Expo 58: Brussels World's Fair International Film Poll

The 1958 Brussels World's Fair featured what is considered the first universal film poll. The poll received nominations from 117 critics from 26 nations. A jury of young filmmakers were meant to select a winner but chose not to.

# Film Year Country Director
1 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
2 The Gold Rush 1925 USA Charlie Chaplin
3 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
4 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
5 Grand Illusion 1937 France, France Jean Renoir
6 Greed 1924 USA Erich von Stroheim
7 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 USA D.W. Griffith
8 Mother 1926 Soviet Union Vsevolod Pudovkin
9 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
10 Earth 1930 Soviet Union Oleksandr Dovzhenko
11 The Last Laugh 1924 Germany F. W. Murnau
12 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Germany Robert Wiene