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