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The Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Polls

In 1952 Sight & Sound polled the world's leading film critics to compile a list of the best films of all time. The magazine has repeated this poll every ten years, to show which films stand the test of time in the face of shifting critical opinion.

This list combines all films from Sight & Sound's all 6 polls.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, UK, Stanley Kubrick)
(1963, Italy, Federico Fellini)
L'Atalante (1934, France, Jean Vigo)
L'Avventura (1960, Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Brief Encounter (1945, UK, David Lean)
Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925, Soviet Union, Sergei M. Eisenstein)
Citizen Kane (1941, USA, Orson Welles)
City Lights (1931, USA, Charles Chaplin)
The General (1927, USA, Clyde Bruckman)
The Godfather (1972, USA, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Godfather: Part II (1974, USA, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Gold Rush (1925, USA, Charles Chaplin)
Greed (1924, USA, Erich von Stroheim)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916, USA, D.W. Griffith)
Ivan Groznyy (1944, Soviet Union, Sergei M. Eisenstein)
Le Jour se lève (1939, France, Marcel Carné)
Ladri di biciclette (1948, Italy, Vittorio De Sica)
Louisiana Story (1948, USA, Robert J. Flaherty)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, USA, Orson Welles)
Modern Times (1936, USA, Charles Chaplin)
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928, France, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Persona (1966, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman)
Raging Bull (1980, USA, Martin Scorsese)
Rashômon (1950, Japan, Akira Kurosawa)
La Règle du jeu (1939, France, Jean Renoir)
The Searchers (1956, USA, John Ford)
Shichinin no samurai (1954, Japan, Akira Kurosawa)
Singin' in the Rain (1952, USA, Stanley Donen)
Smultronstället (1957, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman)
La Strada (1954, Italy, Federico Fellini)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, USA, F.W. Murnau)
La Terra trema: Episodio del mare (1948, Italy, Luchino Visconti)
Tokyo monogatari (1953, Japan, Yasujiro Ozu)
Ugetsu monogatari (1953, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Vertigo (1958, USA, Alfred Hitchcock)
Plump Flicktion by Grzegorz Bober.   List of all featured films.