(Η επιλογή των ταινιών)

Το 1995 με αφορμή τα 100 χρόνια του κινηματογράφου, ο Martin Scorsese, γύρισε το ντοκιμαντέρ A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, μια περιήγηση συχνά σε προσωπικούς τόνους, στο κλασικό αμερικάνικο κινηματογράφο
Ακολουθεί η επιλογή των ταινιών που παρουσιάζοται και σχολιάζονται από τον Martin Scorsese στο ντοκιμαντέρ.

Μέρος I
 The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952, Vincente Minnelli
 Duel in the Sun/ Lust in the Dust, 1946 (γουέστερν), King Vidor, William Dieterl κ.α.
 The Girl Can't Help It, 1956 (μιούζικαλ), Frank Tashlin
 Bigger Than Life, 1956, Nicholas Ray
 Vertigo, 1958 (θρίλερ), Alfred Hitchcock
 The Naked Kiss, 1964 (φιλμ νουάρ), Samuel Fuller
 Murder by Contract, 1958 (φιλμ νουάρ), Irving Lerner
 The Red House, 1947(θρίλερ), Delmer Daves
 The Phenix City Story, 1955 (φιλμ νουάρ), Phil Karlson
 Sullivan's Travels, 1941 (κωμωδία), Preston Sturges
 The Crowd, 1928 (βουβή), King Vidor
 The Big Parade, 1925 (βουβή), King Vidor
 Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 (θρίλερ), Alfred Hitchcock
 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939, Frank Capra

The Director as Storyteller
Western
 The Great Train Robbery, 1903 (γουέστερν), Edwin S. Porter
 The Musketeers of Pig Alley, 1912, D. W. Griffith
 High Sierra, 1941, Raoul Walsh
 Colorado Territory, 1949 (γουέστερν), Raoul Walsh
 Stagecoach, 1939 (γουέστερν), John Ford
 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949 (γουέστερν), John Ford
 The Searchers, 1956 (γουέστερν), John Ford
 The Furies, 1950 (γουέστερν), Anthony Mann
 The Naked Spur, 1953 (γουέστερν), Anthony Mann
 The Tall T, 1957 (γουέστερν), Budd Boetticher
 The Left Handed Gun, 1958 (γουέστερν), Arthur Penn
 Unforgiven, 1992 (γουέστερν), Clint Eastwood
 Directed by John Ford, 1971 (ντοκιμαντέρ), Peter Bogdanovich

Gangster Film
 The Public Enemy, 1931, William A. Wellman
 Regeneration, 1915, Raoul Walsh
 Scarface, 1932, Howard Hawks
 The Roaring Twenties, 1939, Raoul Walsh
 I Walk Alone, 1948 (φιλμ νουάρ), Byron Haskin.
 Force of Evil, 1948 (φιλμ νουάρ), Abraham Polonsky
 Point Blank, 1967, John Boorman

Musical
 Gold Diggers of 1935, 1935 (μιούζικαλ), Busby Berkeley
 Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 (μιούζικαλ), Mervyn LeRoy, χορογραφία Busby Berkeley
 42nd Street, 1933 (μιούζικαλ), Lloyd Bacon, χορογραφία Busby Berkeley
 Footlight Parade, 1933 (μιούζικαλ), Lloyd Bacon, χορογραφία Busby Berkeley
 Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944 (μιούζικαλ), Vincente Minnelli
 My Dream Is Yours, 1949 (μιούζικαλ), Michael Curtiz
 New York, New York, 1977 (μιούζικαλ), Martin Scorsese
 The Band Wagon, 1953 (μιούζικαλ), Vincente Minnelli
 A Star Is Born, 1954 (μιούζικαλ), George Cukor
 All That Jazz, 1979 (μιούζικαλ), Bob Fosse

Μέρος II
The Director as Illusionist
 The Cameraman, 1928 (βουβή), Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
 The Birth of a Nation, 1915 (βουβή), D. W. Griffith
 Death's Marathon, 1913 (βουβή), D. W. Griffith
 Cabiria, 1914 (βουβή), Giovanni Pastrone
 Intolerance, 1916 (βουβή), D. W. Griffith
 The Ten Commandments (1923), 1923 (βουβή), Cecil B. DeMille
 Samson and Delilah, 1949, Cecil B. DeMille
 The Ten Commandments (1956), 1956, Cecil B. DeMille
 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927 (βουβή), F. W. Murnau
 Seventh Heaven, 1927 (βουβή), Frank Borzage
 Anna Christie, 1930, Clarence Brown
 Her Man, 1930, Tay Garnett
 The Big House, 1930, George W. Hill
 Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 (φιλμ νουάρ), John M. Stahl
 Johnny Guitar, 1954 (γουέστερν), Nicholas Ray
 The Robe, 1953, Henry Koster
 East of Eden, 1955, Elia Kazan
 Some Came Running, 1958, Vincente Minnelli
 Land of the Pharaohs, 1955, Howard Hawks
 The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1964, Anthony Mann
 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, 1992 -1993, George Lucas
 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 (επιστημονική φαντασία), Stanley Kubrick

The Director as Smuggler
 Cat People, 1942 (τρόμου), Jacques Tourneur
 I Walked with a Zombie, 1943 (τρόμου), Jacques Tourneur
 Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1948 Max Ophüls
 Scarlet Street, 1945 American (φιλμ νουάρ), Fritz Lang
 Detour, 1945, Edgar G. Ulmer
 Double Indemnity, 1944 (φιλμ νουάρ), Billy Wilder
 Crime Wave, 1954 (φιλμ νουάρ), André De Toth
 Outrage, 1950, (φιλμ νουάρ), Ida Lupino
 Gun Crazy, 1950 (φιλμ νουάρ), Joseph H. Lewis
 T-Men, 1947 (φιλμ νουάρ), Anthony Mann
 Raw Deal, 1948 (φιλμ νουάρ), Anthony Mann
 Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 (φιλμ νουάρ), Robert Aldrich

Μέρος III
The Director as Smuggler
 Silver Lode, 1954, Allan Dwan
 All That Heaven Allows, 1955, Douglas Sirk
 Bigger Than Life, 1956, Nicholas Ray
 Forty Guns, 1957 (γουέστερν), Samuel Fuller
 Pickup on South Street, 1953 (φιλμ νουάρ), Samuel Fuller
 Shock Corridor, 1963, Samuel Fuller
 Two Weeks in Another Town, 1962, Vincente Minnelli

The Director as Iconoclast
 Broken Blossoms, 1919 (βουβή), D. W. Griffith
 The Wedding March, 1928 (βουβή), Erich von Stroheim
 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932, Mervyn LeRoy
 Hell's Highway, 1932, Rowland Brown
 Wild Boys of the Road, 1933, William Wellman
 Heroes for Sale, 1933, William Wellman
 The Scarlet Empress, 1934, Josef von Sternberg
 Citizen Kane, 1941, Orson Welles
 The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, Orson Welles
 The Great Dictator, 1940, Charlie Chaplin
 A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951, Elia Kazan
 On the Waterfront, 1954, Elia Kazan
 Apache, 1954, Robert Aldrich
 Blackboard Jungle, 1955, Richard Brooks
 The Wild One, 1953, László Benedek
 Advise & Consent, 1962, Otto Preminger
 Paths of Glory, 1957, Stanley Kubrick
 I Want to Live!, 1958 (φιλμ νουάρ), Robert Wise
 The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955, Otto Preminger
 Sweet Smell of Success, 1957 (φιλμ νουάρ), Alexander Mackendrick
 One, Two, Three, 1961 (κωμωδία), Billy Wilder
 Bonnie and Clyde, 1967, Arthur Penn
 Lolita, 1962, Stanley Kubrick
 Barry Lyndon, 1975, Stanley Kubrick
 Faces, 1968, John Cassavetes
 America America, 1963, Elia Kazan
 The Grapes of Wrath, 1940, John Ford