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100 Must-See Films Of The 20th Century top movies seen by liam

A list of the 100 20th century films as chosen by the film critic Leonard Maltin. This list appears in Maltin's book titled 100 Must-See films at Filmsite.org

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    The Birth of a Nation

    1915
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916
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    Our Hospitality

    1923
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    Greed

    1924
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    The Gold Rush

    1925
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    Bronenosets Potyomkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin
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    The Big Parade

    1925
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    The Freshman

    1925 — a.k.a. College Days
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    Metropolis

    1927
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    The General

    1926
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927
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    The Crowd

    1928
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930
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    City Lights

    1931
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    1931
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    Dracula

    1931
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    Frankenstein

    1931
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    Trouble in Paradise

    1932
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    King Kong

    1933 — a.k.a. The Eighth Wonder
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    Duck Soup

    1933
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    Sons of the Desert

    1933 — a.k.a. Fraternally Yours
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    It Happened One Night

    1934
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    It's a Gift

    1934
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    A Night at the Opera

    1935
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    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935
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    The 39 Steps

    1935
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    Swing Time

    1936
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    Modern Times

    1936
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    Dodsworth

    1936
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    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    1936
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    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion
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    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    1938
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    The Lady Vanishes

    1938
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    Stagecoach

    1939
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939
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    The Wizard of Oz

    1939
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    His Girl Friday

    1940
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940
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    Fantasia

    1940
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    Sullivan's Travels

    1941
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    Citizen Kane

    1941
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    The Maltese Falcon

    1941
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    The Lady Eve

    1941
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    Casablanca

    1942
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    The Ox-Bow Incident

    1943 — a.k.a. Strange Incident
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    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

    1944
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    Double Indemnity

    1944
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    My Darling Clementine

    1946
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946

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johnny_greeley's avatar
2 months 3 weeks ago johnny_greeley said:

The Big Parade and The Crowd are available on bittorrent (taped off of TCM). Those and Greed are the only ones not available on DVD if I remember right.
jrod944's avatar
3 months ago jrod944 said:

early king vidor films are criminaly unavailable. Should finish this one quickly if I ever see those.
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5 months 1 week ago johnny_greeley said:

This is probably the first list I'm gonna complete

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