Political Movies: 100 Most Significant (Year, Director, Country)
1920s
1924: Strike, Eisenstein (no. 25)
1925: Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein (no. 17)
1928: The Passion of Joan Arc, Dreyer (no. 88)
1929: Arsenal (no. 68)
1930: All Quiet on Western Front, Milestone (no. 45); Earth (no. 61
1931:
1932: I Am a Fugitive of a Chain Gang, Mervyn Le Roy (no. 95)
1933: Duck Soup (no. 44); Gabriel Over at the White House (no. 30)
1934:
1935: Triumph of the Will, Riefenstahl (no. 6)
1936:
1937: Grand Illusion, Renoir (no. 55)
1938: Olympia, Riefenstahl (no. 86)
1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Capra (no. 11)
1940s
1940: The Great McGinty, Sturges (no. 29); The Great Dictator, Chaplin (no. 26)
1941: Citizen Kane, Welles (no. 33)
1942
1943
1944
1945: Nazi Conc (no. 53)
1946
1947
1948: Germany Year Zero, Rossellini (no. 97); Bicycle Thieves, De Sica (no. 52)
1949: All the King’s Men, Rossen (no. 59)
1950s
1951
1952
1953
1954: Salt of the Earth (no. 31)
1955: Night and Fog, Resnais (no. 21)
1956:
1957: A Face in the Crowd, Kazan (no. 10)
1958: Ivan the Terrible, Part 2, Eisenstein (no. 85); The Last Hurrah, Ford (no. 57)
1959:
1960s
1960: Primary (no. 38)
1961:
1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Ford (no. 98); Advise and Consent, Preminger (no. 23); The Manchurian Candidate, Frankenheimer (no. 2)
1963: High and Low, Kurosawa (no. 84)
1964: Fail Safe (no. 99); Dr. Strangelove (no. 3); The Best Man (no. 69); Point (no)
1965:
1966: The Battle of Algiers, Pontecorvo (no. 1)
1967: Weekend, Godard (no. 94); La Chinoise, Godard (no. 13)
1968: The Night of the Living Dead, Romero (n. 35);
1969: Go Go (n. 83); The Sorrow and the Pity, (no. 66); Medium Cool (no. 46); Z, Costa-Gavras (no. 15)
1970s
1970: Investigation of a Citizen (no. 90); The Conformist, Bertolucci (no. 14)
1971: Punishment (no. 50); Murder of Fred
1972: Eight Hours (n. 78); The Candidate, Ritchie (no. 20)
1973: Love and Anarchy, Wertmuller (no. 60); Spook Ate (no. 40)
1974: The Parallax View (no. 47); Hearts and Minds (no. 33)
1975: Three Days of the Condor (n. 72); Jeanne Dielman (no. 36)
1976: Harlan County (no. 12); All the President’s Men (no. 4)
1977: A Grin Without a Cat (no. 97); Man of Marble, Vajda (no. 42)
1978:
1979: The Tin Drum (n0. 92); Being There (no. 71)
1980s
1980:
1981: Reds, Beatty (no. 41)
1982:
1983: Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden (no. 43)
1984: The Times of Harvey Milk, docu (no. 81)
1985: Come See (no. 49); Shoah, docu (n. 9)
1986: Salvador, Stone (no. 89)
1987: The Last Emperor (no. 65)
1988: Short Film (no. 77); They Live (no. 76)
1989: Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee (no. 8)
1990s
1991: Lumumba (no. 63) JFK, Stone (no. 34)
1992: Malcolm X, Lee (no. 22)
1993:
1994:
1995: American President, Reiner (no. 64)
1996: City Hall (no. 80)
1997: Starship Troopers (n. 75); Wag the Dog, Levinson (no. 54)
1998: Kristalyn (no. 62) Bullworth, Beatty (no. 48)
1999: Election, Penn (no.
2000: Platform, Jia (no. 74); La Commune (n. 17)
2001:
2002:
2003: Dogville, von Trier (no. 73); Fog of War, docu (no. 56)
2004: The World, Jia (no. 93)
2005: Syriana (n. 91)
2006: The Lives of Others, German (no. 19)
2007:
2008: Milk, Van Sant (no.)
2009:
2010s
2010
2011:
2012: Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow (no. 87); The Act of Killing (no. 51); Lincoln, Spielberg (no. 24)
2013:
2014: American Sniper, Eastwood (no. 82); Selma, DuVernay (no. 28)
2015:
2016: I’m Not Your Negro, Peck (no. 58)
2017: The Death of Stalin (no. 70)
2018:
2019:
2020:
2021:
2022:
2023:
2024:
