1940: Top 100

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  1. -
  2. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
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  4. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
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  6. Fantasia (James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen)
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  8. Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)
  9. -
  10. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
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  12. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
  13. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
  14. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
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  16. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
  17. The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian)
  18. The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan)
  19. The Westerner (William Wyler)
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  21. All This, and Heaven Too (Anatole Litvak)
  22. The Bank Dick (Edward F Cline)
  23. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
  24. Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner)
  25. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (William Dieterle)
  26. The Fight for Life (Pare Lorentz)
  27. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
  28. The House of the Seven Gables (Joe May)
  29. The Letter (William Wyler)
  30. The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)
  31. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
  32. Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z Leonard)
  33. Puss Gets the Boot (William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Rudolf Ising)
  34. The Sea Hawk (Michael Curtiz)
  35. Siege (unknown)
  36. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (unknown)
  37. Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy)
  38. A Wild Hare (Tex Avery)
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  40. Arise, My Love (Mitchell Leisen)
  41. The Blue Bird (Walter Lang)
  42. A Chump at Oxford (Alfred J Goulding)
  43. Dots (Norman McLaren)
  44. Dr. Cyclops (Ernest B Schoedsack)
  45. Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson)
  46. Go West (Edward Buzzell)
  47. Knute Rockne All American (Lloyd Bacon)
  48. Melody Ranch (Joseph Santley)
  49. My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin)
  50. Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed)
  51. North West Mounted Police (Cecil B DeMille)
  52. Northwest Passage (King Vidor)
  53. Our Town (Sam Wood)
  54. Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
  55. Rhythm on the River (Victor Schertzinger)
  56. Strike Up the Band (Busby Berkeley)
  57. Tin Pan Alley (Walter Lang)
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Criteria used were

IMDB Awards Page
IMDB at least 7.5 with 25 votes
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
The Alternative 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 1000
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 1000 Long List (1/2 point)
Suggestions (1/4 point)

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1939: Top 100