Cinema

Seven countries, and nine films in ten shot under communist regimes.

Cuba provides nearly half the films, almost all shot after the 1959 revolution.

Three countries, and Georgia alone gives half the films.

Six countries, led by Gabon, and half the films shot since 1990.

Four countries and nine films: no region has fewer.

Six countries, and a Kazakh new wave that rose during perestroika, with The Needle in 1988.

Six countries that gave Michael Curtiz to Hollywood and Alexander Korda to British cinema.

Thirteen countries, more than any other region, and not a single film before 1965.

Four countries where almost every film was shot in the days of the Soviet Union.

Five countries, and Africa's first Palme d'Or: Chronicle of the Years of Fire, in 1975.

Ten countries, and Egypt, whose films long filled cinemas across the Arab world.

Three countries, one of which, the United States, makes more than half the films.

Six countries, from Japan in 1921 to China's Fifth Generation of the 1980s.

Eight countries, from Danish silent film in 1910 to Festen, the first Dogme 95 film.

Four countries, and in 1906, in Australia, the world's first feature film.

Twelve countries, and the most films in the 1980s, as democracy returns.

Six countries, and Phalke, who shot the first Indian feature film in 1913.

Indonesia celebrates its cinema every 30 March, the first day of shooting of Blood and Prayer.

Four countries; every film from Zimbabwe and Namibia dates from after independence.

Five countries, and more than half the films shot in the 1960s and 1970s.

From the Dakar cart driver filmed by Sembène in 1963 to the Nigerian videos that launched Nollywood.

Ten countries, and cinema's first paid public screening, in Paris, in 1895.