AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

**AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies** is a list of the top one hundred movies in American cinema. It was made by the American Film Institute in 1998. The television station CBS aired the list's special.

Movies that were on the list:
- had to be made in the United States;
- must have English as their language;
- must run over sixty minutes in length;
- had to be recognised at many award shows and festivals, and by critics and audiences;
- left a lasting mark on American history and society.

## The list

1. _Citizen Kane_ (1941)
1. _Casablanca_ (1942)
1. _The Godfather_ (1972)
1. _Gone with the Wind_ (1939)
1. _Lawrence of Arabia_ (1962)
1. _The Wizard of Oz_ (1939)
1. _The Graduate_ (1967)
1. _On the Waterfront_ (1954)
1. _Schindler's List_ (1993)
1. _Singin' in the Rain_ (1952)
1. _It's a Wonderful Life_ (1946)
1. _Sunset Boulevard_ (1950)
1. _The Bridge on the River Kwai_ (1957)
1. _Some Like It Hot_ (1959)
1. _Star Wars_ (1977)
1. _All About Eve_ (1950)
1. _The African Queen_ (1951)
1. _Psycho_ (1960)
1. _Chinatown_ (1974)
1. _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ (1975)
1. _The Grapes of Wrath_ (1940)
1. _2001: A Space Odyssey_ (1968)
1. _The Maltese Falcon_ (1941)
1. _Raging Bull_ (1980)
1. _E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial_ (1982)
1. _Dr. Strangelove_ (1964)
1. _Bonnie and Clyde_ (1967)
1. _Apocalypse Now_ (1979)
1. _Mr. Smith Goes to Washington_ (1939)
1. _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ (1948)
1. _Annie Hall_ (1977)
1. _The Godfather Part II_ (1974)
1. _High Noon_ (1952)
1. _To Kill a Mockingbird_ (1962)
1. _It Happened One Night_ (1934)
1. _Midnight Cowboy_ (1969)
1. _The Best Years of Our Lives_ (1946)
1. _Double Indemnity_ (1944)
1. _Doctor Zhivago_ (1965)
1. _North by Northwest_ (1959)
1. _West Side Story_ (1961)
1. _Rear Window_ (1954)
1. _King Kong_ (1933)
1. _The Birth of a Nation_ (1915)
1. _A Streetcar Named Desire_ (1951)
1. _A Clockwork Orange_ (1971)
1. _Taxi Driver_ (1976)
1. _Jaws_ (1975)
1. _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ (1937)
1. _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ (1969)
1. _The Philadelphia Story_ (1940)
1. _From Here to Eternity_ (1953)
1. _Amadeus_ (1984)
1. _All Quiet on the Western Front_ (1930)
1. _The Sound of Music_ (1965)
1. _M*A*S*H_ (1970)
1. _The Third Man_ (1949)
1. _Fantasia_ (1940)
1. _Rebel Without a Cause_ (1955)
1. _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ (1981)
1. _Vertigo_ (1958)
1. _Tootsie_ (1982)
1. _Stagecoach_ (1939)
1. _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ (1977)
1. _The Silence of the Lambs_ (1991)
1. _Network_ (1976)
1. _The Manchurian Candidate_ (1962)
1. _An American in Paris_ (1951)
1. _Shane_ (1953)
1. _The French Connection_ (1971)
1. _Forrest Gump_ (1994)
1. _Ben-Hur_ (1959)
1. _Wuthering Heights_ (1939)
1. _The Gold Rush_ (1925)
1. _Dances with Wolves_ (1990)
1. _City Lights_ (1931)
1. _American Graffiti_ (1973)
1. _Rocky_ (1976)
1. _The Deer Hunter_ (1978)
1. _The Wild Bunch_ (1969)
1. _Modern Times_ (1936)
1. _Giant_ (1956)
1. _Platoon_ (1986)
1. _Fargo_ (1996)
1. _Duck Soup_ (1933)
1. _Mutiny on the Bounty_ (1935)
1. _Frankenstein_ (1931)
1. _Easy Rider_ (1969)
1. _Patton_ (1970)
1. _The Jazz Singer_ (1927)
1. _My Fair Lady_ (1964)
1. _A Place in the Sun_ (1951)
1. _The Apartment_ (1960)
1. _Goodfellas_ (1990)
1. _Pulp Fiction_ (1994)
1. _The Searchers_ (1956)
1. _Bringing Up Baby_ (1938)
1. _Unforgiven_ (1992)
1. _Guess Who's Coming to Dinner_ (1967)
1. _Yankee Doodle Dandy_ (1942)

## Other websites

- American Film Institute
- Filmsite.org article
- Montreal Mirror's opinion of the list