Este es un listado de las 100 mejores películas hechas o producidas por Estados Unidos de todos los tiempos según BBC Culture, en conjunto con un grupo de 62 críticos internacionales.

Para crear el ranking, cada crítico nominó 10 películas y las puntuó del 1 al 10, siendo el 10 la mejor pieza hasta bajar al 1. Las películas nominadas debían tener preferiblemente un buen contenido emocional, dejando un poco de lado la relevancia.

Top 100

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)

3. Vértigo (Alfred Hitchcock)

4. 2001: 2001: A Space Odissey (Stanley Kubrick)

5. The searchers (John Ford)

6. Sunrise (FW Murnau)

7. Singing in the Rain la lluvia (Stanley Donen)

8. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)

9. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)

10. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)

11. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)

12. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)

13. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

14. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)

15. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)

16. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)

17. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)

18. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

19. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

20. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)

21. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

22. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)

23. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

24. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)

25. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

26. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)

27. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)

28. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

29. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

30. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

31. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

32. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)

33. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

34. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)

35. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)

36. La Guerra de las Galaxias (George Lucas, 1977)

37. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)

38. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)

39. The Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith, 1915)

40. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)

41. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)

42. Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)

43. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)

44. Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)

45. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)

46. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)

47. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)

48. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)

49. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)

50. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)

51. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

52. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

53. Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, 1975)

54. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)

55. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)

56. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

57. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)

58. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)

59. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975)

60. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

61. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

62. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

63. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)

64. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)

65. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)

66. Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)

67. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)

68. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

69. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)

70. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)

71. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)

72. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)

73. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)

74. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)

75. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)

76. El Imperio Contraataca (Irvin Kershner, 1980)

77. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)

78. La lista de Schindler (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

79. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

80. Meet Me in St Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)

81. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)

82. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)

83. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)

84. Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)

85. Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero, 1968)

86. The Lion King (Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, 1994)

87. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)

88. West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)

89. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

90. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

91. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)

92. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

93. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)

94. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)

95. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)

96. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)

97. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

98. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980)

99. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)

100. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)

*Este artículo fue publicado originalmente en BBC Mundo