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1)Bonnie and Clyde
2)Easy Rider
3)Splendor in the Grass
4)To Kill a Mockingbird
5)Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
6)The Graduate
7)Psycho
8)In The Heat of the Night
9)The Birds
10)Sword in the Stone

Pretty good list. Too lazy to look up a list of movies from 60s and make a counter-list. Here are a few off top of my head.

Inherit the Wind should be top of the list. Mockingbird is second best.

I'd probably put The Hustler at #3.

Get rid of Sword, Easy Rider, and Heat of Night. Those probably don't crack the top twenty. I like Cool Hand Luke better than them and it's not a top ten movie for me.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Escape
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Cool Hand Luke
Bonnie and Clyde
The Sound of Music
The Apartment

Honorable Mentions (The next 10 since the '90s list was a Top 20)

The Graduate
Psycho
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Wild Bunch
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Sand Pebbles
Lilies of the Field
A Man for All Seasons
Mary Poppins
A Hard Day's Night

I can't believe "The Longest Day", hasn't been mentioned. Great movie, imo.

Well you could have made your own list with The Longest Day.

How can any list leave off:

nothing else comes close, but other ones i like are:

psycho
the birds
dr strangelove
spartacus
goldfinger

The Graduate
Cool Hand Luke
Spartacus
True Grit
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2001: A Space Odyssey
To Kill A Mockingbird
Goldfinger
Psycho
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

honorable mention:

Dr Strangelove
Night of the Living Dead
Rosemary's Baby
Jungle Book
Swiss Family Robinson


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What kind of feedback did the Oregon State board give on this topic?

I need to see Cool Hand Luke.

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I need to see Cool Hand Luke.

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You don't mean for the first time, do you?

It's on TCM all the dang time.

It's honestly not one of my favorite movies, but it's one of those you have to see so you can get all the references to it scattered throughout pop culture for the last 30+ years.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Lawrence of Arabia
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Once Upon a Time in the West
Breathless
The Battle of Algiers
Dr. Zhivago
The Graduate
Psycho
2001
Cool Hand Luke

Hon. Mention:
The Apartment
The Birds
Sound of Music
Easy Rider
Bonnie and Clyde
Midnight Cowboy
In the Heat of the Night
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Hustler
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Inherit the Wind
Z

I think it's safe to say the 60s was a time of great moviemaking. You all have put some great movies on your lists and I added some new ones and left plenty of other worthy films off the list that could have been included.

In no particular order, my top ten:

Dr. Strangelove
Spartacus
Yojimbo
Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill a Mockingbird
La Jetee
Jules and Jim
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
West Side Story
One, Two, Three

The 60s are an interesting time for movies. There are the Hollywood blockbusters and the small foreign auteurs. American movies start moving toward the changes that happened in the 70s.

A lot of movies might be on my top ten on a different day.

I should probably include The man who shot Liberty Valence.
I chose the Good the Bad and the Ugly as my representative Spaghetti Western, but others could be in its place.
I chose West Side Story as the big Hollywood musical, largely because I think the opening is amazing and the Bernstein score and Robbins choreography are on a different level than most other musicals. But in that category it's hard to leave off My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, Music Man, etc.

I think the Graduate is overrated. 2001 probably belongs on the list, despite being overrated. I also think Strangelove and Spartacus are better and 3 for Kubrick would be a bit much.

Then there are some not so great movies that are guilty pleasures:
What's up Tiger Lily?
The Dirty Dozen
Barbarella (OK, just for the opening credits)

I also have to admit that I haven't seen a lot of 60s classics that are on most other people's lists.

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Without giving it much thought:

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Cool Hand Luke
Dr. Strangelove
Hud
In the Heat of the Night
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lion in Winter
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Psycho
To Kill a Mockingbird

Not much thought being put into this ...

2001
Battle of Britain
Lawrence of Arabia
From Russia With Love
The Longest Day
Psycho
King Kong vs Godzilla
Valley of Gwangi
You Only Live Twice
True Grit

All of those mentioned except Psycho...just never got into it.