By decade

The index compares each decade's share of single-film picks with its share of the collection. Box sets are excluded from it: taking the Bergman set is a decision about Bergman, not about the 1950s.

By country

Every country with at least 10 films

Country	In collection	Picks	Reached for	Films reached
United States	579	1436	1.48	80%
France	277	308	0.66	69%
Japan	216	165	0.46	62%
United Kingdom	142	269	1.13	70%
Italy	88	174	1.18	76%
Sweden	66	39	0.35	83%
Germany	40	56	0.84	60%
Hong Kong	38	12	0.19	79%
Iran	30	16	0.32	37%
Canada	19	37	1.16	79%
India	18	10	0.33	56%
Czechoslovakia	17	26	0.91	94%
Mexico	16	41	1.53	94%
Soviet Union	16	55	2.05	75%
Spain	15	36	1.43	80%
Denmark	14	22	0.94	100%
Belgium	11	10	0.54	82%
Poland	11	30	1.63	64%

Criterion's listing gives one country per film, so a co-production counts only under whichever country Criterion credits first. Countries with fewer than 10 films in the collection are left out.

By genre

Genres are TMDB's, over the 1686 of 1718 collection films that matched (98%). A film carries several at once, so these shares sum past 100%.

The canon or the new releases

A spine number is roughly release order, so low numbers are the films Criterion built its name on. Guests land almost exactly in the middle: the mean pick sits at the 49% mark, against the 50% a blindfolded guest would manage.

Over the 1260 films that carry a spine number. The other 458 are non-spine releases and are excluded rather than treated as spine zero.