TOP 100
1998 Original List
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1930s
15 works
AFI-004
Gone with the Wind
1939 • Victor Fleming
AFI-006
The Wizard of Oz
1939 • Victor Fleming
AFI-029
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 • Frank Capra
AFI-035
It Happened One Night
1934 • Frank Capra
AFI-043
King Kong
1933 • Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
AFI-049
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937 • David Hand
AFI-054
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 • Lewis Milestone
AFI-063
Stagecoach
1939 • John Ford
AFI-073
Wuthering Heights
1939 • William Wyler
AFI-076
City Lights
1931 • Charlie Chaplin
AFI-081
Modern Times
1936 • Charlie Chaplin
AFI-085
Duck Soup
1933 • Leo McCarey
AFI-086
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 • Frank Lloyd
AFI-087
Frankenstein
1931 • James Whale
AFI-097
Bringing Up Baby
1938 • Howard Hawks
1940s
12 works
AFI-001
Citizen Kane
1941 • Orson Welles
AFI-002
Casablanca
1942 • Michael Curtiz
AFI-011
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 • Frank Capra
AFI-021
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 • John Ford
AFI-023
The Maltese Falcon
1941 • John Huston
AFI-030
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 • John Huston
AFI-037
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 • William Wyler
AFI-038
Double Indemnity
1944 • Billy Wilder
AFI-051
The Philadelphia Story
1940 • George Cukor
AFI-057
The Third Man
1949 • Carol Reed
AFI-058
Fantasia
1940 • Various
AFI-100
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 • Michael Curtiz
1950s
20 works
AFI-008
On the Waterfront
1954 • Elia Kazan
AFI-010
Singin' in the Rain
1952 • Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
AFI-012
Sunset Blvd.
1950 • Billy Wilder
AFI-013
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 • David Lean
AFI-014
Some Like It Hot
1959 • Billy Wilder
AFI-016
All About Eve
1950 • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
AFI-017
The African Queen
1951 • John Huston
AFI-033
High Noon
1952 • Fred Zinnemann
AFI-040
North by Northwest
1959 • Alfred Hitchcock
AFI-042
Rear Window
1954 • Alfred Hitchcock
AFI-045
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 • Elia Kazan
AFI-052
From Here to Eternity
1953 • Fred Zinnemann
AFI-059
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 • Nicholas Ray
AFI-061
Vertigo
1958 • Alfred Hitchcock
AFI-068
An American in Paris
1951 • Vincente Minnelli
AFI-069
Shane
1953 • George Stevens
AFI-072
Ben-Hur
1959 • William Wyler
AFI-082
Giant
1956 • George Stevens
AFI-092
A Place in the Sun
1951 • George Stevens
AFI-096
The Searchers
1956 • John Ford
1960s
18 works
AFI-005
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 • David Lean
AFI-007
The Graduate
1967 • Mike Nichols
AFI-018
Psycho
1960 • Alfred Hitchcock
AFI-022
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 • Stanley Kubrick
AFI-026
Dr. Strangelove
1964 • Stanley Kubrick
AFI-027
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 • Arthur Penn
AFI-034
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 • Robert Mulligan
AFI-036
Midnight Cowboy
1969 • John Schlesinger
AFI-039
Doctor Zhivago
1965 • David Lean
AFI-041
West Side Story
1961 • Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
AFI-050
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 • George Roy Hill
AFI-055
The Sound of Music
1965 • Robert Wise
AFI-067
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 • John Frankenheimer
AFI-080
The Wild Bunch
1969 • Sam Peckinpah
AFI-088
Easy Rider
1969 • Dennis Hopper
AFI-091
My Fair Lady
1964 • George Cukor
AFI-093
The Apartment
1960 • Billy Wilder
AFI-099
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 • Stanley Kramer
1970s
18 works
AFI-003
The Godfather
1972 • Francis Ford Coppola
AFI-015
Star Wars
1977 • George Lucas
AFI-019
Chinatown
1974 • Roman Polanski
AFI-020
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 • Miloš Forman
AFI-028
Apocalypse Now
1979 • Francis Ford Coppola
AFI-031
Annie Hall
1977 • Woody Allen
AFI-032
The Godfather Part II
1974 • Francis Ford Coppola
AFI-046
A Clockwork Orange
1971 • Stanley Kubrick
AFI-047
Taxi Driver
1976 • Martin Scorsese
AFI-048
Jaws
1975 • Steven Spielberg
AFI-056
M*A*S*H
1970 • Robert Altman
AFI-064
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 • Steven Spielberg
AFI-066
Network
1976 • Sidney Lumet
AFI-070
The French Connection
1971 • William Friedkin
AFI-077
American Graffiti
1973 • George Lucas
AFI-078
Rocky
1976 • John G. Avildsen
AFI-079
The Deer Hunter
1978 • Michael Cimino
AFI-089
Patton
1970 • Franklin J. Schaffner
1980s
6 works
1990s
8 works
AFI-009
Schindler's List
1993 • Steven Spielberg
AFI-065
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 • Jonathan Demme
AFI-071
Forrest Gump
1994 • Robert Zemeckis
AFI-075
Dances with Wolves
1990 • Kevin Costner
AFI-084
Fargo
1996 • Joel Coen
AFI-094
Goodfellas
1990 • Martin Scorsese
AFI-095
Pulp Fiction
1994 • Quentin Tarantino
AFI-098
Unforgiven
1992 • Clint Eastwood