Kazan's personal but epic paean to the thousands of Old World immigrants who dreamed of passage to their promised land, America.

A young Ann-Margret bursts on to the screen in this beautifully restored musical satire on 50s rock 'n' roll and Elvis-worship.

Edward Dmytryk's handsome screen version of Herman Wouk's epic novel about a naval officer (Humphrey Bogart) cracking under the strain of command in WW2.

Neglected film noir gem, feature debut of director Robert Parrish, starring tough Dick Powell as a wronged ex-convict with revenge on his mind.

Carné's epic romance, newly restored - a spectacular recreation of the Parisian theatre world of the 1830s, starring Arletty as the enigmatic object of men's desire.

Rediscovered silent melodrama based on a notorious contemporary murder case, directed by reliable Hollywood veteran Clarence Brown and starring Louise Dresser.

Powerful and radical smuggling drama from Turkey, starring the great Yilmaz Güney, rescued and restored by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation.

Rossellini's rarely-seen satirical fantasy, now restored, about a photographer whose magic camera has the power to kill the greedy and the corrupt.

Two silent propagandist masterpieces: a Soviet allegory about fatally faulty war equipment, and a cautionary tale of bleak urban poverty in the US.

Searing exposé of the controversial 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings in a landmark political documentary edited from live TV recordings.

Timely centenary tribute to popular singing cowboy Roy Rogers, with newly-restored revivals of two of his best sagebrush sagas.

A sumptuous samurai period drama in colour from Japanese master stylist Mizoguchi, newly restored by Tokyo's Museum of Modern Art.

Barabara Loden's brilliant one-off, independent, classic road-movie, in which heroine Wanda embarks on an odyssey of petty crime across seedy middle America.

Nicholas Ray's extraordinary multiscreen collaboration with his students, a troubled and troubling look at early 1970s America, now restored to its full innovative glory.

From Hackney to Chelsea in the company of the great 1920s British travelogue.