Most Influential Classic Movies.

• 1. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• 2. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• 3. Metropolis (1927)
• 4. 42nd Street (1933)
• 5. It Happened One Night (1934)
• 6. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
• 7. Gone with the Wind (1939)
• 8. Stagecoach (1939)
• 9. Citizen Kane (1941)
• 10. The Bicycle Thief (1947)
• 11. Rashomon (1950)
• 12. The Searchers (1956)
• 13. Breathless (1959)
• 14. Psycho (1960)
• 15. Star Wars (1977)

"These are not necessarily the most important films, nor representative of “firsts” in film history—these are the movies that shaped the cinema and the audiences that viewed them."