Based on our compendium of all film polls
[2011 Edition, updated with new polls in 2011]
© William L. Sinclair

This continues our series of top-ranked films by year, based on the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, 2011 edition that we compiled.

Total Ranked Films in the 70's: 120 (down from 139)

- [ 1970 ] -
1. Conformist, The #45 - Bertolucci, Bernardo (photo rt)
2. Patton - Shaffner,

The Top Ranked Films on the Internet
© William L. Sinclair
[This list was originally created in 2008]

We just updated this with the 2011 edition here, which has 172 new titles, including over 50 from 2009 and 2010..

We compiled this from numerous surveys and polls on the internet, some all critics, some all fans, so it's a combination. This represents over 1000 individual polls. We simply put

I recently completed adding 2-3 genres for each film in the Top Ranked list we compiled, so as a prelude to those upcoming posts, here's the top ranked film for each major genre. Many films are hard to categorize, like the Wizard of Oz, which is a children's musical comedy fantasy film, or Star Wars, a science fiction war fantasy with humor, so I had to judge which was most prevalent in the film.