Лучшие ленты 1940-х годов по версии издания WhatNerd:

Top-15:
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
4. The Third Man (1949)
5. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
6. The Great Dictator (1940)
7. The Red Shoes (1948)
8. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
9. Double Indemnity (1944)
10. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
11. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
12. Brief Encounter (1945)
13. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
14. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
15. Children of Paradise (1945)