally suited to home or classroom viewing, this authoritative five-volume set is a vital document of film history, providing a one-stop destination for anyone wishing to witness the first two decades of motion pictures. That period--from 1894 to 1913--saw movies develop ... more Buy from Amazon

10.	View Larger Image	Nosferatu - Special Edition Actors: Max Schreck, Greta Schröder, Ruth Landshoff Director: F.W. Murnau
		From Amazon.com essential video As noted critic Pauline Kael observed, "... this first important film of the vampire genre has more spectral atmosphere, more ingenuity, and more imaginative ghoulish ghastliness than any of its successors." Some really good vampire movies have been made since Kael wrote those words, but German director F.W. Murnau's 1922 version remains a definitive adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Created when ... more Buy from Amazon