Box Office Historical Top 10s (by ticket sales)

Every movie to be one of the top ten movies of all-time, as they would have been calculated at the end of each calendar year.

https://filmsranked.com/adjusted-box-office-record-history

A list by Adam Call Roberts

62

Items on this list

70%

Average Rating

142h 18m

Total Runtime

$9.9B

Total Revenue

Traffic in Souls 16.4 million

Movie

November 24, 1913

The Spoilers 30.8 million

Movie

April 10, 1914

The Birth of a Nation 15 million

Movie

March 21, 1915

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 16 million

Movie

September 4, 1916

Stella Maris 14.1 million

Movie

January 21, 1918

Mickey 40.9 million (held the top spot 1919-1937)

Movie

August 1, 1918

Daddy-Long-Legs 25.8 million

Movie

May 11, 1919

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl 12.6 million

Movie

May 13, 1919

The Miracle Man 18.9 million

Movie

August 26, 1919

Way Down East 22.5 million

Movie

September 3, 1920

Over the Hill to the Poorhouse 15 million

Movie

September 17, 1920

The Kid 19 million

Movie

January 21, 1921

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 23.8 million

Movie

March 6, 1921

The Ten Commandments 17.9 million

Movie

November 23, 1923

The Freshman 19.3 million

Movie

September 20, 1925

The Big Parade 37.8 million

Movie

November 5, 1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 32.3 million

Movie

December 30, 1925

The Singing Fool 22.8 million

Movie

September 29, 1928

The Kid from Spain 20.4 million

Movie

November 17, 1932

The Great Ziegfeld 27.6 million

Movie

April 8, 1936

San Francisco 33.2 million

Movie

June 26, 1936

How to Be a Detective 24 million

Movie

October 17, 1936

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 113.2 million (held the top spot 1938-1946)

Movie

January 14, 1938

The Wizard of Oz 29.1 million

Movie

August 25, 1939

Gone with the Wind 196.7 million (was in the #1 spot 1947-1957 and 1967-present)

Movie

December 15, 1939

Boom Town 33.8 million

Movie

August 30, 1940

Fantasia 49.9 million

Movie

November 13, 1940

Sergeant York 56 million

Movie

September 27, 1941

Yankee Doodle Dandy 38.1 million

Movie

May 29, 1942

Mrs. Miniver 49.3 million

Movie

July 3, 1942

Random Harvest 38.1 million

Movie

December 17, 1942

The Outlaw 39 million

Movie

February 5, 1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls 49.7 million

Movie

July 13, 1943

The Song of Bernadette 38.3 million

Movie

December 21, 1943

Going My Way 45 million

Movie

August 16, 1944

Mom and Dad 45.7 million

Movie

January 3, 1945

The Jolson Story 48.1 million

Movie

October 10, 1946

The Best Years of Our Lives 43.2 million

Movie

December 25, 1946

Duel in the Sun 51 million

Movie

December 31, 1946

The Greatest Show on Earth 45.9 million

Movie

February 21, 1952

The Robe 63 million

Movie

September 16, 1953

The Ten Commandments 90 million (was in the #1 spot 1958-1964 and 1966)

Movie

October 5, 1956

Around the World in Eighty Days 61 million

Movie

October 17, 1956

Giant 53.2 million

Movie

November 24, 1956

The Bridge on the River Kwai 66.6 million

Movie

December 14, 1957

Ben-Hur 93.4 million

Movie

November 24, 1959

Cleopatra 68 million

Movie

June 12, 1963

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 60.8 million

Movie

November 7, 1963

My Fair Lady 77.4 million

Movie

October 21, 1964

Mary Poppins 74 million

Movie

August 18, 1965