Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 1972

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
4. 8½ (1963)
5. L'Avventura (1960)
   Persona (1966)
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
7. The General (1927)
   The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
8. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
   Wild Strawberries (1957)
9. The Gold Rush (1925)
   Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
   Ikiru (1952)
   Ivan the Terrible (1944-1946)
   Pierrot le Fou (1965)
   Vertigo (1958)
10. La Grande Illusion (1937)
    Mouchette (1967)
    The Searchers (1956)
    Sunrise (1927)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    Viridiana (1961)