American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
The American Film Institute asked more than 1,500 members of the film community to pick the 100 best films of all time from a list of 400 movies nominated by the institute. The criteria for inclusion was historical significance, critical recognition and awards, and popularity determined by box-office revenue, syndication, video sale and rental figures.
| 1. | Citizen Kane (1941) |
| 2. | Casablanca (1942) |
| 3. | The Godfather (1972) |
| 4. | Gone with the Wind (1939) |
| 5. | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
| 6. | The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
| 7. | The Graduate (1967) |
| 8. | On the Waterfront (1954) |
| 9. | Schindler's List (1993) |
| 10. | Singin' in the Rain (1952) |
| 11. | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) |
| 12. | Sunset Boulevard (1950) |
| 13. | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
| 14. | Some Like It Hot (1959) |
| 15. | Star Wars (1977) |
| 16. | All About Eve (1950) |
| 17. | The African Queen (1951) |
| 18. | Psycho (1960) |
| 19. | Chinatown (1974) |
| 20. | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
| 21. | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) |
| 22. | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
| 23. | The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
| 24. | Raging Bull (1980) |
| 25. | E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
| 26. | Dr. Strangelove (1964) |
| 27. | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
| 28. | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| 29. | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) |
| 30. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
| 31. | Annie Hall (1977) |
| 32. | The Godfather Part II (1974) |
| 33. | High Noon (1952) |
| 34. | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
| 35. | It Happened One Night (1934) |
| 36. | Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
| 37. | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
| 38. | Double Indemnity (1944) |
| 39. | Doctor Zhivago (1965) |
| 40. | North by Northwest (1959) |
| 41. | West Side Story (1961) |
| 42. | Rear Window (1954) |
| 43. | King Kong (1933) |
| 44. | The Birth of a Nation (1915) |
| 45. | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
| 46. | A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
| 47. | Taxi Driver (1976) |
| 48. | Jaws (1975) |
| 49. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) |
| 50. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
| 51. | The Philadelphia Story (1940) |
| 52. | From Here to Eternity (1953) |
| 53. | Amadeus (1984) |
| 54. | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) |
| 55. | The Sound of Music (1965) |
| 56. | M*A*S*H (1970) |
| 57. | The Third Man (1949) |
| 58. | Fantasia (1940) |
| 59. | Rebel Without a Cause (1955) |
| 60. | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
| 61. | Vertigo (1958) |
| 62. | Tootsie (1982) |
| 63. | Stagecoach (1939) |
| 64. | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) |
| 65. | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
| 66. | Network (1976) |
| 67. | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) |
| 68. | An American in Paris (1951) |
| 69. | Shane (1953) |
| 70. | The French Connection (1971) |
| 71. | Forrest Gump (1994) |
| 72. | Ben-Hur (1959) |
| 73. | Wuthering Heights (1939) |
| 74. | The Gold Rush (1925) |
| 75. | Dances with Wolves (1990) |
| 76. | City Lights (1931) |
| 77. | American Graffiti (1973) |
| 78. | Rocky (1976) |
| 79. | The Deer Hunter (1978) |
| 80. | The Wild Bunch (1969) |
| 81. | Modern Times (1936) |
| 82. | Giant (1956) |
| 83. | Platoon (1986) |
| 84. | Fargo (1996) |
| 85. | Duck Soup (1933) |
| 86. | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) |
| 87. | Frankenstein (1931) |
| 88. | Easy Rider (1969) |
| 89. | Patton (1970) |
| 90. | The Jazz Singer (1927) |
| 91. | My Fair Lady (1964) |
| 92. | A Place in the Sun (1951) |
| 93. | The Apartment (1960) |
| 94. | GoodFellas (1990) |
| 95. | Pulp Fiction (1994) |
| 96. | The Searchers (1956) |
| 97. | Bringing Up Baby (1938) |
| 98. | Unforgiven (1992) |
| 99. | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) |
| 100. | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) |
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