American Film Institute's
100 Best Movies
The 100 Best Movies according to the American Film Institute
1) Citizen Kane - 1941 (director: Orson Welles)
2) Casablanca - 1942 (director: Michael Curtiz)
3) The Godfather - 1972 (director: Francis Ford Coppola)
4) Gone With the Wind - 1939 (director: Victor Fleming)
5) Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 (director: David Lean)
6) The Wizard of Oz - 1939
(director: Victor Fleming)
7) The Graduate - 1967
(director: Mike Nichols)
8) On the Waterfront - 1954
(director: Elia Kazan)
9) Schindler's List - 1993
(director: Steven Spielberg)
10) Singin' in the Rain - 1952 (directors:
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
11) It's a Wonderful Life - 1946
(director: Frank Capra)
12) Sunset Boulevard - 1950
(director: Billy Wilder)
13) The Bridge on the River Kwai - 1957
(director: David Lean)
14) Some Like it Hot - 1959
(director: Billy Wilder)
15) Star Wars - 1977
(director: George Lucas)
16) All About Eve - 1950
(director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
17) The African Queen - 1951
(director: John Huston)
18) Psycho - 1960
(director: Alfred Hitchcock)
19) Chinatown - 1974
(director: Roman Polanski)
20) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1974
(director: Milos Forman)
21) The Grapes of Wrath - 1940
(director: John Ford)
22) 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968 (director:
Stanley Kubrick)
23) The Maltese Falcon - 1941
(director: John Huston)
24) Raging Bull - 1980
(director: Martin Scorsese)
25) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - 1982
(director: Steven Spielberg)
26) Dr. Strangelove - 1964
(director: Stanley Kubrick)
27) Bonnie and Clyde - 1967
(director: Arthur Penn)
28) Apocalypse Now - 1979
(director: Francis Ford Coppola)
29) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - 1939
(director: Frank Capra)
30) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 1948
(director: John Huston)
31) Annie Hall - 1977 (director:
Woody Allen)
32) The Godfather Part II - 1974
(director: Francis Ford Coppola)
33) High Noon - 1952
(director: Fred Zinnemann)
34) To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962
(director: Robert Mulligan)
35) It Happened One Night - 1934
(director: Frank Capra)
36) Midnight Cowboy - 1969
(director: John Schlesinger)
37) The Best Years of Our Lives - 1946
(director: William Wyler)
38) Double Indemnity - 1944
(director: Billy Wilder)
39) Doctor Zhivago - 1965
(director: David Lean)
40) North by Northwest - 1959
(director: Alfred Hitchcock)
41) West Side Story - 1961
(director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise)
42) Rear Window - 1954
(director: Alfred Hitchcock)
43) King Kong - 1933
(directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
44) The Birth of a Nation - 1915
(director: D.W. Griffith)
45) A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951
(director: Elia Kazan)
46) A Clockwork Orange - 1971
(director: Stanley Kubrick)
47) Taxi Driver - 1976
(director: Martin Scorsese)
48) Jaws - 1975
(director: Steven Spielberg)
49) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - 1937
(director: David Hand)
50) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1969
(director: George Roy Hill)
51) The Philadelphia Story - 1940
(director: George Cukor)
52) From Here to Eternity - 1953 (director:
Fred Zinnemann)
53) Amadeus - 1984
(director: Milos Forman)
54) All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930
(director: Lewis Milestone)
55) The Sound of Music - 1965
(director: Robert Wise)
56) M*A*S*H - 1970
(director: Robert Altman)
57) The Third Man - 1949
(director: Carol Reed)
58) Fantasia - 1940
(various directors)
59) Rebel Without a Cause - 1955 (director:
Nicholas Ray)
60) Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1981
(director: Steven Spielberg)
61) Vertigo - 1958
(director: Alfred Hitchcock)
62) Tootsie - 1982
(director: Sydney Pollack)
63) Stagecoach - 1939
(director: John Ford)
64) Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977
(director: Steven Spielberg)
65) The Silence of the Lambs - 1991
(director: Jonathan Demme)
66) Network - 1976
(director: Sidney Lumet)
67) The Manchurian Candidate - 1962
(director: John Frankenheimer)
68) An American in Paris - 1951
(director: Vincente Minelli)
69) Shane - 1953
(director: George Stevens)
70) The French Connection - 1971
(director: William Friedkin)
71) Forrest Gump - 1994
(director: Robert Zemeckis)
72) Ben-Hur - 1959
(director: William Wyler)
73) Wuthering Heights - 1939
(director: William Wyler)
74) The Gold Rush - 1925
(director: Charles Chaplin)
75) Dances With Wolves - 1990
(director: Kevin Costner)
76) City Lights - 1931
(director: Charles Chaplin)
77) American Graffiti - 1973
(director: George Lucas)
78) Rocky - 1976
(director: John G. Avildsen)
79) The Deer Hunter - 1978
(director: Michael Cimino)
80) The Wild Bunch - 1969
(director: Sam Peckinpah)
81) Modern Times - 1936
(director: Charles Chaplin)
82) Giant - 1956
(director: George Stevens)
83) Platoon - 1986
(director: Oliver Stone)
84) Fargo - 1996
(director: Joel Coen)
85) Duck Soup - 1933
(director: Leo McCarey)
86) Mutiny on the Bounty - 1935
(director: Frank Lloyd)
87) Frankenstein - 1931
(director: James Whale)
88) Easy Rider - 1969
(director: Dennis Hopper)
89) Patton - 1970
(director: Franklin J. Schaffner)
90) The Jazz Singer - 1927
(director: lan Crosland)
91) My Fair Lady - 1964
(director: George Cukor)
92) A Place in the Sun - 1951
(director: George Stevens)
93) The Apartment - 1960
(director: Billy Wilder)
94) Goodfellas - 1990
(director: Martin Scorsese)
95) Pulp Fiction - 1994
(director: Quentin Tarantino)
96) The Searchers - 1956
(director: John Ford)
97) Bringing up Baby - 1938
(director: Howard Hawks)
98) Unforgiven - 1992
(director: Clint Eastwood)
99) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1967
(director: Stanley Kramer)
100) Yankee Doodle Dandy - 1942
(director: Michael Curtiz)
