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Join us for a journey through 100 years of cinema as we pick our single best movie from every year between 1925 and 2025. From silent era masterpieces to modern blockbusters, these are the films that defined their year and left a lasting mark on movie history.
00:00 Intro
01:28 Battleship Potemkin (1925)
02:10 The General (1926)
02:59 Wings (1927)
03:46 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
04:17 Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
04:54 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
05:56 M (1931)
07:00 Horse Feathers (1932)
07:30 King Kong (1933)
08:27 It Happened One Night (1934)
09:17 The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
10:51 Modern Times (1936)
11:33 Dead End (1937)
12:29 You Can't Take It With You (1938)
13:15 Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
14:42 His Girl Friday (1940)
15:56 Citizen Kane (1941)
16:47 Casablanca (1942)
18:42 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
20:15 Double Indemnity (1944)
21:10 Brief Encounter (1945)
22:33 A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
24:55 Out of the Past (1947)
25:40 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
27:02 The Third Man (1949)
28:30 Sunset Boulevard (1950)
29:24 Strangers On A Train (1951)
30:14 Singin' In The Rain (1952)
30:53 The Big Heat (1953)
32:01 Seven Samurai (1954)
32:52 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
33:59 The Searchers (1956)
35:26 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
36:36 Vertigo (1958)
37:49 Some Like It Hot (1959)
38:41 Psycho (1960)
40:13 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
41:55 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
43:07 8½ (1963)
44:07 Dr. Strangelove (1964)
45:22 For A Few Dollars More (1965)
46:51 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)
47:59 Point Blank (1967)
49:35 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
50:40 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
51:34 Five Easy Pieces (1970)
52:18 Clute (1971)
53:29 The Godfather (1972)
54:23 The Exorcist (1973)
55:39 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
56:53 Jaws (1975)
58:02 Network (1976)
59:08 Sorcerer (1977)
01:00:22 Halloween (1978)
01:01:46 Alien (1979)
01:03:03 The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
01:04:28 Thief (1981)
01:05:39 Blade Runner (1982)
01:07:02 Videodrome (1983)
01:07:59 The Terminator (1984)
01:09:32 Witness (1985)
01:11:17 Platoon (1986)
01:12:34 Meituan (1987)
01:14:05 Die Hard (1988)
01:15:37 Do the Right Thing (1989)
01:16:45 Goodfellas (1990)
01:18:04 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
01:20:04 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
01:22:25 Schindler's List (1993)
01:24:02 Pulp Fiction (1994)
01:25:07 Heat (1995)
01:26:58 Fargo (1996)
01:28:08 Men in Black (1997)
01:30:31 The Thin Red Line (1998)
01:32:32 The Matrix (1999)
01:33:30 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
01:34:30 Spirited Away (2001)
01:35:56 The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers (2002)
01:37:07 Memories of Murder (2003)
01:38:26 Shaun of the Dead (2004)
01:40:55 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
01:43:16 Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
01:44:07 Zodiac (2007)
01:45:32 Wall‑E (2008)
01:46:50 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
01:48:32 The Social Network (2010)
01:50:32 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
01:52:13 Django Unchained (2012)
01:53:33 Gravity (2013)
01:54:38 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
01:56:29 The Witch (2015)
01:58:15 Arrival (2016)
01:59:21 Dunkirk (2017)
02:01:14 Spider‑Man: Into the Spider‑Verse (2018)
02:03:06 Parasite (2019)
02:04:03 Another Round (2020)
02:06:42 Pig (2021)
02:08:40 Nope (2022)
02:10:05 Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
02:12:17 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
02:14:38 Tornado (2025)
02:16:23 The Bone Temple (2026)
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Join us for a journey through 100 years of cinema as we pick our single best movie from every year between 1925 and 2025. From silent era masterpieces to modern blockbusters, these are the films that defined their year and left a lasting mark on movie history.
00:00 Intro
01:28 Battleship Potemkin (1925)
02:10 The General (1926)
02:59 Wings (1927)
03:46 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
04:17 Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
04:54 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
05:56 M (1931)
07:00 Horse Feathers (1932)
07:30 King Kong (1933)
08:27 It Happened One Night (1934)
09:17 The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
10:51 Modern Times (1936)
11:33 Dead End (1937)
12:29 You Can't Take It With You (1938)
13:15 Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
14:42 His Girl Friday (1940)
15:56 Citizen Kane (1941)
16:47 Casablanca (1942)
18:42 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
20:15 Double Indemnity (1944)
21:10 Brief Encounter (1945)
22:33 A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
24:55 Out of the Past (1947)
25:40 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
27:02 The Third Man (1949)
28:30 Sunset Boulevard (1950)
29:24 Strangers On A Train (1951)
30:14 Singin' In The Rain (1952)
30:53 The Big Heat (1953)
32:01 Seven Samurai (1954)
32:52 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
33:59 The Searchers (1956)
35:26 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
36:36 Vertigo (1958)
37:49 Some Like It Hot (1959)
38:41 Psycho (1960)
40:13 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
41:55 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
43:07 8½ (1963)
44:07 Dr. Strangelove (1964)
45:22 For A Few Dollars More (1965)
46:51 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)
47:59 Point Blank (1967)
49:35 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
50:40 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
51:34 Five Easy Pieces (1970)
52:18 Clute (1971)
53:29 The Godfather (1972)
54:23 The Exorcist (1973)
55:39 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
56:53 Jaws (1975)
58:02 Network (1976)
59:08 Sorcerer (1977)
01:00:22 Halloween (1978)
01:01:46 Alien (1979)
01:03:03 The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
01:04:28 Thief (1981)
01:05:39 Blade Runner (1982)
01:07:02 Videodrome (1983)
01:07:59 The Terminator (1984)
01:09:32 Witness (1985)
01:11:17 Platoon (1986)
01:12:34 Meituan (1987)
01:14:05 Die Hard (1988)
01:15:37 Do the Right Thing (1989)
01:16:45 Goodfellas (1990)
01:18:04 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
01:20:04 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
01:22:25 Schindler's List (1993)
01:24:02 Pulp Fiction (1994)
01:25:07 Heat (1995)
01:26:58 Fargo (1996)
01:28:08 Men in Black (1997)
01:30:31 The Thin Red Line (1998)
01:32:32 The Matrix (1999)
01:33:30 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
01:34:30 Spirited Away (2001)
01:35:56 The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers (2002)
01:37:07 Memories of Murder (2003)
01:38:26 Shaun of the Dead (2004)
01:40:55 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
01:43:16 Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
01:44:07 Zodiac (2007)
01:45:32 Wall‑E (2008)
01:46:50 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
01:48:32 The Social Network (2010)
01:50:32 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
01:52:13 Django Unchained (2012)
01:53:33 Gravity (2013)
01:54:38 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
01:56:29 The Witch (2015)
01:58:15 Arrival (2016)
01:59:21 Dunkirk (2017)
02:01:14 Spider‑Man: Into the Spider‑Verse (2018)
02:03:06 Parasite (2019)
02:04:03 Another Round (2020)
02:06:42 Pig (2021)
02:08:40 Nope (2022)
02:10:05 Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
02:12:17 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
02:14:38 Tornado (2025)
02:16:23 The Bone Temple (2026)
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