The hills are alive, with the sound of '60s movies. This era is often overshadowed by the ones that came later in the minds of film fans, but there were plenty of good films(and a handful of history-making great ones) that deserve your attention more than all the TV shows you've been binge-watching. Musical and Westerns were our primary source of big screen entertainment back when JFK, LBJ and Richard Nixon were running things, with "The Sound of Music" ranking as the box office champion of the 1960s by a wide margin. The decade's other nine Best Picture winners are also present, along with a guy named Bond. James Bond. Here are the 60 biggest hits from 1960-1969.
1. "The Sound of Music"(1965)....................................................................$163 million
2. "Doctor Zhivago"(1965)...........................................................................$111 million
3. "The Graduate"(1967)...............................................................................$104 million
4. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"(1969)......................................$102 million
5. "The Jungle Book"(1967)..........................................................................$73 million
6. "My Fair Lady"(1964)................................................................................$72 million
7. "Thunderball"(1965)..................................................................................$63 million
8. "Cleopatra"(1963)......................................................................................$57 million
9. "2001: A Space Odyssey"(1968)...............................................................$56 million
10. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"(1967)...............................................$56 million
11. "Funny Girl"(1968)...................................................................................$52 million
12. "The Love Bug"(1968)..............................................................................$51 million
13. "Goldfinger"(1964)...................................................................................$51 million
14. "Bonnie and Clyde"(1967).......................................................................$50 million
15. "How the West Was Won"(1963)...........................................................$46 million
16. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"(1963)............................................$46 million
17. "Lawrence of Arabia"(1962)...................................................................$45 million
18. "The Dirty Dozen"(1967)........................................................................$45 million
19. "Midnight Cowboy"(1969).....................................................................$45 million
20. "The Odd Couple"(1968).......................................................................$44 million
21. "Valley of the Dolls"(1967)....................................................................$44 million
22. "West Side Story"(1961)........................................................................$43 million
23. "You Only Live Twice"(1967)...............................................................$43 million
24. "To Sir, with Love"(1967)....................................................................$42 million
25. "Bullitt"(1968).......................................................................................$42 million
26. "Easy Rider"(1969)...............................................................................$41 million
27. "The Longest Day"(1962)....................................................................$39 million
28. "Romeo and Juliet"(1968)...................................................................$38 million
29. "Tom Jones"(1963)..............................................................................$37 million
30. "Oliver!"(1968)....................................................................................$37 million
31. "The Born Losers"(1967)....................................................................$36 million
32. "The Bible: In the Beginning..."(1966)..............................................$35 million
33. "Hawaii"(1966)....................................................................................$34 million
34. "Thoroughly Modern Millie"(1967)....................................................$34 million
35. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"(1966).........................................$34 million
36. "Rosemary's Baby"(1968)...................................................................$33 million
37. "Hello, Dolly!"(1969)...........................................................................$33 million
38. "Planet of the Apes"(1968).................................................................$32 million
39. "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"(1969)..................................................$32 million
40. "Paint Your Wagon"(1969)...............................................................$31 million
41. "True Grit"(1969)..............................................................................$31 million
42. "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"(1965)...........$31 million
43. "Camelot"(1967)................................................................................$31 million
44. "Mary Poppins"(1964)......................................................................$31 million
45. "The Sand Pebbles"(1966)................................................................$30 million
46. "Night of the Living Dead"(1968)....................................................$30 million
47. "The Guns of Navarone"(1961).......................................................$29 million
48. "The Carpetbaggers"(1964)............................................................$28 million
49. "A Man for All Seasons"(1966)......................................................$28 million
50. "That Darn Cat!"(1965)...................................................................$28 million
51. "El Cid"(1961).................................................................................$26 million
52. "Yours, Mine, and Ours"(1968)....................................................$26 million
53. "Cactus Flower"(1969)..................................................................$26 million
54. "The Absent-Minded Professor"(1961)........................................$25 million
55. "The Great Race"(1965)................................................................$25 million
56. "Irma la Douce"(1963)..................................................................$25 million
57. "The Parent Trap"(1961).............................................................$25 million
58. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"(1966)...................................$25 million
59. "From Russia with Love"(1964)..................................................$25 million
60. "In the Heat of the Night"(1967).................................................$24 million
*2,081 films were released in the 1960s. But who's counting?
