Films for Study of Twentieth Century American
Culture and Film Book
1910s
The Birth of a Nation
The Iron Horse
Broken Blossoms
Intolerance
1920's
The Great Gatsby
The Big Parade
The Crowd
The Jazz Singer
The General
Metropolis
The Gold Rush
Greed
Sunrise
1930's
All Quiet on the Western Front
City Lights
Scarface
She Done Him Wrong
The Thin Man
Gone with the Wind
The Public Enemy
42 nd Street
Trouble in Paradise
It's A Gift
Duck Soup: Marx Brothers
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A Night at the Opera
The Awful Truth
Bringing Up Baby
My Man Godfrey
Little Ceasar
It Happened One Night
King Kong
Lost Horizon
Modern Times
StageCoach
Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
The Philadelphia Story
His Girl Friday
Wuthering Heights
1940's
Sergeant York
Fantasia
All the King's Men
Laura
To Have and Have Not
Key Largo
The Lost Weekend
The Ox-Box Incident
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
The Magnificient Ambersons
The Lady from Shanghai
Double Indemnity
The Killers
Kiss Me Deadly
The Maltese Falcon
Red River
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Great Dictator
Casablanca
All the Kings Men
I Married a Communist
Rebecca
The Grapes of Wrath
Notorious
Out of the Past
Casablanca
The Best Years of our Lives
It's a Wonderful Life
The Third Man
White Heat
1950's
Rear Window
The African Queen
Sunset Boulevard
The Asphalt Jungle
12 Angry Men
A Place in the Sun
The Searchers
Touch of Evil
The Night of the Hunter
Shane
Vertigo
A Star is Born
Roman Holiday
Bad Day at Black Rock
High Noon
Red River
Rebel without a Cause
Kiss Me Deadly
Pyscho
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Paths of Glory
A Street Car Named Desire
The Red Badge of Courage
The Quiet American
To Kill a Mockingbird
Some Like it Hot
On the Beach
On the Waterfront
The Crucible
On the Beach
Revolutionary Road
1960's
The Graduate
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch 22
The Manchurian Candidate
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
Dr. Strangelove
The Sound of Music
Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Breakfast at Tiffany's
In the Heat of the Night
American Graffitti
Planet of the Apes
Bonnie and Clyde
The Wild Bunch
Midnight Cowboy
1970's
2001 Space Odyssey
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Last Picture Show
My Dinner with Andre
Patton
American Graffitti
Jaws
Star Wars
Dirty Harry
Harold and Maude
Mash
Taxi Driver
Death Wish
Little Big Man
All the Presidents Men
Coming Home
Jaws
French Connection
Close Encounters
Annie Hall
Manhattan
The GodFather
Cuckoo's Nest
Rockyy
Star Wars
The French Connection
Apocalypse Now
Network
Chinatown
Nashville
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Clockwork Orange
Serial
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Kramer vs. Kramer
1980's
Ferris Buller's Day Off
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dances with Wolves
Brazil
Tootsie
Blue Velvet
Ruthless People
Wallstreet
Blade Runner
E.T.
Risky Business
Heathers
Apocalypse Now
Star Man
Do the Right Thing
The Day After
Rambo
The Deer Hunter
Sudden Impact
Platoon
Fatal Attraction
War Games
The Terminator
Back to the Future
Bright Lights, Big City
Basic Instinct
1990's
Pulp Fiction
Pleasantville
Fargo
Natural Born Killers
Unforgiven
Reservoir Dogs
Forest Gump
Fight Club
Seven
The Game
As Good as it Gets
Schindler's List
American Beauty
Shawshank Redemtion
The Matrix
Tommy Boy
There's Something about Mary
Goodfellas
Silence of the Lambs
2000s
American Pyscho
Minority Report
Adaptation
About Shmidt
25 th Hour
Broken Flowers
Little Miss Sunshine
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Eternal Sunshine
Spanglish
Lost in Translation
Memento
Island
Mullholland Drive
Syrianna
Munich
V for Vendetta
No Country for Old Men
There Will be Blood
Juno
Wall-E
Avatar
Up in the Air
Capitalism: A Love Story
The International
Rachel Getting Married