The top 250 directors and their best film according to TSPDT/DtC (2012)
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This list contains 250 films by the 250 greatest directors of all time, according to "they shoot pictures don't they?". Each director has one entry; their most critically acclaimed film. Two directors appear more than once on the list (Michael Powell and Stanley Donen) and all together there are 5 director couples (Powell/Pressburger, Donen/Kelly, Coen Brothers, Cooper/Schoedsack and Straub/Huillet). #76 is a TV-mini-series; #81, #151, #157, #180, #190 and #202 are short features, the rest of the entries are featured films.
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Le voyage dans la lune
1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check -
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Les vampires
1915, in 14 top lists Check -
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Greed
1924, in 21 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 33 top lists Check -
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7th Heaven
1927, in 11 top lists Check -
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Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check -
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
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The Crowd
1928, in 20 top lists Check -
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La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check -
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Potomok Chingis-Khana
1928 — a.k.a. Storm Over Asia, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Wind
1928, in 14 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Die Büchse der Pandora
1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check -
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1930, in 19 top lists Check -
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Der blaue Engel
1930 — a.k.a. The Blue Angel, in 17 top lists Check -
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Zemlya
1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check -
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Le million
1931 — a.k.a. Le Million, in 8 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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Love Me Tonight
1932, in 11 top lists Check -
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Duck Soup
1933, in 24 top lists Check -
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King Kong
1933, in 26 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
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Bride of Frankenstein
1935, in 19 top lists Check -
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A Night at the Opera
1935, in 17 top lists Check -
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Top Hat
1935, in 14 top lists Check -
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Triumph des Willens
1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check -
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Le roman d'un tricheur
1936 — a.k.a. The Story of a Cheat, in 7 top lists Check -
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937, in 25 top lists Check -
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La règle du jeu
1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 38 top lists Check -
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Fantasia
1940, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Lady Eve
1941, in 20 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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Listen to Britain
1942, in 7 top lists Check -
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To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check -
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Ox-Bow Incident
1943, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...
1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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Detour
1945, in 16 top lists Check -
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Les enfants du paradis
1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check -
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La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
Last updated on Feb 22, 2012; source