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 who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies The 100-best list was unveiled in 1998. Then in 2007, the 10th Anniversary edition, an updated version was released.
 

Film	Release Year	1998 rank	2007 rank
Citizen Kane	1941	1	1
Casablanca	1942	2	3
The Godfather	1972	3	2
Gone with the Wind	1939	4	6
Lawrence of Arabia	1962	5	7
The Wizard of Oz	1939	6	10
The Graduate	1967	7	17
On the Waterfront	1954	8	19
Schindler's List	1993	9	8
Singin' in the Rain	1952	10	5
It's a Wonderful Life	1946	11	20
Sunset Boulevard	1950	12	16
The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	13	36
Some Like It Hot	1959	14	22
Star Wars	1977	15	13
All About Eve	1950	16	28
The African Queen	1951	17	65
Psycho	1960	18	14
The General	1927	—	18
Chinatown	1974	19	21
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	20	33
The Grapes of Wrath	1940	21	23
2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	22	15
The Maltese Falcon	1941	23	31
Raging Bull	1980	24	4
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	25	24
Dr. Strangelove	1964	26	39
Bonnie and Clyde	1967	27	42
Apocalypse Now	1979	28	30
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	29	26
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	30	38
Annie Hall	1977	31	35
The Godfather Part II	1974	32	32
High Noon	1952	33	27
To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	34	25
It Happened One Night	1934	35	46
Midnight Cowboy	1969	36	43
The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	37	37
Double Indemnity	1944	38	29
Doctor Zhivago	1965	39	—
North by Northwest	1959	40	55
West Side Story	1961	41	51
Rear Window	1954	42	48
King Kong	1933	43	41
The Birth of a Nation	1915	44	—
A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	45	47
A Clockwork Orange	1971	46	70
Taxi Driver	1976	47	52
Jaws	1975	48	56
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	49	34
Intolerance	1916	—	49
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	50	73
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	—	50
The Philadelphia Story	1940	51	44
From Here to Eternity	1953	52	—
Amadeus	1984	53	—
All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	54	—
The Sound of Music	1965	55	40
MASH	1970	56	54
The Third Man	1949	57	—
Fantasia	1940	58	—
Rebel Without a Cause	1955	59	—
Nashville	1975	—	59
Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	60	66
Vertigo	1958	61	9
Sullivan's Travels	1941	—	61
Tootsie	1982	62	69
Stagecoach	1939	63	—
Cabaret	1972	—	63
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	64	—
The Silence of the Lambs	1991	65	74
Network	1976	66	64
The Manchurian Candidate	1962	67	—
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	—	67
An American in Paris	1951	68	—
Shane	1953	69	45
The French Connection	1971	70	93
Forrest Gump	1994	71	76
Saving Private Ryan	1998	—	71
Ben-Hur	1959	72	100
The Shawshank Redemption	1994	—	72
Wuthering Heights	1939	73	—
The Gold Rush	1925	74	58
Dances with Wolves	1990	75	—
In the Heat of the Night	1967	—	75
City Lights	1931	76	11
American Graffiti	1973	77	62
All the President's Men	1976	—	77
Rocky	1976	78	57
The Deer Hunter	1978	79	53
The Wild Bunch	1969	80	79
Modern Times	1936	81	78
Spartacus	1960	—	81
Giant	1956	82	—
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	1927	—	82
Platoon	1986	83	86
Titanic	1997	—	83
Fargo	1996	84	—
Duck Soup	1933	85	60
A Night at the Opera	1935	—	85
Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	86	—
Frankenstein	1931	87	—
12 Angry Men	1957	—	87
Easy Rider	1969	88	84
Patton	1970	89	—
The Sixth Sense	1999	—	89
The Jazz Singer	1927	90	—
Swing Time	1936	—	90
My Fair Lady	1964	91	—
Sophie's Choice	1982	—	91
A Place in the Sun	1951	92	—
The Apartment	1960	93	80
Goodfellas	1990	94	92
Pulp Fiction	1994	95	94
The Last Picture Show	1971	—	95
The Searchers	1956	96	12
Do the Right Thing	1989	—	96
Bringing Up Baby	1938	97	88
Blade Runner	1982	—	97
Unforgiven	1992	98	68
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	1967	99	—
Toy Story	1995	—	99
Yankee Doodle Dandy	1942	100	98