CriterionForum Lists Project - 1940s (Version 3.0)

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Every five years or so the film fans at Criterionforum.org spend half a year discussing the films of a certain decade - viewing and reviewing classics, championing favorites, and highlighting overlooked/underrated films. At the end of the discussion period they each submit lists of their fifty favorite films from the decade, and those lists are then compiled into a top 100, as well as a list of "also-rans" (the films which received more than one vote, but not enough to make the top 100.) This list includes both the top 100 and the "also-rans."

These are the results of the poll conducted from August 2011 to February 2012.

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  1. 162 new

    Genroku Chûshingura

    1941 — a.k.a. The 47 Ronin, in 4 top lists Check
  2. 21 new

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  3. 17 new

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  4. 31 new

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  5. 45 new

    La terra trema

    1948 — a.k.a. The Earth Trembles, in 11 top lists Check
  6. 227 new

    The Razor's Edge

    1946, in 1 top list Check
  7. 87 new

    Ossessione

    1943, in 12 top lists Check
  8. 3 new

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  9. 188 new

    They Were Expendable

    1945, in 4 top lists Check
  10. 156 new

    Hangmen Also Die!

    1943, in 4 top lists Check
  11. 196 new

    Mrs. Miniver

    1942, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 229 new

    Sergeant York

    1941, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 36 new

    Red River

    1948, in 16 top lists Check
  14. 181 new

    Twelve O'Clock High

    1949, in 4 top lists Check
  15. 67 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  16. 19 new

    Rebecca

    1940, in 23 top lists Check
  17. 59 new

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
  18. 72 new

    Fort Apache

    1948, in 5 top lists Check
  19. 168 new

    The Pride of the Yankees

    1942, in 4 top lists Check
  20. 174 new

    Kings Row

    1942, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 199 new

    The Sea Hawk

    1940, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 51 new

    Paisà

    1946 — a.k.a. Paisan, in 14 top lists Check
  23. 46 new

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  24. 200 new

    Blood and Sand

    1941, in 1 top list Check
  25. 63 new

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  26. 132 new

    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
  27. 92 new

    Air Force

    1943, in 2 top lists Check
  28. 27 new

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  29. 88 new

    Monsieur Verdoux

    1947, in 11 top lists Check
  30. 57 new

    Nora inu

    1949 — a.k.a. Stray Dog, in 9 top lists Check
  31. 204 new

    Foreign Correspondent

    1940, in 6 top lists Check
  32. 245 new

    Give Us This Day

    1949, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 90 new

    Les visiteurs du soir

    1942 — a.k.a. The Devil's Envoys, in 3 top lists Check
  34. 1 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  35. 231 new

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    1944, in 9 top lists Check
  36. 53 new

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  37. 71 new

    How Green Was My Valley

    1941, in 11 top lists Check
  38. 139 new

    Now, Voyager

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
  39. 194 new

    Under Capricorn

    1949, in 3 top lists Check
  40. 221 new

    The Little Foxes

    1941, in 7 top lists Check
  41. 76 new

    Odd Man Out

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  42. 208 new

    Oliver Twist

    1948, in 6 top lists Check
  43. 93 new

    The Heiress

    1949, in 10 top lists Check
  44. 219 new

    The Way Ahead

    1944, in 1 top list Check
  45. 15 new

    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  46. 134 new

    Gaslight

    1944, in 12 top lists Check
  47. 140 new

    Madame Bovary

    1949, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 39 new

    White Heat

    1949, in 15 top lists Check
  49. 34 new

    Meet Me in St. Louis

    1944, in 16 top lists Check
  50. 237 new

    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    1946, in 9 top lists Check
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Last updated on Mar 3, 2012; source