National Board of Review

1974 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Woman Under the InfluenceMabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.AmazonChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.AmazonDaisy MillerIn this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.AmazonHarry and TontoWhen his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.AmazonLennyThe story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentar...

1973 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBang the Drum SlowlyThe story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.AmazonO Lucky Man!An apprentice coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.AmazonPaper MoonDuring the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.AmazonSerpicoAn honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.AmazonThe Day of the DolphinA marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in...

1972 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films Winner1776A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.AmazonCabaretA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.AmazonDeath in VeniceWhile recovering in Venice, sickly Composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.AmazonDeliveranceIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.AmazonFrenzyA serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wron...

1971 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerDiary of a Mad HousewifeA housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.AmazonFive Easy PiecesA dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.AmazonI Never Sang for My FatherA man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.AmazonKesA young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.AmazonLove StoryA boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.AmazonPattonThe World War II ...

1970 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBattle of BritainIn 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.AmazonGoodbye, Mr. ChipsA shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.AmazonIsadoraA biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...AmazonMidnight CowboyA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.AmazonRing of Bright WaterWhoever said dog is man's best friend never met Mij! Mij is a cute, cuddly pet s...

1969 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films Winner2001: A Space OdysseyAfter discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.AmazonCharlyAn intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.AmazonOliver!After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.AmazonPlanet of the ApesAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.AmazonRachel, RachelRachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives wit...

1968 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAccidentAt Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.AmazonDoctor DolittleAfter the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.AmazonFar from the Madding CrowdBathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.AmazonIn Cold BloodAfter a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their ow...

1967 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Man for All SeasonsThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.AmazonAlfieAn unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.AmazonBorn FreeThe story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt.AmazonGeorgy GirlA homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.AmazonIt Happened HereIn 1940, the Nazis invade Britain and transform it into a fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist.AmazonJohn F. Kennedy: Years of Lightni...

1966 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Thousand ClownsA middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.AmazonDarlingBeautiful, but amoral, model Diana Scott (Julie Christie) sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.AmazonDoctor ZhivagoThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.AmazonShip of FoolsA varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.AmazonThe Agony and the EcstasyThe biographical story of Michelang...

1964 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBecketKing Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.AmazonFour Days in NovemberFrom more than eight million feet of newsreels, amateur footage, tape-recordings and more, David L. Wolper presents a priceless detailed account of the time and events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.AmazonGirl with Green EyesIn 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a much-travelled and still married land-owner.AmazonMy Fair LadySnobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) pre...