The Great Train Robbery
Dir: Edwin S. Porter
1903
*****
One of the most famous films of the silent era and indeed the first western (filmed when the West was still like in the Westerns, so I wonder if it actually counts). Over a hundred years later and it's still exciting, the last shot of the bandit shooting at the screen is still powerful, iconic and timelessly brilliant. Interesting how Edwin S. Porter broke the rules before the rules even existed in many respects, you never look into the camera but here it drew the audience in like nothing else.