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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
24 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
32 Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
35 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DUS
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DS
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
71 Forbidden Games 1952 Clément, René France D
74 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Wajda, Andrzej Poland D
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Lean, David UK / USA DUS
110 Shoah 1985 Lanzmann, Claude France Y
116 The General 1927 Keaton, Buster / Bruckman, Clyde USA DU
119 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
120 Throne of Blood 1957 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
136 M*A*S*H 1970 Altman, Robert USA D
143 Grand Illusion 1937 Renoir, Jean France D
145 Paths of Glory 1957 Kubrick, Stanley USA DUP
146 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
148 Shame 1968 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
158 The Deer Hunter 1978 Cimino, Michael USA D
165 The African Queen 1951 Huston, John UK / USA Y
166 Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 Taviani, Paolo / Taviani, Vittorio Italy D
178 The Burmese Harp 1956 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
184 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
193 1900 1976 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / West Germany DS
208 Open City 1945 Rossellini, Roberto Italy YU
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
233 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Milestone, Lewis USA D
243 From Here to Eternity 1953 Zinnemann, Fred USA YU
244 Senso 1954 Visconti, Luchino Italy YU
276 The Pianist 2002 Polanski, Roman Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands Y
278 Night and Fog 1955 Resnais, Alain France Y
278 The Red and the White 1967 Jancsó, Miklós Hungary / Soviet Union Y
285 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
292 Barry Lyndon 1975 Kubrick, Stanley UK DU
294 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
300 The Battle of Algiers 1965 Pontecorvo, Gillo Algeria / Italy YS
319 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany D
320 Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 Malle, Louis France / West Germany D
325 The Leopard 1963 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YUS
328 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Lubitsch, Ernst USA Y
333 The English Patient 1996 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
344 Platoon 1986 Stone, Oliver USA DUPS
355 Hiroshima, mon amour 1959 Resnais, Alain France / Japan Y
370 The Killing Fields 1984 Joffé, Roland UK YUP
384 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Menzel, Jirí Czechoslovakia D
406 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK D
413 The Great Dictator 1940 Chaplin, Charles USA YS
414 The Big Red One 1980 Fuller, Samuel USA YU
414 The Great Escape 1963 Sturges, John USA DUS
419 Andrei Roublev 1969 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
427 The Thin Red Line 1998 Malick, Terrence Canada / USA YUS
431 Gunga Din 1939 Stevens, George USA Y
446 Triumph of the Will 1935 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany YUP
454 To Have and Have Not 1944 Hawks, Howard USA DS
456 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / West Germany Y
481 Paisan 1946 Rossellini, Roberto Italy Y
487 Kagemusha 1980 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
489 Glory 1989 Zwick, Edward USA DUS
512 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Malle, Louis France / West Germany / Italy D
515 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Stone, Oliver USA DUS
520 The Tin Drum 1979 Schlöndorff, Volker West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia YS
521 Braveheart 1995 Gibson, Mel USA DUS
524 The Big Parade 1925 Vidor, King USA V
536 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
549 Europa Europa 1990 Holland, Agnieszka Germany / France / Poland Y
550 The Cranes Are Flying 1957 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union Y
556 Das Boot 1981 Petersen, Wolfgang West Germany Y
558 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 del Toro, Guillermo Mexico / Spain / USA DB
570 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Sturges, Preston USA D
573 Gallipoli 1981 Weir, Peter Australia DU
576 Little Big Man 1970 Penn, Arthur USA Y
587 Three Kings 1999 Russell, David O. USA YU
589 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Kadár, Ján / Klos, Elmar Czechoslovakia Y
590 Hope and Glory 1987 Boorman, John UK Y
593 The Longest Day 1962 Annakin, Ken / Marton, Andrew / Wicki, Bernhard / Zanuck, Darryl F. USA DBUS
599 Sergeant York 1941 Hawks, Howard USA DS
603 Red Sorghum 1987 Zhang, Yimou China Y
604 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Benigni, Roberto Italy Y
605 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 King, Henry USA DS
623 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Ophüls, Marcel France / Switzerland / West Germany Y
629 War and Peace 1968 Bondarchuk, Sergei Soviet Union D
659 No Man's Land 2001 Tanovic, Danis Bosnia-Herzegovina / Slovenia / Italy / France / UK / Belgium D
663 I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
665 A Walk in the Sun 1945 Milestone, Lewis USA D
667 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Dmytryk, Edward USA DS
669 Stalag 17 1953 Wilder, Billy USA D
676 Coming Home 1978 Ashby, Hal USA Y
695 Henry V 1989 Branagh, Kenneth UK Y
697 A Man Escaped 1956 Bresson, Robert France Y
716 Friendly Persuasion 1956 Wyler, William USA YS
731 Tunes of Glory 1960 Neame, Ronald UK YS
746 The Last Metro 1980 Truffaut, François France YS
753 Richard III 1955 Olivier, Laurence UK D
784 Master and Commander:
The Far Side of the World
2003 Weir, Peter USA DBU
793 The Search 1948 Zinnemann, Fred Switzerland / USA
808 The Long Voyage Home 1940 Ford, John USA D
821 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 Stevens, George USA YS
831 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Aldrich, Robert UK / USA DB
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839 Sayonara 1957 Logan, Joshua USA YS
844 Mister Roberts 1955 Ford, John / LeRoy, Mervyn / Logan, Joshua USA DUS
845 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 Huston, John USA Y
847 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Kubrick, Stanley USA DBU
859 Hotel Rwanda 2004 George, Terry UK / Italy / South Africa Y
861 Before the Rain 1994 Manchevski, Milcho Rep of Macedonia / France / UK DS
863 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 Hathaway, Henry USA Y
864 The Train 1964 Frankenheimer, John / Penn, Arthur USA / France / Italy D
867 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Eastwood, Clint USA DBU
869 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Welles, Orson Spain / Switzerland
875 Breaker Morant 1980 Beresford, Bruce Australia DB
876 Two Women 1960 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / France Y
884 Birdy 1984 Parker, Alan USA Y
895 49th Parallel 1941 Powell, Michael UK D
926 They Were Expendable 1945 Ford, John / Montgomery, Robert USA D
934 Mrs. Miniver 1942 Wyler, William USA D
942 Soldier of Orange 1977 Verhoeven, Paul Belgium / Netherlands Y
945 The Assault 1986 Rademakers, Fons Netherlands Y
950 Seven Beauties 1975 Wertmüller, Lina Italy DU
956 The Damned 1969 Visconti, Luchino Italy / Switzerland / West Germany YS
968 General della Rovere 1959 Rossellini, Roberto Italy / France Y
987 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Chukraj, Grigori Soviet Union Y
1000 Army of Shadows 1969 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
1005 Come and See 1985 Klimov, Elem Soviet Union Y
1008 Story of Women 1988 Chabrol, Claude France Y
1023 Five Graves to Cairo 1943 Wilder, Billy USA
1027 Watch on the Rhine 1943 Shumlin, Herman / Mohr, Hal USA D
1044 Russian Ark 2002 Sokurov, Aleksandr Russia / Germany Y
1050 The Guns of Navarone 1961 Thompson, J. Lee USA DS
1054 Underground 1995 Kusturica, Emir France / Fed Rep of Yugoslavia / Germany / Hungary Y
1058 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Takahata, Isao Japan Y
1065 Les Misérables 1995 Lelouch, Claude France YUP
1066 The House on 92nd St. 1945 Hathaway, Henry USA D
1076 Empire of the Sun 1987 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1086 The Story of G.I. Joe 1945 Wellman, William A. USA Y
1095 Atonement 2007 Wright, Joe UK DUS
1104 Fail-Safe 1964 Lumet, Sidney USA D
1109 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1117 Downfall 2004 Hirschbiegel, Oliver Germany / Italy / Austria D
1118 The Americanization of Emily 1964 Hiller, Arthur USA Y
1121 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 Moore, Michael USA YU
1123 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988 Ophüls, Marcel France / USA Y
1133 The Four Feathers 1939 Korda, Zoltan UK Y
1151 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Conway, Jack / Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
1152 The Steel Helmet 1951 Fuller, Samuel USA D
1155 My Name Is Ivan 1962 Tarkovsky, Andrei / Abalov, Eduard Soviet Union Y
1168 The War Game 1965 Watkins, Peter UK D
1170 Lifeboat 1944 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
1177 The Young Lions 1958 Dmytryk, Edward USA DS
1180 The Quiet American 2002 Noyce, Phillip USA / Germany / Australia Y
1184 Days of Glory 2006 Bouchareb, Rachid France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium D
1189 Sahara 1943 Korda, Zoltan USA Y
1191 The Teahouse of the August Moon 1956 Mann, Daniel USA D
1194 Storm Over Asia 1928 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union YU
1212 King & Country 1964 Losey, Joseph UK Y
1223 The Clock 1945 Minnelli, Vincente / Zinnemann, Fred USA D
1233 Cold Mountain 2003 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
1236 The Hill 1965 Lumet, Sidney UK D
1242 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 Wood, Sam USA Y
1260 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 Bresson, Robert France / Italy Y
1267 War and Peace 1956 Vidor, King Italy / USA YS
1269 In Which We Serve 1942 Coward, Noel / Lean, David UK Y
1271 Since You Went Away 1944 Cromwell, John / De Toth, André USA YS
1272 The Cruel Sea 1953 Frend, Charles / McCowen, Alec UK D
1292 Love and Death 1975 Allen, Woody USA Y
1299 The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1955 Robson, Mark USA DUP
1304 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Eastwood, Clint Iceland / USA DBU
1352 Journey Into Fear 1942 Foster, Norman / Welles, Orson USA
1362 The Way Ahead 1944 Reed, Carol UK D
1363 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Hutton, Brian G. UK / USA D
1371 Lust, Caution 2007 Lee, Ang USA / China DU
1375 Bataan 1943 Garnett, Tay USA YU
1375 Operation Crossbow 1965 Anderson, Michael UK D
1375 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1944 LeRoy, Mervyn USA D
1406 Guadalcanal Diary 1943 Seiler, Lewis USA D
1412 The Hasty Heart 1949 Sherman, Vincent UK D
1412 Objective, Burma! 1945 Walsh, Raoul USA D
1412 Pride of the Marines 1945 Daves, Delmer USA
1412 Waterloo Bridge 1940 LeRoy, Mervyn USA DS
1431 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Wise, Robert USA DBS
1433 The Way to the Stars 1945 Asquith, Anthony UK
1439 The Fog of War 2003 Morris, Errol USA DU
1450 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Mann, Michael USA Y
1455 Courage Under Fire 1996 Zwick, Edward USA DBU
1466 A City of Sadness 1989 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan
1479 Prisoner of the Mountains 1996 Bodrov, Sergei Russia / Kazakhstan Y
1482 The Memory of Justice 1976 Ophüls, Marcel UK / USA / France / West Germany
1502 Zulu 1964 Endfield, Cy UK YS
1508 The Last Samurai 2003 Zwick, Edward USA / New Zealand / Japan DBUPS
1520 Night Train to Munich 1940 Reed, Carol UK V
1522 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Dwan, Allan USA D
1526 Circle of Deceit 1981 Schlöndorff, Volker France / West Germany D
1532 A Farewell to Arms 1932 Borzage, Frank USA YU
1545 Joyeux Noël 2005 Carion, Christian France / Germany / UK / Belgium / Romania DU
1546 Salvador 1986 Stone, Oliver USA D
1548 A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / USA YU
1549 The Voice of the Turtle 1947 Rapper, Irving USA
1555 Wings 1927 Wellman, William A. USA Y
1581 Fire Over England 1937 Howard, William K. UK D
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1585 Decision Before Dawn 1951 Litvak, Anatole USA D
1586 The Dawn Patrol 1938 Goulding, Edmund USA D
1586 Drums Along the Mohawk 1939 Ford, John USA D
1586 Edge of Darkness 1943 Milestone, Lewis USA V
1586 The Mouse That Roared 1959 Arnold, Jack UK D
1586 Three Came Home 1950 Negulesco, Jean USA D
1593 The Lost Patrol 1934 Ford, John USA DS
1593 A Year of the Quiet Sun 1984 Zanussi, Krzysztof Poland / West Germany / USA Y
1600 Gettysburg 1993 Maxwell, Ronald F. USA Y
1601 Arsenal 1928 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union / Ukraine Y
1602 Brothers 2004 Bier, Susanne Denmark D
1621 Kanal 1957 Wajda, Andrzej Poland Y
1629 Land and Freedom 1995 Loach, Ken UK / Spain / Germany / Italy S
1632 Black and White in Color 1976 Annaud, Jean-Jacques Ivory Coast / France / West Germany / Switzerland Y
1642 Seventh Heaven 1927 Borzage, Frank USA
1649 El Cid 1961 Mann, Anthony Italy / USA DS
1649 One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
1650 The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming 1966 Jewison, Norman USA YUP
1653 Battleground 1949 Wellman, William A. USA Y
1666 Confessions of a Nazi Spy 1939 Litvak, Anatole USA
1671 Operation Petticoat 1959 Edwards, Blake USA D
1681 Oh! What a Lovely War 1969 Attenborough, Richard UK D
1685 Sophie Scholl - The Final Days 2005 Rothemund, Marc Germany D
1692 The Grey Zone 2001 Nelson, Tim Blake USA D
1701 Ulysses' Gaze 1995 Angelopoulos, Theo Greece / France / Italy / Fed Rep of Yugoslavia Y
1710 Archangel 1990 Maddin, Guy Canada Y
1712 And Now My Love 1974 Lelouch, Claude France / Italy Y
1724 Sink the Bismarck! 1960 Gilbert, Lewis UK D
1729 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 Ingram, Rex USA Y
1750 Five Fingers 1952 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA Y
1751 The Battle of San Pietro 1945 Huston, John USA DUP
1777 Gunner Palace 2004 Epperlein, Petra / Tucker, Michael USA D
1780 Black Book 2006 Verhoeven, Paul Netherlands / UK / Germany DBU
1786 The Last Days 1998 Moll, James USA D
1789 Black Hawk Down 2001 Scott, Ridley USA DBUS
1790 Man's Hope 1945 Malraux, André / Peskine, Boris Spain / France
1797 Carnival in Flanders 1935 Feyder, Jacques France / Germany Y
1809 Colonel Redl 1985 Szabó, István Hungary / Austria / West Germany Y
1814 Catch-22 1970 Nichols, Mike USA Y
1814 The Duellists 1977 Scott, Ridley UK D
1818 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 Demme, Jonathan USA DBU
1821 The Fighting 69th 1940 Keighley, William USA D
1828 The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964 Mann, Anthony USA D
1828 Hell's Angels 1930 Hughes, Howard / Goulding, Edmund USA D
1828 La Marseillaise 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1828 No Time for Sergeants 1958 LeRoy, Mervyn USA
1830 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Levinson, Barry USA DS
1837 The Four Days of Naples 1962 Loy, Nanni Italy
1839 The Murderers Are Among Us 1946 Staudte, Wolfgang Germany D
1841 Ice Cold in Alex 1958 Thompson, J. Lee UK
1843 A Love in Germany 1983 Wajda, Andrzej West Germany / France Y
1844 The Alamo 1960 Wayne, John USA YS
1848 The Last Bridge 1954 Käutner, Helmut Yugoslavia / Austria
1850 Pretty Village Pretty Flame 1996 Dragojevic, Srdjan Fed Rep of Yugoslavia D
1854 All Things Fair 1995 Widerberg, Bo Denmark / Sweden Y
1854 Confidence 1980 Szabó, István Hungary
1855 The Colditz Story 1955 Hamilton, Guy UK D
1855 The Dam Busters 1954 Anderson, Michael UK D
1861 Ay, Carmela! 1990 Saura, Carlos Spain / Italy
1861 The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 Loach, Ken France / Ireland / UK DUP
1862 The Drum 1938 Korda, Zoltan UK Y
1864 Exodus 1960 Preminger, Otto USA D
1864 Ministry of Fear 1944 Lang, Fritz USA
1864 So Proudly We Hail! 1943 Sandrich, Mark USA D
1864 South Pacific 1958 Logan, Joshua USA DS
1864 The Time Machine 1960 Pal, George USA DUS
1864 To Each His Own 1946 Leisen, Mitchell USA
1867 Westfront 1918 1930 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany Y
1878 Block-Heads 1938 Blystone, John G. USA Y
1881 Safe Conduct 2002 Tavernier, Bertrand Spain / France / Germany D
1891 It Happened Here 1966 Brownlow, Kevin / Mollo, Andrew UK Y
1900 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2002 Bartley, Kim / O'Briain, Donnacha Ireland / Netherlands / USA / Germany / Finland / UK
1900 Under Fire 1983 Spottiswoode, Roger USA D
1901 The Ground Truth 2006 Foulkrod, Patricia USA D
1910 Southern Comfort 1981 Hill, Walter USA / Switzerland / UK D
1916 My Childhood 1972 Douglas, Bill UK
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 Hamsun 1996 Troell, Jan Germany / Norway / Sweden / Denmark D
1935 The Counterfeiters 2007 Ruzowitzky, Stefan Austria / Germany DBU
1942 Winter Soldier 1972 unknown USA D
1944 Richard III 1995 Loncraine, Richard UK / USA DS
1950 The Ascent 1976 Shepitko, Larisa Soviet Union D
1956 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
1959 Beau Geste 1939 Wellman, William A. USA YS
1959 Run Silent, Run Deep 1958 Wise, Robert USA D
1961 This Land Is Mine 1943 Renoir, Jean USA
1965 Fires Were Started 1943 Jennings, Humphrey UK Y
1965 Private's Progress 1956 Boulting, John UK
1965 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
1970 Wake Island 1942 Farrow, John USA Y
1971 Too Late the Hero 1970 Aldrich, Robert USA D
1977 Hill 24 Doesn't Answer 1955 Dickinson, Thorold Israel
1977 In the Year of the Pig 1968 de Antonio, Emile USA DU
1977 Kippur 2000 Gitai, Amos Israel / France D
1977 Pasazerka 1963 Lesiewicz, Witold / Munk, Andrzej Poland V
1984 My Country My Country 2006 Poitras, Laura USA D
1987 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Fleischer, Richard / Fukasaku, Kinji / Masuda, Toshio USA / Japan DS
1990 The Bridge 1959 Wicki, Bernhard West Germany Y
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