Most Influential Films

15 from TCM:

"The Birth of a Nation" (1915)

"Battleship Potemkin" (1925)

"Metropolis" (1927)

"42nd Street" (1933) (I've seen the stage production)

"It Happened One Night" (1934)

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)

"Gone with the Wind" (1939)

"Stagecoach" (1939)

"Citizen Kane" (1941)

"Bicycle Thieves" (1947)

"Rashomon" (1950)

"The Searchers" (1956)

"Breathless" (1959)

"Psycho" (1960)

"Star Wars" (1977)

and 10 from Roger Ebert:

1. The early Chaplin shorts (I've seen some of these.)

2. "Birth of a Nation"

3. "Battleship Potemkin"

4. "The Jazz Singer"

5. "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs"

6. "Citizen Kane"

7. "Shadows"

8. "Star Wars"

9. "Toy Story"

10. "The Blair Witch Project"

Ones I've seen are in bold print.

from Roger Ebert