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Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions is a list of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 11, 2002, in a CBS television special hosted by American film and TV actress Candice Bergen.

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In his Guide for the Film Fanatic (1986), Danny Peary provides short reviews for over 1600 “Must See” films.

104 movies missing. Imported from external source.

All the movies with "Must-See" badge on Metacritic. Movie gets the badge when it has a score of 81 or higher and has been reviewed by at least 15 pro critics.

From https://letterboxd.com/reelstats/list/the-500-greatest-movies-of-all-time-according/

Hey everyone, great to be back again. Some of you might remember a similar title from a list I made back in April, where I made a list of the top 250 movies with 13 sources, or a preview of this list I made last month.

I want to emphasize that this is NOT an official ranking nor my personal ranking; it is just a statistical and, personally, interesting look at 500 amazing movies. These rankings reflect the opinions of thousands of critics and millions of people around the world. And I am glad that this list is able to cover a wide range of genres, decades, and countries. So before I get bombarded with "Why isn't X on here?" or "How is X above Y?" comments, I wanted to clear that up.

I sourced my data from Sight & Sound (both critic and director lists), TSPDT, iCheckMovies, 11 domestic websites (Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, Letterboxd, TMDb, Trakt, Blu-Ray, MovieLens, RateYourMusic, Criticker, and Critics Choice), and 9 international audience sites (FilmAffinity, Douban, Naver, MUBI, Filmweb, Kinopoisk, CSFD, Moviemeter, and Senscritique). This balance of domestic/international ratings made the list more well-rounded and internationally representative (sites from Spain, China, Korea, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and France).

As for my algorithm, I weighted websites according to both their Alexa ranking and their number of votes compared to other sites. For example, since The Godfather has hundreds of thousands of votes on Letterboxd but only a couple thousand on Metacritic, Letterboxd would be weighted more heavily. After obtaining the weighted averages, I then added the movie's iCheckMovies' favs/checks ratio and TSPDT ranking, if applicable. Regarding TSPDT, I included the top 2000 movies; as an example of my calculations, Rear Window's ranking of #41 would add (2000-41)/2000=0.9795 points to its weighted average. I removed movies that had <7-8K votes on IMDb, as these mostly had low ratings and numbers of votes across different sites as well. For both Sight & Sound lists, I added between 0.5 and 1 point to a movie's score based on its ranking, which I thought was an adequate reflection of how difficult it is to be included on these lists. As examples, a #21 movie would have 0.9 points added while a #63 would have 0.69 points.

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Some stats:

Decades:
1900s - 1 film
1910s - 1
1920s - 22
1930s - 22
1940s - 40
1950s - 65
1960s - 75
1970s - 58
1980s - 54
1990s - 64
2000s - 55
2010s - 43

Directors with multiple films:
12 films - Akira Kurosawa
10 - Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman
8 - Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick
7 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Billy Wilder, Hayao Miyazaki, Steven Spielberg
6 - Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel
5 - Christopher Nolan, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen
4 - David Lynch, Ernst Lubitsch, F. W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, Lee Unkrich, Quentin Tarantino, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone, Werner Herzog, William Wyler, Yasujirō Ozu
3 - Brad Bird, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Clint Eastwood, Coen Brothers, David Fincher, David Lean, François Truffaut, Frank Capra, Hirokazu Koreeda, James Cameron, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Huston, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pete Docter, Peter Jackson, Richard Linklater, Ridley Scott, Robert Bresson, Satyajit Ray, Sidney Lumet, Vittorio De Sica, Wim Wenders
2 - Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Resnais, Andrew Stanton, Arthur Penn, Béla Tarr, Bong Joon-ho, Brian De Palma, Chris Marker, Edward Yang, Elia Kazan, Emir Kusturica, Frank Darabont, George Cukor, George Roy Hill, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Isao Takahata, Jacques Tati, Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Jim Sheridan, John Cassavetes, John Lasseter, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kenji Mizoguchi, Leo McCarey, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, Max Ophüls, Mike Leigh, Mike Nichols, Mikhail Kalatozov, Miloš Forman, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Park Chan-wook, Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Weir, Raoul Walsh, Robert Zemeckis, Sam Mendes, Stanley Donen, Terrence Malick, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Vinterberg, Victor Fleming, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (TSPDT) is a modest but growing film resource dedicated to the art of motion picture filmmaking and most specifically to that one particular individual calling the shots from behind the camera - the film director.

This list is based on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films, a list compilated by Bill Georgaris using thousands of best-of/all-time lists.

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Source: IMDB
Filter: Votes >= 10000
Order: Votes Descending
Date: 2014-08-23

Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.

Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/1000-films-to-see-before-you-die

Sorted by year descending.

Top movies of all time on IMDB. Sorted by IMDB popularity. Movies that do not have a physical/digital release have been excluded.
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Winners and nominees (Winners first)

1927/28: 1, 2, 3

1928/29: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

1929/30: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

1930/31: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

1931/32: 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

1932/33: 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

1934: 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
1935: 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60

1936: 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70

1937: 71 ,72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80

1938:
 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
1939:
 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
1940:
 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
1941:
 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120
1942:
 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130
1943:
 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
1944:
 141, 142, 143, 144, 145
1945:
 146, 147, 148, 149, 150
1946:
151, 152, 153, 154, 155
1947:
 156, 157, 158, 159, 160
1948:
 161, 162, 163, 164, 165
1949:
 166, 167, 168, 169, 170
1950:
 171, 172, 173, 174, 175
1951:
 176, 177, 178, 179, 180
1952:
 181, 182, 183, 184, 185
1953:
 186, 187, 188, 189, 190
1954:
 191, 192, 193, 194, 195
1955:
 196, 197, 198, 199, 200
1956: 201, 202, 203, 204, 205
1957:
 206, 207, 208, 209, 210
1958:
 211, 212, 213, 214, 215
1959:
 216, 217, 218, 219, 220
1960:
 221, 222, 223, 224, 225
1961:
 226, 227, 228, 229, 230
1962:
 231, 232, 233 ,234, 235
1963:
 236, 237, 238, 239, 240
1964:
 241, 242, 243, 244, 245
1965:
 246, 247, 248, 249, 250
1966:
 251, 252, 253, 254, 255
1967:
 256, 257, 258, 259, 260
1968:
 261, 262, 263, 264, 265
1969:
 266, 267, 268, 269, 270
1970:
 271, 272, 273, 274, 275
1971:
 276, 277, 278, 279, 280
1972:
 281, 282, 283, 284, 285
1973:
 286, 287, 288, 289, 290
1974:
 291, 292, 293, 294, 295
1975:
 296, 297, 298, 299, 300
1976:
 301, 302, 303, 304, 305
1977:
 306 ,307, 308, 309, 310
1978:
 311, 312, 313, 314, 315
1979:
 316, 317, 318, 319, 320
1980:
 321, 322, 323, 324, 325
1981:
 326, 327, 328, 329, 330
1982:
 331, 332, 333, 334, 335
1983:
 336, 337, 338, 339, 340
1984:
 341, 342, 343, 344, 345
1985:
 346, 347, 348, 349, 350
1986:
 351, 352, 353, 354, 355
1987:
 356, 357, 358, 359, 360
1988:
 361, 362, 363, 364, 365
1989:
 366, 367, 368, 369, 370
1990:
 371, 372, 373, 374, 375
1991:
 376, 377, 378, 379, 380
1992:
 381, 382, 383, 384, 385
1993:
 386, 387, 388, 389, 390
1994:
 391, 392, 393, 394, 395
1995:
 396, 397, 398, 399, 400
1996:
 401, 402, 403, 404, 405
1997:
 406, 407, 408, 409, 410
1998:
 411, 412, 413, 414, 415
1999:
 416, 417, 418, 419, 420
2000:
 421, 422, 423, 424, 425

2001:
 426, 427, 428, 429, 430
2002: 431, 432, 433, 434, 435
2003:
 436, 437, 438, 439, 440
2004:
 442, 442, 443, 444, 445
2005: 446, 447, 448, 449, 450
2006:
 451, 452, 453, 454, 455
2007:
 456, 457, 458, 459, 460
2008:
 461, 462, 463, 464, 465
2009:
 466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475
2010:
 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485
2011:
 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494
2012:
 495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503
2013:
 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512
2014:
 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520
2015: 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528
2016:
 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537
2017:
 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546
2018:
 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554
2019:
 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563
2020/21: 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571
2022: 573, 572, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581
2023: 586, 582, 583, 584, 585, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591
2024: 598, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 599, 600, 601

The 2013 edition can be found at http://trakt.tv/user/sp1ti/lists/they-shoot-pictures-dont-they-1000-greatest-films-2013.

Welcome to 2012's edition of the 1,000 Greatest Films. This will be the last update prior to the publication of the 'earth-shattering' Sight & Sound poll which will be unfurled later in the year. The Sight & Sound results will no doubt have a major impact on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films listing. It will become the most heavily weighted poll within our calculations. Anyway, that is then, and this is now."

Source: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm

#BEST PICTURE MOVIES BY YEAR

1. 1927/1928
   • Wings
2. 1928/1929
   • The Broadway Melody
3. 1929/1930
   • All Quiet on the Western Front
4. 1930/1931
   • Cimarron
5. 1931/1932
   • Grand Hotel
6. 1932/1933
   • Calvalcade
7. 1934
   • It Happened One Night
8. 1935
   • Mutiny on the Bounty
9. 1936
   • The Great Ziegfeld
10. 1937
    • The Life of Emile Zola
11. 1938
    • You Can't Take It With You
12. 1939
    • Gone with the Wind
13. 1940
    • Rebecca
14. 1941
    • How Green Was My Valley
15. 1942
    • Mrs. Miniver
16. 1943
    • Casablanca
17. 1944
    • Going My Way
18. 1945
    • The Lost Weekend
19. 1946
    • The Best Years of Our Lives
20. 1947
    • Gentleman's Agreement
21. 1948
    • Hamlet
22. 1949
    • All The King's Men
23. 1950
    • All About Eve
24. 1951
    • An American in Paris
25. 1952
    • The Greatest Show on Earth
26. 1953
    • From Here to Eternity
27. 1954
    • On the Waterfront
28. 1955
    • Marty
29. 1956
    • Around the World in 80 Days
30. 1957
    • The Bridge on the River Kwai
31. 1958
    • Gigi
32. 1959
    • Ben-Hur
33. 1960
    • The Apartment
34. 1961
    • West Side Story
35. 1962
    • Lawrence of Arabia
36. 1963
    • Tom Jones
37. 1964
    • My Fair Lady
38. 1965
    • The Sound of Music
39. 1966
    • A Man for All Seasons
40. 1967
    • In the Heat of the Night
41. 1968
    • Oliver!
42. 1969
    • Midnight Cowboy
43. 1970
    • Patton
44. 1971
    • The French Connection
45. 1972
    • The Godfather
46. 1973
    • The Sting
47. 1974
    • The Godfather Part II
48. 1975
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
49. 1976
    • Rocky
50. 1977
    • Annie Hall
51. 1978
    • The Deer Hunter
52. 1979
    • Kramer vs. Kramer
53. 1980
    • Ordinary People
54. 1981
    • Chariots of Fire
55. 1982
    • Gandhi
56. 1983
    • Terms of Endearment
57. 1984
    • Amadeus
58. 1985
    • Out of Africa
59. 1986
    • Platoon
60. 1987
    • The Last Emperor
61. 1988
    • Rain Man
62. 1989
    • Driving Miss Daisy
63. 1990
    • Dances with Wolves
64. 1991
    • The Silence of the Lambs
65. 1992
    • Unforgiven
66. 1993
    • Schindler's List
67. 1994
    • Forrest Gump
68. 1995
    • Braveheart
69. 1996
    • The English Patient
70. 1997
    • Titanic
71. 1998
    • Shakespeare in Love
72. 1999
    • American Beauty
73. 2000
    • Gladiator
74. 2001
    • A Beautiful Mind
75. 2002
    • Chicago
76. 2003
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
77. 2004
    • Million Dollar Baby
78. 2005
    • Crash
79. 2006
    • The Departed
80. 2007
    • No Country for Old Men
81. 2008
    • Slumdog Millionaire
82. 2009
    • The Hurt Locker
83. 2010
    • The King's Speech
84. 2011
    • The Artist
85. 2012
    • Argo
86. 2013
    • 12 Years a Slave
87. 2014
    • Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
88. 2015
    • Spotlight
89. 2016
    • Moonlight
90. 2017
    • The Shape Of Water
91. 2018
    • Green Book
92. 2019
    • Parasite
93. 2020
    • Nomadland
94. 2021
    • CODA
95. 2020
    • Everything Everywhere All at Once

The top films in the 2012 Sight and Sound Poll from the combined votes of 846 critics and 359 directors. Contains films with 3 or more votes. In order by number of votes.

The following is a list of positions and the number of corresponding votes. 21-22 (66 votes), 27-28 (55 votes), 29-30 (54 votes), 36-37 (46 votes), 39-42 (44 votes), 43-46 (43 votes), 47-50 (41 votes), 51-52 (40 votes), 53-55 (39 votes), 56-57 (38 votes), 59-60 (35 votes), 62-74 (33 votes), 75-77 (32 votes), 78-79 (31 votes), 82-88 (28 votes), 89-90 (27 votes), 91-93 (26 votes), 94-99 (25 votes), 100-103 (24 votes), 104-106 (23 votes), 107-110 (22 votes), 111-118 (21 votes), 119-127 (20 votes), 128-139 (19 votes), 140-146 (18 votes), 147-153 (17 votes), 154-166 (16 votes), 167-182 (15 votes), 183-193 (14 votes), 194-206 (13 votes), 207-228 (12 votes), 229-243 (11 votes), 244-271 (10 votes), 272-302 (9 votes), 303-330 (8 votes), 331-375 (7 votes), 376-423 (6 votes), 424-497 (5 votes), 498-624 (4 votes), 625-817 (3 votes)

Source: http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012

The They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1,000 greatest films list is primarily compiled by using over 6000 individual critics' and filmmakers' best-films-of-all-time lists/ballots. The resulting list is very diverse and spans virtually all movie-producing decades and countries.

Source: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm

Oscar nominated best picture of the year.

200 essential movies for everyone to watch whether you’re a film buff or just starting your journey into cinema, compiled by the staff at Rotten Tomatoes. Contains films across genres, movements, centuries, and staff favorites.

Contains all Academy Award winners in Best Picture Category to date.

The list is in order of the Academy Awards Ceremony from the 1st one to the last.

The award was named "Outstanding Picture" for the first two AA. Until 1940 it was named "Outstanding Production". For 3 years between 1941 and 1943 it was named as "Outstanding Motion Picture" and from 1944 to 1961 "Best Motion Picture". Since 1962 the award is called "Best Picture".

Top 100 Classic Movies as rated by Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Top 250 films on IMDB

#BEST DIRECTOR & CORRESPONDING MOVIE BY YEAR

1. 1927/1928
   • Frank Borzage (Dramatic Picture) - 7th Heaven
   • Lewis Milestong (Comedy Picture) - Two Arabian Knights
2. 1928/1929
   • Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady
3. 1929/1930
   • Lewis Mileston - All Quiet on the Western Front
4. 1930/1931
   • Norman Taurog - Skippy
5. 1931/1932
   • Frank Borzage - Bad Girl
6. 1932/1933
   • Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade
7. 1934
   • Frank Capra = It Happened One Night
8. 1935
   • John Ford - The Informer
9. 1936
   • Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
10. 1937
    • Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
11. 1938
    • Frank Capra - You Can't Take It With You
12. 1939
    • Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind
13. 1940
    • John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
14. 1941
    • John Ford - How Green Was My Valley
15. 1942
    • William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver
16. 1943
    • Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
17. 1944
    • Leo McCarey - Going My Way
18. 1945
    • Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
19. 1946
    • William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
20. 1947
    • Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
21. 1948
    • John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
22. 1949
    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
23. 1950
    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
24. 1951
    • George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
25. 1952
    • John Ford - The Quiet Man
26. 1953
    • Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
27. 1954
    • Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
28. 1955
    • Delbert Mann - Marty
29. 1956
    • George Stevens - Giant
30. 1957
    • David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
31. 1958
    • Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
32. 1959
    • William Wyler - Ben-Hur
33. 1960
    • Billy Wilder - The Apartment
34. 1961
    • Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
35. 1962
    • David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
36. 1963
    • Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
37. 1964
    • George Cukor - My Fair Lady
38. 1965
    • Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
39. 1966
    • Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
40. 1967
    • Mike Nichols - The Graduate
41. 1968
    • Carol Reed - Oliver!
42. 1969
    • John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
43. 1970
    • Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
44. 1971
    • William Friedkin - The French Connection
45. 1972
    • Bob Fosse - Cabaret
46. 1973
    • George Roy Hill - The Sting
47. 1974
    • Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
48. 1975
    • Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
49. 1976
    • John G. Aviidsen - Rocky
50. 1977
    • Woody Allen - Annie Hall
51. 1978
    • Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
52. 1979
    • Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
53. 1980
    • Robert Redford - Ordinary People
54. 1981
    • Warren Beatty - Reds
55. 1982
    • Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
56. 1983
    • James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
57. 1984
    • Milos Forman - Amadeus
58. 1985
    • Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
59. 1986
    • Oliver Stone - Platoon
60. 1987
    • Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
61. 1988
    • Barry Levinson - Rain Man
62. 1989
    • Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
63. 1990
    • Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
64. 1991
    • Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
65. 1992
    • Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
66. 1993
    • Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
67. 1994
    • Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
68. 1995
    • Mel Gibson - Braveheart
69. 1996
    • Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
70. 1997
    • James Cameron - Titanic
71. 1998
    • Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
72. 1999
    • Sam Mendes - American Beauty
73. 2000
    • Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
74. 2001
    • Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
75. 2002
    • Roman Polanski - The Pianist
76. 2003
    • Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
77. 2004
    • Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
78. 2005
    • Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
79. 2006
    • Martin Scorsese - The Departed
80. 2007
    • Coen Brothers - No Country for Old Men
81. 2008
    • Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
82. 2009
    • Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
83. 2010
    • Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
84. 2011
    • Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
85. 2012
    • Ang Lee - Life of Pi
86. 2013
    • Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
87. 2014
    • Alejandro G. Inarritu - Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
88. 2015
    • Alejandro G. Inarritu - The Revenant
89. 2016
    • Damien Chazelle - La La Land
90. 2017
    • Guillermo del Toro - The Shape Of Water
91. 2018
    • Alfonso Cuaron - Roma
92. 2019
    • Bong Joon-ho - Parasite
93. 2020
    • Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
94. 2021
    • Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
95. 2022
    • Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert- Everything Everywhere All at Once

Directors only show up next to their first movie until Trakt allows the same item multiple times on a list

The 500 movies in this list have been selected by a combination of 10,000 Empire readers, 50 critics and 150 of Hollywood's finest.

IMdBs Top 250 Movies is always changing and can feel overwhelming to someone trying to tackle this list. Below is a list of films that have always been on the Top 250 list. For the past 24 years these films have never dropped out of the Top 250 and is a great place to start.

List made using data from IMDB Top 250 History - https://250.took.nl/titles/recurrence/

The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board was established in 1988. Each year, 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" are preserved, to increase awareness for its preservation. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old but it is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released.

Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/

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