Barry Norman’s 100 Greatest Films of All Time

Barry Norman, the much loved British film critic, died in June 2017. He was best known as the host of BBC1’s Film… programme from 1972-1998 before moving on to do a similar show on Sky. A few years before his death he compiled a list of the 100 greatest films for the Radio Times who he worked for as a columnist. Norman split up his picks into 10 genres.

Adventure

• 1. The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938
• 2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000
• 3. The Dark Knight 2008
• 4. Deliverance 1972
• 5. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade 1989
• 6. Jaws 1975
• 7. Gladiator 2000
• 8. Lawrence of Arabia 1962
• 9. Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003
• 10. Seven Samurai 1954
  

  Comedy

• 11. Airplane! 1980
• 12. Annie Hall 1977
• 13. Blazing Saddles 1974
• 14. Bringing Up Baby 1938
• 15. Duck Soup 1933
• 16. Groundhog Day 1993
• 17. Kind Hearts And Coronets 1949
• 18. Monty Python And The Holy Grail  1975
• 19. Ninotchka 1939
• 20. Some Like It Hot 1959

Drama

• 21. All About Eve 1950
• 22. Bad Day at Black Rock 1955
• 23. It’s A Wonderful Life 1946
• 24. Citizen Kane 1941
• 25. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975
• 26. Raging Bull 1980
• 27. The Shawshank Redemption 1994
• 28. Sunset Boulevard 1950
• 29. To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
• 30. 12 Angry Men 1957

Family

• 31. Bambi 1942
• 32. E.T,The Extra-Terrestrial 1962
• 33. Harry Potter 2001-2011
• 34. Great Expectations 1946
• 35. Mary Poppins 1964
• 36. The Railway Children 1970
• 37. Shrek 2001
• 38. The Jungle Book 1967
• 39. Toy Story 1995
• 40. The Wizard of Oz 1939

Horror/sci-fi

• 41. The Exorcist 1973
• 42. Frankenstein 1931
• 43. Halloween 1978
• 44. Night of the Living Dead 1968
• 45. Rosemary’s Baby 1968
• 46. Alien 1979
• 47. Blade Runner 1982
• 48. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
• 49. Star Wars Episode IV: a New Hope 1977
• 50. 2001: a Space Odyssey 1968

Musical

• 51. Cabaret 1972
• 52. High Society 1956
• 53. Kiss Me Kate 1953
• 54. Moulin Rouge! 2001
• 55. My Fair Lady 1964
• 56. The Red Shoes 1948
• 57. Saturday Night Fever 1977
• 58. Singin’ in the Rain 1952
• 59. Chicago 2002
• 60. West Side Story 1961

Romance

• 61. Brief Encounter 1945
• 62. Casablanca 1942
• 63. Gone with the Wind 1939
• 64. The Graduate 1967
• 65. Gregory’s Girl 1980
• 66. I Know Where I’m Going! 1945
• 67. It Happened One Night 1934
• 68. A Matter of Life and Death 1946
• 69. William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet 1996
• 70. When Harry Met Sally 1989

Thriller

• 71. The Big Sleep 1946
• 72. Chinatown 1974
• 73. Dirty Harry 1971
• 74. The Godfather 1972
• 75. Goodfellas 1990
• 76. LA Confidential 1997
• 77. North by Northwest 1959
• 78. Psycho 1960
• 79. The Silence of the Lambs 1991
• 80. The Third Man 1949

War

• 81. Apocalypse Now 1979
• 82. Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
• 83. The Cruel Sea 1952
• 84. Dr Strangelove 1963
• 85. The Great Escape 1963
• 86. The Hurt Locker 2008
• 87. Schindler’s List 1993
• 88. Paths of Glory 1957
• 89. Shoah 1985
• 90. To Be or Not to Be 1942

Western

• 91. High Noon 1952
• 92. The Magnificent Seven 1960
• 93. No Country for Old Men 2007
• 94. The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976
• 95. Red River 1948
• 96. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
• 97. The Searchers 1956
• 98. Shane 1953
• 99. Unforgiven 1992
• 100. The Wild Bunch 1969