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Rankings of both US (Domestic) and Worldwide Box-Office blockbusters have been compiled from various recent sources. The domestic rankings (the top 100) are divided into Unadjusted and Adjusted for Inflation, and also included are the Worldwide total revenues for the top 100 films. Box-office earnings have often been a great predictor of the feature-length films that have been the most favorite, successful, and popular. However, they do not necessarily reflect the best (or greatest) films of the year or decade. There's an additional section for the Top Films (By Decade and Year) and the Highest Grossing Films by Genre Type. The Adjusted for Inflation list (with summary descriptions of each film) more accurately shows which films have been the largest blockbusters over a long period of time. As everyone should know, the top money-making film of all-time is NOT Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) but Gone With the Wind (1939). One has to take inflation into account, in order to be fair. The escalating, ever-increasing price of theatre tickets would otherwise bias a list of all-time blockbuster films to only recent releases. |
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About Filmsite.org
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About Film Historian Tim Dirks
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Roger Ebert Endorsement
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Filmsite.org is an award-winning website for classic film buffs, students, moviegoers
and anyone else interested in the great movies of the last century. Detailed
plot synopses, review commentary and 
Tim
Dirks created the popular filmsite.org website, aka Greatest
Films, in
mid-1996, and soon, it will celebrate its landmark 25th anniversary in
2021. He has been writing about and reviewing films on the site ever
since. Tim originated
Filmsite and has remained its sole contributor, manager, and editor
- he adds significant content to the site spanning all the years of cinematic
history, often writes blogs and other film-related articles, and
has engaged in a number of on-camera interviews about film. 
Film
critic and columnist Roger Ebert, author of The Great Movies (2002),
The Great Movies II (2005), and The Great Movies III (2010) has made
many