| 1. | 9.5 | JFK
(1991) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Oliver Stone | Oliver Stone | Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon | |
| 2. | 9.1 | Thirteen Days
(2000) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ernest R. May | Roger Donaldson | Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll | |
| 3. | 9.0 | Napoleon
(1927) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Abel Gance | Abel Gance | Albert Dieudonne, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daele | |
| 4. | 8.8 | Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
(1992) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Mark Achbar | Mark Achbar | Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Edward S. Herman | |
| 5. | 8.8 | Gandhi
(1982) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | John Briley | Richard Attenborough | Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen | |
| 6. | 8.8 | Lincoln
(2012) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Steven Spielberg | Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn | |
| 7. | 8.7 | Malcolm X
(1992) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Alex Haley | Spike Lee | Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo | |
| 8. | 8.7 | Gettysburg
(1993) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Shaara | Ronald F. Maxwell | Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang | |
| 9. | 8.7 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
(2003) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Errol Morris | Errol Morris | Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy | |
| 10. | 8.6 | The Insider
(1999) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Marie Brenner | Michael Mann | Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer | |
| 11. | 8.6 | All the President's Men
(1976) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Carl Bernstein | Alan J. Pakula | Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden | |
| 12. | 8.6 | Schindler's List
(1993) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Thomas Keneally | Steven Spielberg | Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley | |
| 13. | 8.6 | Amistad
(1997) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | David Franzoni | Steven Spielberg | Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins | |
| 14. | 8.6 | Glory
(1989) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Lincoln Kirstein | Edward Zwick | Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes | |
| 15. | 8.5 | Seven Years in Tibet
(1997) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Heinrich Harrer | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong | |
| 16. | 8.5 | The Iron Lady
(2011) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Abi Morgan | Phyllida Lloyd | Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant | |
| 17. | 8.5 | The Pianist
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Wladyslaw Szpilman | Roman Polanski | Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay | |
| 18. | 8.4 | Downfall
(2004) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Joachim Fest | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes | |
| 19. | 8.4 | The Tudors
(2007) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Hirst | Michael Hirst | Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy | Series |
| 20. | 8.4 | Conspiracy
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Loring Mandel | Frank Pierson | Kenneth Branagh, Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci | |
| 21. | 8.4 | Ivan the Terrible, Part I
(1944) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Sergei M. Eisenstein | Sergei M. Eisenstein | Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman | |
| 22. | 8.4 | Michael Collins
(1996) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Neil Jordan | Neil Jordan | Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts | |
| 23. | 8.4 | Fahrenheit 9/11
(2004) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Moore | Michael Moore | Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Ben Affleck | |
| 24. | 8.4 | Why We Fight
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Eugene Jarecki | Eugene Jarecki | Gore Vidal, John McCain, Ken Adelman | |
| 25. | 8.3 | Nixon
(1995) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Stephen J. Rivele | Oliver Stone | Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe | |
| 26. | 8.3 | John Adams
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Kirk Ellis | Tom Hooper | Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, John Dossett | Series |
| 27. | 8.3 | The Young Victoria
(2009) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Julian Fellowes | Jean-Marc Vallee | Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany | |
| 28. | 8.2 | Black Hawk Down
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Mark Bowden | Ridley Scott | Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore | |
| 29. | 8.2 | Bowling for Columbine
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Moore | Michael Moore | Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson | |
| 30. | 8.2 | Becket
(1964) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jean Anouilh | Peter Glenville | Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud | |
| 31. | 8.2 | Enemy at the Gates
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes | |
| 32. | 8.1 | Madras Cafe
(2013) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Shubhendu Bhattacharya | Shoojit Sircar | John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri, Rashi Khanna | |
| 33. | 8.1 | Land and Freedom
(1995) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jim Allen | Ken Loach | Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Iciar Bollain | |
| 34. | 8.1 | Das Boot
(1981) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Wolfgang Petersen | Wolfgang Petersen | Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann | |
| 35. | 8.1 | Patton
(1970) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Francis Ford Coppola | Franklin J. Schaffner | George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young | |
| 36. | 8.1 | Zero Dark Thirty
(2012) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Mark Boal | Kathryn Bigelow | Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt | |
| 37. | 8.1 | The World at War
(1973) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Peter Batty | Hugh Raggett | Laurence Olivier, Anthony Eden, Averell Harriman | Series |
| 38. | 8.0 | Valkyrie
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Christopher McQuarrie | Bryan Singer | Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten | |
| 39. | 8.0 | Lawrence of Arabia
(1962) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | T.E. Lawrence | David Lean | Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn | |
| 40. | 8.0 | The Killing Fields
(1984) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Bruce Robinson | Roland Joffe | Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich | |
| 41. | 8.0 | The Battle of Algiers
(1966) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Gillo Pontecorvo | Gillo Pontecorvo | Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi | |
| 42. | 8.0 | Bloody Sunday
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Paul Greengrass | Paul Greengrass | James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell | |
| 43. | 8.0 | Kundun
(1997) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Melissa Mathison | Martin Scorsese | Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin | |
| 44. | 8.0 | Bobby
(2006) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Emilio Estevez | Emilio Estevez | Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone | |
| 45. | 8.0 | The Baader Meinhof Complex
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Stefan Aust | Uli Edel | Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek | |
| 46. | 7.9 | Sicko
(2007) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Moore | Michael Moore | Michael Moore, Tucker Albrizzi, Tony Benn | |
| 47. | 7.9 | Judgment at Nuremberg
(1961) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Abby Mann | Stanley Kramer | Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark | |
| 48. | 7.9 | Veronica Guerin
(2003) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Carol Doyle | Joel Schumacher | Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker | |
| 49. | 7.9 | Star Trek Into Darkness
(2013) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Roberto Orci | J.J. Abrams | Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana | |
| 50. | 7.9 | Syriana
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Robert Baer | Stephen Gaghan | George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet | |
| 51. | 7.9 | The Times of Harvey Milk
(1984) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Judith Coburn | Rob Epstein | Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg | |
| 52. | 7.9 | Born on the Fourth of July
(1989) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ron Kovic | Oliver Stone | Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava | |
| 53. | 7.9 | Charlie Wilson's War
(2007) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | George Crile | Mike Nichols | Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman | |
| 54. | 7.9 | Saving Private Ryan
(1998) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Robert Rodat | Steven Spielberg | Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore | |
| 55. | 7.9 | Seven Days in May
(1964) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Fletcher Knebel | John Frankenheimer | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March | |
| 56. | 7.9 | Rome
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Bruno Heller | Bruno Heller | Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker | Series |
| 57. | 7.9 | Elizabeth
(1998) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Hirst | Shekhar Kapur | Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston | |
| 58. | 7.9 | Julius Caesar
(1953) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | William Shakespeare | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason | |
| 59. | 7.9 | Band of Brothers
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Erik Jendresen | David Frankel | Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston | Series |
| 60. | 7.9 | Hearts and Minds
(1974) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Peter Davis | Peter Davis | Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker | |
| 61. | 7.9 | Amazing Grace
(2006) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Steven Knight | Michael Apted | Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon | |
| 62. | 7.9 | Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Fred Breinersdorfer | Marc Rothemund | Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held | |
| 63. | 7.9 | En kongelig affare
(2012) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Bodil Steensen-Leth | Nikolaj Arcel | Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard | |
| 64. | 7.8 | The Day of the Jackal
(1973) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Frederick Forsyth | Fred Zinnemann | Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair | |
| 65. | 7.8 | Cleopatra
(1963) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Carlo Mario Franzero | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison | |
| 66. | 7.8 | The Right Stuff
(1983) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Tom Wolfe | Philip Kaufman | Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris | |
| 67. | 7.8 | Salvador
(1986) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Oliver Stone | Oliver Stone | James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy | |
| 68. | 7.8 | In the Name of the Father
(1993) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Gerry Conlon | Jim Sheridan | Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie | |
| 69. | 7.8 | The Manchurian Candidate
(1962) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Richard Condon | John Frankenheimer | Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh | |
| 70. | 7.8 | Missing
(1982) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Thomas Hauser | Costa-Gavras | Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron | |
| 71. | 7.8 | Flame and Citron
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Lars Andersen | Ole Christian Madsen | Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade | |
| 72. | 7.7 | Amadeus
(1984) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Peter Shaffer | Milos Forman | F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge | |
| 73. | 7.7 | A Mighty Heart
(2007) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Mariane Pearl | Michael Winterbottom | Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan | |
| 74. | 7.7 | Game of Thrones
(2011) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | David Benioff | David Benioff | Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams | Series |
| 75. | 7.7 | The Corporation
(2003) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Joel Bakan | Jennifer Abbott | Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora | |
| 76. | 7.7 | Braveheart
(1995) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Randall Wallace | Mel Gibson | Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan | |
| 77. | 7.7 | The Contender
(2000) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Rod Lurie | Rod Lurie | Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges | |
| 78. | 7.7 | Shattered Glass
(2003) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Buzz Bissinger | Billy Ray | Hayden Christensen, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Zahn | |
| 79. | 7.7 | The Aviator
(2004) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | John Logan | Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale | |
| 80. | 7.7 | Green Zone
(2010) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Paul Greengrass | Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear | |
| 81. | 7.6 | Battleship Potemkin
(1925) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Nina Agadzhanova | Sergei M. Eisenstein | Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov | |
| 82. | 7.6 | North Face
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Christoph Silber | Philipp Stolzl | Benno Furmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek | |
| 83. | 7.6 | The Last Samurai
(2003) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | John Logan | Edward Zwick | Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly | |
| 84. | 7.6 | Courage Under Fire
(1996) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Patrick Sheane Duncan | Edward Zwick | Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips | |
| 85. | 7.6 | 300
(2006) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Frank Miller | Zack Snyder | Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham | |
| 86. | 7.6 | The Great Escape
(1963) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Paul Brickhill | John Sturges | Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough | |
| 87. | 7.6 | The Last Emperor
(1987) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Mark Peploe | Bernardo Bertolucci | John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole | |
| 88. | 7.6 | Defiance
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Nechama Tec | Edward Zwick | Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell | |
| 89. | 7.6 | Empire of the Sun
(1987) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | J.G. Ballard | Steven Spielberg | Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson | |
| 90. | 7.6 | Mississippi Burning
(1988) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Chris Gerolmo | Alan Parker | Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand | |
| 91. | 7.6 | Apocalypse Now
(1979) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | John Milius | Francis Ford Coppola | Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall | |
| 92. | 7.6 | The Madness of King George
(1994) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Alan Bennett | Nicholas Hytner | Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm | |
| 93. | 7.6 | The Scarlet Empress
(1934) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Catherine II | Josef von Sternberg | Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe | |
| 94. | 7.6 | The Mission
(1986) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Robert Bolt | Roland Joffe | Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally | |
| 95. | 7.6 | Apollo 13
(1995) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jim Lovell | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon | |
| 96. | 7.6 | The Wind That Shakes the Barley
(2006) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Paul Laverty | Ken Loach | Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham | |
| 97. | 7.6 | The Leopard
(1963) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Luchino Visconti | Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale | |
| 98. | 7.6 | Sometimes in April
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Raoul Peck | Raoul Peck | Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete | |
| 99. | 7.6 | A Beautiful Mind
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Sylvia Nasar | Ron Howard | Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly | |
| 100. | 7.6 | The Hurricane
(1999) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter | Norman Jewison | Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger | |