Over the coming months, I’m going to share a treat with you. I’ve often written about the Internet Archive; for years I embedded an IA cartoon of the week on this blog. It’s a wonderful organization for many reasons, but the one that matters here is its amazing wealth of freely available movies and other video. About the only thing IA lacks is systemic curation. I’m launching this series to correct one small part of that.

It took weeks of research and sorting, and now it’s ready. Over the coming months, I’ll list the Top 100 scripted, English-language, sound entries in the IA Feature Film collection. (I’m making lists of excellent silent films and documentaries to share later.) The rankings are strongly informed by IMDb user ratings but also include consideration from Leonard Maltin’s ratings and a few nudges from me. When you disagree, please leave a comment with some reasons why. Have fun!