About FilmsRanked.com
Welcome to FilmsRanked.com, your destination for exploring, filtering, and sorting through a carefully maintained database of cinema history.
The site is run by me, Adam Roberts, a journalist and amateur film researcher. I have created each of the domestic ticket estimates by hand, without the use of artificial intelligence.
Here is a list of the sources I used in gathering the data:
“Appendix.” 1992. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 12 (sup002): 1–20. doi:10.1080/01439689208604539. Eric Hoyt, “MGM Reissues Dataset (Season by Season Comparison), 1925-1957,” Hollywood Vault Digital Exhibit: Theatrical Reissues, accessed October 11, 2024, https://vault.commarts.wisc.edu/items/show/26.Eric Hoyt, “RKO Theatrical Reissue Dataset, 1935-1951,” Hollywood Vault Digital Exhibit: Theatrical Reissues, accessed October 11, 2024, https://vault.commarts.wisc.edu/items/show/24.
Eric Hoyt, “Warner Bros. Theatrical Reissues Dataset, 1935-1942,” Hollywood Vault Digital Exhibit: Theatrical Reissues, accessed October 11, 2024, https://vault.commarts.wisc.edu/items/show/23.
Appendix 1. (1994). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 14(sup1), 1–11. https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/01439689408604545
Appendix 1. (1995). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 15(sup1), 1–31. https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/01439689508604551
Birchard, Robert S.. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. United States: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cecil_B_DeMille_s_Hollywood/h8I1dEf7GqIC?hl=en
Eyman, Scott. Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille. United Kingdom: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Maresco, Peter A. (2004). "Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: Market Segmentation, Mass Marketing and Promotion, and the Internet". Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 8 (1): 2. doi:10.3138/jrpc.8.1.002. S2CID 25346049.
Niven, Bill (2018). Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300200362.
Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper (1980), Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pages 7-9. ISBN 0 19 554213 4
Jennifer M. Bean, "Frozen in Time: Looking at the Dawson City Archive Collection, 1913-1919" (presentation, Film Symposium, University of South Carolina, 1999), accessed June 17, 2025, https://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium/archive/orphans1999/OS1.Jennifer%20M.%20Bean.htm.
Imperato, Pascal James. They Married Adventure: The Wandering Lives of Martin & Osa Johnson. Canada: Rutgers University Press, 1999. p. 84
Mitman, Gregg. Reel nature : America's romance with wildlife on film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. p. 19
Caulton, Thomas. "Motion Pictures and Moral Panic: The Reception of 'White Slavery' Films in New York in 1913." Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 53, no. 1 (2023): 61-78. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/flm.2023.a903048.
Schaefer, Eric. Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television. Fall92, Issue 30, p34-47. 14p.
Stedman, Raymond William (1977). "Drama by Installment". Serials: Suspense and Drama By Installment. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 14& 22. ISBN 978-0-8061-1695-2.
Daugherty, Gregory N.. The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
"The All Time Best Sellers". International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38. Quigley Publishing Company. p. 942.
Vance, Jeffrey; Maietta, Tony (2008). Douglas Fairbanks. ISBN 978-0-5202-5667-5.
Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. United States: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2011.
Krämer, Peter (2019). The General. ISBN 978-1-8387-1889-3.