Seeking out the
5000 greatest films
in a century of cinema
Films From Year
Films
1.
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
2.
The Maltese Falcon
John Huston
Films
3.
How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
4.
The Little Foxes
William Wyler
5.
49th Parallel
Michael Powell
6.
High Sierra
Raoul Walsh
7.
Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges
8.
Tobacco Road
John Ford
9.
Hold Back the Dawn
Mitchell Leisen
Films
10.
The Lady Eve
Preston Sturges
11.
Dumbo
Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney, Norman Ferguson, Bill Roberts, and Samuel Armstrong
12.
The Sea Wolf
Michael Curtiz
13.
The Strawberry Blonde
Raoul Walsh
14.
Western Union
Fritz Lang
15.
Sergeant York
Howard Hawks
16.
Suspicion
Alfred Hitchcock
17.
The Devil and Miss Jones
Sam Wood
18.
Ball of Fire
Howard Hawks
19.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Edward F. Cline
20.
That Uncertain Feeling
Ernst Lubitsch
21.
Shadow of the Thin Man
W.S. Van Dyke
22.
The Reluctant Dragon
Hamilton Luske and Alfred L. Werker
Films
23.
Ziegfeld Girl
Busby Berkeley and Robert Z. Leonard
24.
A Woman's Face
George Cukor
25.
Lady Be Good
Norman Z. McLeod and Busby Berkeley
26.
Out of the Fog
Anatole Litvak
27.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Alfred Hitchcock
28.
Pot o' Gold
George Marshall
Films
29.
The Wolf Man
George Waggner
30.
Road to Zanzibar
Victor Schertzinger
49th Parallel
Michael Powell
A Woman's Face
George Cukor
Ball of Fire
Howard Hawks
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
Dumbo
Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney, Norman Ferguson, Bill Roberts, and Samuel Armstrong
High Sierra
Raoul Walsh
Hold Back the Dawn
Mitchell Leisen
How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
Lady Be Good
Norman Z. McLeod and Busby Berkeley
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Alfred Hitchcock
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Edward F. Cline
Out of the Fog
Anatole Litvak
Pot o' Gold
George Marshall
Road to Zanzibar
Victor Schertzinger
Sergeant York
Howard Hawks
Shadow of the Thin Man
W.S. Van Dyke
Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges
Suspicion
Alfred Hitchcock
That Uncertain Feeling
Ernst Lubitsch
The Devil and Miss Jones
Sam Wood
The Lady Eve
Preston Sturges
The Little Foxes
William Wyler
The Maltese Falcon
John Huston
The Reluctant Dragon
Hamilton Luske and Alfred L. Werker
The Sea Wolf
Michael Curtiz
The Strawberry Blonde
Raoul Walsh
The Wolf Man
George Waggner
Tobacco Road
John Ford
Western Union
Fritz Lang
Ziegfeld Girl
Busby Berkeley and Robert Z. Leonard
High Sierra
Raoul Walsh
25 January 1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Alfred Hitchcock
31 January 1941
Western Union
Fritz Lang
21 February 1941
The Strawberry Blonde
Raoul Walsh
22 February 1941
Tobacco Road
John Ford
07 March 1941
The Sea Wolf
Michael Curtiz
21 March 1941
The Lady Eve
Preston Sturges
21 March 1941
Pot o' Gold
George Marshall
03 April 1941
Road to Zanzibar
Victor Schertzinger
11 April 1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
Sam Wood
11 April 1941
That Uncertain Feeling
Ernst Lubitsch
20 April 1941
Ziegfeld Girl
Busby Berkeley and Robert Z. Leonard
25 April 1941
A Woman's Face
George Cukor
09 May 1941
Out of the Fog
Anatole Litvak
14 June 1941
The Reluctant Dragon
Hamilton Luske and Alfred L. Werker
20 June 1941
The Little Foxes
William Wyler
29 August 1941
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
05 September 1941
Hold Back the Dawn
Mitchell Leisen
26 September 1941
Sergeant York
Howard Hawks
27 September 1941
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Edward F. Cline
10 October 1941
The Maltese Falcon
John Huston
18 October 1941
Dumbo
Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney, Norman Ferguson, Bill Roberts, and Samuel Armstrong
31 October 1941
Lady Be Good
Norman Z. McLeod and Busby Berkeley
10 November 1941
Suspicion
Alfred Hitchcock
14 November 1941
Shadow of the Thin Man
W.S. Van Dyke
21 November 1941
Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges
05 December 1941
The Wolf Man
George Waggner
12 December 1941
Ball of Fire
Howard Hawks
09 January 1942
How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
09 April 1942
49th Parallel
Michael Powell
15 April 1942