page_title: List of films considered the best
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: List of films considered the best / National polls / United States
caption_attribution_description: English: 1967 theatrical re-release poster for the Gone With The Wind.
context_page_description: This is a list of films considered "the best ever" in national and international surveys of critics and the public.
  Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics, while others may be susceptible to forms of interference such as vote stacking.
context_section_description: Gone with the Wind (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults undertaken by Harris Interactive in 2008, and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014. It was also voted the best American film of all time by 35,000 members of the American Film Institute in 1977. It was picked in 2011 as the best film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, an online poll in which over 500,000 votes were cast. Voters chose from a list of 10 English-language films selected by film industry experts.
  Citizen Kane (1941) was selected as the greatest American film in 2015 by sixty-two international film critics surveyed by the BBC. It was also ranked top in every Sight & Sound critics' poll between 1962 and 2002, and the directors' poll in 1992 and 2002. The American Film Institute polled 1,500 film community leaders for the lists 100 Years...100 Movies and 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) in 1998 and 2007 respectively, asking voters to choose from a list of 400 nominations. Both polls identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever. It was voted the best American film of all time with 156 votes in a 1977 poll of 203 experts from 22 countries (116 Americans and 87 non-Americans). The poll was organized by the Royal Belgian Film Archive and titled "The most important and misappreciated American films", and they were looking for subjective choices.
  Casablanca (1942) was voted the greatest American film by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997.
  Vertigo (1958) topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes.
  The Godfather (1972) was selected as the greatest film by 2,120 industry professionals in a Hollywood survey undertaken by The Hollywood Reporter in 2014.
caption: Gone with the Wind (1939) has topped several US audience polls
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