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 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward F. Cline

  2. 2.
    Christmas in July
    by Preston Sturges

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

  4. 4.
    Fantasia (Special 60th Anniversary Edition)
    by James Algar

  5. 5.
    Foreign Correspondent
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  6. 6.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  7. 7.
    The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  8. 8.
    His Girl Friday

  9. 9.
    The Mark of Zorro

  10. 10.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

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

  12. 12.
    Rebecca (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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

  14. 14.
    The Sea Hawk
    by Michael Curtiz

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

  16. 16.
    They Drive by Night (Snap case)
    by Crane Wilbur

  17. 17.
    Thief of Bagdad (1940)

  18. 18.
    ?

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

  20. 20.
    49th Parallel
    by Michael Powell

  21. 21.
    Ball of Fire
    by Howard Hawks

  22. 22.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  23. 24.
    Dumbo (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Ben Sharpsteen

  24. 25.
    Hellzapoppin' (1941)
    by H.C. Potter

  25. 26.
    High Sierra (Snap Case)
    by Raoul Walsh

  26. 27.
    How Green Was My Valley

  27. 28.

  28. 29.
    Listen to Britain and Other Films By Humphrey Jennings
    by Harry Watt

  29. 30.
    The Little Foxes
    by William Wyler

  30. 31.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  31. 32.
    Meet John Doe
    by Frank Capra

  32. 33.
    ?
    The Night Before Christmas (1941)
    by William Hanna / Joseph Barbera

  33. 34.
    Shanghai Gesture
    by Josef von Sternberg

  34. 35.
    The Strawberry Blonde
    by Raoul Walsh

  35. 36.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  36. 37.
    Superman (1941)
    by Dave Fleischer

  37. 38.
    The Wolf Man

  38. 39.
    A Woman's Face
    by George Cukor

  39. 40.
    Bambi (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)

  40. 41.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  41. 42.
    Cat People (1942)
    by Jacques Tourneur

  42. 43.
    Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)
    by Jack Kinney

  43. 44.
    ?
    Gentleman Jim
    by Raoul Walsh

  44. 45.
    In Which We Serve
    by Noel Coward

  45. 46.
    The Jungle Book
    by Zoltan Korda

  46. 47.
    ?
    Les Visiteurs du Soir/The Devil's Envoys
    by Marcel Carne

  47. 48.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

  48. 49.
    Mrs. Miniver
    by Allan Kenward

  49. 50.
    Now, Voyager (Keepcase)
    by Irving Rapper

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