More Than You Want to Know About The Wonderful Wizard of Oz



Probably the most popular children’s film of all time, and listed as the top fantasy by the American Film Institute, the 1939 film was released to mixed reviews (Harvard Lampoon awarded it “worst film of all-time”) and commercial failure (according to some sources, it broke even) after being MGM’s most expensive production up to that

Top Ranked fantasy films from our internet film survey. As you can tell, many of these cross at least two genres, as Wizard of Oz was also the #1 ranked musical, but who could argue that it's major appeal is its creation of a unique and popular fantasy world, one where everyone serves "the great and powerful wizard of oz", who is really an American huckster using illusion and intimidation to

Top ranked musicals and music films, or those about musicians, from our internet survey. We added dramas (The Red Shoes), comedies (Almost Famous) concert films (Stop Making Sense), and documentaries (Woodstock) to the traditional musical films, basically anything listed that was music related. The top 46 made the overall top 1000 films, but only 3 made the top 100, and one of those (Amadeus) is