Henry King

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1. 1
   State Fair

   1933 · United States · musical, comedy, drama

   Oscar Best Picture nominee 1933 · National Film Registry (inducted 2014) · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

   0.843 citations
2. 2
   Twelve O'Clock High

   1949 · United States · war, drama

   Oscar Best Picture nominee 1949 · National Film Registry (inducted 1998) · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

   0.843 citations
3. 3
   Wilson

   1944 · United States · biography, drama

   Oscar Best Picture nominee 1944 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

   0.622 citations
4. 4
   Stella Dallas

   1925 · United States · drama, silent

   Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1926 #3

   0.501 citation
5. 5
   In Old Chicago

   1937 · United States · drama, action, musical

   Oscar Best Picture nominee 1937

   0.451 citation
6. 6
   Alexander's Ragtime Band

   1938 · United States · comedy, romance, musical

   Oscar Best Picture nominee 1938

   0.451 citation
7. 7
   The Song of Bernadette

   1943 · United States · drama, biography

   Oscar Best Picture nominee 1943

   0.451 citation
8. 8
   Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

   1955 · United States · drama, romance, war

   Oscar Best Picture nominee 1955

   0.451 citation
9. 9
   The Gunfighter

   1950 · United States · western

   NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #1053 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

   0.443 citations
10. 10
    Stanley and Livingstone

    1939 · United States · biography

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1940 #6

    0.361 citation
11. 11
    Tol'able David

    1921 · United States · drama, silent

    National Film Registry (inducted 2007)

    0.231 citation

Complete filmography

All 111 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

• 1914The Nemesis
• 1915Should a Wife Forgive?
• 1915Who Pays?
• 1916Joy and the Dragon
• 1916Little Mary Sunshine
• 1916Pay Dirt
• 1916Shadows and Sunshine
• 1916The Oath of Hate
• 1916When Might is Right
• 1917A Game of Wits
• 1917Souls in Pawn
• 1917Southern Pride
• 1917Sunshine and Gold
• 1917The Bride's Silence
• 1917The Climber
• 1917The Mainspring
• 1917The Mate of the Sally Ann
• 1917Told at Twilight
• 1917Twin Kiddies
• 1917Vengeance of the Dead
• 1918All the World to Nothing
• 1918Beauty and the Rogue
• 1918Hearts or Diamonds?
• 1918Hobbs in a Hurry
• 1918Powers That Prey
• 1918Social Briars
• 1918The Locked Heart
• 1918Up Romance Road
• 191923 1/2 Hours' Leave
• 1919A Fugitive from Matrimony
• 1919A Sporting Chance
• 1919Brass Buttons
• 1919Six Feet Four
• 1919Some Liar
• 1919This Hero Stuff
• 1919When a Man Rides Alone
• 1919Where the West Begins
• 1920Dice of Destiny
• 1920Haunting Shadows
• 1920Help Wanted – Male
• 1920One Hour Before Dawn
• 1920The White Dove
• 1920Uncharted Channels
• 1921Salvage
• 1921The Mistress of Shenstone
• 1921The Sting of the Lash
• 1921Tol'able David
• 1921When We Were Twenty-One
• 1922Sonny
• 1922The Bond Boy
• 1922The Seventh Day
• 1923Fury
• 1923The White Sister
• 1924Romola
• 1925Any Woman
• 1925Sackcloth and Scarlet
• 1925Stella Dallas
• 1926Partners Again
• 1926The Winning of Barbara Worth
• 1927The Magic Flame
• 1928The Woman Disputed
• 1929She Goes to War
• 1930Hell Harbor
• 1930Lightnin'
• 1930The Eyes of the World
• 1931Merely Mary Ann
• 1931Over the Hill
• 1932The Woman in Room 13
• 1933I Loved You Wednesday
• 1933State Fair
• 1934Carolina
• 1934Marie Galante
• 1935One More Spring
• 1935Way Down East
• 1936Lloyd's of London
• 1936Ramona
• 1936The Country Doctor
• 1937In Old Chicago
• 1937Seventh Heaven
• 1938Alexander's Ragtime Band
• 1939Jesse James
• 1939Stanley and Livingstone
• 1940Chad Hanna
• 1940Little Old New York
• 1940Maryland
• 1941A Yank in the R.A.F.
• 1941Remember the Day
• 1942The Black Swan
• 1943The Song of Bernadette
• 1944Wilson
• 1945A Bell for Adano
• 1946Margie
• 1947Captain from Castile
• 1948Deep Waters
• 1949Prince of Foxes
• 1949Twelve O'Clock High
• 1950The Gunfighter
• 1951David and Bathsheba
• 1951I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
• 1952O. Henry's Full House
• 1952The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• 1952Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie
• 1953King of the Khyber Rifles
• 1955Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
• 1955Untamed
• 1956Carousel
• 1957The Sun Also Rises
• 1958The Bravados
• 1959Beloved Infidel
• 1959This Earth Is Mine
• 1962Tender Is the Night