BFI's 100 American Independent Films
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Detour
1945, in 16 top lists Check -
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Salt of the Earth
1954, in 6 top lists Check -
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On the Bowery
1956, in 4 top lists Check -
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Shadows
1958, in 12 top lists Check -
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Shock Corridor
1963, in 14 top lists Check -
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
1965 — a.k.a. The Leather Girls, in 8 top lists Check -
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Dont Look Back
1967 — a.k.a. Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, in 10 top lists Check -
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Portrait of Jason
1967, in 11 top lists Check -
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Lonesome Cowboys
1968 — a.k.a. Horse, in 2 top lists Check -
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Night of the Living Dead
1968, in 20 top lists Check -
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Targets
1968, in 6 top lists Check -
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Easy Rider
1969, in 17 top lists Check -
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Medium Cool
1969, in 6 top lists Check -
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Wanda
1970, in 11 top lists Check -
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Billy Jack
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971, in 12 top lists Check -
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Two-Lane Blacktop
1971, in 13 top lists Check -
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Pink Flamingos
1972, in 13 top lists Check -
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Badlands
1973, in 23 top lists Check -
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Mean Streets
1973, in 22 top lists Check -
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Nashville
1975, in 21 top lists Check -
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Angel City
1977, in 1 top list Check -
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Eraserhead
1977, in 20 top lists Check -
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Killer of Sheep
1978, in 14 top lists Check -
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Return of the Secaucus Seven
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Evil Dead
1981, in 8 top lists Check -
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Chan Is Missing
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
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Eating Raoul
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
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Smithereens
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
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Born in Flames
1983, in 5 top lists Check -
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Variety
1983, in 3 top lists Check -
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Blood Simple
1984, in 10 top lists Check -
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Stranger Than Paradise
1984, in 14 top lists Check -
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Sherman's March
1985, in 10 top lists Check -
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Trouble in Mind
1985, in 1 top list Check -
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1986, in 7 top lists Check -
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Parting Glances
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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She's Gotta Have It
1986, in 6 top lists Check -
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Candy Mountain
1987, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Thin Blue Line
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
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Drugstore Cowboy
1989, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Kill-Off
1989, in 2 top lists Check -
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Roger & Me
1989, in 12 top lists Check -
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1989, in 11 top lists Check -
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Tongues Untied
1989, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Unbelievable Truth
1989, in 3 top lists Check -
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Metropolitan
1990, in 5 top lists Check -
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Slacker
1990, in 7 top lists Check -
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Boyz n the Hood
1991, in 9 top lists Check -
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Daughters of the Dust
1991, in 9 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 25, 2012; source