HIGHEST GROSSING FILMS: THE 1970s

TOP FILMS OF 1970s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)

1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. Grease (1978)
4. The Sting (1973)
5. Superman (1978)

6. The Godfather (1972)
7. The Exorcist (1973)
8. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
9. (National Lampoon's) Animal House (1978)
10. Blazing Saddles (1974)

11. Rocky (1976)
12. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
13. The Towering Inferno (1974)
14. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

16. Love Story (1970)
17. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
18. Airport (1970)
19. American Graffiti (1973)

20. Saturday Night Fever (1977)

HIGHEST GROSSING FILMS: THE 1960s

TOP FILMS OF 1960s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)

1. The Sound of Music (1965)
2. The Graduate (1967)
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
4. The Jungle Book (1967)
5. My Fair Lady (1964)

6. Thunderball (1965)
7. Cleopatra (1963)
8.  2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
10. How the West Was Won (1962)

11. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
12. Funny Girl (1968)
13. The Love Bug (1968)
14. Goldfinger (1964)
15. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

16. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
17. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
18. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
19. The Odd Couple (1968)
20. Valley of the Dolls (1967)

HIGHEST GROSSING FILMS: THE 1950s

TOP FILMS OF 1950s 
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)

1. The Ten Commandments (1956)
2. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
3. Peter Pan (1953)
4. Cinderella (1950)
5. Ben-Hur (1959)

6. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
7. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
8. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
9. This is Cinerama (1952)
10. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

11. Rear Window (1954) (tie)
12. South Pacific (1958) (tie)
13, The Robe (1953)
14. Giant (1956)
15. Seven Wonders of the World (1956) (Cinerama feature)

16.From Here to Eternity (1953)
17. White Christmas (1954)
18. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
19. Sayonara (1957)
20. Cinerama Holiday (1955)

HIGHEST GROSSING FILMS: THE 1940s

TOP FILMS OF 1940s 
(unadjusted domestic gross totals)

1. Bambi (1942)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
3. Fantasia (1940)
4. Song of the South (1946)
5. Mom and Dad (1945)

6. Samson and Delilah (1949)
7. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
8. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
9. This Is the Army (1943)
10. Duel in the Sun (1946)

11. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
12. Sergeant York (1941)
13. Going My Way (1944)
14. Forever Amber (1947)
15. Mrs. Miniver (1942)

16. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
17. Battleground (1949)
18. Random Harvest (1942)
19. The Snake Pit (1948)
20.  The Lost Weekend (1945)

HIGHEST GROSSING FILMS: THE 1930s

TOP FILMS OF 1930s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)

1. Gone With The Wind (1939)
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
3. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
4. Frankenstein (1931)
5. Tom Sawyer (1930

6. King Kong (1933)
7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
8. Hell's Angels (1930)
9. Cavalcade (1933)
10. Saratoga (1937)

11. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

12. A Star Is Born (1937)
13. Modern Times (1936)
14. Ingagi (1930)
15. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

16. San Francisco (1936)
17. Shanghai Express (1932)
18. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (tie)
19. City Lights (1931) (tie)
20. Three Smart Girls (1936)