AFI List

In 2003, the American Film Institute published a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes and villains of all time. The AFI defined a hero as "a character(s) who prevails in extreme circumstances and dramatizes a sense of morality, courage and purpose. Though they may be ambiguous or flawed, they often sacrifice themselves to show humanity at its best."
#Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird
#Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark
#James Bond from Dr. No
#Rick Blaine from Casablanca
#Will Kane from High Noon
#Clarice Starling from The Silence of the Lambs
#Rocky Balboa from Rocky
#Ellen Ripley from Aliens
#George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life
#T.E. Lawrence from Lawrence of Arabia
#Jefferson Smith from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
#Tom Joad from The Grapes of Wrath
#Oskar Schindler from Schindler's Wrath
#Han Solo from Star Wars
#Norma Rae Webster from Norma Rae
#Shane from Shane
#Harry Callahan from Dirty Harry
#Robin Hood from The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
#Virgil Tibbs from In the Heat of the Night
#Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
#Mahatma Gandhi from Gandhi
#Spartacus from Spartacus
#Terry Malloy from On the Waterfront
#Thelma & Louise from Thelma & Louise
#Lou Gehrig from The Pride of the Yankees
#Superman from Superman: The Movie (1978)
#Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein from All the President's Men
#Juror 8 from 12 Angry Men
#General George S. Patton from Patton
#Luke Jackson from Cool Hand Luke
#Erin Brockovich from Erin Brockovich
#Philip Marlowe from The Big Sleep
#Marge Gunderson from Fargo
#Tarzan from Tarzan the Ape Man
#Alvin York in Sergeant York
#Rooster Cogburn in True Grit
#Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
#The Tramp in City Lights
#Lassie in Lassie Come Home
#Frank Serpico in Serpico
#Arthur Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips
#Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town
#Moses in The Ten Commandments
#Popeye Doyle in The French Connection
#Zorro in The Mask of Zorro
#Batman in Batman (1989)
#Karen Silkwood in Silkwood
#The Terminator in The Terminator
#Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia
#Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator
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