In the hopes of enriching the learning experience of your students, below is a list of links to videos that relate to each Unit; these could be used in class, or students could be asked to watch them in their free time:
Unit 1
A Library of Congress collection of Thomas Edison Films:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgUzI07_WxfAZZoRpeFrujA
A collection of the Lumière Brothers early films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nj0vEO4Q6s&t=31s
How a Film Projector Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En__V0oEJsU
Alice Guy’s La Fee aux Choux:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbQO6pwuNs
Unit 2
George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLVChRVfZ74
Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XVOisZVB_I
Unit 3
The Battleship Potemkin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca0c4vEc5Is
Unit 4
Singin’ in the Rain (free on Amazon Prime):
Unit 5
Julie Andrews singing “Wouldn’t it be lovely” on the Ed Sullivan Show – 1961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMNPD0MZD2I
Audrey Hepburn singing “Wouldn’t it be lovely” in the My Fair Lady film adaptation – 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fW7sERw7I
Unit 6
From the Library of Congress – Humerous Phases of Funny Faces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGh6maN4l2I
Unit 7
The speech from The Great Dictator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20
Unit 8
Journey to Italy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ9e0ReGwy8
Unit 9
A playlist of scenes from A Touch of Evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8MqjoFvy4&list=PLX4tYk6GPCm3YmmwGfCSc1a6kWinjWloN
Unit 10
A playlist of scenes from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie1iJpS5qn4&list=PLeF7On5iVaTzQL9Mstg9ed-CHd4k5Xu_3
Unit 11
A playlist of scenes from Fury:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8zg582M2nc&list=PLIRGXzh7uaczoPlUFFwv8rOHKXsimmdbY
Fritz Lang’s M:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE1MwXC0IQY
Unit 12
The opening scene of Shaft (1971):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlsufZj9Fg
Unit 13
The opening scene of Star Wars (1977):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfLyMAHrQE
Unit 14
Sex, Lies and Videotape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0rF2ppMXVk
Unit 15
Labyrinth (1986) trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2yd4em1I6M
The Dark Cystral (1982) trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PTjIWyRmls
Unit 16
Kirk Alyn as Superman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soDPQUxpOk