The Sight & Sound Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time

Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.

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

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

A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.

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

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.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.