Film · 1965 · Films · 1960s
The Hill
Scored from 106 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Sidney Lumet's black-and-white British drama unfolds inside an army detention camp in the North African desert during the Second World War. Joe Roberts (Sean Connery), a sergeant-major court-martialled for striking his commanding officer, arrives with four other prisoners and is drilled up 'the hill', a man-made mound of sand that inmates must climb in full pack under the sun. Staff Sergeant Williams singles the newcomers out for escalating punishment while the regimental sergeant-major and the medical officer look away. When one of the five breaks under the regime, Roberts demands that the treatment go on official record, turning prisoners against staff and staff against one another.
The Hill (1965) is a film IMDb files under the drama and war genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 2h 3m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 106 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 107 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Hill lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 106.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
