The Best of American New Wave Cinema, aka New Hollywood Films (mid 1960s to early 1980s)

"New generations of filmmakers were able to express their visual ideas on film. Classical Hollywood was declining and rapidly losing money, studios also being sold out to large corporations without any firm knowledge of film making. Studios were merely making films for commercial success. Yet directors of Old Hollywood, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Orson Welles, and Charlie Chaplin wanted desperately to engage the younger generation to keep making [great] films."
This list includes many films legends like Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Warren Beaty ,Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Taylor, and so on.