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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Penn, Arthur USA DBUPS
16 Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA D
25 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
43 GoodFellas 1990 Scorsese, Martin USA DBUP
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
145 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
163 Lola Montès 1955 Ophüls, Max France / West Germany Y
184 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
246 Amadeus 1984 Forman, Milos USA DUS
249 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
299 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
305 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 Dieterle, William USA D
339 Crumb 1994 Zwigoff, Terry USA D
342 Gandhi 1982 Attenborough, Richard UK / India DUP
361 The Elephant Man 1980 Lynch, David UK / USA D
379 Hoop Dreams 1994 James, Steve USA Y
392 Queen Christina 1933 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
393 The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DB
408 Shine 1996 Hicks, Scott Australia YUS
418 Andrei Roublev 1969 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
423 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 Ford, John USA D
495 Nanook of the North 1922 Flaherty, Robert J. USA DU
497 The Aviator 2004 Scorsese, Martin USA / Japan / Germany DS
501 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Morris, Errol USA YU
515 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Stone, Oliver USA DUS
518 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Clooney, George USA DB
529 The Scarlet Empress 1934 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
537 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
541 My Left Foot 1989 Sheridan, Jim Ireland / UK DS
581 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Apted, Michael USA DS
599 Sergeant York 1941 Hawks, Howard USA DS
633 Serpico 1973 Lumet, Sidney Italy / USA YUP
640 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Korda, Alexander UK Y
642 Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union YU
650 Lust for Life 1956 Minnelli, Vincente / Cukor, George USA DUPS
655 The Ten Commandments 1956 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DUS
656 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1975 Herzog, Werner West Germany Y
657 Out of Africa 1985 Pollack, Sydney USA YS
679 The Queen 2006 Frears, Stephen UK DB
695 Henry V 1989 Branagh, Kenneth UK Y
738 Moulin Rouge 1952 Huston, John UK Y
746 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Leigh, Mike UK YS
747 The Miracle Worker 1962 Penn, Arthur USA YU
754 Richard III 1955 Olivier, Laurence UK D
756 Malcolm X 1992 Lee, Spike USA YU
763 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Wood, Sam USA DUP
777 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Forman, Milos Canada / USA YU
789 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Scorsese, Martin USA Y
791 Sherman's March 1986 McElwee, Ross USA Y
822 Funny Girl 1968 Wyler, William USA Y
823 My Brilliant Career 1979 Armstrong, Gillian Australia Y
824 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 Stevens, George USA YS
833 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Schnabel, Julian France / USA D
840 Capote 2005 Miller, Bennett USA DU
841 Julia 1977 Zinnemann, Fred USA D
851 Finding Neverland 2004 Forster, Marc UK / USA DB
865 Becket 1964 Glenville, Peter UK / USA D
884 Viva Zapata! 1952 Kazan, Elia USA YS
892 The Last Waltz 1978 Scorsese, Martin USA DB
897 The Wild Child 1970 Truffaut, François France Y
899 I Want to Live! 1958 Wise, Robert USA YU
906 Bound for Glory 1976 Ashby, Hal USA Y
913 Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 1958 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Filimonova, M. Soviet Union YU
937 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Howard, Ron USA DS
946 Julius Caesar 1953 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DUS
976 Lenny 1974 Fosse, Bob USA Y
982 The Sea Inside 2004 Amenábar, Alejandro Spain / France / Italy D
1000 Midnight Express 1978 Parker, Alan UK / USA DUP
1027 The Song of Bernadette 1943 King, Henry USA YS
1029 Rembrandt 1936 Korda, Alexander UK Y
1050 The Story of Louis Pasteur 1936 Dieterle, William USA Y
1050 Viva Villa! 1934 Conway, Jack / Hawks, Howard / Wellman, William A. USA Y
1054 Shadowlands 1993 Attenborough, Richard UK Y
1058 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 Salles, Walter USA / Germany / UK / Argentina / Chile / Peru / France D
1070 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Bahr, Fax / Hickenlooper, George / Coppola, Eleanor USA D
1072 The Madness of King George 1994 Hytner, Nicholas UK YUP
1078 Mayerling 1936 Litvak, Anatole France Y
1082 American Movie 1999 Smith, Chris USA YUP
1088 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 McNaughton, John USA D
1090 The Puppetmaster 1993 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan Y
1092 Ray 2004 Hackford, Taylor USA D
1099 Dance with a Stranger 1985 Newell, Mike UK Y
1100 Cleopatra 1934 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
1101 The Prisoner of Shark Island 1936 Ford, John USA D
1110 Don't Look Back 1967 Pennebaker, D.A. USA YUP
1114 American Splendor 2003 Berman, Shari Springer / Pulcini, Robert USA Y
1115 Downfall 2004 Hirschbiegel, Oliver Germany / Italy / Austria D
1120 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Ophüls, Marcel France / USA Y
1122 Harlan County, USA 1976 Kopple, Barbara USA D
1137 Elizabeth 1998 Kapur, Shekhar UK Y
1151 The Story of Adèle H 1975 Truffaut, François France Y
1169 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 Girard, François Portugal / Canada / Finland / Netherlands Y
1176 The Gleaners and I 2000 Varda, Agnès France Y
1182 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
1206 Best Boy 1979 Wohl, Ira USA Y
1212 Danton 1983 Wajda, Andrzej France / Poland / West Germany Y
1245 Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania 1972 Mekas, Jonas UK / West Germany
1254 Wilson 1944 King, Henry USA YS
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1263 21 Up 1977 Apted, Michael UK D
1290 The Long Day Closes 1992 Davies, Terence UK Y
1298 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 Vidor, Charles USA DS
1307 Silkwood 1983 Nichols, Mike USA YS
1311 An Angel at My Table 1990 Campion, Jane UK / Australia / New Zealand D
1312 28 Up 1985 Apted, Michael UK D
1323 Grizzly Man 2005 Herzog, Werner USA D
1331 Capturing the Friedmans 2003 Jarecki, Andrew USA D
1343 The General 1998 Boorman, John UK / Ireland YU
1353 Distant Voices Still Lives 1988 Davies, Terence UK Y
1367 Papillon 1973 Schaffner, Franklin J. France / USA DU
1372 The Buddy Holly Story 1978 Rash, Steve USA YU
1375 The Magic Box 1951 Boulting, John UK
1388 Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
1390 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 1997 Morris, Errol USA DU
1407 Gentleman Jim 1942 Walsh, Raoul USA D
1411 I'll Cry Tomorrow 1955 Mann, Daniel USA D
1411 The Jolson Story 1946 Green, Alfred E. USA DS
1411 Pride of the Marines 1945 Daves, Delmer USA
1412 My Architect: A Son's Journey 2003 Kahn, Nathaniel USA D
1417 Brother's Keeper 1992 Berlinger, Joe / Sinofsky, Bruce USA YUP
1424 A Brief History of Time 1991 Morris, Errol UK / Japan / USA Y
1427 Sid and Nancy 1986 Cox, Alex UK / USA Y
1431 Evita 1996 Parker, Alan USA D
1431 Sunrise at Campobello 1960 Donehue, Vincent J. USA YS
1435 Tucker: The Man and His Dream 1988 Coppola, Francis Ford USA Y
1439 The Fog of War 2003 Morris, Errol USA DU
1450 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Schrader, Paul USA D
1461 Stavisky... 1974 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
1473 Caro diario 1994 Moretti, Nanni Italy / France S
1479 Spellbound 2002 Blitz, Jeffrey USA D
1488 Disraeli 1929 Green, Alfred E. USA Y
1516 The Childhood of Maxim Gorky 1938 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union DU
1530 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Wise, Robert USA D
1532 Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 Jarrott, Charles UK Y
1532 Bugsy 1991 Levinson, Barry USA DS
1538 Walk the Line 2005 Mangold, James USA DUP
1547 Murderball 2005 Rubin, Henry Alex / Shapiro, Dana Adam USA D
1549 Freud 1962 Huston, John USA S
1558 Stanley and Livingstone 1939 King, Henry / Brower, Otto USA V
1575 Calle 54 2000 Trueba, Fernando Spain / France / Italy Y
1583 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940 Dieterle, William USA UP
1583 Lumumba 2000 Peck, Raoul France / Belgium / Germany / Haiti DS
1583 Three Came Home 1950 Negulesco, Jean USA D
1583 Vincent & Theo 1990 Altman, Robert Netherlands / UK / France D
1593 La Vie en Rose 2007 Dahan, Olivier France / UK / Czech Republic DU
1602 Hilary and Jackie 1998 Tucker, Anand UK Y
1605 That's Entertainment! 1974 Haley, Jack Jr. USA DBUS
1612 Marie Antoinette 1938 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
1616 Alexander's Ragtime Band 1938 King, Henry USA YS
1618 Cleopatra 1963 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. / Mamoulian, Rouben / Zanuck, Darryl F. UK / USA / Switzerland YUS
1630 Before Night Falls 2000 Schnabel, Julian USA D
1641 The Last Tycoon 1976 Kazan, Elia USA YUP
1647 F for Fake 1974 Welles, Orson France / Iran / West Germany Y
1651 Bird 1988 Eastwood, Clint USA D
1653 October Sky 1999 Johnston, Joe USA DS
1664 Kinsey 2004 Condon, Bill USA / Germany YU
1673 The Glenn Miller Story 1953 Mann, Anthony USA DS
1676 Sophie Scholl - The Final Days 2005 Rothemund, Marc Germany DB
1677 My Father's Glory 1990 Robert, Yves France Y
1678 The House of Rothschild 1934 Werker, Alfred L. USA
1678 Madame Curie 1943 LeRoy, Mervyn USA D
1689 Hanussen 1988 Szabó, István Hungary / West Germany / Austria Y
1690 4 Little Girls 1997 Lee, Spike USA D
1691 Tous les matins du monde 1991 Corneau, Alain France DS
1694 Utamaro and His Five Women 1946 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
1699 Centre Stage 1992 Kwan, Stanley Hong Kong Y
1700 Ed Wood 1994 Burton, Tim USA YS
1715 Fear Strikes Out 1957 Mulligan, Robert USA D
1728 American Dream 1990 Kopple, Barbara / Caplan, Cathy / Haneke, Thomas / Silk, Lawrence USA / UK D
1729 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Peckinpah, Sam USA DU
1733 Boys Town 1938 Taurog, Norman USA D
1735 The Best Intentions 1992 August, Bille Sweden / Germany / UK / Italy / France / Denmark / Finland / Norway / Iceland Y
1741 Pollock 2000 Harris, Ed USA Y
1744 42: Forty Two Up 1998 Apted, Michael UK D
1744 7 Plus Seven 1970 Apted, Michael UK D
1744 35 Up 1991 Apted, Michael UK D
1751 To Be and To Have 2002 Philibert, Nicolas France D
1757 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005 Gibney, Alex USA DBU
1770 Gunner Palace 2004 Epperlein, Petra / Tucker, Michael USA D
1770 Nixon 1995 Stone, Oliver USA DBS
1779 The Last Days 1998 Moll, James USA D
1783 Hammett 1982 Wenders, Wim USA DS
1789 Neil Young: Heart of Gold 2006 Demme, Jonathan USA D
1791 Birdman of Alcatraz 1962 Frankenheimer, John USA YUS
1791 Say Amen, Somebody 1982 Nierenberg, George T. USA Y
1792 King: A Filmed Record...
Montgomery to Memphis
1970 Lumet, Sidney / Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA
1797 Buena Vista Social Club 1999 Wenders, Wim Germany / USA / UK / France / Cuba DU
1798 The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time 1982 Brown, Jim USA Y
1799 24 Hour Party People 2002 Winterbottom, Michael UK / France / Netherlands DS
1805 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Anderson, Wes USA DUP
1813 The Fighting 69th 1940 Keighley, William USA D
1820 Man of a Thousand Faces 1957 Pevney, Joseph USA D
1820 Mission to Moscow 1943 Curtiz, Michael USA
1826 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story 1965 Kaplan, Richard USA Y
1833 Shut Up and Sing 2006 Kopple, Barbara / Peck, Cecilia USA D
1834 Conquest of Everest 1953 Lowe, George UK Y
1834 The Last American Hero 1973 Johnson, Lamont USA Y
1834 Stevie 1978 Enders, Robert UK
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1839 The Mystery of Picasso 1956 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
1846 Burden of Dreams 1982 Blank, Les USA Y
1846 Isadora 1968 Reisz, Karel UK / France Y
1852 Victoria the Great 1937 Wilcox, Herbert UK
1854 Jesse James 1939 King, Henry / Cummings, Irving USA D
1864 The Hurricane 1999 Jewison, Norman USA D
1871 Girl with a Pearl Earring 2003 Webber, Peter USA / UK / Luxembourg DUPS
1871 Milk 2008 Van Sant, Gus USA S
1871 On the Ropes 1999 Burstein, Nanette / Morgen, Brett USA D
1871 Safe Conduct 2002 Tavernier, Bertrand Spain / France / Germany D
1873 Camille Claudel 1988 Nuytten, Bruno France Y
1884 Frida 2002 Taymor, Julie USA / Canada / Mexico D
1887 Carrington 1995 Hampton, Christopher UK / France Y
1889 The Agronomist 2003 Demme, Jonathan USA D
1889 Dark Days 2000 Singer, Marc USA D
1889 The Heart of the Game 2005 Serrill, Ward USA D
1889 Jacquot de Nantes 1991 Varda, Agnès France
1889 Leadbelly 1976 Parks, Gordon USA
1889 Mask 1985 Bogdanovich, Peter USA D
1889 Riding Giants 2004 Peralta, Stacy USA / France DUS
1889 Stevie 2002 James, Steve USA D
1889 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 Epstein, Rob USA DU
1891 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 Peralta, Stacy USA DUS
1904 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003 McKay, Rick USA D
1906 Star 80 1983 Fosse, Bob USA D
1907 My Ain Folk 1973 Douglas, Bill UK D
1907 My Childhood 1972 Douglas, Bill UK D
1907 My Way Home 1978 Douglas, Bill UK D
1912 Anne Frank Remembered 1995 Blair, Jon UK / USA / Netherlands D
1912 Hamsun 1996 Troell, Jan Germany / Norway / Sweden / Denmark D
1922 The Filth and the Fury 2000 Temple, Julien UK / USA D
1923 The Last King of Scotland 2006 Macdonald, Kevin UK DU
1930 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1987 Haynes, Todd USA
1934 Monsieur Vincent 1947 Cloche, Maurice France D
1936 Quills 2000 Kaufman, Philip USA / Germany / UK YU
1939 The Flowers of St. Francis 1950 Rossellini, Roberto Italy D
1945 I'm Not There 2007 Haynes, Todd USA D
1947 Richard III 1912 Keane, James / Calmettes, André France / USA D
1949 Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940 Cromwell, John USA
1949 Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer 1974 Andersen, Thom / Fisher, Morgan / Anderson, Fay USA
1949 Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' 1984 Brown, Jim USA
1950 On His Own 1939 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union
1958 My Universities 1940 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union
1964 Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer 1992 Broomfield, Nick UK
1964 Caravaggio 1986 Jarman, Derek UK DS
1965 The Great Debaters 2007 Washington, Denzel USA D
1968 Man on the Moon 1999 Forman, Milos UK / Germany / Japan / USA Y
1971 My Country My Country 2006 Poitras, Laura USA D
1993 From the Journals of Jean Seberg 1995 Rappaport, Mark USA Y
1993 Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1993 Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
2000 Cinderella Man 2005 Howard, Ron USA DU
2003 Cry Freedom 1987 Attenborough, Richard UK YU
2005 Marie Antoinette 2006 Coppola, Sofia Japan / France / USA DU
2006 Changeling 2008 Eastwood, Clint USA S
2006 Huey Long 1985 Burns, Ken USA Y
2013 The Great Waltz 1938 Duvivier, Julien / Fleming, Victor / von Sternberg, Josef USA
2013 Three Little Words 1950 Thorpe, Richard USA D
2017 Abel Gance's Beethoven 1936 Gance, Abel France D
2017 The Anderson Platoon 1967 Schoendoerffer, Pierre France D
2017 Ballets russes 2005 Geller, Daniel / Goldfine, Dayna USA D
2017 Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary 2002 Heller, André / Schmiderer, Othmar Austria D
2017 The Children of Theatre Street 1977 Dornhelm, Robert / Mack, Earle USA D
2017 Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll 1987 Hackford, Taylor USA S
2017 Comedian 2002 Charles, Christian USA D
2017 Cousin Bobby 1992 Demme, Jonathan USA / Spain
2017 84 Charing Cross Road 1987 Jones, David Hugh UK / USA D
2017 Gospel 1982 Leivick, David / Ritzenberg, Frederick A. USA D
2017 Henry & June 1990 Kaufman, Philip USA DS
2017 Henry VIII and His Six Wives 1972 Hussein, Waris UK UP
2017 I Was Monty's Double 1958 Guillermin, John UK
2017 Jupiter's Wife 1995 Negroponte, Michel USA DUP
2017 Lightning in a Bottle 2004 Fuqua, Antoine USA DUS
2017 The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story 1996 Dryfoos, Susan Warms USA D
2017 Looking for Richard 1996 Pacino, Al USA VUPS
2017 Mary of Scotland 1936 Ford, John / Goodwins, Leslie USA D
2017 Moving the Mountain 1994 Apted, Michael UK / Canada D
2017 My Best Fiend 1999 Herzog, Werner UK / Germany / Finland / USA D
2017 Northern Lights 1978 Hanson, John / Nilsson, Rob / Lavut, Martin USA
2017 Paul Taylor: Dancemaker 1998 Diamond, Matthew USA D
2017 Prisoner of Paradise 2002 Clarke, Malcolm / Sender, Stuart USA / Canada / Germany / UK D
2017 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
2017 Promises 2001 Bolado, Carlos / Shapiro, Justine / Goldberg, B.Z. USA D
2017 Riding the Rails 1997 Lovell, Lexy / Uys, Michael USA D
2017 The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler:
Black Fox
1962 Stoumen, Louis Clyde USA V
2017 Rosa Luxemburg 1986 von Trotta, Margarethe Czechoslovakia / West Germany
2017 Sister Kenny 1946 Nichols, Dudley USA V
2017 The Story of the Weeping Camel 2003 Davaa, Byambasuren / Falorni, Luigi Germany / Mongolia D
2017 The Stratton Story 1949 Wood, Sam USA D
2017 That Was Rock 1984 Binder, Steve / Peerce, Larry / Winters, David USA
2017 That's Entertainment, Part II 1976 Kelly, Gene USA DBS
2017 Time Indefinite 1993 McElwee, Ross USA D
2017 Tropic of Cancer 1970 Strick, Joseph USA
2017 An Unreasonable Man 2006 Mantel, Henriette / Skrovan, Steve USA DUP
2017 When We Were Kings 1996 Gast, Leon USA DS
2030 Max 2002 Meyjes, Menno Hungary / Canada / UK D
2035 The Great Consoler 1933 Kuleshov, Lev Soviet Union
2037 Knute Rockne, All American 1940 Bacon, Lloyd USA D
2047 The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1957 Franklin, Sidney UK
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