Combined Film Canon - 1940 / 1949

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Updated: June 2007

The “Combined Film Canon” is a list of 2,000 great movies, assembled by combining the “They Shoot Pictures Don’t They” list of 1,000 movies and a “Doubling the Canon” list, created by participants on the IMDb Classic Film message board, which added an additional 1,000 great movies. The result is a list of 2,000 movies, which includes feature films, shorts, TV-movies, and TV mini-series. It does not include TV series or music videos.

Because of its unwieldy size, the Combined Film Canon will be posted as nine lists: 1890-1929, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000-present. These lists will be updated regularly, as They Shoot Pictures and the “Doubling the Canon” project make revisions.

On each of the nine Combined Film Canon lists, movies are first listed chronologically, and then alphabetically within the years.

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  1. 1.
    The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
    by Edward F. Cline

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  2. 2.
    Christmas in July
    by Preston Sturges

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  3. 3.
    Dance, Girl, Dance
    by Dorothy Arzner

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  4. 5.
    Foreign Correspondent

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  5. 6.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

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  6. 8.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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  7. 9.
    The Mark of Zorro
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  8. 10.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

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  9. 11.
    Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
    by Hamilton Luske

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  10. 12.
    Rebecca - Criterion Collection

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  11. 13.
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    Remember the Night (1940)
    by Mitchell Leisen

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  12. 14.
    The Sea Hawk
    by Michael Curtiz

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  13. 15.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  14. 16.
    They Drive by Night (Snap case)
    by Raoul Walsh

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  15. 17.
    Thief of Bagdad (1940)
    by Zoltan Korda

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  17. 19.
    The 47 Ronin: Parts 1 & 2
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  18. 20.
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    49th Parallel
    by Michael Powell

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  19. 21.
    Ball of Fire
    by Howard Hawks

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  20. 22.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  21. 23.
    The Devil & Daniel Webster - Criterion Collection
    by William Dieterle

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  22. 24.
    Dumbo (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Ben Sharpsteen

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  23. 25.
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    Hellzapoppin' (1941)
    by H.C. Potter

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  24. 26.
    High Sierra (Snap Case)
    by Raoul Walsh

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  25. 27.
    How Green Was My Valley
    by John Ford

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  26. 28.
    The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
    by Preston Sturges

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  27. 29.
    Listen to Britain and Other Films by Humphrey Jennings
    by Humphrey Jennings

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  28. 30.
    The Little Foxes
    by William Wyler

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  29. 31.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  30. 32.
    Meet John Doe
    by Frank Capra

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  31. 33.
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    Night Before Christmas, The (1941)
    by William Hanna / Joseph Barbera

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  32. 34.
    Shanghai Gesture
    by Josef von Sternberg

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  33. 35.
    The Strawberry Blonde
    by Raoul Walsh

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  34. 37.
    Superman (1941)
    by Dave Fleischer

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  35. 38.
    The Wolf Man
    by George Waggner

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  36. 39.
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    A Woman's Face

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  37. 40.
    Bambi (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by David Hand

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  38. 41.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  39. 42.
    Cat People (1942)
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  40. 43.
    Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)
    by Jack Kinney

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    Gentleman Jim
    by Raoul Walsh

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  42. 45.
    In Which We Serve
    by Noel Coward

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  43. 46.
    The Jungle Book
    by Zoltan Korda

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    Les Visiteurs du Soir/The Devil's Envoys
    by Marcel Carne

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  45. 48.
    The Magnificent Ambersons

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  46. 49.
    Mrs. Miniver
    by William Wyler

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  47. 50.
    Now, Voyager (Keepcase)
    by Irving Rapper

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