A chronological canon of cinema’s most artistically accomplished, historically significant, and enduring masterpieces.

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THE GOLDEN 10 – (1928) The Passion of Joan of Arc – (1931) City Lights – (1941) Citizen Kane – (1953) Tokyo Story – (1954) Seven Samurai – (1958) Vertigo – (1963) 8½ – (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey – (1972) The Godfather – (1979) Apocalypse Now

THE SILVER 20 – (1925) Battleship Potemkin – (1927) Metropolis – (1931) M – (1936) Modern Times – (1939) The Rules of the Game – (1942) Casablanca – (1948) Bicycle Thieves – (1950) Rashomon – (1950) Sunset Boulevard – (1952) Singin' in the Rain – (1956) The Searchers – (1957) The Seventh Seal – (1960) Psycho – (1962) Lawrence of Arabia – (1966) Persona – (1968) Once Upon a Time in the West – (1974) The Godfather Part II – (1976) Taxi Driver – (1979) Stalker – (1994) Pulp Fiction

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Decades:
20s – 9
30s – 8
40s – 10
50s – 30
60s – 23
70s – 22
80s – 17
90s – 13
00s – 13
10s – 5

Most represented years (min. 3 films):
1957, 1960, 1975 – 6
1954 – 5
1959, 1966 – 4
1939, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1962, 1968, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1994, 2000 – 3

Countries of origin:
79 – United States
12 – France
11 – Japan
10 – Italy
7 – Germany, Soviet Union
6 – United Kingdom
4 – Sweden
3 – South Korea
1 – Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iran, New Zealand, Spain, Taiwan

Directors (min. 2 films):
6 – Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa
4 – Ingmar Bergman, Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Billy Wilder
3 – Francis Ford Coppola, Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky
2 – Frank Capra, The Coen Brothers, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Victor Fleming, Milos Forman, Bong Joon Ho, John Huston, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, David Lean, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Kenji Mizoguchi, F.W. Murnau, Christopher Nolan, Roman Polanski, Jean Renoir, Ridley Scott, Orson Welles