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AFI's 100 Greatest Movies
Most of the films on the American Film Institute's lists of the 100 Greatest Movies are included in the University of Missouri's film & video collection. In 1997, AFI asked more than 1,500 leaders in the American film community--screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians, critics, and others in Hollywood--to choose from a list of 400 nominated films compiled by AFI and select the 100 greatest American movies from the first 100 years of American cinema (1896-1996). Ten years later, with films from ten more years of American cinema, AFI re-polled the experts.

2007
Rank
  1997
  Rank
 
1  1   Citizen Kane (1941)
2  3   The Godfather (1972)
3  2   Casablanca (1942)
4  24   Raging Bull (1980)
5  10   Singin' in the Rain (1952)
6  4   Gone with the Wind (1939)
7  5   Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8  9   Schindler's List (1993)
9  61   Vertigo (1958)
10  6   The Wizard of Oz (1939)
11  76   City Lights (1931)
12  96   The Searchers (1956)
13  15   Star Wars (1977)
14  18   Psycho (1960)
15  22   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16  12   Sunset Blvd. (1950)
17  7   The Graduate (1967)
18  --   The General (1928)
19  8   On the Waterfront (1954)
20  11   It's a Wonderful Life (1939)
21  19   Chinatown (1974)
22  14   Some Like It Hot (1959)
23  21   The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
24  25   E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
25  34   To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
26  29   Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
27  33   High Noon (1952)
28  16   All About Eve (1950)
29  38   Double Indemnity (1944)
30  28   Apocalypse Now (1979)
31  23   The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32  32   The Godfather Part II (1974)
33  20   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
34  49   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
35  31   Annie Hall (1977)
36  13   The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37  37   The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38  30   Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39  26   Dr. Strangelove (1964)
40  55   The Sound of Music (1965)
41  43   King Kong (1933)
42  27   Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
43  36   Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44  51   The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45  69   Shane (1953)
46  35   It Happened One Night (1934)
47  45   A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48  42   Rear Window (1954)
49  --   Intollerance (1916)
50  --   Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
51  41   West Side Story (1961)
52  47   Taxi Driver (1976)
53  79   The Deer Hunter (1978)
54  56   MASH (1970)
55  40   North by Northwest (1959)
56  48   Jaws (1945)
57  78   Rocky (1976)
58  74   (1925)
59  --   Nashville (1975)
60  85   Duck Soup (1933)
61  --   Sullivan's Travels (1941)
62  77   American Graffiti (1973)
63  --   Cabaret (1972)
64  66   Network (1976)
65  17   The African Queen (1951)
66  60   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
67  --   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68  98   Unforgiven (1992)
69  62   Tootsie (1982)
70  46   A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71  --   Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72  --   The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
73  50   Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
74  65   The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
75  --   In the Heat of the Night (1967)
76  71   Forrest Gump (1994)
77  --   All the President's Men (1976)
78  81   Modern Times (1936)
79  80   The Wild Bunch (1969)
80  93   The Apartment (1960)
81  --   Spartacus (1960)
82  --   Sunrise (1927)
83  --   Titanic (1997)
84  88   Easy Rider (1969)
85  --   A Night at the Opera (1935)
86  83   Platoon (1986)
87  --   12 Angry Men (1957)
88  97   Bringing Up Baby (1938)
89  --   Sixth Sense (1999)
90  --   Swing Time (1936)
91  --   Sophie's Choice (1982)
92  94   Goodfellas (1990)
93  70   The French Connection (1971)
94  95   Pulp Fiction (1994)
95  --   The Last Picture Show (1971)
96  --   Do the Right Thing (1989)
97  --   Blade Runner (1982)
98  100   Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
91  --   Toy Story (1995)
100  72   Ben-Hur (1959)
--  39   Doctor Zhivago (1965)
--  44   The Birth of a Nation (1915)
--  52   From Here to Eternity (1953)
--  53   Amadeus (1984)
--  54   All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
--  57   The Third Man (1949)
--  59   Fantasia (1940)
--  59   Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
--  63   Stagecoach (1939)
--  64   Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
--  67   The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
--  68   An American in Paris (1951)
--  73   Wuthering Heights (1939)
--  75   Dances with Wolves (1990)
--  82   Giant (1956)
--  84   Fargo (1996)
--  86   Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
--  87   Frankenstein (1931)
--  89   Patton (1970)
--  90   The Jazz Singer (1927)
--  91   My Fair Lady (1964)
--  92   A Place in the Sun (1951)
--  99   Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)


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