Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 1952

1. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
2. City Lights (1931)
   The Gold Rush (1925)
3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
4. Louisiana Story (1948)
   Intolerance (1916)
5. Greed (1924)
   Le Jour se Lève (1939)
   The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
6. Brief Encounter (1945)
   Le Million (1931)
   La Règle du Jeu (1939)
7. Citizen Kane (1941)
   La Grande Illusion (1937)
   The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
8. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
   Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
   Que Viva Mexico! (1932)
9. Earth (1930)
   Zéro de Conduite (1933)
10. Broken Blossoms (1919)
    Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
    Hallelujah! (1929)

Selected individual lists:

Lindsay Anderson
Karel Reisz