Combined Film Canon - 1940 / 1949

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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.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  6. 6.
    The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  7. 7.
    His Girl Friday

  8. 8.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

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

  10. 10.
    Rebecca (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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

  12. 12.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  13. 13.
    The Stars Look Down
    by Carol Reed

  14. 14.
    They Drive by Night (Snap case)
    by Crane Wilbur

  15. 15.
    Thief of Bagdad (1940)

  16. 16.
    Waterloo Bridge
    by Mervyn Leroy

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

  18. 18.
    Ball of Fire

  19. 19.
    Blues in the Night
    by Anatole Litvak

  20. 20.
    ?

  21. 21.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  22. 23.
    The Devil and Miss Jones
    by Sam Wood

  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.
    The Little Foxes
    by William Wyler

  29. 30.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  30. 31.
    ?
    Man Hunt (1941)
    by Fritz Lang

  31. 32.
    Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
    by Hiroshi Shimizu

  32. 33.
    Shanghai Gesture
    by Josef von Sternberg

  33. 34.
    ?
    STORMY WATERS (Remorques) (1941-France)
    by Jean Gremillon

  34. 35.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  35. 36.
    They Died with Their Boots On
    by Raoul Walsh

  36. 37.
    The Wolf Man

  37. 38.
    Aniki Bobo (1942)
    by Manoel de Oliveira

  38. 39.
    Bambi (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)

  39. 40.
    ?

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

  44. 45.
    ?
    Emberek a havason
    by István Szöts

  45. 46.
    Kings Row
    by Sam Wood

  46. 47.
    Listen To Britain
    by Humphrey Jennings

  47. 48.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

  48. 49.
    Mrs. Miniver
    by William Wyler

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

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