The 16 Greatest Musical Films of the 1960s

Sweeping Hollywood spectacles, Broadway adaptations, and Beatles-fueled romps from a golden decade of song. Which reigns supreme? Cast your vote!

1

The Sound of Music

1965 Best Picture winner about a governess and the von Trapp family in pre-war Austria.

1000pts

2

West Side Story

1961 Best Picture winner reimagining Romeo and Juliet amid rival New York street gangs.

888pts

3

My Fair Lady

1964 Best Picture winner adapting the tale of a phonetics professor transforming a flower girl.

833pts

4

A Hard Day's Night

1964 musical comedy capturing a frenzied day in the life of The Beatles.

666pts

5

Half a Sixpence

1967 musical following a draper's apprentice who unexpectedly inherits a fortune.

666pts

6

Bye Bye Birdie

1963 musical comedy satirizing rock-and-roll mania around a drafted teen idol.

666pts

7

Yellow Submarine

1968 animated musical fantasy set to the songs of The Beatles.

666pts

8

Hello, Dolly!

1969 musical starring Barbra Streisand as a meddling turn-of-the-century matchmaker.

666pts

9

Oliver!

1968 Best Picture winner adapting Dickens's orphan tale into a sweeping stage musical.

605pts

10

Mary Poppins

Disney's 1964 musical about a magical nanny who transforms a London family.

605pts

11

The Music Man

1962 musical about a charming con man who poses as a boys' band leader in Iowa.

532pts

12

Sweet Charity

1969 Bob Fosse musical about a hopeful dance-hall hostess searching for love.

532pts

13

Gypsy

1962 musical about an overbearing stage mother and the rise of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee.

532pts

14

Funny Girl

1968 musical biopic that won Barbra Streisand an Oscar as comedienne Fanny Brice.

444pts

15

Camelot

1967 musical retelling the Arthurian legend of love and betrayal at the Round Table.

444pts

16

Doctor Dolittle

1967 musical fantasy about an eccentric physician who can talk to animals.

444pts