Movies & Filmmaking
This 1927 film is widely credited as the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This 1951 sitcom became the first to be filmed before a live studio audience using multiple cameras.
What is I Love Lucy?
MTV launched on August 1, 1981, with this music video.
What is “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles?
The first full-length animated feature.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
The only actor to win three Best Actor Oscars (as of 2025).
Who is Daniel Day-Lewis?
The 1941 Orson Welles masterpiece often hailed as the greatest film ever made.
What is Citizen Kane?
Netflix’s first major original scripted series, released in 2013.
What is House of Cards?
The first hip-hop song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
What is “Walk This Way” by Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith?
This Japanese animator directed My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
This 1994 film won Best Picture, beating Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption.
What is Forrest Gump?
In filmmaking, this French term describes a director’s total creative influence, meaning “author.”
What is auteur?
This long-running science show was the first to broadcast live from space.
What is MythBusters?
This groundbreaking 1983 video, directed by John Landis, turned a pop song into a mini horror film.
What is Thriller?
The 1980 arcade game that introduced the character who would later star in Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros.
What is Donkey Kong?
The first African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
The visual effect that combines a forward zoom with a backward camera move, famously used in Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
What is a dolly zoom?
This 1977 miniseries became a cultural phenomenon, chronicling Alex Haley’s ancestral saga.
What is Roots?
Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, which combined music and film into a single narrative experience.
What is Lemonade?
The groundbreaking 1995 Pixar film was the first feature created entirely with computer animation.
What is Toy Story?
This movie-musical is currently tied with Ben-Hur and Titanic for the record for most Oscar wins by a single film.
What is West Side Story (1961)?
This pioneering Soviet filmmaker developed the “montage theory,” using rapid cuts to create meaning.
Who is Sergei Eisenstein?
This 1970s channel revolutionized cable by offering 24-hour movies for a subscription fee.
What is HBO?
The first music video ever shown in outer space featured this Canadian astronaut singing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”
Who is Chris Hadfield?
The 2002 anime film that surpassed Titanic to become Japan’s highest-grossing film at the time.
What is Spirited Away?
This film became the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture.
What is Parasite?