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Defining Genre
Peak 2010s

THE WAR

THE FRONT LINE, FRAMED
The genre that asks the audience to sit inside the worst chapter of a century. Where every shot is also a memorial.
Peak 2010s
2,736
Films Catalogued
68.0
Avg Master Score
6.6
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
RAOUL WALSH
Top Director
Of which 122 earned Oscar nominations or wins
The Defining Three

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.

No.01
MS94.6
STEVEN SPIELBERG|1993
SCHINDLER'S LIST

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”

No.02
MS93.8
VICTOR FLEMING|1939
GONE WITH THE WIND

“The greatest romance of all time!”

No.03
MS92.5
CLAUDE LANZMANN|1985
SHOAH
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01
Schindler's List
1993 · Steven Spielberg · 7 Oscars
94.6
02
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Victor Fleming · 10 Oscars
93.8
03
Shoah
1985 · Claude Lanzmann
92.5
04
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
92.4
05
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · William Wyler · 8 Oscars
92.2
06
Come and See
1985 · Elem Klimov
92.0
07
Ugetsu
1953 · Kenji Mizoguchi
91.7
08
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The Big Parade
1925 · King Vidor, George W. Hill
91.3
09
Rome, Open City
1945 · Roberto Rossellini
91.3
10
For Sama
2019 · Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
91.0
11
The Grand Illusion
1937 · Jean Renoir
90.9
12
Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Steven Spielberg · 5 Oscars
90.5
13
The Great Dictator
1940 · Charles Chaplin
90.5
14
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Stanley Kubrick
90.5
15
Platoon
1986 · Oliver Stone · 4 Oscars
90.4
16
Underground
1995 · Emir Kusturica
90.3
17
The Mountain II
2016 · Alper Caglar
90.3
18
Casablanca
1942 · Michael Curtiz · 3 Oscars
89.8
19
Downfall
2004 · Oliver Hirschbiegel
89.7
20
Patton
1970 · Franklin J. Schaffner · 7 Oscars
89.5
21
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Fred Zinnemann · 8 Oscars
89.5
22
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Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein
89.4
23
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · David Lean · 7 Oscars
89.4
24
To Have and Have Not
1944 · Howard Hawks
89.3
25
The Caine Mutiny
1954 · Edward Dmytryk
89.2
26
Love and Death
1975 · Woody Allen
89.1
27
Turtles Can Fly
2004 · Bahman Ghobadi
89.0
28
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
2004 · Kang Je-kyu
88.8
29
Duck Soup
1933 · Leo McCarey
88.8
30
Lessons of Darkness
1992 · Werner Herzog
88.8
31
The English Patient
1996 · Anthony Minghella · 9 Oscars
88.7
32
A Time for Drunken Horses
2000 · Bahman Ghobadi
88.7
33
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · Masaki Kobayashi
88.4
34
First Blood
1982 · Ted Kotcheff
88.3
35
Border
1997 · J.P. Dutta
88.2
36
Doctor Zhivago
1965 · David Lean · 5 Oscars
88.2
37
Bloody Sunday
2002 · Paul Greengrass
88.1
38
Conspiracy
2001 · Frank Pierson
87.9
39
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
1996 · Srdjan Dragojevic
87.9
40
Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · Barry Levinson
87.9
41
The Wounds
1998 · Srdjan Dragojevic
87.8
42
Mudbound
2017 · Dee Rees
87.7
43
The Burmese Harp
1956 · Kon Ichikawa
87.6
44
Restrepo
2010 · Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
87.6
45
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · Masaki Kobayashi
87.5
46
Mosul
2019 · Matthew Michael Carnahan
87.5
47
Train of Life
1998 · Radu Mihaileanu
87.5
48
They Shall Not Grow Old
2018 · Peter Jackson
87.4
49
Mrs. Miniver
1942 · William Wyler · 6 Oscars
87.3
50
The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · Mikhail Kalatozov
87.3
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