A heartless tin man, a pair of dazzling red shoes and the yellow brick road all helped the 1939 musical masterpiece The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, the most influential movie of all time. The results showed that the top 20 most influential films were all produced before 1980, mostly in the US. A computer programme was used which treated movies as nodes in a network and measured how connected they were to other influential films. WHAT ARE THE TOP 20 FILMS OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO SCIENCE? The Wizard Of Oz is based on L. Frank Baum's children's book The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, published in 1900.

Source: Daily Mail November 30, 2018 01:05 UTC