Bone up on cinema, become a film buff. The perfect small-format, one-stop resource to appreciating and understanding films from Hollywood to Bollywood. This guide sorts the great classic films and directors according to the significant movements that have shaped the development of cinema. Beginning with the early silent era, it spans the entire range of movie history up to the present wave of indie films. Each spread is devoted to a distinct movement and explains when it first emerged, the principal directors, themes, and representative films, and is illustrated with film stills, posters, and photos.