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List of films considered the bestWhile there is no general agreement upon the greatest film, many publications and organizations have tried todetermine the films considered the best. The films mentioned in this article have all been mentioned in a notablesurvey – be it a popular poll or critics' poll. Many of these sources focus on American films or were polls ofEnglish-speaking film goers, but those considered the greatest within their respective countries are also includedhere.None of these citations should be viewed as scientific measures of the film-watching world. They are ofteninfluenced by vote stacking or they survey a population with skewed demographics. Internet-based surveys have aself-selecting audience of unknown participants. The methodology of some surveys may be questionable. Sometimes(as in the case of the American Film Institute) voters were asked to select films from a limited list of entries.

Polls of critics and filmmakersEvery decade, the British film monthly Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote fortheir greatest film of all time. The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important ofthe "greatest ever film" lists. Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of greatmovies—the only one most serious movie people take seriously."[1]

• Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles was voted #1 in the five Sight & Sound critics' polls from 1962 to 2002.[2]

A separate Sight & Sound poll of established film directors, held for the first time in 1992, also placed CitizenKane at the top in 1992 and 2002.[2] Citizen Kane was also selected as #1 in a Village Voice and in a Time Outcritics' poll. It was listed as the greatest American film by the American Film Institute in both the first (1998) andsecond (2007) versions of its 100 Years... 100 Movies list.

• Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll, in 1952. It also came #7 in1962 and #6 in 2002.[2] It also came #10 in the 2012 directors' poll.[3]

• Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujirō Ozu topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane.[3]

Tokyo Story also appeared in the Sight & Sound critics' poll at third place in 1992, fifth in 2002, and third in2012.[4] Tokyo Story also topped a 1998 critics' poll conducted by Asian film magazine Cinemaya, where it wasfollowed by Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955) and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) tied at second place.[5]

• Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane.[3] Italso came #7 in 1982, #4 in 1992, and #2 in 2002.[2] In the directors' poll, it came #6 in 1992 and 2002,[2] and #7in 2012.[3]

• La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939) by director Jean Renoir was named the greatest film by theFrench film magazine Positif in 1991.[6] It also holds the second slot in the Village Voice poll,[7] and is the onlymovie to have appeared in every one of the Sight & Sound polls.

• The Searchers (1956) is the film most often mentioned in a poll of the favorite films of directors by Germanlanguage Steadycam magazine in 1995.[8]

The Brussels World’s Fair, organized in 1958, offered the occasion for the organization by thousands of critics andfilmmakers from all over the world, of the first universal film poll in history.[9] These were the films chosen as mostartistically fulfilled:[10][11][12][13]

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Rank Film Director Year

1 Броненосец Потёмкин (The Battleship Potemkin) Sergei Eisenstein 1925

2 The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin 1925

3 Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) Vittorio De Sica 1948

4 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928

5 La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) Jean Renoir 1937

6 Greed Erich von Stroheim 1924

7 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages D. W. Griffith 1916

8 Мать (Mother) Vsevolod Pudovkin 1926

9 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941

10 Земля (Earth) Alexander Dovzhenko 1930

11 Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) F.W. Murnau 1924

12 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) Robert Wiene 1920

Audience polls• Gone with the Wind (1939) was ranked as the greatest film in a poll surveyed by Harris Interactive between

January 15 and 22, 2008. Star Wars came in second place and Casablanca in third.[14] Gone with the Wind wasalso picked as the best film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.[15] It currently holds the #157position on IMDb's list.

• Casablanca (1942) was voted the greatest film by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997.[16] It is alsoregarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" by the influential Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide.[17] On April 7,2006, the Writers' Guild of America declared Casablanca's screenplay the best ever written.[18] It currently holdsthe #25 position on IMDb's list.

• Seven Samurai (1954) was voted #1 in an audience poll conducted by MovieMail in 2000. It was followed by TheThird Man (1949) in second place.[6] It currently holds the #17 position on IMDb's list.

• The Godfather (1972) was voted #1 by Entertainment Weekly's readers[19] and voted as #1 in a Time Out readers'poll in 1998.[20] The film was also voted as the "Greatest Movie of All Time" in September 2008 by 10,000readers of Empire magazine, 150 people from the movie business and 50 film critics.[21] It currently holds the #1spot on the Top 200 at Everyone's a Critic,[22] and the #2 spot on the IMDb list.[23]

• The Godfather Part II (1974) was voted best movie ever by TV Guide readers[24] in 1998, and is currently in thirdplace on the IMDb list.[23]

• Cross of Iron (1977) was voted the greatest film of all time by Cinemag.• Star Wars (1977) and its sequel The Empire Strikes Back (1980) were chosen as the greatest films by readers of

Empire magazine in November 2001 and by voters in a Channel 4 (Film4) poll.[25] Star Wars is also the highestranking sci-fi film in both versions of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movies of all time(ranked #15 in the original list, and #13 in the updated list). It currently holds the #16 position on IMDb's list.

• Raise the Red Lantern (1991) was voted the best Asian film in another audience poll conducted by MovieMail in2000. It was followed by The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) at second place.[6]

• Schindler's List (1993) was voted the best film ever made by the German film magazine Cinema.[26] It currentlyholds the #7 position on IMDb's list.

• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) currently holds the top spot on the Internet Movie Database's list of the top 250 films.[23] It was voted the best film not to have won an Academy Award in a 2004 Radio Times poll and again in 2008.[27] It is currently ranked #1 on FilmCrave.com's top 100 movies list.[28] It holds an extremely high

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score on Rotten Tomatoes within the community, at 98%.• The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the

Australian television special My Favourite Film and by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special"Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time").[29] Its first film, The Lord of the Rings: TheFellowship of the Ring (2001), was the pick of readers in a poll by Empire magazine in November 2004.[30] Thethird film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was voted the best movie of all time by Yahoo moviesand Movies.com's annual reader's poll in 2006 and 2007. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and TheReturn of the King currently hold the #13, #21 and #9 positions respectively on IMDb's list.

Particular genres or mediaThis list is incomplete.

Action• Seven Samurai (1954) is the highest reviewed movie at Rotten Tomatoes with the highest number of votes that is

listed as an action movie on the site.[31]

• Fist of Fury (1972),[32] Enter the Dragon (1973),[33] Five Deadly Venoms (1978),[34] The 36th Chamber ofShaolin (1978),[35] Magnificent Butcher (1979)[36] and Drunken Master II (1994)[37][38][39] have been chosen asthe best action martial arts films.

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was chosen as the best action film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of OurTime.[40] Sites such Moviefone[41] and IGN [42] also placed the film as the #1 greatest action movie of all time.

• The Terminator (1984)[31][43] along with its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991),[44][45] Aliens(1986),[42][31][46] and The Matrix (1999) [41] are often the highest ranking and most positively reviewed actionscience fiction films.

• Die Hard (1988) is also sometimes commonly considered to be one of the greatest action movies ever.[44][47]

Entertainment Weekly voted it the greatest action movie of all time.[48]

Animation• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) by Walt Disney was selected as the best American animated movie ever

by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.[49]

• Pinocchio (1940) by Walt Disney was ranked as the #1 greatest animated movie by Time magazine.[50]

• The Russian animated films Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) and Tale of Tales (1979) by Yuri Norshtein have beenvoted as the greatest animated films ever in particular festivals.[51]

• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) by Hayao Miyazaki was the highest-ranked animated film in anaudience poll of 100 best animations, conducted by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2007.[52]

• My Neighbor Totoro (1988) by Miyazaki was ranked at #1 in Time Out's list of top 50 greatest animated films.[53]

• Akira (1988) by Katsuhiro Otomo is considered the greatest anime film ever made on the top ten anime lists atMovieCricket[54] and Screen Junkies.[55]

• Grave of the Fireflies (1988) by Isao Takahata topped the Rotten Tomatoes list of best anime films,[56] and is thehighest-ranking animation in Time Out magazine's "50 greatest World War II movies" list[57] and Empiremagazine's "Top 10 Depressing Movies" list.[58]

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is the highest rated live-action/animated hybrid film on film aggregate RottenTomatoes, and has scored an almost perfect rating of 98%.[59] The film was also ranked as the best animated/liveaction hybrid film by Entertainment Weekly.[60]

• Beauty and the Beast (1991) is #1 on the IGN's Top 25 Animated Movies of All Time.[61]

• The Lion King (1994) was chosen as the best animated film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of OurTime.[62]

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• Toy Story (1995) was voted #1 on the Top 100 Animated Features of All Time by the Online Film Critics Society(list published March 2003).[63] The film was also ranked as the greatest animated movie by Moviefone [64] andTotal Film.[65]

• Toy Story 2 (1999) topped a Rotten Tomatoes poll of the 50 best animated movies ever made.[66] It is also #1 ontheir list of the best kids movies,[67] and is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best animatedmovies.[68] Both the original and the sequel currently hold a perfect 100% score at Rotten Tomatoes.[69][70]

• Spirited Away (2001) by Miyazaki is the highest-ranking animation in Empire magazine's "100 Best Films ofWorld Cinema" list[71] and the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' & directors' poll.[72] It has also been ranked highly inseveral best animation lists: second place in Total Film,[73] fifth in Time,[74] and second in EntertainmentWeekly.[75] It is currently the highest rated animated film on IMDb's Top 250.[23]

• WALL-E (2008) was ranked as the greatest animated movie ever by Entertainment Weekly.[76]

Christmas• A Christmas Story (1983) is AOL's #1 Christmas movie of all time[77] and IGN's top holiday-themed movie of all

time.[78]

• It's a Wonderful Life (1946) is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best holiday movies,[79] andalso topped AFI's 100 Years…100 Cheers list.[80]

• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) is ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' Top 25 Best Christmas Movies list.[81]

• Die Hard (1988) was voted Empire Magazine's "The Greatest Christmas Film of All Time" in 2010,[82] and thefourth best in Rotten Tomatoes' list.[83]

Comedy• Airplane! (1980) was also chosen as the best comedy for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.[84]

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is the highest reviewed comedymovie at Rotten Tomatoes, with a perfect score of 100%.[85] It also has a Metacritic score of 96/100, one of thewebsite's highest rated comedy movies.[86]

• Ghostbusters (1984) was ranked first by IGN as the best comedy in their list of Top 25 Best Comedies Of AllTime.[87]

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) A 2004 poll by UK arm of Amazon and the Internet Movie Databasenamed Monty Python and the Holy Grail as the best British comedy picture of all time.[88]

• Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) was voted the greatest comedy ever in polls conducted by Total Filmmagazine in 2000,[89] the British TV networks Channel 4 in 2006 [90] and Channel Five in 2007,[91] and TheGuardian newspaper in 2007.[92]

• National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) was voted #1 on the Bravo list of funniest movies of all time.[93]

• Some Like It Hot (1959) was listed Best American Film Comedy by the American Film Institute in June 2000.[94]

• City Lights (1931) was selected as the best romantic comedy ever by the American Film Institute during their 10Top 10.[49]

• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) is ranked sixth in the BFI Top 100 British films and is the highest rankedcomedy.

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Comic book/superhero• Akira (1988) is the highest-ranking film based on a manga comic in lists published by the Movie Review Query

Engine[95] and Rotten Tomatoes.[96]

• Death Note (2006) was chosen as the best live-action film based on a comic in a Japanese audience pollconducted by the Goo Research online monitor group.[97]

• Persepolis (2007) is #1 in the Rotten Tomatoes countdown of movies based on superheroes, graphic novels,manga and comic strips – in order of critical approval. Iron Man was also the highest rated superhero film basedon a comic in the list being at #2.[96]

• Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy was ranked as #1 on Newsarama's top ten comic book movies list.[98]

• The Dark Knight (2008) is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best comic and superheromovies.[95]

• X2 (2003) was voted #1 in Empire Magazine's list of the 20 Greatest Comic Book Movies.[99]

• The Incredibles (2004) was ranked #1 in Time magazine's list of top ten greatest superhero films.[100]

• Superman (1978) was ranked #1 out of IGN's list of 25 greatest superhero films of all time.[101]

• The Avengers (2012) is ranked #1 by Rotten Tomatoes and SFX.[102][103]

Courtroom• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) was selected as the best courtroom drama ever by the American Film Institute

during their 10 Top 10 list.[49]

Crime/gangster• The Godfather (1972) was selected as the best gangster movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10

Top 10.[49] It also tops the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best drama movies.[104]

• Goodfellas (1990) was chosen as the greatest crime film out of the 25 movies by the IGN website.[105]

• Pulp Fiction (1994) was ranked the greatest film of the past 25 years (1983-2008) by Entertainment Weekly.[106]

Disaster• The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was voted best disaster movie in a poll commissioned by UCI cinemas in May

2004.[107]

Documentary• Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael Moore's controversial documentary relating gun control and the culture

of fear in the United States, heads the list of 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films selected by members of theInternational Documentary Association (IDA).[108][109]

• Grey Gardens (1975), the Maysles Brothers' documentary about former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy'seccentric aunt and cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, was ranked as one of the greatestdocumentaries of all time by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film [110] and the International DocumentaryAssociation. [111] The film currently holds a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[112]

• The Seven Up! series (1964-) was voted as the greatest ever documentary in a Channel 4 poll of the 50 GreatestDocumentaries in 2005.[113]

• The Last Waltz (1978) is considered one of the greatest concert documentaries ever created, and has been deemedas such by Total Film,[114] Michael Worthington of the Chicago Tribune,[115] and by Rotten Tomatoes, where itholds a 97% favorable rating.[116]

• The Thin Blue Line won Best Documentary honors from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review, and the National Society of Film Critics.[117] Director Errol Morris himself won an International Documentary Association Award, an Edgar Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship

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Genius Grant (1989).[118][119]

Epic• Seven Samurai (1954) was the highest-ranking epic film in the 1982 Sight & Sound critics' poll.[2]

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted best epic by readers of Total Film in May 2004. It was selected as the bestepic movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.[49]

Fantasy• The Wizard of Oz (1939) was selected as the best American fantasy movie ever by the American Film Institute

during their 10 Top 10.[49]

• Spirited Away (2001) is the highest-ranking animated film on "The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time" listpublished by The Guardian, and the second highest-ranking fantasy film on on the list after The Wizard ofOz.[120]

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) is #1 on the list of the top rated fantasy titles at the InternetMovie Database.[121] It is the only film in the genre to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won 11Academy Awards, the highest number of any film ever made (tying with Ben-Hur and Titanic). It is also the onlyfilm in history having won Best Film awards from both Academy, BAFTA, Empire, Golden Globe, Hugo, MTV,and Saturn Awards.

• The Harry Potter film series is currently one of the best reviewed of all time, with the final installment, HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 winning Best Reviewed film of 2011 on Rotten Tomatoes.

High school• The Breakfast Club (1985) ranks at #1 on Entertainment Weekly's list of best high school movies.[122] Other films

written and directed by John Hughes, namely Weird Science, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, are also oftenconsidered epitomal high school, and by extension, teenage coming of age films,[123] as are the other nicknamed"Brat Pack" '80s films.

• Blackboard Jungle (1955) was listed as #1 best movie about high school on Newsweek/The Daily Beast.[124]

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) was ranked #1 on Moviefone's list of Best High School Movies of All Time.[125]

Horror/thriller• The Thing (1982) ranks #1 on The Boston Globe's list of the 50 scariest movies of all time.[126]

• The Shining (1980) ranks #1 on The Moving Arts Film Journal's list of the 25 greatest horror films.[127]

• The Exorcist (1973) was voted scariest movie of all time by Entertainment Weekly and Movies.com, and byviewers of AMC in 2006.[128] It was also chosen as the best horror film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies ofOur Time.[129]

• Psycho (1960), the Alfred Hitchcock classic, tops AFI's list of the 100 most thrilling American films,[130] and thetop rated horror titles at the Internet Movie Database.[131]

• King Kong (1933) is currently #1 on the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best horror movies,[132] and topped theRotten Tomatoes list of the 50 best horror movies of all time.[133]

• Jaws (1975) was #1 in the Bravo network's five-hour miniseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments in 2004.[134] Itwas also ranked second on AFI's list for thrillers, 100 Years... 100 Thrills. It holds a rare 100% "Fresh" rating onthe review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.[135]

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) ranks #1 on Total Film's list of the greatest horror films.[136]

• The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was chosen as the best suspense/thriller for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies ofOur Time.[137]

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Musical• Singin' in the Rain (1952) tops the American Film Institute's list of the 25 best American musicals of all time,[138]

and the top rated musicals at the Internet Movie Database.[139]

• West Side Story (1961) was chosen as the best screen musical by readers of The Observer in a 2007 poll.[140]

• The Sound of Music (1965) was chosen as the best musical for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of OurTime.[141]

Mystery• Rear Window (1954) is currently #1 on the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best mystery/suspense films.[142]

• Vertigo (1958) was selected as the best mystery movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top10.[49]

Political/historical• Seven Samurai (1954) was the highest-ranking historical period film in the 1982 Sight & Sound critics' poll.[2]

• Schindler's List (1993) was chosen as the best political/historical film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies ofOur Time.[143]

Propaganda• The Battleship Potemkin (1925) has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all time,[144] and

was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958.[145][146][147]

• Triumph of the Will (1935), Leni Riefenstahl's documentary film glorifying Adolf Hitler and the 1934 Nazi PartyConvention, in Nuremberg is widely perceived, renowned and acknowledged as the best propaganda filmever,[148] although Riefenstahl asserted she intended it only as a documentary.

Religious• In 1996, the Holy See released three lists of recommended films. The three different lists considered films of

religious value, virtue (or moral value) and artistic merit. Among the list of 15 religious films considered by theVatican to be the best ever were, in no particular order, William Wyler's Ben-Hur, The Mission, The Passion ofJoan of Arc, and Fred Zinnemann's 1966 version of A Man For All Seasons.[149]

Romance• Casablanca (1942) was voted the top romantic American film on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions list,[150] and is

currently #1 on the top rated romance titles at the Internet Movie Database.[151]

• Romeo & Juliet (1968), directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is currently #1 on DigitalDreamDoor.com's list of the "100Greatest Romance Movies".[152]

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Science fiction• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) tops the Online Film Critics Society list of greatest science fiction films of all

time.[153] It is also the only science fiction film to make the Sight and Sound poll for ten best movies, and wasselected as the best science fiction movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.[49]

• Star Wars (1977): See Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.• Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) was voted #1 in Total Film's Top 100 Movies of All

Time,[154] and #1 in the 2006 Empire "Greatest Movies Ever" special.[155] It is currently #1 on the top rated sci-fititles at the Internet Movie Database.[156]

• Blade Runner (1982) was voted the best science fiction film by a panel of scientists assembled by the Britishnewspaper The Guardian in 2004.[157] In New Scientist, Blade Runner was voted "all-time favourite sciencefiction film" in both the staff,[158] and reader's 2008 polls.[159]

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) topped a Rotten Tomatoes poll of the 100 best Science Fiction movies evermade.[160]

• Akira (1988) is considered the best animated science fiction film.[161][162][163][164]

Sports• Brian's Song (1971) is the currently the top rated American football movie in the ongoing poll at

sportsinmovies.com[165]

• Le Mans (1971) is currently standing as the best auto racing movie in the ongoing poll at sportsinmovies.com [166]

• Rocky (1976) topped Digital Spy's "greatest ever sports movie" audience poll in 2012.[167]

• Caddyshack (1980) is currently standing as the best golf movie in the ongoing poll at sportsinmovies.com [168]

• Raging Bull (1980) was selected as the best sports movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top10,[49] and is currently #1 on the top rated sport titles at the Internet Movie Database.[169]

• Chariots of Fire (1981) is currently standing as the best track and field movie in the ongoing poll atsportsinmovies.com [170]

• Bull Durham (1988) is currently standing as the best baseball movie in the ongoing poll at sportsinmovies.com[171]

• Miracle (2004) is currently standing as the overall best sports movie of all time in the ongoing poll atsportsinmovies.com [172]

• Cinderella Man (2005) is currently standing as the best boxing movie in the ongoing poll at sportsinmovies.com[173]

• Coach Carter (2005) is currently standing as the best basketball movie in the ongoing poll at sportsinmovies.com[174]

• Murderball (2005) is #1 on the Rotten Tomatoes countdown of the top sports movies.[175]

War• See Gone with the Wind, Casablanca and Schindler's List in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.• Paths of Glory (1957) is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best military movies.[176]

• Saving Private Ryan (1998) was voted as the greatest war film in a 2008 Channel 4 poll of the 100 greatest warfilms.[177]

• The Longest Day (1962) topped the list of the Moviefone 25 Best War Movies.[178]

• Apocalypse Now (1979) was the second rated war movie of all time based on the Movifone list (after Schindler'sList) and the IMDB War movie list (after The Longest Day).[179] It is ranked #1 on Channel 4's 50 Films To SeeBefore You Die.

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Western• The Searchers (1956) was selected as the best western movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10

Top 10.[49] (See also: films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers above).• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) (1966). Currently #1 on the top rated western titles

at the Internet Movie Database.[180]

• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Empire Magazine ranks the film on its poll of "500 Greatest Movies of AllTime" at #14, the highest ranking Western.

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) was chosen as the best western film for Best in Film: The GreatestMovies of Our Time.[181]

Countries

Australia• Mad Max (1979): a post-apocalyptic action thriller starring Mel Gibson was voted the best Australian film ever by

the Australian Film Institute.• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975): voted No. 1 of the Top 10 best-ever Australian films at 1995 centenary of

Australian cinema.[182]

Bangladesh• Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973), also known as A River Named Titas, by the acclaimed Bengali film director

Ritwik Ghatak, topped the British Film Institute's "Top 10 Bangladesh Films" of all time, both in the critics [183]

and user polls.[184]

Belgium• Loft: voted the best Belgian film on Moviemeter.nl, followed by Man Bites Dog, The Memory of a Killer, Toto the

Hero and Ben X.• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: voted the best Belgian film on the "They Shoot

Pictures" site (no. 142 in the Top 250).• Académie André Delvaux, Union de la Critique de Cinéma and Ostend Film Festival awarded Mr. Nobody best

Belgian film.[185][186][187]

Brazil• Bus 174 (2002). This documentary about a bus hijacking by José Padilha is the highest rated foreign film at

Rotten Tomatoes.[188]

• City of God (2002) is the highest ranked Brazilian film on Empire magazine's "100 Best Films Of World Cinema"in 2010[189] and the highest rated Brazilian film on the IMDb Top 250 list.[190]

• Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1964) has been selected by Brazilian critics as the best film of all time severaltimes, such as the 27th edition of Brazilian film magazine Contracampo.[191]

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Canada• Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) (1989): Ranked second on the All Time TIFF, and in a reader's poll

conducted by Playback's list since its release. Winner of 12 Genie Awards at the 11th Genie Awards.• Mon oncle Antoine (1971): A poll of critics at the 1984 Toronto International Film Festival and again at the 1993

and 2004 festivals named the greatest Canadian film of all time. 8th in Playback's reader's poll.• The Sweet Hereafter (1997): Voted the best Canadian film ever by readers of Playback,[192] and a poll done by

Canadian film insiders named it the best Canadian film of the last 15 years.[193]

• Wavelength (1967): the only Canadian film on the Village Voice's "100 Best Films of the 20th Century" rankingat #85.[194]

Czech Republic/SlovakiaIn a poll of filmmakers, critics, and theorists Marketa Lazarova was named best film in the 100 years ofCzechoslovak cinema.[195]

Chile• Julio comienza en julio (1979): Chosen in 1999 as the "Best Chilean Film of the Century" in a vote organized by

the Municipality of Santiago.[196]

China

• Spring in a Small Town (小 城 之 春) (1948) was voted the best Chinese film ever made by the Hong KongFilm Awards Association in 2005. A Better Tomorrow (英 雄 本 色) (1986) came in second place.[197]

• Farewell My Concubine (1993), directed by Chen Kaige, is the highest-ranking Asian film on Time Magazine's"Readers Top Rated" list.[37]

• See Raise the Red Lantern in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.

Croatia• Tko pjeva zlo ne misli (One Who Sings Means No Harm, 1970) was voted the best Croatian all time movie by the

Croatian Society of Film Critics.

Denmark• Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) Carl Th. Dreyer's harrowing tale of adultery and repression is often cited in Denmark

as the greatest Danish film.[198]

• Flickering Lights (Blinkende lygter) the 2000 comedy about small-time gangsters was voted the Best Danish Filmin a 2007 poll by Ekstra Bladet newspaper. Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration (Festen) was the runner-up.[199]

EgyptTo mark the centennial of Egyptian cinema, Al Ahram daily newspaper asked the country's top 20 critics to choosethe best 15 best Egyptian films of all time. This is the result of the poll (first published July 12, 2007):• The Mummy (Al-Mummia) Directed by Chadi Abdel Salam (1975)• The Sin ("El-Haram") Directed by Henry Barakat (1965)• The Land ("Al-Ard") Directed by Youssef Chahine (1970)• A Beginning and an End ("Bidaya wa Nihaya) Directed by Salah Abouseif (1960)• The Bus Driver ("Sawaq El-Autobis") Directed by Atef E-Taieb (1983)• The Collar and the Bracelet ("El Tooq wal Eswera") Directed by Khairy Beshara (1986)• The Will (Al-Azima) Directed by Kamal Selim (1939)

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• Cairo Station ("Bab El-Hadid") Directed by Youssef Chahine (1958)• The Wife of an Important Man ("Zawgat Ragol Mohim") Directed by Mohamed Khan (1988)• The Flirtation of Girls ("Ghazal Al-Banat") Directed by Anwar Wagdi (1949)• Life or Death ("Haya aw Maut") Directed by Kamal El Sheikh (1954)• The Nightingale's Prayer ("Doaa Al-Karawan") Directed by Henry Barakat (1959)• The Innocent ("El-Baree'") Directed by Atef E-Taieb• El-Kit Kat Directed by Daoud Abdel Sayed (1991)• Terrorism and Kebab ("Al-Irhab wal kabab") Directed by Sherif Arafa (1992)

Estonia• Kevade (Spring, 1969) received the first place in the Estonian feature films Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian

film critics and journalists.[200]

Finland• The Unknown Soldier (1955) was voted the best Finnish movie in an Internet poll by Helsingin Sanomat in

2007.[201]

• Talvisota (The Winter War, 1989): is the highest user rated Finnish film on the IMDb having received more than1000 votes.[202]

France• La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939/1950). See polls of critics and filmmakers.• Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945/1946): Voted "Best French Film of the Century" in a poll of

600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.[203]

• Léon: The Professional (1994) is currently the highest ranked French film on IMDb's Top 250.[23]

Germany• M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder by Fritz Lang is the highest rated German film in the IMDb.[204]

• Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh): See Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers above.• Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari): See Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers

above.

Hong Kong• Drunken Master II (1994), directed by Jackie Chan and Lau Kar-Leung, is the highest-ranking entirely Hong

Kong production and third highest-ranking Asian film on Time Magazine's "Readers Top Rated" list.[37]

• Infernal Affairs (2002), directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, is the highest-ranking entirely Hong Kongproduction on the Internet Movie Database's "Top 250 Movies" list.[205]

• The Departed (2006), Martin Scorsese's remake of Infernal Affairs,[206] is the highest-ranking Hong Kongco-production on the Internet Movie Database's "Top 250 Movies" list.[23]

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HungaryIn 2000, Hungarian film critics chose the so-called "Budapest 12",[207] the twelve best films of Hungary:• Szegénylegények (The Round-Up, 1965) – Miklós Jancsó• Szerelem (Love, 1971) – Károly Makk• Szindbád (Sinbad, 1971) – Zoltán Huszárik• Emberek a havason (Men on the Mountain, 1942) – István Szőts• Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe, 1948) – Géza von Radványi• Megáll az idő (Time Stands Still, 1982) – Péter Gothár• Hyppolit, a lakáj (Hyppolit, 1931) – István Székely• Körhinta (Merry-Go-Round, 1956) – Zoltán Fábri• A kis Valentino (Little Valentino, 1979) – András Jeles• Az én XX. Századom (My 20th Century, 1989) – Ildikó Enyedi• Apa (Father, 1966) – István Szabó• Hannibál tanár úr (Professor Hannibal, 1956) – Zoltán Fábri

India• The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), a Bengali film trilogy directed by Satyajit Ray, appeared on the 1992 edition of the

Sight & Sound Critics' Poll (ranked #88)[208] and on The Village Voice's top 250 "Best Films of the Century"critics' poll (ranked #54).[7][209] It is the highest-ranking trilogy in both polls.• Pather Panchali (1955), the first part of The Apu Trilogy and Satyajit Ray's debut film, appeared on the Sight

& Sound Critics' Poll several times, in 1962 (ranked #11),[208] 1992 (ranked #6)[210][211] and 2002 (ranked#22).[212][213] It also appeared on The Village Voice top 250 "Best Films of the Century" critics' poll (tied at#12 with The Godfather).[7][209]

• Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959), the final part of Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy, was thehighest-ranking Indian film in the 1982 Sight & Sound Critics' Poll (ranked #42), followed by two other Rayfilms The Music Room (1958) and Charulata (1964) tied at #56.[214]

• The Hindi film Pyaasa (1957) and the Tamil film Nayagan (1987) both joined the Bengali Apu Trilogy(1955–1959) on Time Magazine's ALL-TIME 100 Movies list.[37]

• Sholay (Embers) (1975), a "Curry Western" Hindi film directed by Ramesh Sippy, topped the British FilmInstitute's poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.[215]

• Junoon (1978), directed by Shyam Benegal and produced by Shashi Kapoor, is a Hindi historical film that,according to film critic Khalid Mohamed, film set high standards and was then considered to be an all time epicmovie.[216]

• Gandhi (1982), an Indian English biographical film about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi directed by RichardAttenborough,[217] is the highest-ranked Indian co-production on the Internet Movie Database's "Top 250Movies" list.[23]

• Lagaan (2001), directed by Ashutosh Gowariker and produced by Aamir Khan, is a Hindi historical sports filmthat received that became the third Hindi film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best ForeignLanguage Film after Mother India (1957) and Salaam Bombay! (1988). In 2010, Lagaan was ranked #55 inEmpire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema,"[218] and in 2011, it was listed in Time magazine's"The All-TIME 25 Best Sports Movies" list.[219]

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Iran• Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie

magazine "Picture world" poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.[220]

• A Separation (2011) was the first Iranian movie to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in2012. It also won the Golden Globe in the same category

Ireland• The Commitments (1991) was voted the best Irish film of all time in a 2004 Jameson Whiskey poll of 10,000 Irish

people, with My Left Foot coming second.[221]

Israel• Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (1976) was voted "Favorite Israeli Film of all time" in a 2004 poll by Ynet, the web site

of a popular Israeli newspaper. The film got 25,000 votes.[222]

Italy• Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (1948). See Polls of critics and filmmakers section above. Also listed at #22

on Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time.[223]

• 8½ (1963). Director Federico Fellini's film about filmmaking was the highest rated Italian film in the 2002 Sight& Sound poll of the best films of all time.[224]

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) (1966) is the highest-ranking Italian production onthe Internet Movie Database's "Top 250 Movies" list as voted by users,[225] where it is currently listed as the 4thbest film ever.[23] (Also see Western section above.)

Japan

• Rashomon (羅 生 門), 1950: This film by Akira Kurosawa was the first Japanese film to gain worldwideacclaim. It is the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film in the Village Voice poll of "Best Films of the Century"(ranked #10).[7] It also tied for the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film on the Sight and Sound 2002 Directors'Top Ten Poll (ranked #9).[226]

• Seven Samurai (七 人 の 侍 Shichinin no Samurai), 1954: Also by Kurosawa, this period adventure film isfrequently cited as the greatest Japanese film ever; at #12, it is the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film on theInternet Movie Database's "Top 250 movies" list.[227] It ranked, for the first time, at #3 in the 1982 Sight & SoundCritics' Top Ten Poll,[228] appeared on the Sight & Sound Directors' Top Ten Poll in 1992 (ranked #10),[229] tiedfor the highest-ranked Japanese and Asian film in 2002 (ranked #9),[226] and ranked #17 on the 2012 critics'poll.[230] It is ranked #2 on Rotten Tomatoes' top 100 foreign films,[188] and #1 on their top 100 action/adventurefilms.[31] It was also voted the "Best Japanese Film ever" in a 1979 Kinema Junpo critics’ poll.[231] It also toppedEmpire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" list.[232]

• Tokyo Story (東 京 物 語 Tokyo Monogatari), 1953: Directed by Yasujirō Ozu, is the highest-ranked Japaneseand Asian film on the 2002 Sight and Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll (ranked #5).[233] It was also declared thegreatest film ever by Halliwell's Film Guide in 2005.[234] In 2012, Tokyo Story topped the Sight & Sounddirectors' poll, dethroning Citizen Kane for the first time since the directors' poll began in 1992, and has also comethird place in the 2012 critics' poll.[3]

• Ugetsu (雨 月 物 語 Ugetsu Monogatari), 1953: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, it was the highest-rankingAsian film in the Sight & Sound critics' polls in 1962 (ranked #4)[214] and 1972 (ranked #10).[214]

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Macedonia• Before the Rain (1994) is a Milčo Mančevski film, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language

Film.

Mexico• Pan's Labyrinth, a 2006 Mexican co-production, is the highest ranked Mexican or Latin American film on Empire

magazine's "100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.[235]

Netherlands• Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange – 1977 – Paul Verhoeven): Voted best Dutch film ever made in a 2006

Internet poll by online film magazine Filmwereld.nl.• Turks Fruit (Turkish Delight – 1973 – Paul Verhoeven): Voted best Dutch film of the 20th century at the 1999

Netherlands Film Festival.• Zwartboek (Black Book – 2006 – Paul Verhoeven): Voted best Dutch film ever at the 2008 Netherlands Film

Festival.[236]

New Zealand• See Lord of the Rings in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.

Norway• Flåklypa Grand Prix (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix – 1975 – Ivo Caprino): The people's choice for "Best Norwegian

Film of the Century" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[237]

• Ni Liv (Nine Lives – 1957 – Arne Skouen): The critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of the Century" duringthe 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[237]

Pakistan• Baji (1963), directed by S. Suleman, topped the British Film Institute's critics poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of

all time.[238]

• Aina (1977), directed by Nazr-ul-Islam, topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films"of all time.[239]

Philippines• Maynila: Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Neon) – Lino Brocka (1975): cited in numerous film

anthologies and critical polls as the greatest Filipino film ever.[240][241]

• Himala (Miracle) – Ishmael Bernal (1982): won the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards Viewers Choice as"Best Asia-Pacific Film of All Time" (voted for by thousands of film fans around the world).[242][243][244][245]

Poland• Sexmission (Seksmisja) is the best Polish film of the last 30 years according to a 2005 poll by readers of three

popular film magazines.[246]

• Seksmisja is also on the prominence position in the ranking of Polish movies on portal Filmweb.pl.[247] Otherpositions from the first ten places are: Polish-French cooproduction The Pianist (2002), comedies: Day of thewacko (2002), Our Folks (1967), How I Unleashed World War II (1969), Teddy Bear (1980), Boys Don't Cry(2000), and dramas showing important social or political problems after 1989: The Debt (1999), Symmetry (2003),and Psy-Pigs (1992).

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• Polish best awarded production are: A Short Film About Killing (European Film Award for Best Film in 1988),Man of Iron (Palme d'Or of 1981 Cannes Film Festival), and The Pianist (Palme d'Or of 2002 Cannes FilmFestival).

RomaniaBest 10 Romanian films as considered by the Union of Romanian Cineastes and the Film Critics Association[248]

(Uniunea Cineaştilor din România şi Asociaţia Criticilor de Film):• Reconstituirea (The Reenactment – Lucian Pintilie, 1968)• Pădurea spânzuraţilor (The Forest of the Hanged – Liviu Ciulei, 1965)• Moartea domnului Lazarescu (The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu – Cristi Puiu, 2005• 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – Cristian Mungiu, 2007)• Secvenţe (Sequences) – Alexandru Tatos, 1982• Nunta de piatră (The Stone Wedding) – Mircea Veroiu, Dan Piţa. 1973• La moara cu noroc (Victor Iliu. 1956)• A fost sau n-a fost? (12:08 East of Bucharest – Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006)• Probă de microfon (Microphone Test) (Mircea Daneliuc, 1979)• Croaziera (The Cruise) (Mircea Daneliuc, 1981)

Russia• Броненосец Потёмкин (Battleship Potemkin): see Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers above.

Serbia• Who's That Singing Over There (Ko to tamo peva, 1980) was in 1996 voted the best Serbian movie made in the

1947-1995 period by the members of the Yugoslavian Board of the Academy of Film Art and Science(AFUN).[249]

South Korea• Obaltan (오발탄): Released in 1960. This film is widely regarded as the best South Korean film.[250]

• Oldboy (올드보이): This 2003 South Korean film is the highest rated Korean language film on the InternetMovie Database's top 250 list.[251] It also won the Grand Prix of the Jury at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.[252]

Sri Lanka• Pura Handa Kaluwara (1997), also known as Death on a Full Moon Day, directed by P. Vithanage and starring

Joe Abeywickrama, topped the British Film Institute's poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time.[253]

• Ananta Rathiriya (1995), directed by P. Vithanage, topped the user poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of alltime.[254]

Sweden• The Emigrants (Utvandrarna): Jan Troell's naturalist masterwork is often cited in Sweden as the greatest Swedish

film of all-time.• Persona: Acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman's movie reached the highest position (#5 in 1972) of any Swedish

film on any of Sight & Sound's lists of greatest films of all time.• The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), also directed by Ingmar Bergman, is the highest rated Swedish film on the

IMDb top 250 list.[23]

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Taiwan

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (traditional Chinese：臥 虎 藏 龍): is a 2000 Wuxia film directed by AngLee and co-produced by Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States and China. The movie won over 40 awards.Including Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film(for Taiwan) and 3 other Academy Awards. Also,nominated for 6 other Academy Awards. The film grossed US$128 million in the United States and became thehighest grossing foreign-language film in American history.

• Cape No. 7 (traditional Chinese：海 角 七 號): a movie in 2008 earned over $350 million NTD in just over amonth to become the highest-grossing domestic film in Taiwanese history. It is also considered to be the film thatrevives the 10-year-lasting depression of Taiwanese cinema.[255]

TurkeyIn 2003 Ankara Sinema Derneği (Ankara Association for Cinema Culture) chose the "Best 10 Turkish films ever" bya poll among people who are interested in cinema professionally:[256]

• Yol (1982), Şerif Gören• Umut (1970), Yılmaz Güney• Sürü (1978), Zeki Ökten• Muhsin Bey (1987), Yavuz Turgul• Masumiyet (1997), Zeki Demirkubuz• Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım (1978), Atıf Yılmaz• Anayurt Oteli (1986), Ömer Kavur• Susuz Yaz (1964), Metin Erksan• Gelin (1973), Ömer Lütfi Akad• Uzak (2002), Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Ukraine• Земля (Earth), one of the World's twelve greatest films of all time (Brussels World's Fair, 1958).[257][13]

• Пропала грамота (The Lost Letter), was banned in Soviet Union. 20 years later was awarded with GoldenPagoda during the Bangkok International Film Festival, 1991.

• Тіні забутих предків (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) received the British Academy Award and Grand Prix atMar del Plata International Film Festival (1965)

United Kingdom• The Third Man (1949): Voted best British film ever by members of the British Film Institute in 1999.[258]

Currently #3 on the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best mystery/suspense movies.[142]

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962): voted "best British film of all time" in August 2004 by a London Sunday Telegraphpoll of Britain's leading filmmakers.[259] (See also: Epic above).

• Get Carter (1971): Named best British film in a poll of 25 film critics by Total Film magazine in 2004.[260]

• Don't Look Now (1973): Named best British film in a poll of 150 film industry experts conducted by Time OutLondon in 2011.[261]

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) was voted the best British picture of all time by a 2004 poll by the UKarm of Amazon and Internet Movie Database.[88]

• Trainspotting (1996): Named best British film between 1984-2009 by a poll of critics and film professionals inThe Observer.[262]

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United StatesSince 1998, the American Film Institute has assembled juries of film community leaders and polled them for a seriesof top 100 lists. Two of the lists from the series, 100 Years... 100 Movies from 1998 and 100 Years... 100 Movies(10th Anniversary Edition) from 2007, identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever. In other years, AFI'sjury members selected Some Like It Hot the greatest American comedy, Psycho as the most thrilling Americanmovie, Casablanca as the greatest American love story, Singin' in the Rain as the greatest American film musical,and It's a Wonderful Life as the most inspiring American film.[263]

• Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane at thetop of the critics' poll for the first time in 50 years since 1962. It has also been voted #8 in the directors' poll.[3]

• See also: Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Goodfellas, Citizen Kane, StarWars, Chinatown, Schindler's List, and The Shawshank Redemption in the Films acclaimed in audience pollssection above.

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External links• American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies (http:/ / www. afi. com/ 100years/ movies. aspx)• BFI List of top 100 British movies (http:/ / www. bfi. org. uk/ features/ bfi100/ )• IMDb Top 250 (http:/ / imdb. com/ top_250_films)• Channel 4 poll: 100 Greatest Films (http:/ / www. channel4. com/ film/ newsfeatures/ microsites/ G/ greatest/

results/ control. jsp?resultspage=01)• Sight and Sound magazine best films of all time polls (http:/ / www. bfi. org. uk/ sightandsound/ polls/ topten/ )• Village Voice 100 Best films of the 20th century list (from Archive.org) (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/

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