Making a video about long takes… in a long take.

In this episode, we journey through 25 of the most celebrated long takes in the history of cinema, from Hitchcock to Paul Thomas Anderson, passing through Welles, Tarkovsky, Antonioni, Kubrick, Scorsese, Cuarón, and many others.

This is not a ranking, but a chronological path — a way to observe how cinematic technique has evolved over time, and how each filmmaker has used the continuity of the shot for completely different purposes: suspense, immersion, irony, tension, spectacle.

Only three of the films mentioned are truly constructed as a single uninterrupted shot from beginning to end. All the others use the long take as an expressive tool within a broader cinematic language.

All of it was filmed without cuts, in the extraordinary setting of Rocca Calascio — one of the most iconic and cinematic locations in Italy.