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53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
55 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
110 Shoah 1985 Lanzmann, Claude France Y
146 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
161 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
168 Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DU
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUPS
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DS
278 Night and Fog 1955 Resnais, Alain France Y
285 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
294 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
325 The Leopard 1963 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YUS
340 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Zinnemann, Fred UK D
342 Gandhi 1982 Attenborough, Richard UK / India DUP
392 Queen Christina 1933 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
393 The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK D
414 The Great Escape 1963 Sturges, John USA DUS
419 Andrei Roublev 1969 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
423 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 Ford, John USA D
487 Kagemusha 1980 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
489 Glory 1989 Zwick, Edward USA DUS
490 Gangs of New York 2002 Scorsese, Martin USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands DBS
495 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Clooney, George USA DB
521 Braveheart 1995 Gibson, Mel USA DUS
525 Olympia Part One:
Festival of the Nations
1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
528 The Scarlet Empress 1934 von Sternberg, Josef USA Y
536 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
585 Apollo 13 1995 Howard, Ron USA DS
602 Olympia Part Two:
Festival of Beauty
1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
623 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Ophüls, Marcel France / Switzerland / West Germany Y
629 War and Peace 1968 Bondarchuk, Sergei Soviet Union D
641 The Queen 2006 Frears, Stephen UK DB
642 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Korda, Alexander UK Y
644 Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union YU
695 Henry V 1989 Branagh, Kenneth UK Y
726 The Lion in Winter 1968 Harvey, Anthony UK DS
729 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Italy / West Germany D
753 Richard III 1955 Olivier, Laurence UK D
821 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 Stevens, George USA YS
845 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 Huston, John USA Y
859 Hotel Rwanda 2004 George, Terry UK / Italy / South Africa Y
861 Becket 1964 Glenville, Peter UK / USA D
867 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Eastwood, Clint USA DBU
912 Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 1958 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Filimonova, M. Soviet Union YU
947 Julius Caesar 1953 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DUS
955 October (Ten Days That Shook the World) 1928 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union YU
995 Munich 2005 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
1039 Hero 2002 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China DS
1071 The Madness of King George 1994 Hytner, Nicholas UK Y
1077 Mayerling 1936 Litvak, Anatole France Y
1100 Cleopatra 1934 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
1117 Downfall 2004 Hirschbiegel, Oliver Germany / Italy / Austria D
1123 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Ophüls, Marcel France / USA Y
1125 Harlan County, USA 1976 Kopple, Barbara USA D
1139 Elizabeth 1998 Kapur, Shekhar UK Y
1140 United 93 2006 Greengrass, Paul France / UK / USA DU
1151 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Conway, Jack / Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
1184 Days of Glory 2006 Bouchareb, Rachid France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium D
1213 Danton 1983 Wajda, Andrzej France / Poland / West Germany Y
1254 Wilson 1944 King, Henry USA YS
1267 War and Peace 1956 Vidor, King Italy / USA YS
1290 Ben-Hur 1925 Niblo, Fred / Brabin, Charles / Cabanne, Christy / Cohn, J.J. / Ingram, Rex USA DU
1304 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Eastwood, Clint Iceland / USA DBU
1319 Northwest Passage 1940 Vidor, King / Van Dyke, W.S. / Conway, Jack USA
1341 Black Robe 1991 Beresford, Bruce Canada / Australia YUPS
1388 Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
1396 The Overlanders 1946 Watt, Harry Australia / UK Y
1412 Chushingura 1962 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1428 La Nuit de Varennes 1982 Scola, Ettore France / Italy Y
1431 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Wise, Robert USA DBS
1434 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Vlácil, Frantisek Czechoslovakia
1438 utu 1983 Murphy, Geoff New Zealand V
1440 Heimat 1984 Reitz, Edgar West Germany Y
1482 The Memory of Justice 1976 Ophüls, Marcel UK / USA / France / West Germany
1496 Platform 2000 Jia, Zhang Ke Hong Kong / China / Japan / France D
1502 Zulu 1964 Endfield, Cy UK YS
1505 Tokyo orimpikku 1965 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
1535 Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 Jarrott, Charles UK Y
1546 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong D
1550 Mrs. Brown 1997 Madden, John UK / Ireland / USA DS
1561 Stanley and Livingstone 1939 King, Henry / Brower, Otto USA V
1567 Princess Yang Kwei Fei 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan / Hong Kong Y
1581 Fire Over England 1937 Howard, William K. UK D
1586 Matewan 1987 Sayles, John USA DS
1587 World Trade Center 2006 Stone, Oliver USA DBU
1600 Gettysburg 1993 Maxwell, Ronald F. USA Y
1600 Hollywoodland 2006 Coulter, Allen USA DU
1614 The Mission 1986 Joffé, Roland UK YS
1618 Marie Antoinette 1938 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
1625 Cleopatra 1963 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. / Mamoulian, Rouben / Zanuck, Darryl F. UK / USA / Switzerland YUS
1649 El Cid 1961 Mann, Anthony Italy / USA DS
1670 Quo Vadis 1951 LeRoy, Mervyn USA YS
1692 The Grey Zone 2001 Nelson, Tim Blake USA D
1700 4 Little Girls 1997 Lee, Spike USA D
1716 The Corporation 2003 Abbott, Jennifer / Achbar, Mark Canada D
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1718 Amistad 1997 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1737 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Peckinpah, Sam USA DU
1740 Cheyenne Autumn 1964 Ford, John USA D
1751 The Battle of San Pietro 1945 Huston, John USA DUP
1752 I Am Cuba 1964 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union / Cuba Y
1756 Simón del desierto 1965 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
1758 The 47 Ronin 1941 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
1758 A Great Day in Harlem 1994 Bach, Jean USA DU
1786 The Last Days 1998 Moll, James USA D
1797 The Devils 1971 Russell, Ken UK Y
1799 King: A Filmed Record...
Montgomery to Memphis
1970 Lumet, Sidney / Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA
1804 Marianne and Juliane 1981 von Trotta, Margarethe West Germany V
1809 Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1828 The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964 Mann, Anthony USA D
1828 La Marseillaise 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1828 Lloyd's of London 1936 King, Henry USA V
1831 The Last King of Scotland 2006 Macdonald, Kevin UK DU
1835 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story 1965 Kaplan, Richard USA Y
1843 Conquest of Everest 1953 Lowe, George UK Y
1844 The Alamo 1960 Wayne, John USA YS
1854 Pathfinder 1987 Gaup, Nils Norway Y
1862 Victoria the Great 1937 Wilcox, Herbert UK
1864 Captain from Castile 1947 King, Henry USA D
1864 Exodus 1960 Preminger, Otto USA D
1877 Witchfinder General 1968 Reeves, Michael UK D
1891 The Emperor and the Assassin 1999 Chen, Kaige France / Japan / China Y
1900 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2002 Bartley, Kim / O'Briain, Donnacha Ireland / Netherlands / USA / Germany / Finland / UK
1900 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 Epstein, Rob USA D
1900 Visions of Light:
The Art of Cinematography
1992 Samuels, Stuart / Glassman, Arnold / McCarthy, Todd / Glassman, Andrew USA / Japan V
1912 Marie Antoinette 2006 Coppola, Sofia Japan / France / USA DU
1917 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport 2000 Harris, Mark Jonathan UK / USA DS
1917 Troy 2004 Petersen, Wolfgang USA / Malta / UK DBUS
1921 Anne Frank Remembered 1995 Blair, Jon UK / USA / Netherlands D
1942 Newsfront 1978 Noyce, Phillip Australia D
1956 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
1959 Richard III 1912 Keane, James / Calmettes, André France / USA D
1961 Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940 Cromwell, John USA
1961 The Golden Age of Comedy 1957 Youngson, Robert USA D
1961 When Comedy Was King 1960 Youngson, Robert USA D
1965 Fires Were Started 1943 Jennings, Humphrey UK Y
1965 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
1970 Comrades 1987 Douglas, Bill UK
1973 Lucía 1969 Solás, Humberto Cuba
1977 In the Year of the Pig 1968 de Antonio, Emile USA DU
1977 Taboo 1999 Oshima, Nagisa France / UK / Japan DS
1979 Point of Order! 1964 de Antonio, Emile USA Y
1982 The Fencing Master 1992 Olea, Pedro Spain
1987 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Fleischer, Richard / Fukasaku, Kinji / Masuda, Toshio USA / Japan DS
1996 The New World 2005 Malick, Terrence USA D
2006 Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
2006 Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
2009 In the Shadow of the Moon 2007 Sington, David UK / USA DU
2017 The Sign of the Cross 1932 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2019 Huey Long 1985 Burns, Ken USA Y
2021 Sunshine 1999 Szabó, István Germany / Austria / Canada / Hungary Y
2030 The Anderson Platoon 1967 Schoendoerffer, Pierre France Y
2030 Ballets russes 2005 Geller, Daniel / Goldfine, Dayna USA D
2030 The Beloved Rogue 1927 Crosland, Alan USA D
2030 Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary 2002 Heller, André / Schmiderer, Othmar Austria D
2030 Chang 1927 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA D
2030 East Side Story 1997 Ranga, Dana France / Germany D
2030 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China 1981 Lerner, Murray USA D
2030 The Good Fight 1983 Buckner, Noel / Dore, Mary / Sills, Sam USA D
2030 Hearts and Minds 1974 Davis, Peter USA D
2030 Henry VIII and His Six Wives 1972 Hussein, Waris UK UP
2030 The Long Way Home 1997 Harris, Mark Jonathan USA D
2030 Mary of Scotland 1936 Ford, John / Goodwins, Leslie USA D
2030 Northern Lights 1978 Hanson, John / Nilsson, Rob / Lavut, Martin USA
2030 Prisoner of Paradise 2002 Clarke, Malcolm / Sender, Stuart USA / Canada / Germany / UK D
2030 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
2030 Riding the Rails 1997 Lovell, Lexy / Uys, Michael USA D
2030 The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler:
Black Fox
1962 Stoumen, Louis Clyde USA V
2030 The Sword and the Rose 1953 Annakin, Ken USA
2030 An Unreasonable Man 2006 Mantel, Henriette / Skrovan, Steve USA DUP
2030 The Wannsee Conference 1984 Schirk, Heinz Austria / West Germany V
2030 When We Were Kings 1996 Gast, Leon USA DS
2049 Pearls of the Crown 1937 Christian-Jaque / Guitry, Sacha France Y
2050 The Flame and the Arrow 1950 Tourneur, Jacques USA DS
2066 The Black Rose 1950 Hathaway, Henry UK D
2066 The Dreyfus Case 1931 Kraemer, F.W. / Rosmer, Milton UK
2066 Knight Without Armor 1937 Feyder, Jacques UK
2066 The Last of the Mohicans 1936 Seitz, George B. USA V
2066 The Moderns 1988 Rudolph, Alan USA D
2066 Prince of Foxes 1949 King, Henry USA D
2066 Quilombo 1984 Diegues, Carlos Brazil / France D
2066 Rasputin and the Empress 1932 Boleslawski, Richard / Brabin, Charles USA
2066 Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. 2001 Lanzmann, Claude France
2066 Western Union 1941 Lang, Fritz USA VU
2081 Scipione l'africano 1937 Gallone, Carmine Italy Y
2088 The Spirit of St. Louis 1957 Wilder, Billy USA DS
2095 Mongol 2007 Bodrov, Sergei Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia S
2120 Kingdom of Heaven 2005 Scott, Ridley Spain / Germany DBU
2124 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Attenborough, Richard USA / UK DBS
2124 The Crucible 1996 Hytner, Nicholas USA DUS
2125 The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965 Reed, Carol USA YS
2125 Joan of Arc 1948 Fleming, Victor USA Y
2125 Peter the First, Part One 1937 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
2128 Why We Fight 2005 Jarecki, Eugene USA / France / UK / Canada / Denmark DU
2136 A Mighty Heart 2007 Winterbottom, Michael USA / UK DUP
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2140 We Were Soldiers 2002 Wallace, Randall USA / Germany DBUS
2146 The Rise of Louis XIV 1966 Rossellini, Roberto France Y
2148 Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 Marshall, Rob USA DBUS
2149 Nicholas and Alexandra 1971 Schaffner, Franklin J. UK Y
2159 David and Bathsheba 1951 King, Henry USA D
2159 The Vikings 1958 Fleischer, Richard USA D
2164 Michael Collins 1996 Jordan, Neil UK / Ireland / USA Y
2177 Hagbard and Signe 1967 Axel, Gabriel Denmark / Iceland / Sweden
2182 Above and Beyond 1952 Frank, Melvin / Panama, Norman USA V
2212 Culloden 1964 Watkins, Peter UK D
2219 Destiny 1997 Chahine, Youssef France / Egypt Y
2219 Good Men, Good Women 1995 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Japan / Taiwan Y
2219 How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman 1971 dos Santos, Nelson Pereira Brazil D
2219 How to Live in the German Federal Republic 1990 Farocki, Harun West Germany Y
2219 Images of the World and the Inscription of War 1989 Farocki, Harun West Germany
2219 Land of the Pharaohs 1955 Hawks, Howard USA YS
2219 The Last Bolshevik 1992 Marker, Chris France D
2219 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 Andersen, Thom USA
2219 The Mongols 1973 Kimiavi, Parviz Iran
2219 The Newton Boys 1998 Linklater, Richard USA YU
2219 No, or the Vain Glory of Command 1990 de Oliveira, Manoel Portugal / Spain / France
2219 Salomé 1972 Bene, Carmelo Italy
2219 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War 1968 Ivens, Joris / Ivens, Marceline Loridan France / Vietnam
2219 Shin heike monogatari 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
2219 Universal Hotel 1986 Thompson, Peter USA
2225 Standard Operating Procedure 2008 Morris, Errol USA DBS
2227 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. 1999 Morris, Errol UK / USA DS
2232 Zapruder Film 1963 Zapruder, Abraham USA Y
2234 La Corona di ferro 1941 Blasetti, Alessandro Italy
2237 The Celluloid Closet 1995 Epstein, Rob / Friedman, Jeffrey France / UK / Germany / USA Y
2239 The Greatest Game Ever Played 2005 Paxton, Bill USA D
2246 The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 2000 Butler, George Sweden / UK / Germany / USA D
2246 Rosewood 1997 Singleton, John USA DS
2253 Blame it on Fidel 2006 Gavras, Julie Italy / France DUP
2254 Ghosts of the Abyss 2003 Cameron, James USA D
2261 The Battle of Britain 1943 Capra, Frank / Veiller, Anthony USA Y
2261 The Battle of China 1944 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2261 The Battle of Russia 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2261 The Buffalo Creek Flood:
An Act of Man
1975 Pickering, Mimi USA
2261 Divide and Conquer 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2261 Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage 1937 unknown USA
2261 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter 1980 Field, Connie USA
2261 Memphis Belle 1944 Wyler, William USA Y
2261 The Nazis Strike 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2261 The Plow That Broke the Plains 1936 Lorentz, Pare USA Y
2261 Prelude to War 1943 Capra, Frank USA Y
2261 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire April 18, 1906 1906 unknown USA
2261 Siege 1940 unknown USA
2261 War Comes to America 1945 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2266 Abuna Messias 1939 Alessandrini, Goffredo Italy
2266 Der Große König 1942 Harlan, Veit Germany
2266 Der Kaiser von Kalifornien 1936 Trenker, Luis Germany
2267 Chronicle of the Burning Years 1975 Lakhdar-Hamina, Mohammed Algeria
2280 Forever Amber 1947 Preminger, Otto / Stahl, John M. USA Y
2281 Edward II 1991 Jarman, Derek UK DUP
2281 I Giardini dell'Eden 1998 D'Alatri, Alessandro Italy
2281 Nightwatching 2007 Greenaway, Peter Canada / France / Germany / Poland / Netherlands / UK
2281 Nostra signora dei turchi 1968 Bene, Carmelo Italy
2281 The Ogre 1996 Schlöndorff, Volker France / Germany / UK Y
2281 Palavra e Utopia 2000 de Oliveira, Manoel Spain / Italy / France / Brazil / Portugal
2281 Scott of the Antarctic 1948 Frend, Charles UK Y
2281 Something of Value 1957 Brooks, Richard USA Y
2283 Abraham Lincoln 1930 Griffith, D.W. USA V
2283 Anna Boleyn 1920 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany D
2283 The Assassination of Trotsky 1972 Losey, Joseph Italy / France / UK D
2283 The Beggar's Opera 1953 Brook, Peter UK V
2283 Ben Hur 1907 Olcott, Sidney USA
2283 Billy the Kid 1930 Vidor, King USA
2283 The Boston Strangler 1968 Fleischer, Richard USA DUP
2283 The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1929 Brabin, Charles USA
2283 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968 Richardson, Tony UK D
2283 Destination Tokyo 1943 Daves, Delmer USA DU
2283 The Divine Lady 1929 Lloyd, Frank USA
2283 The Egyptian 1954 Curtiz, Michael USA VS
2283 1860 1934 Blasetti, Alessandro Italy V
2283 The Elusive Pimpernel 1950 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK
2283 The End of St. Petersburg 1927 Pudovkin, Vsevolod / Doller, Mikhail Soviet Union DU
2283 55 Days at Peking 1963 Ray, Nicholas / Green, Guy / Marton, Andrew USA V
2283 Glorious Betsy 1928 Crosland, Alan USA
2283 Henry VIII 1911 Barker, William G.B. UK
2283 The Hindenburg 1975 Wise, Robert USA DUS
2283 Hollywood Cavalcade 1939 Cummings, Irving / St. Clair, Malcolm / Keaton, Buster USA
2283 Human Condition III - A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
2283 The Iron Mask 1929 Dwan, Allan USA DU
2283 Is Paris Burning? 1966 Clément, René France / USA D
2283 Joan the Woman 1917 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
2283 Juarez 1939 Dieterle, William USA D
2283 Judith of Bethulia 1914 Griffith, D.W. USA V
2283 Khartoum 1966 Dearden, Basil / Elisofon, Eliot UK DUPS
2283 The King of Kings 1927 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DS
2283 La Isla de la pasión 1942 Fernández, Emilio Mexico / Argentina / Spain
2283 La Reine Élisabeth 1912 Desfontaines, Henri / Mercanton, Louis France
2283 Le Couronnement du roi Édouard VII 1902 Méliès, Georges France D
2283 Madame DuBarry 1919 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany
2283 Madame Sans-Gêne 1925 Perret, Léonce USA
2283 My Four Years in Germany 1918 Nigh, William USA
2283 Old Ironsides 1926 Cruze, James USA V
2283 Padeniye Berlina 1950 Chiaureli, Mikheil Soviet Union
2283 Pearl Harbor 2001 Bay, Michael USA DBS
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