Every Decade Of Cinema - Ranked

Notable films: Apocalypse Now; The Godfather; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Exorcist; Alien; Star Wars: A New Hope; Jaws; Taxi Driver; Rocky; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Monty Python & the Holy Grail; Blazing Saddles.

Here we are. The decade that made movies what they are today. As previously mentioned, the repeal of the Hays Code launched a revolution that saw directors liberated, able to bring us their visions in a way that they had never been before.

New Hollywood embraced darkness, realism, and violence in a way that films to that point hadn't. Films like Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, and The Godfather rose from the ashes of Old Hollywood, ushering in a beautiful new era.

Horror grew into a powerhouse, with Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and The Exorcist (THE horror film) robbing millions upon millions of film-goers of their sleep.

This is the decade that gave us Jaws and Alien. Arguably more significant, however, was the debut of Star Wars - THE blockbuster.

This is the decade of Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg. This is THE decade for film.