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American Film Institute’s
100 Years . . . 100 Movies 2

The American Film Institute (AFI) celebrated the centennial of cinema by airing a number of television specials, each honoring a different aspect of excellence in American film. On June 20, 2007 AFI broadcast a program entitled “100 Years . . . 100 Movies 2—America’s Greatest Movies (10th Anniversary Edition).”

To determine the winners, AFI invited more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community—screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics, among them—to choose from a list of nominated films compiled by AFI. The selected films (and their ranking) are listed below.

TheOscar Nominated marker symbol appears next to those films which also received an Academy Award nomination (although this was not a requirement for inclusion on the list). Click on the name of one of those films to display more information about it. You can also click on the IMDb link to to open a new browser window or tabshowing information about the film from the Internet Movie Database. Or, click on a title in the column on the right to display the winners from another AFI program.

For more information, you can follow this link to the American Film Institute’s website.

Oscar Nominated marker1.Citizen Kane (1941)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker2.The Godfather (1972)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker3.Casablanca (1943)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker4.Raging Bull (1980)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker5.Singin’ in the Rain (1952)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker6.Gone with the Wind (1939)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker7.Lawrence of Arabia (1962)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker8.Schindler’s List (1993)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker9.Vertigo (1958)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker10.The Wizard of Oz (1939)   IMDb
11.City Lights (1931)   IMDb
12.The Searchers (1956)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker13.Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1977)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker14.Psycho (1960)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker15.2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker16.Sunset Blvd. (1950)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker17.The Graduate (1967)   IMDb
18.The General (1927)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker19.On the Waterfront (1954)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker20.It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker21.Chinatown (1974)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker22.Some Like It Hot (1959)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker23.The Grapes of Wrath (1940)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker24.E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker25.To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker26.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker27.High Noon (1952)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker28.All About Eve (1950)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker29.Double Indemnity (1944)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker30.Apocalypse Now (1979)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker31.The Maltese Falcon (1931)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker32.The Godfather Part II (1974)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker33.One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker34.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker35.Annie Hall (1977)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker36.The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker37.The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker38.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker39.Dr. Strangelove (1964)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker40.The Sound of Music (1965)   IMDb
41.King Kong (1933)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker42.Bonnie and Clyde (1967)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker43.Midnight Cowboy (1969)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker44.The Philadelphia Story (1940)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker45.Shane (1953)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker46.It Happened One Night (1934)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker47.A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker48.Rear Window (1954)   IMDb
49.Intolerance (1916)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker50.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker51.West Side Story (1961)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker52.Taxi Driver (1976)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker53.The Deer Hunter (1978)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker54.M*A*S*H (1970)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker55.North by Northwest (1959)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker56.Jaws (1975)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker57.Rocky (1976)   IMDb
58.The Gold Rush (1925)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker59.Nashville (1975)   IMDb
60.Duck Soup (1933)   IMDb
61.Sullivan’s Travels (1941)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker62.American Graffiti (1973)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker63.Cabaret (1972)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker64.Network (1976)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker65.The African Queen (1951)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker66.Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker67.Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker68.Unforgiven (1992)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker69.Tootsie (1982)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker70.A Clockwork Orange (1971)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker71.Saving Private Ryan (1998)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker72.The Shawshank Redemption (1994)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker73.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker74.The Silence of the Lambs (1991)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker75.In the Heat of the Night (1967)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker76.Forrest Gump (1994)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker77.All the President’s Men (1976)   IMDb
78.Modern Times (1936)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker79.The Wild Bunch (1969)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker80.The Apartment (1960)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker81.Spartacus (1960)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker82.Sunrise (1927)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker83.Titanic (1997)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker84.Easy Rider (1969)   IMDb
85.A Night at the Opera (1935)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker86.Platoon (1986)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker87.12 Angry Men (1957)   IMDb
88.Bringing Up Baby (1938)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker89.The Sixth Sense (1999)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker90.Swing Time (1936)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker91.Sophie’s Choice (1982)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker92.GoodFellas (1990)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker93.The French Connection (1971)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker94.Pulp Fiction (1994)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker95.The Last Picture Show (1971)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker96.Do the Right Thing (1989)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker97.Blade Runner (1982)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker98.Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker99.Toy Story (1995)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker100.Ben-Hur (1959)   IMDb