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List of films considered the best From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Films considered the greatest ever) Page semi-protected This list needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be chall enged and removed. (November 2008) While there is no general agreement upon the greatest film, many publications an d organizations have tried to determine the films considered the best. Each film listed here has been mentioned in a notable survey, whether a popular poll, or a poll among film reviewers. Many of these sources focus on American films or we re polls of English-speaking film-goers, but those considered the greatest withi n their respective countries are also included here. Many films are widely consi dered among the best ever made, whether they appear at number one on each list o r not. For example, many believe that Orson Welles' Citizen Kane is the best mov ie ever made, and it appears as #1 on AFI's Best Movies list, whereas The Shawsh ank Redemption is #1 on the IMDB Top 250, whilst Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is #1 on the Empire magazine's Top 301 List. None of the surveys that produced these citations should be viewed as a scientif ic measure of the film-watching world. Each may suffer the effects of vote stack ing or skewed demographics. Internet-based surveys have a self-selected audience of unknown participants. The methodology of some surveys may be questionable. S ometimes (as in the case of the American Film Institute) voters were asked to se lect films from a limited list of entries. Contents 1 Polls of critics and filmmakers 1.1 Sight & Sound poll 1.2 Brussels Worlds Fair's international poll 2 Audience polls 3 Particular genres or media 3.1 Action 3.2 Animation 3.3 Christmas 3.4 Comedy 3.5 Comic book/superhero 3.6 Courtroom 3.7 Crime/gangster 3.8 Disaster 3.9 Documentary 3.10 Epic 3.11 Fantasy 3.12 High school 3.13 Horror/Monsters/Thriller 3.14 Musical 3.15 Mystery 3.16 Political/historical 3.17 Propaganda 3.18 Religious 3.19 Romance 3.20 Science fiction 3.21 Sports 3.22 War 3.23 Western 3.23.1 Classic Western 3.23.2 Spaghetti Western 4 Countries 4.1 Argentina 4.2 Australia 4.3 Bangladesh 4.4 Belgium 4.5 Brazil 4.6 Canada 4.7 Czech Republic/Slovakia 4.8 Chile 4.9 China 4.10 Croatia 4.11 Denmark 4.12 Egypt 4.13 Estonia 4.14 Finland 4.15 France 4.16 Germany 4.17 Hong Kong 4.18 Hungary 4.19 India 4.20 Iran 4.21 Ireland 4.22 Israel 4.23 Italy 4.24 Japan 4.25 Latvia 4.26 Macedonia 4.27 Mexico 4.28 Netherlands 4.29 New Zealand 4.30 Norway 4.31 Pakistan 4.32 Palestine 4.33 Philippines 4.34 Poland 4.35 Romania 4.36 Russia 4.37 Serbia 4.38 Singapore 4.39 Slovenia 4.40 South Africa 4.41 South Korea 4.42 Spain 4.43 Sri Lanka 4.44 Sweden 4.45 Taiwan 4.46 Turkey 4.47 Ukraine 4.48 United Kingdom 4.49 United States 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Polls of critics and filmmakers Sight & Sound poll Every decade, the British film magazine Sight & Sound asks an international grou p of film professionals to vote for the greatest film of all time. The Sight & S ound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "great est ever film" lists. The American film critic Roger Ebert described it as "by f ar the most respected of the countless polls of great moviesthe only one most ser ious movie people take seriously."[1] Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles was voted #1 in the five Sight & Sound criti cs' polls from 1962 to 2002.[2] A separate Sight & Sound poll of established fil m directors, held for the first time in 1992, also placed Citizen Kane at the to p in 1992 and 2002.[2] Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica topped the first Sight & Sound critic s' poll, in 1952. It also came #7 in 1962 and #6 in 2002.[2] It also came #10 in the 2012 directors' poll.[3] Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujiro Ozu topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll in 2 012, dethroning Citizen Kane.[3] Tokyo Story also appeared in the Sight & Sound critics' poll at third place in 1992, fifth in 2002, and third in 2012.[4] Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 201 2, dethroning Citizen Kane.[3] It also came #7 in 1982, #4 in 1992, and #2 in 20 02.[2] In the directors' poll, it came #6 in 1992 and 2002,[2] and #7 in 2012.[3 ] La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939) by Jean Renoir is the only movie to have appeared in every one of the Sight & Sound critics' polls; its only appear ance in the directors' poll was #9 in 2002. For the full list published in 2012, see BFI The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Ti me. Brussels Worlds Fair's international poll The Brussels Worlds Fair, organized in 1958, offered the occasion for the organiz ation by thousands of critics and filmmakers from all over the world, of the fir st universal film poll in history.[5] These were the films chosen as most artist ically fulfilled:[6][7][8][9] Rank Film Director Year 1 ?????????? ???????? (Battleship Potemkin) Sergei Eisenstein 1925 2 The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin 1925 3 Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) Vittorio De Sica 1948 4 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Carl Theodor Dre yer 1928 5 La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) Jean Renoir 1937 6 Greed Erich von Stroheim 1924 7 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages D. W. Griffith 1916 8 ???? (Mother) Vsevolod Pudovkin 1926 9 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 10 ????? (Earth) Alexander Dovzhenko 1930 11 Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) F.W. Murnau 1924 12 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) Robert W iene 1920 Audience polls Globe icon. The examples and perspective in this section deal primarily with the United Stat es and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this art icle and discuss the issue on the talk page. (October 2012) Casablanca (1942) was voted the greatest film by readers of the Los Angeles Dail y News in 1997.[10] It is also regarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" b y the influential Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide.[11] On April 7, 2006, the Writer s' Guild of America declared Casablanca's screenplay the best ever written.[12] Gone with the Wind (1939) was ranked as the greatest film in a poll surveyed by Harris Interactive between January 15 and 22, 2008. Star Wars came in second pla ce and Casablanca in third.[13] Gone with the Wind was also picked as the best f ilm for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.[14] Himala (Miracle) (1982) by Ishmael Bernal won the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen A wards Viewers Choice as "Best Asia-Pacific Film of All Time" (voted for by thous ands of film fans around the world).[15][16][17][18] Raise the Red Lantern (1991) was voted the best Asian film in another audience p oll conducted by MovieMail in 2000. It was followed by The Apu Trilogy (19551959) at second place.[19] Schindler's List (1993) was voted the best film ever made by the German film mag azine Cinema.[20] Seven Samurai (1954) was voted #1 in an audience poll conducted by MovieMail in 2000. It was followed by The Third Man (1949) in second place.[19] Star Wars (1977) and its sequel The Empire Strikes Back (1980) were chosen as th e greatest films by readers of Empire magazine in November 2001 and by voters in a Channel 4 (Film4) poll.[21] Star Wars is also the highest ranking sci-fi film in both versions of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movi es of all time (ranked #15 in the original list, and #13 in the updated list). T he Empire Strikes Back was voted #1 in Total Film's Top 100 Movies of All Time,[ 22] and #1 in the 2006 Empire "Greatest Movies Ever" special.[23] It is #1 on th e top rated sci-fi titles at the Internet Movie Database.[24] The Godfather (1972) was voted #1 by Entertainment Weekly's readers[25] and vote d as #1 in a Time Out readers' poll in 1998.[26] The film was also voted as the "Greatest Movie of All Time" in September 2008 by 10,000 readers of Empire magaz ine, 150 people from the movie business and 50 film critics.[27] The Godfather w as selected as the best gangster movie ever by the American Film Institute durin g their 10 Top 10.[28] In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter undertook an industry pol l by sending a ballot to every studio, agency, publicity firm and production hou se in the Hollywood district. The Godfather was voted the top film by 2,120 indu stry members.[29] It is the highest rated film on Metacritic with 100, tops the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best drama movies,[30] and was chosen as the greates t crime film out of 25 movies by the IGN website in 2011.[31] Its sequel, The Go dfather Part II, (1974) was voted best movie ever by TV Guide readers[32] in 199 8.