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The first U.S. president to be filmed was William McKinley

Babe Ruth made a cameo appearance in Harold Lloyd's Speedy (1928)

Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand in Gentlemen of Nerve (1914). Chaplin might never have become a movie star without Normand's guidance on how to perform for the screen

Movies should bring back this silent-era convention of using a three-way split screen to show a phone call, as seen here in Den hvide slavehandel (1910), directed by August Blom

The battle scenes for Intolerance (1916) got so out of control that after one day of filming, 67 extras required medical treatment

J'accuse (1919) Directed by Abel Gance

The Italian (1915) Directed by Reginald Barker

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Roscoe Arbuckle in Fatty's New Role (1915)

Atlantis (1913) is a Danish silent drama about a nautical disaster. It was banned in some countries due to its similarities to the then-recent sinking of the Titanic

Mussolini banned Ben-Hur (1925) from being shown in Italy because he was unhappy that the Roman driver Messala lost the chariot race

The first and last appearances of Chaplin's Tramp character (Kid Auto Races at Venice 1914 and Modern Times 1936)

A joke at the expense of Arizona in Zander the Great (1925)

Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (1919). While they were making The Shining, Stanley Kubrick had Shelley Duvall watch this scene for inspiration