Cinema Atlas

130 years of cinema, and the gaps in what we know.

No dataset holds the history of cinema. It holds what someone wrote down. This atlas measures the difference.

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17,154 films · 3 countries · 1950–1979 · snapshot 2026-08-15

How much do we know?

Films documented per year, not films produced.

1950s  ████████
1960s  ████████
1970s  ████████

Where is it concentrated?

Three industries, thirty years, one small corner.

USA    ████████████ 9,029
Italy  ████████ 5,700
Japan  ███ 2,580

What is missing?

Coverage differs more between industries than between fields.

Runtime, Italy 1950s  ████████░ 89%
Runtime, Japan 1960s  ███░░░░░░ 34%