Film Appreciation - AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies

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The American Film Institute polled 1,500 leaders in the film community to determine the top 100 films in the first 100 years of American film making (1896 - 1996). To find out if your favorites made it check this list.

Rank	Film	Director	Year
100	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Michael Curtiz	1942
99	Guess Who's Coming To Dinner	Stanley Kramer	1967
98	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	1992
97	Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	1938
96	The Searchers	John Ford	1956
95	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	1994
94	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese	1990
93	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	1960
92	A Place In the Sun	George Stevens	1951
91	My Fair Lady	George Cukor	1964
90	The Jazz Singer	Alan Crosland	1927
89	Patton	Franklin J. Schaffner	1970
88	Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	1969
87	Frankenstein	James Whale	1931
86	Mutiny on the Bounty	Frank Lloyd	1935
85	Duck Soup	Leo McCarey	1933
84	Fargo	Ethan Cohen	1996
83	Platoon	Oliver Stone	1986
82	Giant	George Stevens	1956
81	Modern Times	Charles Chaplin	1936
80	The Wild Bunch	Sam Peckinpa	1969
79	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	1978
78	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	1976
77	American Graffiti	George Lucas	1973
76	City Lights	Charles Chaplin	1931
75	Dances With Wolves	Kevin Costner	1990
74	The Gold Rush	Charles Chaplin	1925
73	Wuthering Heights	William Wyler	1939
72	Ben Hur	William Wyler	1959
71	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	1994
70	The French Connection	William Friedkin	1971
69	Shane	George Stevens	1953
68	An American In Paris	Vincente Minnelli	1951
67	The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer	1962
66	Network	Sidney Lumet	1976
65	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	1991
64	Close Encounters of The Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	1977
63	Stagecoach	John Ford	1939
62	Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	1982
61	Vertigo	Alfred Hitch	1958
60	Raiders of The Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	1981
59	Rebel Without A Cause	Nicholas Ray	1955
58	Fantasia		1940
57	The Third Man	Carol Reed	1949
56	MASH	Robert Altman	1970
55	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	1965
54	All Quiet On The Western Front	Lewis Milestone	1930
53	Amadeus	Milos Forman	1984
52	From Here To Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	1953
51	The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor	1940
50	Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill	1969
49	Snow White And the Seven Dwarfs		1937
48	Jaws	Steven Spielberg	1975
47	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	1976
46	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	1971
45	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	1951
44	Birth Of A Nation	D.W. Griffith	1915
43	King Kong	Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack	1933
42	Rear Window	Alfred Hitch	1954
41	West Side Story	Robert Wise	1961
40	North By Northwest	Alfred Hitch	1959
39	Doctor Zhivago	David Lean	1965
38	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	1944
37	Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	1946
36	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	1969
35	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	1934
34	To Kill A Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	1962
33	High Noon	Fred Zinnemann	1952
32	The Godfather Part II	Francis Coppola	1974
31	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	1977
30	Treasure of The Sierra Madre	John Huston	1948
29	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington	Frank Capra	1939
28	Apocalypse Now	Francis Coppola	1979
27	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	1967
26	Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick	1963
25	ET the Extra Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	1982
24	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	1980
23	The Maltese Falcon	John Huston	1941
22	2001 A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	1968
21	Grapes of Wrath	John Ford	1940
20	One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest	Milos Forman	1975
19	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	1974
18	Psycho	Alfred Hitch	1960
17	The African Queen	John Huston	1951
16	All About Eve	Joseph L Mankiewicz	1950
15	Star Wars	George Lucas	1977
14	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder	1959
13	Bridge On The River Kwai	David Lean	1957
12	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	1950
11	It's A Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	1946
10	Singin In The Rain	Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly	1952
9	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	1993
8	On The Waterfront	Elia Kazan	1954
7	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	1967
6	The Wizard Of Oz	Victor Fleming	1939
5	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	1962
4	Gone With The Wind	Victor Fleming	1939
3	The Godfather	Francis Coppola	1972
2	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	1942
1	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	1941