📚 Movies & Film

Film as a subject: how pictures learned to move, how studios and directors split the work, and what a camera does to a face.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject motion pictures in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	American Film	American Film Institute	1975	83
	Hitchcock	François Truffaut	1966	35
	1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die	Steven Jay Schneider	2003	30
	Film technique, and Film acting	Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin	1949	22
	The future of architecture	Frank Lloyd Wright	1953	21
	Agee on film	James Agee	1958	21
	Film guide	Halliwell, Leslie.	1977	20
	A short history of the movies	Gerald Mast	1971	18
	Understanding movies	Louis D. Giannetti	1972	18
	The filmmaker's eye	Gustavo Mercado	2011	14
	The Parade's Gone By...	Kevin Brownlow	1968	12
	My autobiography	Charlie Chaplin	1964	11
	Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks	Donald Bogle	1973	11
	A history of narrative film	David A. Cook	1981	11
	The Film Encyclopedia	Ephraim Katz	1979	10
	Adventures in the screen trade	William Goldman	1983	10
	Reel to real	Bell Hooks	1996	10
	The Science Of Avatar	Stephen Baxter	2012	10
	Bette and Joan	Shaun Considine	1989	9
	James Cameron's Titanic	Douglas Kirkland	1997	9
	Easy riders, raging bulls	Peter Biskind	1998	9
	Film	William H. Phillips	1999	8
	The Next Chapter	Jeff Kinney	2017	8
	On directing film	David Mamet	1991	6
	American cinema/American culture	John Belton	1994	6
	Hollywood genres	Thomas Schatz	1981	5
	In the blink of an eye	Walter Murch	1992	5
	Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema	Ashish Rajadhyaksha	1994	5
	The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	Perry Moore	2005	5
	Film history	Kristin Thompson	1994	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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