August 28: The Coming of Sound
Alan Crossland, The Jazz Singer (Warner Bros, 1927)
King Vidor, Hallelujah (MGM, 1929)
Lloyd Bacon/Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street (Warner Bros, 1933)
Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times (United Artists, 1936)
September 4: The Early Horror Film
James Whale, Frankenstein (Universal, 1931)
Rouben Mamoulian, Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde (Paramount, 1931)
Tod Browning, Dracula (Universal, 1931)
Tod Browning, Freaks (MGM, 1932)
Edgar Ulmer, The Black Cat (Universal, 1934)
Lew Landers, The Raven (Universal, 1935)
September 9: The 1930s Gangster Film
Howard Hawks, Scarface (United Artists, 1932)
Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar (Warner Bros, 1931)
Archie Mayo, The Petrified Forest (Warner Bros, 1936)
Raoul Walsh, The Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros, 1939)
September 11: The Great Depression, and social problem films
William Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road (Warner Bros, 1933)
Frank Borzage, Little Man, What Now? (Universal, 1934)
Nicholas Ray, They Live By Night (RKO, 1948)
Elia Kazan, Gentlemen’s Agreement (Fox, 1949)
September 16/18: Pre-Code Hollywood
Ernst Lubitsch, Design for Living (Paramount, 1933)
Wesley Ruggles & Mae West, I’m No Angel (Paramount, 1933)
Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman (MGM, 1933)
Leo McCarey, Duck Soup (Paramount, 1933)
September 23: Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg, Blonde Venus (Paramount, 1932)
Josef von Sternberg, Scarlet Empress (Paramount, 1934)
Josef von Sternberg, The Shanghai Gesture (United Artists, 1941)
September 25: The Studio System
Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal, 1930)
Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind (Selznick/MGM, 1939)
William Dieterle, The Life of Emile Zola (Warner Bros, 1937)
Frank Borzage, A Farewell to Arms (Paramount, 1932)
Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, King Kong (RKO, 1933)
Rouben Mamoulian, Becky Sharp (RKO. 1935)
Gregory La Cava, Stage Door (RKO, 1937)
James Tinling, Charlie Chan in Shanghai (Fox, 1935)
Walter Lang, The Little Princess (Fox, 1939)
Walt Disney, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney, 1937)
October 2: Fritz Lang in Hollywood
Fritz Lang, You Only Live Once (United Artists, 1937)
Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street (Universal, 1945)
Fritz Lang, Woman in the Window (RKO, 1944)
(See also: World War II)
October 7: 1930s/1940s Musicals
Mark Sandrich, Top Hat (RKO, 1936)
Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939)
Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis (MGM, 1944)
Vincente Minnelli, Yolanda and the Thief (MGM, 1945)
Vincente Minnelli, The Pirate (1948)
Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, On the Town (MGM, 1949)
October 9: Frank Capra.
Frank Capra, It Happened One Night (Columbia, 1934)
Frank Capra, You Can’t Take It With You (Columbia, 1938)
Frank Capra, Meet John Doe (Warner Bros, 1941)
Frank Capra, It’s A Wonderful Life (RKO, 1946)
October 14: Screwball Comedy
Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday (Columbia, 1940)
Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth (Columbia, 1937)
Gregory La Cava, My Man Godfrey (Universal, 1936)
Mitchell Leisen, Easy Living (Paramount, 1937)
George Cukor, Holiday (Columbia, 1938)
George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story (MGM, 1940)
George Cukor, Adam’s Rib (MGM, 1949)
October 16: Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century (Columbia, 1934)
Howard Hawks, Ball of Fire (RKO, 1941)
Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep (Warner Bros, 1946)
(see also: Screwball Comedy and World War II)
October 21-23: John Ford
John Ford, The Informer (RKO, 1935)
John Ford, Young Mr. Lincoln (Fox, 1939)
John Ford, How Green Was My Valley (Fox, 1941)
John Ford, My Darling Clementine (Fox, 1946)
John Ford, Fort Apache (RKO, 1948)
John Ford, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (RKO, 1949)
October 28: Melodrama in the 1930s and 1940s
Dorothy Arzner, Christopher Strong (RKO, 1933)
Dorothy Arzner, Craig’s Wife (Columbia, 1936)
John Stahl, Imitation of Life (Universal, 1933)
John Stahl, Magnificent Obsession (Universal, 1935)
George Cukor, Camille (MGM, 1936)
George Cukor, Gaslight (MGM, 1944)
John Stahl, Leave Her To Heaven (Fox, 1945)
Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce (Warner Bros, 1945)
Max Ophuls, Letter from an Unknown Woman (Universal, 1948)
October 30: Comedy in the 1940s: Preston Sturges and others
Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka (MGM, 1939)
Ernst Lubitsch, The Shop Around the Corner (MGM, 1940)
Edward F. Cline, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Universal, 1941)
Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve (Paramount, 1941)
Preston Sturges, The Palm Beach Story (Paramount, 1942)
Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Paramount, 1944)
November 4-6-11: World War II
Fritz Lang, Man Hunt (Fox, 1941)
Fritz Lang, Hangmen Also Die (United Artists, 1943)
Zoltan Korda, Sahara (Columbia, 1943)
Mervyn LeRoy, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (MGM, 1944)
Howard Hawks, To Have and Have Not (Warner Bros, 1944)
November 13: Orson Welles and his influence
Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (RKO, 1941)
Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons (RKO, 1942)
Orson Welles, Lady From Shanghai (Columbia, 1947)
William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives (RKO, 1946)
Carol Reed, The Third Man (Selznick, 1950)
November 18: Alfred Hitchcock in the 1940s
Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt (Universal, 1943)
Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious (RKO, 1946)
Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (Warner Bros, 1948)
November 20: Horror in the 1940s
Jacques Tourneur, I Walked With A Zombie (RKO, 1943)
Jacques Tourner, The Leopard Man (RKO, 1944)
Victor Fleming, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (MGM, 1941)
November 25, December 2-4-9: Film Noir
Otto Preminger, Laura (Fox, 1944)
Robert Siodmak, Phantom Lady (Universal, 1944)
Robert Siodmak, Criss Cross (Universal, 1949)
Charles Vidor, Gilda (Columbia, 1946)
Tay Garnett, The Postman Always Rings Twice (MGM, 1946)
Robert Montgomery, Lady in the Lake (MGM, 1947)
André De Toth, Pitfall (United Artists, 1948)
Max Ophuls, The Reckless Moment (Columbia, 1949)
Extra: Beyond the Studios
Edgar Ulmer, Bluebeard (PRC, 1944)
Edgar Ulmer, Detour (PRC, 1945)
Edgar Ulmer, Ruthless (Eagle/Lion, 1948)
Oscar Micheaux, Murder in Harlem (Micheaux Films, 1935)
Spencer Williams, The Blood of Jesus (Sack, 1941)