Highly recommended - here is this site's selection of 100 Greatest Films in the last century of American/Hollywood film-making (including English-language films) - Tim Dirks' list of 100 Greatest Films covers, by conscious choice and with specific criteria, a wide range of genres, decades, stars and directors. Includes a short synopsis and links to longer reviews for each film.

This "Greatest 100 Films" list was created and posted on the Web in mid-1996, almost two years before the American Film Institute's (AFI) much-publicized list in June of 1998 (see Other Greatest Films Lists link below), and before Roger Ebert began his "Great Movies" website.

Note: Throughout this entire Web site, the films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that the site has selected as the "100 Greatest Films".

Also highly recommended by this site - a suggested list of another one hundred greatest films (# 101-200) (also predominantly American/Hollywood and English-language films) to provide a more comprehensive collection - many of which could easily be interchanged with the films selected in the 100 Greatest Films list (above).

Also highly recommended by this site - this compiled list of predominantly American-Hollywood and English-language films combines the 100 Greatest Films list and the Another 100 Greatest Films list (from above) and orders all 200 films chronologically.

Combines all three lists of predominantly American-Hollywood and English-language films: the original 100 Greatest Films list, the Another 100 Greatest Films list, and the Third 200 Greatest Films list, and orders all 300 films chronologically.

Yearly lists (and summary descriptions), with genre icons, of many of the greatest films, predominantly American-Hollywood and English-language films, including the 300 greatest films (from above) - and MANY more.

This presents an overview, in two parts, of the rankings of films regarded as 'greatest' by other critics and film-makers' polls, box-office totals, awards organizations, and other tallies. Although this website doesn't believe in the value of ranking films, it is nonetheless interesting to see how a certain number of films often appear at the very top of their rankings or ratings.

Other published lists from various sources have been provided for website visitors as a basis for comparison and contrast to this site's listings.