Cinema Year By Year 1894-2003

The cinema is indisputably the art form of the modern age. Ever since the Lumiere brothers' first moving pictures were greeted by astonished gasps in 1895, the movies have exerted an extraordinary and wide-reaching influence over us. The history of the cinema is a record of our rapidly changing world, and the lively, newspaper-style approach of 'Cinema Year By Year' brings unprecedented immediacy to this irresistible story.

Key events and Oscar winners are listed for each year, and over 3,000 illustrations bring new life to movie stars and scenes from every age, making this the most entertaining and detailed visual history of cinema ever published.