The 100 Greatest Films

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by Tim Dirks

• Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938, Michael Curtiz)
• African Queen, The (1951, John Huston)
• All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone)
• American in Paris, An (1951, Vincente Minnelli)
• Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
• Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
• Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
• Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946, William Wyler)
• Big Parade, The (1925, King Vidor)
• Big Sleep, The (1946, Howard Hawks)
• Birth of a Nation, The (1915, D.W. Griffith)
• Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
• Bride of Frankenstein, The (1935, James Whale)
• Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957, David Lean)
• Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
• Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith)
• Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
• Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
• Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
• City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
• Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
• Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)
• E.T. (1982, Steven Speilberg)
• Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper)
• Fantasia (1940, Ben Sharpsteen)
• 42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon)
• General, The (1927, Buster Keaton)
• Godfather Parts I and II, The (1972, 74, Francis Ford Coppola)
• Gold Rush, The (1925, Charles Chaplin)
• Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
• Graduate, The (1967, Mike Nichols)
• Grapes of Wrath, The (1940, John Ford)
• Greed (1925, Erich Von Stroheim)
• High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
• His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
• Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
• It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
• Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
• Jazz Singer, The (1927, Alan Crosland)
• King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
• Lady Eve, The (1941, Preston Sturges)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
• Little Caesar (1930, Mervyn LeRoy)
• Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942, Orson Welles)
• Maltese Falcon, The (1941, John Huston)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
• Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
• My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford)
• Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
• Night at the Opera, A (1935, Sam Wood)
• Night of the Hunter, The (1955, Charles Laughton)
• Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
• North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
• On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman)
• Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
• Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
• Philadelphia Story, The (1940, George Cukor)
• Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Public Enemy, The (1931, William Wellman)
• Quiet Man, The (1952, John Ford)
• Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
• Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Red River (1948, Howard Hawks)
• Roman Holiday (1953, William Wyler)
• Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
• Searchers, The (1956, John Ford)
• Shane (1953, George Stevens)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanely Donen & Gene Kelly)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Walt Disney production)
• Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
• Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
• Star Is Born, A (1954, George Cukor)
• Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
• Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951, Elia Kazan)
• Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
• Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
• Third Man, The (1949, Carol Reed)
• 39 Steps, The (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Top Hat (1935, Mark Sandrich)
• Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948, John Huston)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
• Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Way Down East (1920, D.W. Griffith)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols)
• Wild Bunch, The (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
• Wizard of Oz, The (1939, Victor Fleming)
• Wuthering Heights (1939, William Wyler)

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