Taken from this thread of American Masterpieces by Jake Mulligan.
2017-2014
- Twin Peaks (David Lynch)
- Ex Libris – New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
- Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
- Silence (Martin Scorsese)
- Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
- Horace and Pete (Louis C.K.)
- The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
- The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
- Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
- In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
- Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
- Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
1988-1983
- Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman)
- Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
- Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
- The Hitcher (Robert Harmon)
- Manhunter (Michael Mann)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
- O.C. and Stiggs (Robert Altman)
- Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
- Body Double (Brian De Palma)
- Swing Shift (Jonathan Demme)
- Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
- Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
- The Entity (Sidney Furie)
1956-1955
- The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin)
- Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
- The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
- Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
- The Searchers (John Ford)
- Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
- The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
- All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
- House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
- Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
- Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer)
- It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
- The Violent Men (Rudolph Mate)
1955-1951
- Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)
- Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
- On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
- Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
- "Duck Amuck" (Chuck Jones)
- I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
- Monkey Business (Howard Hawks)
- Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
- Clash by Night (Fritz Lang)
- On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
- Rabbit Fire (Chuck Jones)
- The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
1946-1940
- The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
- "Let There Be Light" (John Huston)
- The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
- Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
- The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
- Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
- The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
- The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
- To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
- A Woman's Face (George Cukor)
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
- Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
- His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
- Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
- The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
1939-1933
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
- Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
- Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
- Stagecoach (John Ford)
- The Women (George Cukor)
- You and Me (Fritz Lang)
- Jezebel (William Wyler)
- You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
- My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
- Fury (Fritz Lang)
- The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
- Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
- The Whole Town's Talking (John Ford)
- Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
- King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernst B. Schoedsack)
