Create account Log in Article Talk Read View source View history Search List of films considered the best From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Main page This list needs additional citations for verification. Please Contents help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Featured content Current events Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November Random article 2008) Donate to Wikipedia Wikimedia Shop While there is no general agreement upon the greatest film, many publications and organizations have tried to determine the films considered the best. Each film listed here has been mentioned Interaction in a notable survey, whether a popular poll, or a poll among film reviewers. Many of these sources Help About Wikipedia focus on American films or were polls of English-speaking film-goers, but those considered the Community portal greatest within their respective countries are also included here. Many films are widely considered Recent changes among the best ever made, whether they appear at number one on each list or not. For example, Contact page many believe that Orson Welles' Citizen Kane is the best movie ever made, and it appears as #1 Tools on AFI's Best Movies list, whereas The Shawshank Redemption is #1 on the IMDB Top 250, whilst What links here Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is #1 on the Empire magazine's Top 301 List. Related changes None of the surveys that produced these citations should be viewed as a scientific measure of the Upload file Special pages film-watching world. Each may suffer the effects of vote stacking or skewed demographics. Permanent link Internet-based surveys have a self-selected audience of unknown participants. The methodology open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Page information of some surveys may be questionable. Sometimes (as in the case of the American Film Institute) Wikidata item voters were asked to select films from a limited list of entries. Cite this page Contents [hide] Print/export Create a book 1 Polls of critics and filmmakers Download as PDF 1.1 Sight & Sound poll Printable version 1.2 Brussels World’s Fair's international poll 2 Audience polls Languages 3 Particular genres or media বাংলা Català 3.1 Action Română 3.2 Animation Tiếng Việt 3.3 Christmas Edit links 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 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? 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Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com 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 group of film professionals to vote for the greatest film of all time. The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. The American film critic Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies—the only one most serious movie people take seriously."[1] Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles was voted #1 in the five Sight & Sound critics' polls from 1962 to 2002.[2] A separate Sight & Sound poll of established film directors, held for the first time in 1992, also placed Citizen Kane at the top in 1992 and 2002.[2] Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica topped the first Sight & Sound critics' 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 Yasujirō Ozu topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll in 2012, 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 2012, dethroning open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Citizen Kane.[3] It also came #7 in 1982, #4 in 1992, and #2 in 2002.[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 appearance in the directors' poll was #9 in 2002. For the full list published in 2012, see BFI The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time. Brussels World’s Fair's international poll The Brussels World’s Fair, organized in 1958, offered the occasion for the organization by thousands of critics and filmmakers from all over the world, of the first universal film poll in history.[5] These were the films chosen as most artistically fulfilled:[6][7][8][9] Rank Film Director Year 1 Броненосец Потёмкин (Battleship Potemkin) Sergei Eisenstein 1925 2 The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin 1925 3 Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) Vittorio De Sica 1948 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Carl Theodor 4 1928 Arc) Dreyer 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 Мать (Mother) Vsevolod Pudovkin 1926 9 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Alexander 10 Земля (Earth) 1930 Dovzhenko 11 Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) F.W. Murnau 1924 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. 12 Robert Wiene 1920 Caligari) Audience polls The examples and perspective in this section deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page. (October 2012) Casablanca (1942) was voted the greatest film by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997.[10] It is also regarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" by the influential Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide.[11] On April 7, 2006, the Writers' 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 place and Casablanca in third.[13] Gone with the Wind was also picked as the best film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.[14] Himala (Miracle) (1982) by Ishmael Bernal won the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards Viewers Choice as "Best Asia-Pacific Film of All Time" (voted for by thousands of film fans around the world).[15][16][17][18] Raise the Red Lantern (1991) was voted the best Asian film in another audience poll conducted by MovieMail in 2000. It was followed by The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) at second open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com place.[19] Schindler's List (1993) was voted the best film ever made by the German film magazine 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 the 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 movies of all time (ranked #15 in the original list, and #13 in the updated list). The 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 the top rated sci-fi titles at the Internet Movie Database.[24] The Godfather (1972) was voted #1 by Entertainment Weekly's readers[25] and voted 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 magazine, 150 people from the movie business and 50 film critics.[27] The Godfather was selected as the best gangster movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.[28] In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter undertook an industry poll by sending a ballot to every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in the Hollywood district.