BBC's The 100 Greatest American Films

Guess the 100 American Films as voted by BBC-polled film critics from around the world in 2015.

List can be found here: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films

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Year	Director	Answer
1941	Orson Welles	Citizen Kane
1972	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather
1958	Alfred Hitchcock	Vertigo
1968	Stanley Kubrick	2001: A Space Odyssey
1956	John Ford	The Searchers
1927	FW Murnau	Sunrise
1952	Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly	Singin' in the Rain
1960	Alfred Hitchcock	Psycho
1942	Michael Curtiz	Casablanca
1974	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather Part II
1942	Orson Welles	The Magnificent Ambersons
1974	Roman Polanski	Chinatown
1959	Alfred Hitchcock	North by Northwest
1975	Robert Altman	Nashville
1946	William Wyler	The Best Years of Our Lives
1971	Robert Altman	McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1925	Charles Chaplin	The Gold Rush
1931	Charles Chaplin	City Lights
1976	Martin Scorsese	Taxi Driver
1990	Martin Scorsese	Goodfellas
2001	David Lynch	Mulholland Drive
1924	Eric von Stroheim	Greed
1977	Woody Allen	Annie Hall
1960	Billy Wilder	The Apartment
1989	Spike Lee	Do the Right Thing
1978	Charles Burnett	Killer of Sheep
1975	Stanley Kubrick	Barry Lyndon
1994	Quentin Tarantino	Pulp Fiction
1980	Martin Scorsese	Raging Bull
1959	Billy Wilder	Some Like it Hot
1974	John Cassavetes	A Woman Under the Influence
1941	Preston Sturges	The Lady Eve
1974	Francis Ford Coppola	The Conversation
1939	Victor Fleming	The Wizard of Oz
1944	Billy Wilder	Double Indemnity
1977	George Lucas	Star Wars
1959	Douglas Sirk	Imitation of Life
1975	Steven Spielberg	Jaws
1915	D.W. Griffith	The Birth of a Nation
1943	Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid	Meshes of the Afternoon
1959	Howard Hawks	Rio Bravo
1964	Stanley Kubrick	Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1948	Max Ophuls	Letter from an Unknown Woman
1924	Buster Keaton	Sherlock Jr.
1962	John Ford	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1946	Frank Capra	It's a Wonderful Life
1964	Alfred Hitchcock	Marnie
1951	George Stevens	A Place in the Sun
1978	Terrence Malick	Days of Heaven
1940	Howard Hawks	His Girl Friday

Year	Director	Answer
1958	Orson Welles	Touch of Evil
1969	Sam Peckinpah	The Wild Bunch
1975	Albert and David Maysles, et. al.	Grey Gardens
1950	Billy Wilder	Sunset Boulevard
1967	Mike Nichols	The Graduate
1985	Robert Zemeckis	Back to the Future
1989	Woody Allen	Crimes and Misdemeanors
1940	Ernst Lubitsch	The Shop Around the Corner
1975	Milos Forman	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1986	David Lynch	Blue Velvet
1999	Stanley Kubrick	Eyes Wide Shut
1980	Stanley Kubrick	The Shining
1984	John Cassavetes	Love Streams
1954	Nicholas Ray	Johnny Guitar
1983	Philip Kaufman	The Right Stuff
1948	Howard Hawks	Red River
1936	Charles Chaplin	Modern Times
1946	Alfred Hitchcock	Notorious
1982	Godfrey Greggio	Koyaanisqatsi
1953	Vincente Minnelli	The Band Wagon
1993	Harold Ramis	Groundhog Day
1941	Josef von Sternberg	The Shanghai Gesture
1976	Sidney Lumet	Network
1994	Robert Zemeckis	Forrest Gump
1977	Steven Spielberg	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1980	Irvin Kershner	The Empire Strikes Back
1939	John Ford	Stagecoach
1993	Steven Spielberg	Schindler's List
2011	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life
1944	Vincente Minnelli	Meet me in St. Louis
1991	Ridley Scott	Thelma & Louise
1981	Steven Spielberg	Raiders of the Lost Ark
1938	Howard Hawks	Bringing Up Baby
1972	John Boorman	Deliverance
1968	George A. Romero	Night of the Living Dead
1994	Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff	The Lion King
2004	Michel Gondry	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
1961	Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins	West Side Story
1950	Nicholas Ray	In a Lonely Place
1979	Francis Ford Coppola	Apocalypse Now
1982	Steven Spielberg	ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
1955	Charles Laughton	The Night of the Hunter
1973	Martin Scorsese	Mean Streets
2002	Spike Lee	25th Hour
1933	Leo McCarey	Duck Soup
2008	Christopher Nolan	The Dark Knight
1939	Victor Fleming	Gone with the Wind
1980	Michael Cimino	Heaven's Gate
2013	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
1951	Billy Wilder	Ace in the Hole