The Best Years of Film

1902:

Terrible Teddy, The Grizzly King, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little Match Girl, Le Voyage dans la Lune

1910:

Frankenstein, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Arcadian Maid, A Christmas Carol

1914:

Making a Living, Twenty Minutes of Love, Caught in a Cabaret, A Film Johnnie

1920:

Why Change Your Wife?, The Saphead, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Headin’ Home

1926:

Ben-Hur, The General, Mantrap, Dancing Mothers

1934:

It Happened One Night, The Scarlet Empress, The Thin Man

1938:

Boys Town, Bringing Up Baby, You Can’t Take it With You, The Adventures of Robin Hood

1939:

Babes in Arms, Beau Geste, Destry Rides Again, Gone With the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Gunga Din, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Only Angels Have Wings, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Young Mr. Lincoln

1940:

The Bank Dick, Fantasia, The Grapes of Wrath, His Girl Friday, The Mark of Zorro, The Philadelphia Story, Pinocchio, Rebecca

1944:

Double Indemnity, Going My Way, Hail the Conquering Hero, Laura, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, To Have or Have Not

1946:

The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Gilda, It’s a Wonderful Life, My Darling Clementine, Notorious, The Yearling

1951:

The African Queen, An American in Paris, The Day the Earth Stood Still, A Place in the Sun, Strangers on a Train, A Streetcar Named Desire

1955:

The Blackboard Jungle, East of Eden, Lady and the Tramp, Marty, Mister Roberts, Night of the Hunter, Oklahoma, Rebel Without a Cause, The Seven Year Itch

1959:

Anatomy of a Murder, Ben-Hur, Diary of Anne Frank, Imitation of Life, North by Northwest, On the Beach, Pillow Talk, Shadows, Some Like it Hot

1962:

Days of Wine and Roses, Lawrence of Arabia, The Longest Day, The Manchurian Candidate, To Kill a Mockingbird, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1964:

The Americanization of Emily, Dr. Strangelove, Goldfinger, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady

1967:

Barefoot in the Park, Bonnie and Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle Book, Two for the Road

1973:

American Graffiti, The Exorcist, Last Tango in Paris, Mean Streets, The Sting, The Way We Were

1977:

Annie Hall, The Goodbye Girl, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1978:

Coming Home, Days of Heaven, The Deer Hunter, Grease, Animal House

1982:

Blade Runner, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gandhi, Missing, Sophie’s Choice, Tootsie

1986:

Blue Velvet, Children of a Lesser God, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Hannah and her Sisters, Platoon

1993:

The Fugitive, The Joy Luck Club, Jurassic Park, Philadelphia, Schindler’s List, Sleepless in Seattle

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