- Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles
- Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
- Godfather, The (1972) - Francis Coppola
- Gone With the Wind (1939) - Victor Fleming
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - David Lean
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939) - Victor Fleming
- Graduate, The (1967) - Mike Nichols
- On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan
- Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
- It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy Wilder
- Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) - David Lean
- Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder
- Star Wars (1977) - George Lucas
- All About Eve (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- African Queen (1951) - John Huston
- Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock
- Chinatown (1974) - Roman Polanski
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Milos Forman
- Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) - John Ford
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
- Maltese Falcon, The (1941) - John Huston
- Raging Bull (1980) - Martin Scorcese
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Steven Spielberg
- Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Arthur Penn
- Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Coppola
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Frank Capra
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) - John Huston
- Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen
- Godfather: Part II, The (1974) - Francis Coppola
- High Noon (1952) - Fred Zinnemann
- To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) - Robert Mulligan
- It Happened One Night (1934) - Frank Capra
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) - John Schlesinger
- Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) - William Wyler
- Double Indemnity (1944) - Billy Wilder
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) - David Lean
- North By Northwest (1959) - Alfred Hitchcock
- West Side Story (1961) - Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
- Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock
- King Kong (1933) - Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Birth of A Nation, The (1915) - D. W. Griffith
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) - Elia Kazan
- Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Stanley Kubrick
- Taxi Driver (1976) - Martin Scorcese
- Jaws (1975) - Steven Spielberg
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Walt Disney
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - George Roy Hill
- Philadelphia Story, The (1940) - George Cukor
- From Here to Eternity (1953) - Fred Zinnemann
- Amadeus (1984) - Milos Forman
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Lewis Milestone
- Sound of Music, The (1965) - Robert Wise
- M*A*S*H (1970) - Robert Altman
- Third Man, The (1949) - Carol Reed
- Fantasia (1940) - Ben Sharpsteen
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Nichloas Ray
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Steven Spielberg
- Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
- Tootsie (1982) - Sydney Pollack
- Stagecoach (1939) - John Ford
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Steven Spielberg
- Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) - Jonathan Demme
- Network (1976) - Sidney Lumet
- Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) - John Frankenheimer
- American in Paris, An (1951) - Vincente Minelli
- Shane (1953) - George Stevens
- French Connection, The (1971) - William Friedkin
- Forrest Gump (1994) - Robert Zemeckis
- Ben-Hur (1959) - William Wyler
- Wuthering Heights (1939) - William Wyler
- Gold Rush, The (1925) - Charles Chaplin
- Dances With Wolves (1990) - Kevin Costner
- City Lights (1931) - Charles Chaplin
- American Graffiti (1973) - George Lucas
- Rocky (1976) - John G. Avildsen
- Deer Hunter, The (1978) - Michael Cimino
- Wild Bunch, The (1969) - Sam Peckinpah
- Modern Times (1936) - Charles Chaplin
- Giant (1956) - George Stevens
- Platoon (1986) - Oliver Stone
- Fargo (1996) - Joel Coen
- Duck Soup (1933) - Leo McCarey
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Frank Lloyd
- Frankenstein (1931) - James Whale
- Easy Rider (1969) - Dennis Hopper
- Patton (1970) - Franklin J. Schaffner>
- Jazz Singer, The (1927) - Alan Crosland
- My Fair Lady (1964) - George Cukor
- Place in the Sun, A (1951) - George Stevens
- Apartment, The (1960) - Billy Wilder
- GoodFellas (1990) - Martin Scorcese
- Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino
- Searchers, The (1956) - John Ford
- Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Howard Hawks
- Unforgiven (1992) - Clint Eastwood
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Stanley Kramer
- Yankee Doddle Dandy (1942) - Michael Curtiz
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