Sanderson Beck

This list does not include documentaries.
I have rated only movies I have seen at least once.
Thus many recent movies may be added to the list later.
So far I have written Movie Mirrors about the best movies 1913-1953.

1. Gandhi (1982) .. Richard Attenborough
2. Jesus of Nazareth (1977) .. Franco Zeffirelli
3. Shoulder to Shoulder (1974) .. Midge MacKenzie
4. King (1978) .. Abby Mann
5. Hamlet (1996) .. Kenneth Branagh
6. Reds (1981) .. Warren Beatty
7. The Adams Chronicles (1976) .. various
8. Fall of Eagles (1974) .. various
9. War & Peace (1972) .. John Davies
10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
11. Gone With the Wind (1939) .. Victor Fleming
12. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) .. Stanley Kramer
13. Ben-Hur (1959) .. William Wyler
14. My Fair Lady (1964) .. George Cukor
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
16. The Great Dictator (1940) .. Charles Chaplin
17. John Adams (2008) .. Tom Hooper
18. Elizabeth R (1971) .. Roderick Graham
19. Roots (1977) .. various
20. I, Claudius (1976) .. Herbert Wise
21. Schindler's List (1993) .. Steven Spielberg
22. The Sound of Music (1965) .. Robert Wise
23. All the President's Men (1976) .. Alan J. Pakula
24. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) .. Lewis Milestone
25. Paths of Glory (1957) .. Stanley Kubrick
26. Mary Poppins (1964) .. Robert Stevenson
27. Malcolm X (1992) .. Spike Lee
28. A Man for All Seasons (1966) .. Fred Zinnemann
29. Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
30. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) .. Frank Capra
31. City Lights (1931) .. Charles Chaplin
32. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) .. Frank Capra
33. Patton (1970) .. Franklin J. Schaffner
34. Missing (1982) .. Costa-Gavras
35. From the Earth to the Moon (1998) .. Michael Grossman
36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) .. Milos Forman
37. Oliver! (1968) .. Carol Reed
38. Pride and Prejudice (1995) .. Simon Langton
39. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
40. Salvador (1986) .. Oliver Stone
41. Doctor Zhivago (1965) .. David Lean
42. Cry Freedom (1987) .. Richard Attenborough
43. Heimat (1984) .. Edgar Reitz
44. Centennial (1978) .. Virgil W. Vogel & Paul Krasny & Harry Falk
45. The Life of Emile Zola (1937) .. William Dieterle
46. Separate But Equal (1991) .. George Stevens Jr.
47. Gabriel Over the White House (1933) .. Gregory La Cava
48. Silkwood (1983) .. Mike Nichols
49. Milk (2008) .. Gus Van Sant
50. West Side Story (1961) .. Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise
51. Romeo and Juliet (1968) .. Franco Zeffirelli
52. 12 Angry Men (1957) .. Sidney Lumet
53. JFK (1991) .. Oliver Stone
54. Days of Wine and Roses (1962) .. Blake Edwards
55. Othello (1965) .. Stuart Burge
56. Anna Karenina (1977) .. Basil Coleman
57. Tom Jones (1963) .. Tony Richardson
58. Fiddler on the Roof (1971) .. Norman Jewison
59. Luther (2003) .. Eric Till
60. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) .. Jacques Demy
61. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) .. Naomi Capon & John Glenister
62. The Killing Fields (1984) .. Roland Joffé
63. The China Syndrome (1979) .. James Bridges
64. Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977) .. Daniel Petrie
65. Eleanor and Franklin (1976) .. Daniel Petrie
66. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) .. David Lean
67. Becket (1964) .. Peter Glenville
68. The Apartment (1960) .. Billy Wilder
69. Modern Times (1936) .. Charles Chaplin
70. Bleak House (2005) .. Justin Chadwick & Susanna White
71. In the Heat of the Night (1967) .. Norman Jewison
72. Angels in America (2005) .. Mike Nichols
73. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) .. Steven Spielberg
74. The Music Man (1962) .. Morton DaCosta
75. On the Waterfront (1954) .. Elia Kazan
76. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) .. Elia Kazan
77. Born on the Fourth of July (1989) .. Oliver Stone
78. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) .. William Dieterle
79. The Good Shepherd (2006) .. Robert De Niro
80. War and Peace (1967) .. Sergei Bondarchuk
81. Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz
82. Francesco (1989) .. Liliana Cavani
83. Star Wars (1977) .. George Lucas
84. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) .. Alexander Hall
85. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) .. Norman Jewison
86. Platoon (1986) .. Oliver Stone
87. Some Like It Hot (1959) .. Billy Wilder
88. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) .. John Frankenheimer
89. It Happened One Night (1934) .. Frank Capra
90. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) .. Franco Zeffirelli
91. Spartacus (1960) .. Stanley Kubrick
92. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) .. Jean-Paul Rappeneau
93. Annie Hall (1977) .. Woody Allen
94. Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) .. Sidney Lumet
95. Coming Home (1978) .. Hal Ashby
96. The Miracle Worker (1962) .. Arthur Penn
97. His Girl Friday (1940) .. Howard Hawks
98. La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir
99. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) .. William Wyler