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Dennis Grunes' 100 Greatest English-Language Films

This list is chronological, although if there are multiple entries for a given year I have ranked those entries, beginning with my favorite among them. The list reflects my one hundred favorite English-language films, then—at a particular moment, that is, on a particular day.
Again, one hundred is a finite, unforgiving number, and everything including the kitchen sink dramas from England can’t make it in.
Here are the one hundred films, then, by year, through 2005.

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1. His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz
by J. Farrell MacDonald
  
2. Nanook of the North - Criterion Collection
by Robert J. Flaherty
  
3.
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 Greed (1924)
by Erich von Stroheim
  
4. Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr.  
5. The Gold Rush  
6.
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 The General (1927)
by Clyde Bruckman
  
7.
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 The Wind
by Victor Sjöström
  
8.
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 Underworld (1927)
by Josef von Sternberg
  
9. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans  
10. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
by Charles Reisner
  
11. City Lights  
12. Duck Soup
by Leo McCarey
  
13. King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Ernest B. Schoedsack
  
14. Man of Aran
by Robert J. Flaherty
  
15. The Lost Patrol (1934)
by John Ford
  
16. Twentieth Century
by Howard Hawks
  
17.
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 The Black Cat (1934)
by Edgar G. Ulmer
  
18.
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 The Devil is a Woman
by Josef von Sternberg
  
19. The Informer - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers with Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster and Directed by JOHN FORD
by John Ford
  
20. Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition)  
21. THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS  
22. Swing Time
by George Stevens
  
23.
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 The River (1938 documentary short)
by Pare Lorentz
  
24.
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 The Spanish Earth (1937)
by Joris Ivens
  
25. Pygmalion - Criterion Collection
by Anthony Asquith
  
26. Stagecoach
by John Ford
  
27. The Long Voyage Home
by John Ford
  
28. The Great Dictator  
29. The Grapes of Wrath
by John Ford
  
30. The Shop Around the Corner
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
31.
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 Power and the Land (1940)  
32. Citizen Kane  
33. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
  
34. Sullivan's Travels
by Preston Sturges
  
35. The Magnificent Ambersons  
36.
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 Fires Were Started
by Humphrey Jennings
  
37. Shadow of a Doubt  
38. Henry V - Criterion Collection
by Laurence Olivier
  
39. Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Vincente Minnelli
  
40. The Battle of San Pietro  
41. Notorious - Criterion Collection  
42. The Lady from Shanghai  
43. Letter From An Unknown Woman [Import]  
44.
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 Quiet One, The  
45.
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 Wagon Master
by John Ford
  
46. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
  
47.
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 The River (1951)
by Jean Renoir
  
48.
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 Europa '51
by Roberto Rossellini
  
49. The Thing from Another World
by Christian Nyby
  
50. The Man in the White Suit
by Alexander Mackendrick
  
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Created by TGTE on Feb 15, 2008.