BBC listeyi hazırlarken, 52 ülkeden toplam 253 film eleştirmenine danıştı.
Listenin ilk on filmi şu şekilde:
- Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
- Dr.Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
- Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
- Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
- Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
- Life of Brian ( Terry Jones, 1979)
- Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
- Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
- This Is Spinal Tap (Ron Reiner, 1984)
- The General (Clyde Brcukman and Buster Keaton, 1926)