Tim Dirks' Greatest Films
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This selection of 100 Greatest Films in the last century of film-making covers, by conscious choice, a wide range of genres, decades, stars and directors. Emphasis in these selections is purposely directed toward earlier, more classic Hollywood/American films than more recent films, although some recent films (and British films) are included. (An Additional 100 Greatest Films, and Third 100 Greatest Films are also indexed here.) The Greatest Films selected do not include foreign films or non-English language films for purposes of specialization and focus. Negative judgment on foreign films or non-English language films is not intended or implied.
Over a long period of time, the English-language films found here have repeatedly appeared on all-time best film lists and are often noted in the collective responses of film viewers and critics. Arguably, there has been reasonable consensus by most film historians, critics, movie-lovers, and reviewers that the selections chosen by this site are among cinema's most critically-acclaimed, significant "must-see" films (of predominantly Hollywood-American production). They are the films almost every educated person with a solid knowledge of film history and cinema would be expected to know and be literate about.
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check -
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Ben-Hur
1959, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
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Spartacus
1960, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
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Titanic
1997, in 25 top lists Check -
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JFK
1991, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Deer Hunter
1978, in 26 top lists Check -
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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 28 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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Patton
1970, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Sound of Music
1965, in 25 top lists Check -
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
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My Fair Lady
1964, in 18 top lists Check -
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Saving Private Ryan
1998, in 28 top lists Check -
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Last Emperor
1987, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957, in 32 top lists Check -
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Amadeus
1984, in 24 top lists Check -
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Nashville
1975, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Thief of Bagdad
1924, in 14 top lists Check -
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Pulp Fiction
1994, in 38 top lists Check -
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A Star Is Born
1954, in 13 top lists Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
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West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1930, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Big Parade
1925, in 13 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Shining
1980, in 28 top lists Check -
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Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Wild Bunch
1969, in 25 top lists Check -
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994, in 24 top lists Check -
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Greed
1924, in 21 top lists Check -
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All About Eve
1950, in 25 top lists Check -
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977, in 23 top lists Check -
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L.A. Confidential
1997, in 27 top lists Check -
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Romeo and Juliet
1968, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...
1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check -
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Henry V
1989, in 2 top lists Check -
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Rosemary's Baby
1968, in 21 top lists Check -
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Matrix
1999, in 30 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Red Shoes
1948, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Hustler
1961, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Lion in Winter
1968, in 4 top lists Check
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