Clarkson’s Top Movies; Top Television Shows; Top Movie Scores

Movies

  1. Vertigo (1958)
  2. Chinatown (1974)
  3. Russian Ark (2002)
  4. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  6. North by Northwest (1954)
  7. Our Town (1940)
  8. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
  9. The French Connection (1971)
  10. From Here to Eternity (1952)
  11. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  12. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  13. The Lives of Others (2006)
  14. Network (1976)
  15. Top Hat (1935)
  16. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  17. Gone with the Wind (1940)
  18. Schindler’s List (1993)
  19. A Christmas Carol (AKA Scrooge) (1951)
  20. Rear Window (1954)
  21. Margin Call (2011)
  22. The Remains of the Day (1997)
  23. Bullitt (1968)
  24. Spotlight (2015)
  25. Shane (1953)
  26. Erin Brockovich (2000)
  27. All the President’s Men (1976)
  28. Lolita (1962)
  29. I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
  30. Dirty Harry (1971)
  31. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
  32. Doubt (2008)
  33. The Hurt Locker (2008)
  34. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  35. Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
  36. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  37. The Paradine Case (1947)
  38. The Lady Eve (1941)
  39. On the Waterfront (1954)
  40. Conspiracy (2001)
  41. The Vanishing (1988)
  42. Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
  43. 8mm (1999)
  44. The Theory of Everything (2014)
  45. The Third Man (1949)
  46. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)
  47. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  48. To Catch a Thief (1955)
  49. The Hustler (1961)
  50. Picnic (1955)
  51. The Big Sleep (1946)
  52. The 400 Blows (1959)
  53. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
  54. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
  55. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  56. Patton (1970)
  57. The Human Comedy (1943)
  58. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
  59. The Last Picture Show (1971)
  60. Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
  61. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  62. Fargo (1996)
  63. The Big Country (1958)
  64. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  65. The Big Short (2015)
  66. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
  67. Capote (2008)
  68. A Few Good Men (1992)
  69. Unforgiven (1992)
  70. Force of Arms (1951)
  71. The Searchers (1956)
  72. The Verdict (1982)
  73. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
  74. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  75. The Graduate (1967)
  76. Paths of Glory (1957)
  77. Rififi (1955)
  78. Dinner Rush (2000)
  79. The Ipcress File (1965)
  80. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  81. Lady Bird (2017)
  82. Inherit the Wind (1960)
  83. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
  84. Paper Chase (1973)
  85. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  86. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
  87. Mississippi Burning (1988)
  88. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  89. Summer of ’42 (1971)
  90. Middle of the Night (1959)
  91. Klute (1971)
  92. Presumed Innocent (1990)
  93. Nomadland (2020)
  94. Casino (1995)

Television Shows

  1. The Rockford Files (1974-80)
  2. Victory at Sea (1952-53)
  3. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-75)
  4. Civilisation (1969)
  5. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962-92)
  6. All Creatures Great and Small (1978-90)
  7. Breaking Bad (2008-13)
  8. Planet Earth (2006)
  9. Foyle’s War (2002-15)
  10. Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer (2012-13)
  11. Firing Line (1966-99)
  12. The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (2010-present)
  13. Smiley’s People (1982)
  14. All in the Family (1971-79)
  15. Fortunes of War (1987)
  16. Charlie Rose (1991-2017)
  17. Island at War (2004)
  18. Longmire (2012-2018)
  19. Bosch (2014-2021)
  20. Better Call Saul (2015-2022)
  21. Billions (2016-present)

Movie Scores

  1. Our Town (1940), by Aaron Copland
  2. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), by David Raksin
  3. Splendor in the Grass (1961) by David Amram
  4. The Big Country (1958), by Jerome Moross
  5. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956), by Arthur Benjamin
  6. Anatomy of a Murder (1959), by Duke Ellington
  7. North by Northwest (1959), by Bernard Herrmann
  8. The Red Pony (1949), by Aaron Copland
  9. Chinatown (1974), by Jerry Goldsmith
  10. From Here to Eternity (1953), by George Duning
  11. All the President’s Men (1976), by David Shire
  12. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), by Andre Previn
  13. Psycho (1960), by Bernard Herrmann
  14. King Kong (1933), by Max Steiner
  15. St. Ives (1976), by Lalo Schifrin
  16. Silver Streak (1970), by Henry Mancini
  17. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), by Malcolm Arnold
  18. Picnic (1955), George Duning
  19. The Human Comedy (1943), by Herbert Stothart
  20. 8mm (1999), by Mychael Danna
  21. Bell, Book and Candle (1958), by George Duning
  22. The Guns of Navarone (1960), Dimitri Tiomkin
  23. Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), by Robert Farnon
  24. Garden of Evil (1954), by Bernard Herrmann
  25. Twelve O’Clock High (1949), by Alfred Newman
  26. Lolita (1962), by Nelson Riddle and Bob Harris
  27. A Stoning in Fulham County (1988), by Don Davis