1. | Citizen Kane (1941) |
2. | The Godfather (1972) |
3. | Casablanca (1942) |
4. | Raging Bull (1980) |
5. | Singin' in the Rain (1952) |
6. | Gone with the Wind (1939) |
7. | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
8. | Schindler's List (1993) |
9. | Vertigo (1958) |
10. | The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
11. | City Lights (1931) |
12. | The Searchers (1956) |
13. | Star Wars (1977) |
14. | Psycho (1960) |
15. | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
16. | Sunset Blvd. (1950) |
17. | The Graduate (1967) |
18. | The General (1927) |
19. | On the Waterfront (1954) |
20. | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) |
21. | Chinatown (1974) |
22. | Some Like It Hot (1959) |
23. | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) |
24. | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
25. | To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) |
26. | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) |
27. | High Noon (1952) |
28. | All About Eve (1950) |
29. | Double Indemnity (1944) |
30. | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
31. | The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
32. | The Godfather Part II (1974) |
33. | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
34. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) |
35. | Annie Hall (1977) |
36. | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
37. | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
38. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
39. | Dr. Strangelove (1964) |
40. | The Sound of Music (1965) |
41. | King Kong (1933) |
42. | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
43. | Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
44. | The Philadelphia Story (1940) |
45. | Shane (1953) |
46. | It Happened One Night (1934) |
47. | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
48. | Rear Window (1954) |
49. | Intolerance (1916) |
50. | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
51. | West Side Story (1961) |
52. | Taxi Driver (1976) |
53. | The Deer Hunter (1978) |
54. | M*A*S*H (1970) |
55. | North By Northwest (1959) |
56. | Jaws (1977) |
57. | Rocky (1976) |
58. | The Gold Rush (1925) |
59. | Nashville (1975) |
60. | Duck Soup (1933) |
61. | Sullivan's Travels (1958) |
62. | American Graffiti (1973) |
63. | Cabaret (1972) |
64. | Network (1976) |
65. | The African Queen (1951) |
66. | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
67. | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) |
68. | Unforgiven (1992) |
69. | Tootsie (1982) |
70. | A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
71. | Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
72. | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
73. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
74. | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
75. | In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
76. | Forrest Gump (1994) |
77. | All the President's Men (1976) |
78. | Modern Times (1936) |
79. | The Wild Bunch (1969) |
80. | The Apartment (1960) |
81. | Spartacus (1960) |
82. | Sunrise (1927) |
83. | Titanic (1997) |
84. | Easy Rider (1969) |
85. | A Night at the Opera (1935) |
86. | Platoon (1986) |
87. | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
88. | Bringing Up Baby (1938) |
89. | The Sixth Sense (1999) |
90. | Swing Time (1936) |
91. | Sophie's Choice (1982) |
92. | Goodfellas (1990) |
93. | The French Connection (1971) |
94. | Pulp Fiction (1994) |
95. | The Last Picture Show (1971) |
96. | Do the Right Thing (1989) |
97. | Blade Runner (1982) |
98. | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) |
99. | Toy Story (1995) |
100. | Ben-Hur (1959) |
Titles in yellowish are ones I'd already seen prior to starting this whole thing, so they don't count. The 50 will come from the remaining titles.
***Update 1/30: I have put many of these in my Blockbuster Online queue. They're in green, and barring delays, they're scheduled to come in reverse order, starting with Ben Hur. Game on.
***Update 2/9: If you're thinking of undertaking this sort of endeavor in the Nashville area, the Blockbuster on West End has an outstanding inventory of these movies. I can't say the same for Gallatin Rd. in Inglewood, but West End is most certainly my new Blockbuster.