No. 8

Doctor Zhivago
Year: 1965
Studio: MGM
Inflation-Adjusted Box Office Gross: $878,879,000
Unadjusted Box Office Gross: $111,721,910

This moving interpretation of Boris Pasternak's controversial novel of the same name appealed to a wide array of audiences. It is an intense love story, a thrilling war adventure, and a controversial hodgepodge of ideology, all wound together by director David Lean. As with The Sound of Music, people remembered hearing Doctor Zhivago as much as they did seeing it—Maurice Jarre's ethereal score is timeless in its own right.