What I'm trying to do here is put together a collection of some of the best movies and TV series ever released since the advent of cinema in 1888. The reason for this list is that I don't have enough Top 250 IMDb ratings.

The list contains movies from 1888 to 2025 that deserve at least minimal attention. Here I have gathered all the movies and TV series that have been in any of the tops and rankings, by genre, by rating, by popularity, by box office receipts, by impact on cinema or society, both in general and in every single year since 1888.

So far, I have a list of about 5000 movies and TV series that can be called the best/popular/profitable/influential in history out of all the hundreds of thousands if not millions of movies that have been released in history. 

And I plan to watch all these movies for the rest of my life, in chronological order of their release since 1888. If of course I have enough time to live :D.

P.s. The list may change a bit. Individual missed or new movies or shows I may add. Some may be deleted. But these changes will be minor and will happen gradually over the years. Overall, 95% of the list is what it is, and will remain that way ~forever.

Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, and Luise Rainer in The Great Waltz (1938)

Created for the Self Help Radio* show "Golden", which aired on KBOO 90.7 Portland on 6/14/22. (*not a self help show)

 Films on the list "Golden" in the title or alternate title and are available for free. (You may need to check IMDb page to find out where.) 

More info here: https://twitter.com/robotmonkeycat/status/1536542071296761861

Also, check out the YouTube playlist I made with trailers & full films from the list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2NHRFDvuiYSrgR6Rbnj_qF_5zk9Oe1Bu

The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea (1919)

Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, and Rooney Mara in Song to Song (2017)

Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Mia Drake, Shruti Seth, Faezeh Jalali, Dev Patel, and Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Werner Herzog and Timothy Treadwell in Grizzly Man (2005)

Titles deliberately omitted from my American Musical Feature Films list. (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021062047/) Expanded to include TV movies, specials.

A few are tagged as Music/Musical (http://www.imdb.com/search/title?lists=ls021564702,ls025185363&sort=release_date,asc), but I've watched them and would not consider them either.

Around 360 titles are singing-cowboy westerns made between 1930-1960. I didn't want to watch those as part of my sequential viewing of musicals, so I put them aside.

The majority, 1385+ titles, have "release" year 1998+, and too few votes for me to believe they were released in theatres across the country.

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