The Best Movie Of Each Year From 1925-2025

97. 1929 - Man With A Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Dovzhenko Film Studios

Honourable Mentions: Asphalt, The Iron Mask, Thunderbolt

Man with a Movie Camera - a landmark of Soviet cinema directed by Dziga Vertov - is one of the most revolutionary pieces of filmmaking ever developed. A Ukrainian-made documentary that depicted life in the Soviet cities of Moscow, Kyiv, and Odessa, Vertov's film was experimental in approach and yielded transformative technical results, pioneering cinematic techniques that would go on to form the building blocks of modern cinema. Today, it remains an entrancing viewing experience, and the first port of call for anyone looking to unpack the DNA of film as we know it.

 
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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.