Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
2 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 28 |
3 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
4 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
5 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
6 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 151 |
7 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
8 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
9 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 163 |
10 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 185 |
11 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 209 |
12 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
13 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 234 |
14 | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 243 |
15 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 254 |
16 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
17 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
18 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 312 |
19 | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 314 |
20 | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 390 |
21 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | 400 |
22 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 424 |
23 | Raise the Red Lantern | 1991 | Yimou Zhang | 454 |
24 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 472 |
25 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 482 |
26 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 500 |
27 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 507 |
28 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 529 |
29 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | 543 |
30 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 557 |
31 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 584 |
32 | Triumph of the Will | 1935 | Leni Riefenstahl | 590 |
33 | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden | 592 |
34 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | 603 |
35 | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 610 |
36 | Ivan the Terrible | 1944 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 618 |
37 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 625 |
38 | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 651 |
39 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 681 |
40 | Man on Wire | 2008 | James Marsh | 689 |
41 | The King's Speech | 2010 | Tom Hooper | 696 |
42 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | 709 |
43 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee | 746 |
44 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 748 |
45 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | 754 |
46 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilyev | 760 |
47 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 764 |
48 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 776 |
49 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | 789 |
50 | Woodstock | 1970 | Michael Wadleigh | 805 |
51 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | 812 |
52 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 825 |
53 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 838 |
54 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | 858 |
55 | Hero | 2002 | Yimou Zhang | 898 |
56 | The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg | 913 |
57 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 923 |
58 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | 2003 | Errol Morris | 929 |
59 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke | 946 |
60 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott | 947 |
61 | Henry V | 1944 | Laurence Olivier | 960 |
62 | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 965 |
63 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 975 |
64 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | 994 |
65 | United 93 | 2006 | Paul Greengrass | 1012 |
66 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1023 |
67 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1024 |
68 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | 1032 |
69 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 1043 |
70 | Topsy-Turvy | 1999 | Mike Leigh | 1048 |
71 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 1074 |
72 | The Devils | 1971 | Ken Russell | 1082 |
73 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé | 1085 |
74 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | 1978 | Ermanno Olmi | 1096 |
75 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway | 1116 |
76 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov | 1125 |
77 | Cinderella Man | 2005 | Ron Howard | 1126 |
78 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir | 1130 |
79 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1133 |
80 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir | 1135 |
81 | The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 1141 |
82 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor | 1172 |
83 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 1204 |
84 | October | 1927 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1217 |
85 | The Times of Harvey Milk | 1984 | Rob Epstein | 1220 |
86 | Elizabeth | 1998 | Shekhar Kapur | 1240 |
87 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | 1250 |
88 | Ivan the Terrible, Part II | 1958 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova | 1251 |
89 | Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1325 |
90 | The Act of Killing | 2012 | Joshua Oppenheimer | 1332 |
91 | Hearts and Minds | 1974 | Peter Davis | 1346 |
92 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1364 |
93 | Cool Runnings | 1993 | Jon Turteltaub | 1370 |
94 | Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller | 1386 |
95 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | 1397 |
96 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1416 |
97 | Dunkirk | 2017 | Christopher Nolan | 1439 |
98 | Daughters of the Dust | 1991 | Julie Dash | 1442 |
99 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | 1451 |
100 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1462 |
101 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross | 1474 |
102 | The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick | 1494 |
103 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 1498 |
104 | The Revenant | 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1550 |
105 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 1568 |
106 | Selma | 2014 | Ava DuVernay | 1589 |
107 | Ip Man | 2008 | Wilson Yip | 1594 |
108 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1600 |
109 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1624 |
110 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 1641 |
111 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1654 |
112 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1669 |
113 | Europa Europa | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland | 1708 |
114 | Exit through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Banksy | 1723 |
115 | Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | Mel Gibson | 1727 |
116 | The Dam Busters | 1955 | Michael Anderson | 1736 |
117 | Burnt by the Sun | 1994 | Nikita Mikhalkov | 1743 |
118 | Matewan | 1987 | John Sayles | 1768 |
119 | War and Peace | 1966 | Sergey Bondarchuk | 1776 |
120 | Platform | 2000 | Zhangke Jia | 1780 |
121 | Edvard Munch | 1974 | Peter Watkins | 1787 |
122 | Lincoln | 2012 | Steven Spielberg | 1814 |
123 | Marketa Lazarová | 1967 | Frantisek Vlácil | 1818 |
124 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 1820 |
125 | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Alan Parker | 1833 |
126 | Changeling | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 1848 |
127 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney | 1854 |
128 | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Stanley Kramer | 1859 |
129 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz | 1895 |
130 | Othello | 1951 | Orson Welles | 1917 |
131 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | 1924 |
132 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1946 |
133 | The Iron Horse | 1924 | John Ford | 1956 |
134 | Cabiria | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone | 1974 |
135 | The Crucified Lovers | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 2021 |
136 | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini | 2023 |
137 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | 2033 |
138 | The Last Command | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2036 |
139 | 'Breaker' Morant | 1980 | Bruce Beresford | 2038 |
140 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 | Vittorio De Sica | 2042 |
141 | The Look of Silence | 2014 | Joshua Oppenheimer | 2057 |
142 | Evita | 1996 | Alan Parker | 2058 |
143 | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster | 2065 |
144 | Les Misérables | 2012 | Tom Hooper | 2067 |
145 | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi | 2068 |
146 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | 2069 |
147 | Yellow Earth | 1984 | Kaige Chen | 2079 |
148 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2099 |
149 | The Last King of Scotland | 2006 | Kevin Macdonald | 2128 |
150 | Battleground | 1949 | William A. Wellman | 2137 |
151 | Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 2149 |
152 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2003 | Thom Andersen | 2163 |
153 | Invictus | 2009 | Clint Eastwood | 2215 |
154 | Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | 2218 |
155 | The Decline of Western Civilization | 1981 | Penelope Spheeris | 2258 |
156 | Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton | 2262 |
157 | Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford | 2265 |
158 | In the Shadow of the Moon | 2007 | David Sington | 2271 |
159 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2284 |
160 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 2295 |
161 | Red Sorghum | 1988 | Yimou Zhang | 2323 |
162 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2367 |
163 | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville | 2409 |
164 | The Wind Rises | 2013 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2422 |
165 | The Official Story | 1985 | Luis Puenzo | 2438 |
166 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda | 2445 |
167 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2456 |
168 | The Rise of Louis XIV | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini | 2477 |
169 | Marie Antoinette | 2006 | Sofia Coppola | 2479 |
170 | The Corporation | 2003 | Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar | 2504 |
171 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | 2510 |
172 | Once Upon a Time in China | 1991 | Hark Tsui | 2524 |
173 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | 2544 |
174 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2557 |
175 | Salt of the Earth | 1954 | Herbert J. Biberman | 2572 |
176 | Band of Brothers | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To | 2591 |
177 | Across the Universe | 2007 | Julie Taymor | 2604 |
178 | Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | 1988 | Marcel Ophüls | 2610 |
179 | Jesus Christ Superstar | 1973 | Norman Jewison | 2622 |
180 | My Winnipeg | 2007 | Guy Maddin | 2627 |
181 | 61* | 2001 | Billy Crystal | 2638 |
182 | Caravaggio | 1986 | Derek Jarman | 2663 |
183 | Monterey Pop | 1968 | D.A. Pennebaker | 2680 |
184 | Frost/Nixon | 2008 | Ron Howard | 2692 |
185 | Wild River | 1960 | Elia Kazan | 2696 |
186 | A Night to Remember | 1958 | Roy Ward Baker | 2697 |
187 | How to Survive a Plague | 2012 | David France | 2729 |
188 | The Illusionist | 2006 | Neil Burger | 2771 |
189 | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz | 2778 |
190 | O.J.: Made in America | 2016 | Ezra Edelman | 2780 |
191 | Bloody Sunday | 2002 | Paul Greengrass | 2784 |