GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME  -  Audience polls

• Seven Samurai (1954) was voted number one in an audience poll conducted by MovieMail in 2000. It was followed by The Third Man (1949) at second place.^[5]
• The Godfather (1972) was voted number one by Entertainment Weekly's readers^[8] and voted as number one in a Time Out readers' poll in 1998.^[9] The film was also voted as the "Greatest Movie of All Time" in September 2008 by 10,000 readers ofEmpire magazine, 150 people from the movie business and 50 film critics.^[10] It currently holds the #1 spot on the Top 200 at Everyone's a Critic,^[11] and the #2 spot on the IMDb list.^[12]
• The Godfather Part II (1974) was voted best movie ever by TV Guide readers^[13] in 1998, and is currently in fourth place on the IMDb list.^[12]
• Star Wars (1977) and its sequel The Empire Strikes Back (1980) were chosen as the greatest films by readers of Empire magazine in November 2001 and by voters in a Channel 4 (Film4) poll.^[14] Star Wars is also the highest ranking sci-fi film in both versions of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movies of all time (ranked #15 in the original list, and #13 in the updated list).
• Raise the Red Lantern (1991) was voted the best Asian film in another audience poll conducted by MovieMail in 2000. It was followed by The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) at second place.^[5]
• Schindler's List (1993) was voted the best film ever made by the German film magazine Cinema.^[15]
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) currently holds the top spot on the Internet Movie Database's list of the top 250 films.^[12] It was voted the best film not to have won an Academy Award in a 2004 Radio Times poll and again in 2008.^[16] It is currently ranked #1 on FilmCrave.com's top 100 movies list.^[17]
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film and by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time").^[18] Its first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), was the pick of readers in a poll by Empire magazine in November 2004.^[19] The third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was voted the best movie of all time by Yahoo movies and Movies.com's annual reader's poll in 2006 and 2007.^{[citation needed]}
• Gone with the Wind (1939) was ranked as the greatest film in a poll surveyed by Harris Interactive between January 15 and 22, 2008. Star Wars came in second place and Casablanca in third.^[20]
• Casablanca (1942) was voted the greatest film by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997.^[21] It is also regarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" by the influential Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide.^{[citation needed]} On April 7, 2006, the Writers' Guild of America declared Casablanca's screenplay the best ever written.^[22]
• Cross of Iron (1977) was voted the greatest film of all time by Cinemag.^{[citation needed]}
• The Dark Knight (2008) is currently ranked the best film of all time by the users of Flickchart.^[23]