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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
1949 Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940 Cromwell, John USA
2151 Above and Beyond 1952 Frank, Melvin / Panama, Norman USA V
2235 Abraham Lincoln 1930 Griffith, D.W. USA D
2226 Abuna Messias 1939 Alessandrini, Goffredo Italy
2098 The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965 Reed, Carol USA YUPS
55 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
1835 The Alamo 1960 Wayne, John USA YS
2279 The Alamo 2004 Hancock, John Lee USA DS
2250 Albert Schweitzer 1957 Hill, Jerome USA Y
537 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
2274 Alexander the Great 1956 Rossen, Robert USA / Spain DUS
1708 Amistad 1997 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
2017 The Anderson Platoon 1967 Schoendoerffer, Pierre France D
418 Andrei Roublev 1969 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
2235 Anna Boleyn 1920 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany D
1912 Anne Frank Remembered 1995 Blair, Jon UK / USA / Netherlands D
1532 Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 Jarrott, Charles UK Y
584 Apollo 13 1995 Howard, Ron USA DUPS
2270 Apollo 13: The Imax Experience 2002 Howard, Ron USA S
2235 The Assassination of Trotsky 1972 Losey, Joseph Italy / France / UK D
2017 Ballets russes 2005 Geller, Daniel / Goldfine, Dayna USA D
2224 The Battle of Britain 1943 Capra, Frank / Veiller, Anthony USA Y
2224 The Battle of China 1944 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2285 The Battle of Midway 1942 Ford, John USA D
2224 The Battle of Russia 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
1741 The Battle of San Pietro 1945 Huston, John USA DUP
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
2250 Beaumarchais 1996 Molinaro, Edouard France Y
865 Becket 1964 Glenville, Peter UK / USA D
2235 The Beggar's Opera 1953 Brook, Peter UK V
2017 The Beloved Rogue 1927 Crosland, Alan USA D
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DUS
1289 Ben-Hur 1925 Niblo, Fred / Brabin, Charles / Cabanne, Christy / Cohn, J.J. / Ingram, Rex USA DU
2235 Ben Hur 1907 Olcott, Sidney USA
730 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Italy / West Germany D
2235 Billy the Kid 1930 Vidor, King USA
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
1338 Black Robe 1991 Beresford, Bruce Canada / Australia YUPS
2047 The Black Rose 1950 Hathaway, Henry UK D
2279 Blame it on Fidel 2006 Gavras, Julie Italy / France DUP
2017 Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary 2002 Heller, André / Schmiderer, Othmar Austria D
2279 Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story 2008 Forbes, Stefan USA
2235 The Boston Strangler 1968 Fleischer, Richard USA DUP
2270 The Bounty 1984 Donaldson, Roger UK / USA DU
522 Braveheart 1995 Gibson, Mel USA DUS
2235 The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1929 Brabin, Charles USA
2097 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Attenborough, Richard USA / UK DBS
2224 The Buffalo Creek Flood:
An Act of Man
1975 Pickering, Mimi USA
1854 Captain from Castile 1947 King, Henry USA D
2296 Catch a Fire 2006 Noyce, Phillip France / UK / South Africa / USA DU
2250 Catherine the Great 1934 Czinner, Paul UK Y
2205 The Celluloid Closet 1995 Epstein, Rob / Friedman, Jeffrey France / UK / Germany / USA Y
2285 A Century of Sound 2007 Gitt, Robert USA
2017 Chang 1927 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA D
1944 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
2235 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968 Richardson, Tony UK D
1732 Cheyenne Autumn 1964 Ford, John USA D
2279 Chicago 10 2007 Morgen, Brett USA DS
2227 Chronicle of the Burning Years 1975 Lakhdar-Hamina, Mohammed Algeria
1411 Chushingura 1962 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1100 Cleopatra 1934 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
1618 Cleopatra 1963 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. / Mamoulian, Rouben / Zanuck, Darryl F. UK / USA / Switzerland YUS
1957 Comrades 1987 Douglas, Bill UK
1834 Conquest of Everest 1953 Lowe, George UK Y
1706 The Corporation 2003 Abbott, Jennifer / Achbar, Mark Canada D
2097 The Crucible 1996 Hytner, Nicholas USA DUS
2296 The Crusades 1935 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2183 Culloden 1964 Watkins, Peter UK D
1212 Danton 1983 Wajda, Andrzej France / Poland / West Germany Y
2129 David and Bathsheba 1951 King, Henry USA D
1253 Days of Glory 2006 Bouchareb, Rachid France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium D
2265 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam 1987 Couturié, Bill USA Y
2285 December 7th 1943 Ford, John / Toland, Gregg USA D
2293 Deep Water 2006 Osmond, Louise / Rothwell, Jerry UK D
2248 The Deluge 1974 Hoffman, Jerzy Poland / Soviet Union Y
2226 Der Große König 1942 Harlan, Veit Germany
2226 Der Kaiser von Kalifornien 1936 Trenker, Luis Germany
2235 Destination Tokyo 1943 Daves, Delmer USA DU
2190 Destiny 1997 Chahine, Youssef France / Egypt Y
1790 The Devils 1971 Russell, Ken UK Y
824 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 Stevens, George USA YS
2224 Divide and Conquer 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2235 The Divine Lady 1929 Lloyd, Frank USA
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUPS
1115 Downfall 2004 Hirschbiegel, Oliver Germany / Italy / Austria D
2047 The Dreyfus Case 1931 Kraemer, F.W. / Rosmer, Milton UK
2017 East Side Story 1997 Ranga, Dana France / Germany D
2296 Edison: The Invention of the Movies 2005 unknown USA D
2233 Edward II 1991 Jarman, Derek UK DUP
2235 The Egyptian 1954 Curtiz, Michael USA VS
2235 1860 1934 Blasetti, Alessandro Italy V
1641 El Cid 1961 Mann, Anthony Italy / USA DS
1826 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story 1965 Kaplan, Richard USA Y
1137 Elizabeth 1998 Kapur, Shekhar UK Y
2292 Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007 Kapur, Shekhar UK / France DU
2235 The Elusive Pimpernel 1950 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK
1881 The Emperor and the Assassin 1999 Chen, Kaige France / Japan / China YU
2300 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 1987 Hara, Kazuo Japan
2235 The End of St. Petersburg 1927 Pudovkin, Vsevolod / Doller, Mikhail Soviet Union DU
2214 The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 2000 Butler, George Sweden / UK / Germany / USA D
1854 Exodus 1960 Preminger, Otto USA D
2296 The Fall of Fujimori 2005 Perry, Ellen USA D
1820 The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964 Mann, Anthony USA D
1969 The Fencing Master 1992 Olea, Pedro Spain
2235 55 Days at Peking 1963 Ray, Nicholas / Green, Guy / Marton, Andrew USA V
2250 The Fighting Lady 1944 Wyler, William USA
2250 The Finest Hours 1964 Baylis, Peter UK
1578 Fire Over England 1937 Howard, William K. UK D
1952 Fires Were Started 1943 Jennings, Humphrey UK Y
1387 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Eastwood, Clint Iceland / USA DBU
2035 The Flame and the Arrow 1950 Tourneur, Jacques USA DS
2273 For All Mankind 1989 Reinert, Al USA D
2232 Forever Amber 1947 Preminger, Otto / Stahl, John M. USA Y
1749 The 47 Ronin 1941 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
2250 Four Days in November 1964 Stuart, Mel USA Y
1690 4 Little Girls 1997 Lee, Spike USA D
2273 Freedom on My Mind 1994 Field, Connie / Mulford, Marilyn USA D
2017 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China 1981 Lerner, Murray USA D
2282 Frost/Nixon 2008 Howard, Ron USA / UK / France S
342 Gandhi 1982 Attenborough, Richard UK / India DUP
491 Gangs of New York 2002 Scorsese, Martin USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands DBS
2279 Geronimo: An American Legend 1993 Hill, Walter USA DUS
2270 Get on the Bus 1996 Lee, Spike USA DS
1596 Gettysburg 1993 Maxwell, Ronald F. USA Y
2220 Ghosts of the Abyss 2003 Cameron, James USA D
2235 Glorious Betsy 1928 Crosland, Alan USA
490 Glory 1989 Zwick, Edward USA DUS
1949 The Golden Age of Comedy 1957 Youngson, Robert USA D
2017 The Good Fight 1983 Buckner, Noel / Dore, Mary / Sills, Sam USA D
2190 Good Men, Good Women 1995 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Japan / Taiwan Y
518 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Clooney, George USA DB
1749 A Great Day in Harlem 1994 Bach, Jean USA DU
413 The Great Escape 1963 Sturges, John USA DUS
2296 The Great Moment 1944 Sturges, Preston USA D
2276 The Greatest Game Ever Played 2005 Paxton, Bill USA D
1794 The Grey Zone 2001 Nelson, Tim Blake USA D
2145 Hagbard and Signe 1967 Axel, Gabriel Denmark / Iceland / Sweden
1122 Harlan County, USA 1976 Kopple, Barbara USA D
2017 Hearts and Minds 1974 Davis, Peter USA D
1440 Heimat 1984 Reitz, Edgar West Germany Y
299 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
695 Henry V 1989 Branagh, Kenneth UK Y
2235 Henry VIII 1911 Barker, William G.B. UK
2017 Henry VIII and His Six Wives 1972 Hussein, Waris UK UP
1041 Hero 2002 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China DS
2235 The Hindenburg 1975 Wise, Robert USA DUS
2224 Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage 1937 unknown USA
2235 Hollywood Cavalcade 1939 Cummings, Irving / St. Clair, Malcolm / Keaton, Buster USA D
1695 Hollywoodland 2006 Coulter, Allen USA DU
863 Hotel Rwanda 2004 George, Terry UK / Italy / South Africa Y
1120 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Ophüls, Marcel France / USA Y
2279 Hour of the Gun 1967 Sturges, John USA DU
2248 The House on Chelouche Street 1973 Mizrahi, Moshé Israel Y
2190 How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman 1971 dos Santos, Nelson Pereira Brazil D
2190 How to Live in the German Federal Republic 1990 Farocki, Harun West Germany Y
2006 Huey Long 1985 Burns, Ken USA Y
2235 Human Condition III - A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
2256 Hunger 2008 McQueen, Steve UK / Ireland
1742 I Am Cuba 1964 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union / Cuba Y
2294 I, Claudius 1976 Wise, Herbert UK D
2233 I Giardini dell'Eden 1998 D'Alatri, Alessandro Italy
2190 Images of the World and the Inscription of War 1989 Farocki, Harun West Germany
2072 In the Shadow of the Moon 2007 Sington, David UK / USA DU
1964 In the Year of the Pig 1968 de Antonio, Emile USA DU
2285 An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee 1930 Adolfi, John G. USA
1908 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport 2000 Harris, Mark Jonathan UK / USA DS
161 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
2235 The Iron Mask 1929 Dwan, Allan USA DU
2235 Is Paris Burning? 1966 Clément, René France / USA D
642 Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union YU
913 Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 1958 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Filimonova, M. Soviet Union YU
2098 Joan of Arc 1948 Fleming, Victor USA Y
2294 Joan the Maid: The Battles 1994 Rivette, Jacques France D
2294 Joan the Maid: The Prisons 1994 Rivette, Jacques France D
2235 Joan the Woman 1917 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
2250 John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums 1966 Herschensohn, Bruce USA
2235 Juarez 1939 Dieterle, William USA D
2235 Judith of Bethulia 1914 Griffith, D.W. USA V
946 Julius Caesar 1953 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DUS
488 Kagemusha 1980 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
2256 Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance 1993 Obomsawin, Alanis Canada
2248 Katyn 2007 Wajda, Andrzej Poland
2235 Khartoum 1966 Dearden, Basil / Elisofon, Eliot UK DUPS
1792 King: A Filmed Record...
Montgomery to Memphis
1970 Lumet, Sidney / Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA
2235 The King of Kings 1927 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DS
2093 Kingdom of Heaven 2005 Scott, Ridley Spain / Germany DBU
2047 Knight Without Armor 1937 Feyder, Jacques UK
2202 La Corona di ferro 1941 Blasetti, Alessandro Italy
2235 La Isla de la pasión 1942 Fernández, Emilio Mexico / Argentina / Spain
1820 La Marseillaise 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1427 La Nuit de Varennes 1982 Scola, Ettore France / Italy Y
2235 La Reine Élisabeth 1912 Desfontaines, Henri / Mercanton, Louis France
2190 Land of the Pharaohs 1955 Hawks, Howard USA YS
2190 The Last Bolshevik 1992 Marker, Chris France D
1779 The Last Days 1998 Moll, James USA D
393 The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DB
1923 The Last King of Scotland 2006 Macdonald, Kevin UK DU
2047 The Last of the Mohicans 1936 Seitz, George B. USA D
2235 Le Couronnement du roi Édouard VII 1902 Méliès, Georges France D
2291 The Legend of Suriyothai 2001 Yukol, Chatrichalerm Thailand D
325 The Leopard 1963 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YUS
2297 Lessons of Darkness 1992 Herzog, Werner France / UK / Germany D
2279 Let Him Have It 1991 Medak, Peter France / UK / Netherlands D
915 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Eastwood, Clint USA DBU
2224 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter 1980 Field, Connie USA
2296 Lillian Russell 1940 Cummings, Irving USA D
727 The Lion in Winter 1968 Harvey, Anthony UK DS
2279 Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997 Herzog, Werner France / UK / Germany D
1820 Lloyd's of London 1936 King, Henry USA V
2279 The Long Walk Home 1990 Pearce, Richard USA DS
2017 The Long Way Home 1997 Harris, Mark Jonathan USA D
2190 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 Andersen, Thom USA
1960 Lucía 1969 Solás, Humberto Cuba
2299 Ludwig 1972 Visconti, Luchino France / Italy / West Germany Y
2235 Madame DuBarry 1919 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany
2235 Madame Sans-Gêne 1925 Perret, Léonce USA
1072 The Madness of King George 1994 Hytner, Nicholas UK YUP
340 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Zinnemann, Fred UK D
1797 Marianne and Juliane 1981 von Trotta, Margarethe West Germany V
1612 Marie Antoinette 1938 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
2005 Marie Antoinette 2006 Coppola, Sofia Japan / France / USA DU
1433 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Vlácil, Frantisek Czechoslovakia
2250 Martin Luther 1953 Pichel, Irving USA / West Germany Y
2017 Mary of Scotland 1936 Ford, John / Goodwins, Leslie USA D
2264 Mary, Queen of Scots 1971 Jarrott, Charles UK YS
1583 Matewan 1987 Sayles, John USA DS
1078 Mayerling 1936 Litvak, Anatole France Y
2264 Mayerling 1968 Young, Terence France / UK Y
2120 Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 Marshall, Rob USA DBUS
1481 The Memory of Justice 1976 Ophüls, Marcel UK / USA / France / West Germany
2224 Memphis Belle 1944 Wyler, William USA Y
2135 Michael Collins 1996 Jordan, Neil UK / Ireland / USA Y
2109 A Mighty Heart 2007 Winterbottom, Michael USA / UK DUP
2300 Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai 1972 Tsuchimoto, Noriaki Japan
1608 The Mission 1986 Joffé, Roland UK YS
2047 The Moderns 1988 Rudolph, Alan USA D
NR The Molly Maguires 1970 Ritt, Martin USA DUP
2159 Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan 2007 Bodrov, Sergei Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia DBUPS
2190 The Mongols 1973 Kimiavi, Parviz Iran
2250 Morgenrot 1933 Sewell, Vernon / Ucicky, Gustav Germany
2198 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. 1999 Morris, Errol UK / USA DS
1546 Mrs. Brown 1997 Madden, John UK / Ireland / USA DS
2300 Mughal-E-Azam 1960 Asif, K. India
993 Munich 2005 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
2235 My Four Years in Germany 1918 Nigh, William USA
145 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
2224 The Nazis Strike 1943 Capra, Frank / Litvak, Anatole USA Y
2158 The New World 2005 Malick, Terrence USA DU
1930 Newsfront 1978 Noyce, Phillip Australia D
2190 The Newton Boys 1998 Linklater, Richard USA YU
2121 Nicholas and Alexandra 1971 Schaffner, Franklin J. UK Y
278 Night and Fog 1955 Resnais, Alain France Y
2233 Nightwatching 2007 Greenaway, Peter Canada / France / Germany / Poland / Netherlands / UK
2250 Nine Days a Queen 1936 Stevenson, Robert UK
2190 No, or the Vain Glory of Command 1990 de Oliveira, Manoel Portugal / Spain / France
2017 Northern Lights 1978 Hanson, John / Nilsson, Rob / Lavut, Martin USA
1316 Northwest Passage 1940 Vidor, King / Van Dyke, W.S. / Conway, Jack USA
2233 Nostra signora dei turchi 1968 Bene, Carmelo Italy
954 October (Ten Days That Shook the World) 1928 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union YU
2233 The Ogre 1996 Schlöndorff, Volker France / Germany / UK Y
2235 Old Ironsides 1926 Cruze, James USA V
526 Olympia Part One:
Festival of the Nations
1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
602 Olympia Part Two:
Festival of Beauty
1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
1542 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong D
2285 The Other Boleyn Girl 2008 Chadwick, Justin UK / USA DBUPS
1396 The Overlanders 1946 Watt, Harry Australia / UK Y
2235 Padeniye Berlina 1950 Chiaureli, Mikheil Soviet Union
2233 Palavra e Utopia 2000 de Oliveira, Manoel Spain / Italy / France / Brazil / Portugal
2292 Paragraph 175 2000 Epstein, Rob / Friedman, Jeffrey UK / Germany / USA D
2250 Paris 1900 1948 Védrès, Nicole France
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France D
1729 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Peckinpah, Sam USA DU
1844 Pathfinder 1987 Gaup, Nils Norway Y
2248 The Patriot 1928 Lubitsch, Ernst USA
2235 Pearl Harbor 2001 Bay, Michael USA DBS
2034 Pearls of the Crown 1937 Christian-Jaque / Guitry, Sacha France Y
2098 Peter the First, Part One 1937 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
2235 Peter the First, Part Two 1938 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
2248 Pharaoh 1966 Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Poland
1493 Platform 2000 Jia, Zhang Ke Hong Kong / China / Japan / France D
2235 The Plough and the Stars 1936 Ford, John USA
2224 The Plow That Broke the Plains 1936 Lorentz, Pare USA Y
2293 Pocahontas 1995 Gabriel, Mike / Goldberg, Eric USA DS
1966 Point of Order! 1964 de Antonio, Emile USA Y
2224 Prelude to War 1943 Capra, Frank USA Y
2274 The Pride and the Passion 1957 Kramer, Stanley USA D
2047 Prince of Foxes 1949 King, Henry USA D
1564 Princess Yang Kwei Fei 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan / Hong Kong Y
2017 Prisoner of Paradise 2002 Clarke, Malcolm / Sender, Stuart USA / Canada / Germany / UK D
640 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Korda, Alexander UK Y
2017 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
679 The Queen 2006 Frears, Stephen UK DB
392 Queen Christina 1933 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
1388 Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
2047 Quilombo 1984 Diegues, Carlos Brazil / France D
1661 Quo Vadis 1951 LeRoy, Mervyn USA DS
2235 Quo Vadis? 1913 Guazzoni, Enrico Italy
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
2249 Rang De Basanti 2006 Mehra, Rakesh Omprakash India DUP
2047 Rasputin and the Empress 1932 Boleslawski, Richard / Brabin, Charles USA
2296 The Real Glory 1939 Hathaway, Henry USA D
848 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 Huston, John USA Y
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
1889 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2002 Bartley, Kim / O'Briain, Donnacha Ireland / Nether