AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry














Movie ( Year )

1 Citizen Kane ( 1941 )
2 Casablanca ( 1942 )
3 The Godfather ( 1972 )
4 Gone with the Wind ( 1939 )
5 Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 )
6 The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 )
7 The Graduate ( 1967 )
8 On the Waterfront ( 1954 )
9 Schindler's List ( 1993 )
10 Singin' in the Rain ( 1952 )
11 It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 )
12 Sunset Blvd. ( 1950 )
13 The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 )
14 Some Like It Hot ( 1959 )
15 Star Wars ( 1977 )
16 All About Eve ( 1950 )
17 The African Queen ( 1951 )
18 Psycho ( 1960 )
19 Chinatown ( 1974 )
20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 )
21 The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 )
22 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 )
23 The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 )
24 Raging Bull ( 1980 )
25 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 )
26 Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 )
27 Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 )
28 Apocalypse Now ( 1979 )
29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 )
30 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 )
31 Annie Hall ( 1977 )
32 The Godfather Part II ( 1974 )
33 High Noon ( 1952 )
34 To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962 )
35 It Happened One Night ( 1934 )
36 Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 )
37 The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 )
38 Double Indemnity ( 1944 )
39 Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 )
40 North by Northwest ( 1959 )
41 West Side Story ( 1961 )
42 Rear Window ( 1954 )
43 King Kong ( 1933 )
44 The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 )
45 A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 )
46 A Clockwork Orange ( 1971 )
47 Taxi Driver ( 1976 )
48 Jaws ( 1975 )
49 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 )
50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 )
51 The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 )
52 From Here to Eternity ( 1953 )
53 Amadeus ( 1984 )
54 All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 )
55 The Sound of Music ( 1965 )
56 MASH ( 1970 )
57 The Third Man ( 1949 )
58 Fantasia ( 1940 )
59 Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 )
60 Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 )
61 Vertigo ( 1958 )
62 Tootsie ( 1982 )
63 Stagecoach ( 1939 )
64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 )
65 The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 )
66 Network ( 1976 )
67 The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 )
68 An American in Paris ( 1951 )
69 Shane ( 1953 )
70 The French Connection ( 1971 )
71 Forrest Gump ( 1994 )
72 Ben-Hur ( 1959 )
73 Wuthering Heights ( 1939 )
74 The Gold Rush ( 1925 )
75 Dances with Wolves ( 1990 )
76 City Lights ( 1931 )
77 American Graffiti ( 1973 )
78 Rocky ( 1976 )
79 The Deer Hunter ( 1978 )
80 The Wild Bunch ( 1969 )
81 Modern Times ( 1936 )
82 Giant ( 1956 )
83 Platoon ( 1986 )
84 Fargo ( 1996 )
85 Duck Soup ( 1933 )
86 Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 )
87 Frankenstein ( 1931 )
88 Easy Rider ( 1969 )
89 Patton ( 1970 )
90 The Jazz Singer ( 1927 )
91 My Fair Lady ( 1964 )
92 A Place in the Sun ( 1951 )
93 The Apartment ( 1960 )
94 Goodfellas ( 1990 )
95 Pulp Fiction ( 1994 )
96 The Searchers ( 1956 )
97 Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 )
98 Unforgiven ( 1992 )
99 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( 1967 )
100 Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 )