Movie Websites

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American Film Institute Lists | The American Film Institute's 100 Greatest American Films

BBC Films

The Bill Douglas Center for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture

Chicago Reader on Film

C.H.U.D. (Cinematic Happenings Under Development)

Classic Movies

The D-Word (on documentaries)

Early Cinema.com

Empire Online

Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

Film History and Criticism: A Selective Guide to Reference Sources in the UC Berkeley Libraries

Film History by Decade

“The Horror Film and the Horror of Film” by David Lavery

IMDB Oscar Site

Internet Movie Data Base 

Jonathan Rosenbaum's Anti-AFI 100

Kino Online

The Movie Cliches List

Movieline Magazine's 100 Best Movies Ever Made

MOVIEWEB: Home Page

National Film Registery Titles of the U. S. Library of Congress 1899-1999

The Palace

Premiere Magazine Online

Professor Robert Yanke's Film History Site

reelclassics.com

Roger Ebert on Movies

Sight and Sound

The Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll

Some Notable Personalities of the Silent Era

They Shoot Pictures Don't They?

Time Out's Centenary Top 100 Films

"Universal Language": American FIlm and Monoculture at Century's End by David Lavery

Video Detective's Top 100 Films of All Time

Village Voice's 100 Best Films of the 20th Century

Visual Alchemy

Voice of the Shuttle Media Studie Page

The World Festival of Foreign Films

 

Internet Movie Data Base Top 50 Films by Decade

1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s

Internet Movie Data Base Top Films by Genre

Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Comedy | Crime | Documentary | Drama | Fantasy | Film-Noir | Horror | Independent | Musical | Mystery | Romance | Science Fiction | Thriller | War | Western


Film 100
100 Most  Influential People in the History of the Movies

1. WK Laurie Dickson
2. Edwin S. Porter
3. Charlie Chaplin
4. Mary Pickford
5. Orson Welles
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Walt Disney
8. D.W.Griffith
9. Will Hays
10. Thomas Edison
11. John Wayne
12. J.R. Bray
13. Billy Bitzer
14. Jesse Lasky
15. George Eastman
16. Sergei Eisenstein
17. Andre Bazin
18. Irving Thalberg
19. Thomas Ince
20. Marlon Brando
21. Louis B. Mayer
22. Greta Garbo
23. Robert Flaherty
24. Lon Chaney
25. Anita Loos
26. George Melies
27. Adolph Zukor
28. John Gilbert
29. Max Fleischer
30. John Ford
31. William Fox
32. George Lucas
33. Linwood Gale Dunn
34. Eadweard Muybridge

35. Katharine Hepburn
36. Winsor McCay
37. Stanley Kubrick
38. Buster Keaton
39. James Agee
40. Fritz Lang
41. Marcus Loew
42. Cedric Gibbons
43. James Cagney
44. Ben Hecht
45. Ingmar Bergman
46. Humphrey Bogart
47. Leon Schlesinger
48. Louella Parsons
49. Roger Corman
50. Edith Head
51. Bernard Herrmann
52. Gary Cooper
53. Mike Todd
54. Ernst Lubitsch
55. Sidney Poitier
56. Saul Bass
57. Billy Wilder
58. Bette Davis
59. Erich Von Stroheim
60. Max Factor
61. Lumiere Bros.
62. Woody Allen
63. Clark Gable
64. David O Selznick
65. Gregg Toland
66. Lillian Gish

67. William Cameron Menzies
68. Lucille Ball
69. Samuel Rothafel
70. Akira Kurosawa
71. Marilyn Monroe
72. Vittorio de Sica
73. Natalie Kalmus
74. Siskel & Ebert
75. Willis O'Brien
76. Shirley Temple
77. Yakima Canutt
78. Sam Peckinpah
79. Jackie Coogan
80. Federico Fellini
81. Leni Riefenstahl
82. Steven Spielberg
83. Sam Warner
84. Jean-Luc Godard
85. Robert De Niro
86. Fred Astaire
87. Francis Ford Coppola
88. Ted Turner
89. Clint Eastwood
90. Dalton Trumbo
91. Dennis Hopper
92. Richard Hollingshead
93. Melvin Van Peebles
94. John Chambers
95. Mack Sennett
96. Martin Scorsese
97. Karl Struss
98. Busby Berkeley
99. John Hubley
100.John Cassavetes