Channel 4's 100 Greatest Films

Channel 4, the UK televison station recently undertook a poll of the British public to find the favourite films of all time. A list of 100 movies was drawn up by a combination of critics, members of the public and 'industry experts', and the list has a heavy British bias. As with all lists of this kind, their seems to be a number of surprising exclusions.

Anyway, here is the list in full (with directors in brackets) so you can see whether your favourite film appears...

1. Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas and Irvin Kershner respectively)
2. The Godfather/The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
4. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
6. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
7. It's A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
8. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
9. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
10. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
11. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
12. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
13. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
15. The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers)
16. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
17. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
18. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
19. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
20. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
21. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
22. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
23. Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
24. Singin' In The Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)
25. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
26. A Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming and King Vidor)
27. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
28. Kes (Ken Loach)
29. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
30. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
31. Fargo (The Coen Brothers)
32. Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood)
33. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
34. The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)
35. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
36. Alien (Ridley Scott)
37. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathon Demme)
38. Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson)
39. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
40. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
41. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
42. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell)
43. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
44. Fitzcaralldo (Werner Herzog)
45. Deliverance (John Boorman)
46. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
47. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
48. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
49. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
50. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
51. The Italian Job (Peter Collinson)
52. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
53. The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman)
54. Titanic (James Cameron)
55. Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources (Claude Berri)
56. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
57. Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray)
58. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
59. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
60. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
61. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
62. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
63. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
64. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Mann)
65. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
66. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
67. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
68. Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
69. The Searchers (John Ford)
70. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
71. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
72. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
73. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
74. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
75. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
76. The Producers (Mel Brooks)
77. Three Colours Trilogy (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
78. Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
79. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
80. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (David Hand, Perce Pearce, Larry Morey, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson and Ben Sharpsteen)
81. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
82. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
83. Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)
84. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz and William Keighley)
85. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
86. A Bout De Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
87. Ice Cold in Alex (J. Lee Thompson)
88. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
89. The African Queen (John Huston)
90. The General (Buster Keatonand Clyde Bruckman)
91. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
92. Way Out West (James W. Horne)
93. Henry V (Laurence Olivier and Reginald Beck)
94. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
95. My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)
96. Belle du Jour (Luis Bunuel)
97. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
98. The Terminator (James Cameron)
99. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
100. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)