Greatest Films - The Best Movies in Cinematic History

Filmsite.org is an award-winning website for classic film lovers, students, cinephiles, and anyone interested in the great films of the last century. Detailed plot summaries, reviews, and film references are just some of the features on the site. The site also contains film analysis, original content, top film information and the most memorable movie scenes, "Best of..." articles, and favorite movie quotes from all genres. Its many resources include a comprehensive overview of film history, a comprehensive survey of the Academy Awards (Oscars), milestones and turning points in the industry, and background and descriptions of hundreds of classic Hollywood/American and other English-language films from the past hundred years. When Filmsite.org was first launched in the mid-1990s, it was one of the first sites to feature the 100 Greatest Films in Film History.

Tim Dirks founded the popular Filmsite.org website, also known as "The Greatest Films," in mid-1996, and celebrated its milestone 20th anniversary in 2016.

He has been writing about and reviewing movies ever since. As of September 2008, the site was acquired by American Movie Classics (AMC) LLC, and then as of July 2011, it became part of a new company called AMC Networks, Inc. Tim continues to be the sole contributor, manager, and editor of Filmsite.org - he adds important content spanning the history of film to the site and writes a frequent blog post. and other film-related articles, including Sundance TV's completed series on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. The site averages between 30-50 million page views per year (see Visitor and Traffic Statistics).