Brussels World’s Fair (aka Expo 58) best films of all time

At the Brussels World’s Fair (aka Expo 58), a panel of 117 international film experts/reviewers/historians from 26 countries organised by the Belgian Cinematek (The Royal Belgian Film Archive) voted in a poll to determine the best films of all time. It’s considered the first international film poll to take place.

1 Броненосец Потёмкин (Battleship Potemkin) Sergei Eisenstein 1925 – 100 Votes
=2 The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin 1925 – 85
=2 Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) Vittorio De Sica 1948 – 85
4 La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928 – 78
5 La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir 1937 – 72
6 Greed Erich von Stroheim 1924 – No. of votes unknown
7 Intolerance D. W. Griffith 1916 – No. of votes unknown
8 Mother Vsevolod Pudovkin 1926 – No. of votes unknown
9 Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941 – 50
10 Earth Alexander Dovzhenko 1930 – No. of votes unknown
11 The Last Laugh F.W. Murnau 1924 – No. of votes unknown
12 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Robert Wiene 1920 – No. of votes unknown