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This list is compiled from a collection of movie reviews in the 501 Must See Movies book. The movies have been split up into 10 genres, each with 50 movies (except for the last, which has 51): Action/Adventure & Epic, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller, War and Western. — Author: iCheckMovies

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    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    1921
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    The Iron Horse

    1924
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    Napoléon

    1927 — a.k.a. Abel Gance's Napoleon
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    Cleopatra

    1934
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    1938
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    Aleksandr Nevskiy

    1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939
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    The Sea Hawk

    1940
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    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948
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    The African Queen

    1951
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    Le salaire de la peur

    1953 — a.k.a. The Wages of Fear
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    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. The Seven Samurai
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    The Ten Commandments

    1956
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    War and Peace

    1956
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    The Vikings

    1958
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    North by Northwest

    1959
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    Ben-Hur

    1959
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    Spartacus

    1960
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962
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    Zulu

    1964
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    Doctor Zhivago

    1965
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    The Lion in Winter

    1968
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    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    1968
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    Waterloo

    1970
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    The Poseidon Adventure

    1972
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    Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

    1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
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    Papillon

    1973
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    Enter the Dragon

    1973
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    The Towering Inferno

    1974
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    The Man Who Would Be King

    1975
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    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981
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    Gandhi

    1982
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    Fitzcarraldo

    1982
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    The Right Stuff

    1983
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    A Passage to India

    1984
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    Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

    1984
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    Ran

    1985 — a.k.a. Revolt
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    The Mission

    1986
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    Top Gun

    1986
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    The Last Emperor

    1987
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    Die Hard

    1988
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    True Lies

    1994
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    Speed

    1994
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    Braveheart

    1995
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    Wo hu cang long

    2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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    Gladiator

    2000
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001
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    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the...

    2003
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    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    2003
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    Troy

    2004

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