They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? Starting List of 7900+ Most Notable Films (1940-1949)

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Here it is, for your viewing pleasure. The starting list (of over 7900 films), from which They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? select annually the 1000 Greatest Films. The list itself is created from various film critics and filmmakers’ "best-films-of-all-time" lists/ballots, as well as annual film magazine polls.

To make it more easier to shift through, this enormous list will be organized chronologically, then alphabetically by title, and finally catagorized by decade (in nine parts).

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  1. 1.
    Arise, My Love (1940)
    by Mitchell Leisen

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  2. 2.
    The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
    by Edward F. Cline

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  3. 3.
    Blue Bird
    by Walter Lang

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  4. 4.
    Broadway Melody of 1940
    by Norman Taurog

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  5. 5.
    Christmas in July (1940)
    by Preston Sturges

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  6. 6.
    A Chump at Oxford
    by Alfred J. Goulding

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  7. 7.
    Dance, Girl, Dance
    by Dorothy Arzner

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  8. 8.
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    De Mayerling à Sarajevo
    by by Max Ophuls

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  9. 9.
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    Dots (1940)
    by Norman McLaren

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  10. 10.
    Dr. Cyclops
    by Ernest B. Shoedsack

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  11. 11.
    Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
    by William Dieterle

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  12. 12.
    Escape (1940)
    by Mervyn LeRoy

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  13. 13.
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    Fantasia
    by Ben Sharpsteen

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  14. 14.
    Foreign Correspondent

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  15. 15.
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    Gaslight (1940)
    by Thorold Dickinson

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  16. 16.
    The Ghost Breakers
    by George Marshall

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  17. 17.
    Go West (Marx Brothers)
    by Edward Buzzell

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  18. 18.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

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  19. 19.
    The Great Dictator (1940)
    by Charles Chaplin

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  20. 20.
    The Great McGinty
    by Preston Sturges

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  21. 21.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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  22. 22.
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    Johnny Apollo
    by Henry Hathaway

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  23. 23.
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    Kora Terry (1940)
    by Georg Jacoby

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  24. 24.
    Knute Rockne All American
    by Lloyd Bacon

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  25. 25.
    The Letter
    by William Wyler

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  26. 26.
    The Long Voyage Home
    by John Ford

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  27. 27.
    The Mark of Zorro
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  28. 28.
    Melody Ranch
    by Joseph Santley

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  29. 29.
    The Mortal Storm (1940)
    by Frank Borzage

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  30. 30.
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    The Mummy's Hand (1940)
    by Christy Cabanne

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  31. 31.
    My Favorite Wife
    by Garson Kanin

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  32. 32.
    My Little Chickadee
    by Eddie Cline

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  33. 34.
    Night Train to Munich
    by Carol Reed

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  34. 35.
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    North West Mounted Police
    by Cecil B. DeMille

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  35. 36.
    Northwest Passage (1940)
    by King Vidor

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  36. 37.
    Our Town
    by Sam Wood

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  37. 38.
    The Philadelphia Story
    by George Cukor

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  38. 39.
    Pinocchio
    by Ben Sharpsteen;Hamilton S. Luske

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  39. 40.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Robert Z. Leonard

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  40. 41.
    Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (Import)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  41. 42.
    Remember the Night (1940)
    by Mitchell Leisen

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  42. 43.
    Return of Frank James
    by Fritz Lang

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  43. 44.
    Rhythm on the River (1940)
    by Victor Schertzinger

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  44. 45.
    Road to Singapore
    by Victor Schertzinger

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  45. 46.
    Saps At Sea

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  46. 47.
    The Sea Hawk (1940)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  47. 48.
    The Shop Around the Corner
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  48. 49.
    Strange Cargo (1940)
    by Frank Borzage

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  49. 50.
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    Strike Up The Band (1940)
    by Busby Berkeley

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Created by Dreda457 on Feb 06, 2009.
 

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Dreda457
Burlingame

A Total of 659 Films — 39 weeks ago

Just a note: There are some slight discrepencies between the years. Not a big deal, but beware when looking chronologically.