Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

The film's depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge is often considered one of the best movie battles in cinema history.

The artistically ambitious and socially critical films of the New German Cinema strove to delineate themselves from what had gone before and the works of auteur film-makers such as Kluge and Fassbinder are examples of this, although Fassbinder in his use of stars from German cinema history also sought a reconciliation between the new cinema and the old.

The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with " Cinema of Russia " despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, although sometimes censored by the Central Government.

At the same time, the nation's film industry, which was fully nationalized throughout most of the country's history, was guided by philosophies and laws propounded by the monopoly Soviet Communist Party which introduced a new view on the cinema, socialist realism, which was different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union.

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.

Although production levels give an overview, the history of British cinema is complex, with various cultural movements developing independently.

The film was an unexpected success, becoming the highest-grossing British film in cinema history at the time, with worldwide box office in excess of $ 245. 7 million, and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.

Harakiri won him an award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, solidifying his place in the history of cinema.

Steiner was one of the best-known composers in Hollywood, and is widely regarded today as one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema.

Often cited as the best actress in the history of Indian film cinema, Dixit made her film debut in Abodh ( 1984 ) and received wider public recognition with Tezaab ( 1988 ).

The film became one of the biggest hits in the history of Hindi cinema and made 135 crore worldwide, breaking the record of the film Sholay ( 1975 ).

It became the highest grossing Bollywood film in Hindi cinema history after its theatrical run and held the record for 7 years till the release of Gadar: Ek Prem Katha ( 2001 ).

Brando was named the fourth greatest male star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute, and part of Time magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.

Persistence of vision is still the accepted term for this phenomenon in the realm of cinema history and theory.

As a matter of fact, private media companies became very powerful since the invention of the printing press, cinema, radio and TV, and in history the age of amanuenses ( the manual copysts of Middle Ages ) is perhaps characteristic in demonstrating the attention that usually official powers attribute to communication.

The centre has a number of retail outlets and cafés with a Cumbrian theme, as well as the largest turf roof in Europe and a giant cinema screen among whose films is one about the history of Rheged.

It has since gained a reputation as one of the most influential horror films in cinema history.

Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history.

Classic voice-overs in cinema history can be heard in Citizen Kane and The Naked City.

* How “ X-rated ” Came to Mean “ Porn ” and the Death of Movies for Grown-ups A brief history of the social and legal forces that drove adult themes out of the legitimate cinema, by film director Tony Comstock

Throughout history, Poland has been the corridor through which the enemy has passed into Russia.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* Military history of Renaissance Poland ( 1454-1635 ) including the battle of Świecino

The boundaries of Greater Poland have varied somewhat throughout history.

This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states.

After World War II, Kosiński remained with his parents in Poland, moved to Jelenia Góra, and by the age of 22 had earned two graduate degrees in history and sociology at the University of Łódź.

As Adam Mickiewicz explained in 1842 to students of Slavic Literature in Paris, the song " begins with verses which are the emblem of recent history: ' Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live '.

By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland in Europe to Alaska in North America.

The Sejm in the People's Republic of Poland had 460 deputies throughout most of its history.

During Wrocław's early history, its control changed hands between Bohemia ( until 992, then 1038 – 1054 ), the Kingdom of Poland ( 992 – 1038 and 1054 – 1202 ), and, after the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Poland, the Piast-ruled duchy of Silesia.

Warmia has been under the dominion of various states and peoples over the course of its history, most notably the Old Prussians, the Teutonic Knights, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Kingdom of Prussia.

It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the July Revolution, the Belgian Revolution and the November Uprising taking place in respectively France, the Low Countries and Poland.

Throughout the history of the University, thousands of students from all over Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Hungary, Bohemia, Germany, and Spain have studied there.

Also seen as one of the most significant individuals in early Lithuanian history, he was responsible for both erecting the capital of Lithuania, and the establishment of a dynasty that can be traced to other European monarchies such as Poland, Hungary and Bohemia.

Though the ethnic Lithuanian nobility were the main converts to Catholicism — both paganism and the Orthodox rite remained strong among the peasants — the king's conversion and its political implications created lasting repercussions for the history of both Lithuania and Poland.

Category: Military history of Poland during World War II

After the death of Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland, Bari came to be included in the Kingdom of Naples and its history contracted to a local one, as malaria became endemic in the region.

The Army Museum in Białystok () was established in September 1968 as a branch of the Podlaskie Museum to house the research and collections of many people connected with military history of north-eastern Poland.

It's a principal source for this portion of the history of Poland under the Piast Dynasty.

For more information about the history of Poland under the Piasts, see History of Poland ( 966 – 1385 ).