'TKAM' appears in 'The Essential Men's Movie Library'

One of the few Web sites that I check on daily is The Art of Manliness (artofmanliness.com), and last Friday, I posted a pair of recommended reading lists from that site called “The Essential Adventure Library.”

While visiting that site earlier today, I ran across another great best-of list that their writers published back in mid-July called “100 Must See Movies: The Essential Men’s Movie Library.”

Movies that made that list include, in alphabetical order:

1. 12 Angry Men
2. The African Queen
3. All Quiet on the Western Front
4. All the President’s Men
5. American Beauty
6. The Apartment
7. Apollo 13
8. Ben Hur
9. The Best Years of Our Lives
10. The Bicycle Thief

11. The Bourne Identity (The Series)
12. Braveheart
13. Bridge On the River Kwai
14. Bull Durham
15. Bullitt
16. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
17. Casablanca
18. Chariots of Fire
19. Chinatown
20. Cinderella Man

21. Citizen Kane
22. Cool Hand Luke
23. Das Boot
24. Dead Poets Society
25. Die Hard
26. Dirty Hairy
27. Double Indemnity
28. Dr. No
29. The Endless Summer
30. Enter the Dragon

31. Field of Dreams
32. Fight Club
33. First Blood
34. The French Connection
35. From Here to Eternity
36. Gandhi
37. Gangs of New York
38. Gentleman’s Agreement
39. Ghostbusters
40. Gladiator

41. Glory
42. The Godfather (I and II)
43. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
44. The Grapes of Wrath
45. The Great Escape
46. Groundhog Day
47. High Noon
48. Hoosiers
49. The Hustler
50. Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade)

51. In the Heat of the Night
52. The Iron Giant
53. It’s a Wonderful Life
54. Jeremiah Johnson
55. The Karate Kid
56. Last of the Mohicans
57. Lawrence of Arabia
58. The Longest Day
59. Lord of the Rings (The Series)
60. Malcolm X

61. The Maltese Falcon
62. The Manchurian Candidate
63. Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside)
64. Mississippi Burning
65. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
66. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
67. The Natural
68. North by Northwest
69. Old Yeller
70. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

71. On the Waterfront
72. The Outsiders
73. Patton
74. Pride of the Yankees
75. A Raisin in the Sun
76. Rebel Without a Cause
77. Remember the Titans
78. The Right Stuff
79. A River Runs Through It
80. Rocky

81. Rudy
82. Saving Private Ryan
83. Schindler’s List
84. The Searchers
85. Seven Samurai
86. Shane
87. The Shawshank Redemption
88. The Shootist
89. Spartacus
90. Star Wars (The Original Trilogy)

91. The Sting
92. A Streetcar Named Desire
93. Swingers
94. To Kill a Mockingbird
95. Top Gun
96. True Grit
97. Unforgiven
98. The Untouchables
99. Vertigo
100. Zulu

In the end, how many of the movies mentioned above have you had a chance to watch? Which is your favorite and why? Which did you like or dislike and why? Which other movies do you think should have made the list and why? Let us know in the comments section below.

For more information about the movies mentioned above and for the editors’ comments about the list, see the original list at http://artofmanliness.com/2009/07/13/100-must-see-movies.