Greatest TV Movies

[Tim]

Criteria: Influence, acclaim, popularity

1. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
2. Duel (1971)
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
4. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
5. Edvard Munch (1974)
6. Threads (1984)
7. The Day After (1983)
8. Brian's Song (1971)
9. The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976)
10. A Christmas Carol (1984)

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
Peter Pan (1960)
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
Seven Up! (1964)
Culloden (1964)
See How They Run (1964)
The Hanged Man (1964)
Cinderella (1965)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
The Immortal Story (1968)
Frosty the Snowman (1969)
7 Plus Seven (1970)
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
My Sweet Charlie (1970)
Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)
The Snow Goose (1971)
The Night Stalker (1972)
That Certain Summer (1972)
The Night Strangler (1973)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
Born Innocent (1974)
A Case of Rape (1974)
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)
The Adventures of Buratino (1976)
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976)
21 Up (1977)
The Hobbit (1977)
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977)
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
An Ordinary Miracle (1978)
Tadhana (1978)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979)
Elvis (1979)
The Very Same Munchhausen (1980)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
The Return of the King (1980)
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Bill (1981)
Ivanhoe (1982)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
The Pokrovsky Gate (1982)
The Executioner's Song (1982)
Meantime (1983)
Special Bulletin (1983)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Made in Britain (1983)
Something About Amelia (1984)
Formula of Love (1984)
28 Up (1984)
An Early Frost (1985)
Death of a Salesman (1985)
Promise (1986)
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
The Sign of Four (1987)
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987)
Heart of a Dog (1988)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
The Woman in Black (1989)
Small Sacrifices (1989)
My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku (1990)
Treasure Island (1990)
Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
The Josephine Baker Story (1991)
35 Up (1991)
Lessons in Darkness (1992)
Ocean Waves (1993)
Body Bags (1993)
And the Band Played On (1993)
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)
Fatherland (1994)
Citizen X (1995)
Persuasion (1995)
Forgotten Silver (1995)
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
Gotti (1996)
Emma (1996)
12 Angry Men (1997)
Don King: Only in America (1997)
George Wallace (1997)
Gia (1998)
Halloweentown (1998)
When Trumpets Fade (1998)
Goodnight Mister Tom (1998)
Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (1998)
42 Up (1998)
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
A Christmas Carol (1999)
Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999)
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
Screwed in Tallinn (1999)
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
Conspiracy (2001)
61* (2001)
Windy City Heat (2003)
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
Hornblower: Duty (2003)
Something the Lord Made (2004)
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
49 Up (2005)
High School Musical (2006)
High School Musical 2 (2007)
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
The Recount (2008)
Front of the Class (2008)
Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
Taking Chance (2009)
Grey Gardens (2009)
24: The Redemption (2009)
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
Temple Grandin (2010)
The Sunset Limited (2011)
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Game Change (2012)
56 Up (2012)
Phil Spector (2013)
The Normal Heart (2014)
Boys (2014)
Nightingale (2014)
Bessie (2015)
7 Days in Hell (2015)
The Dresser (2015)
All the Way (2016)
The Wizard of Lies (2017)
Flint (2017)
The Tale (2018)
My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
King Lear (2018)
Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
63 Up (2019)
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
Oslo (2021)
Werewolf by Night (2022)
Invincible: Atom Eve (2023)
Rebel Ridge (2024)
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

[ManPerson]

I guess
1. A Charlie Brown Christmas
2. Duel
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
4. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

[Tim]

My draft for the top 50:

1. Duel (1971)
2. Threads (1984)
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
4. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
5. The Day After (1983)
6. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
7. Brian's Song (1971)
8. The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976)
9. Edvard Munch (1974)
10. A Christmas Carol (1984)
11. An Early Frost (1985)
12. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
13. Prescription: Murder (1968)
14. Seven Up! (1964)
15. The Night Stalker (1972)
16. Trilogy of Terror (1975)
17. Meantime (1983)
18. 12 Angry Men (1997)
19. Death of a Salesman (1985)
20. Lessons of Darkness (1992)
21. Persuasion (1995)
22. And the Band Played On (1993)
23. 7 Plus Seven (1970)
24. 21 Up (1977)
25. Temple Grandin (2010)
26. The Normal Heart (2014)
27. All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
28. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
29. Escape from Sobibor (1987)
30. Werewolf by Night (2022)
31. Gia (1998)
32. Special Bulletin (1983)
33. If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
34. A Christmas Carol (1999)
35. Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
36. The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
37. Culloden (1964)
38. My Sweet Charlie (1970)
39. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
40. Conspiracy (2001)
41. Citizen X (1995)
42. Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
43. Heart of a Dog (1988)
44. Made in Britain (1983)
45. You Don't Know Jack (2010)
46. The Sunset Limited (2011)
47. That Certain Summer (1972)
48. The Night Strangler (1973)
49. The Snow Goose (1971)
50. Something About Amelia (1984)

[ManPerson]

I feel like A Charlie Brown Christmas should be #1.

[Tim]

I honestly forgot how high we put it on the 1960s list..

[ManPerson]

I guess
1. A Charlie Brown Christmas
2. Duel
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
4. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

If we want to align with the decade lists I still stand by this top 4 btw.

[Tim]

Put the new top 10 up.

[ManPerson]

Edvard Munch is #235 on the 70s list so maybe that should be #5.

[Tim]

I was thinking it's quite a bit behind of the current #5-8 in terms of popularity as well as cultural impact.