100 Best American Movies
19 June 1998
Here is the complete list of the
American Film Institute's 100 greatest American movies.
The 100 top films were selected by a blue-ribbon panel of leaders from across the
American film community, and were all produced during the first 100 years
of American filmmaking.
Also on this page: the 25 Best Musicals
- Citizen Kane, 1941
- Casablanca, 1942
- The Godfather, 1972
- Gone With the Wind, 1939
- Lawrence of Arabia, 1962
- The Wizard of Oz, 1939
- The Graduate, 1967
- On the Waterfront, 1954
- Schindler's List, 1993
- Singin' in the Rain, 1952
- It's a Wonderful Life, 1946
- Sunset Boulevard, 1950
- The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
- Some Like It Hot, 1959
- Star Wars, 1977
- All About Eve, 1950
- The African Queen, 1951
- Psycho, 1960
- Chinatown, 1974
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975
- The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
- The Maltese Falcon, 1941
- Raging Bull, 1980
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982
- Dr. Strangelove, 1964
- Bonnie & Clyde, 1967
- Apocalypse Now, 1979
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
- Annie Hall, 1977
- The Godfather, Part II, 1974
- High Noon, 1952
- To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
- It Happened One Night, 1934
- Midnight Cowboy, 1969
- The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
- Double Indemnity, 1944
- Doctor Zhivago, 1965
- North by Northwest, 1959
- West Side Story, 1961
- Rear Window, 1954
- King Kong, 1933
- The Birth of a Nation, 1915
- A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
- A Clockwork Orange, 1971
- Taxi Driver, 1976
- Jaws, 1975
- Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, 1937
- Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, 1969
- The Philadelphia Story, 1940
- From Here to Eternity, 1953
- Amadeus, 1984
- All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930
- The Sound of Music, 1965
- M.A.S.H., 1970
- The Third Man, 1949
- Fantasia, 1940
- Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
- Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
- Vertigo, 1958
- Tootsie, 1982
- Stagecoach, 1939
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977
- The Silence of the Lambs, 1991
- Network, 1976
- The Manchurian Candidate, 1962
- An American in Paris, 1951
- Shane, 1953
- The French Connection, 1971
- Forrest Gump, 1994
- Ben-Hur, 1959
- Wuthering Heights, 1939
- The Gold Rush, 1925
- Dances With Wolves, 1990
- City Lights, 1931
- American Graffiti, 1973
- Rocky, 1976
- The Deer Hunter, 1978
- The Wild Bunch, 1969
- Modern Times, 1936
- Giant, 1956
- Platoon, 1986
- Fargo, 1996
- Duck Soup, 1933
- Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935
- Frankenstein, 1931
- Easy Rider, 1969
- Patton, 1970
- The Jazz Singer, 1927
- My Fair Lady, 1964
- A Place in the Sun, 1951
- The Apartment, 1960
- Goodfellas, 1990
- Pulp Fiction, 1994
- The Searchers, 1956
- Bringing Up Baby, 1938
- Unforgiven, 1992
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967
- Yankee Doodle Dandy. 1942
25 Best American Musicals
11 September 2006
- Singin' in the Rain
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- An American in Paris
- My Fair Lady
- A Star is Born (1954)
- Mary Poppins
- Cabaret
- The Sound of Music
- The Wizard of Oz
- West Side Story
- The King & I
- Chicago
- 42nd Street
- All That Jazz
- Top Hat
- Funny Girl
- The Band Wagon
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- On the Town
- Grease
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Guys and Doll
- Showboat (1936)
- Moulin Rouge!