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AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies

This is a list of the films chosen by the American Film Institute to represent the best American films.  I have merged the list released on 1998 with the list from 2007, so there are more than 100 films listed here.  Because of this I am giving them alphabetically, rather than as AFI ranked them.  Also, although AFI only lists The Fellowship of the Ring, I consider all three films to be a single continuous film, so I have listed it as The Lord of the Rings.

Those that I have seen are marked with a * at the end of the listing.  Those Moira has seen are marked with a * at the end of the listing.  Those I own on DVD are marked with a strikethrough.

(I take it as a challenge to complete the list!)

  • 12 Angry Men (1968)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) *
  • The African Queen (1951) *
  • All About Eve (1950) *
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) * *
  • All the President's Men (1976)
  • Amadeus (1984) * *
  • American Graffiti (1973)
  • An American in Paris (1951) *
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • The Apartment (1960) *
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • Ben-Hur (1959) *
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915) *
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) *
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  • Cabaret (1972) *
  • Casablanca (1942) *
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • Citizen Kane (1941) * *
  • City Lights (1931)
  • A Clockwork Orange (1971) * *
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) *
  • Dances With Wolves (1990) * *
  • The Deer Hunter (1978)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • Doctor Zhivago (1965) * *
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) *
  • Duck Soup (1933)
  • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) * *
  • Easy Rider (1969)
  • Fantasia (1940) * *
  • Fargo (1996) * *
  • Forrest Gump (1994) * *
  • Frankenstein (1931) *
  • The French Connection (1971)
  • From Here to Eternity (1953) *
  • The General (1927)
  • Giant (1956) *
  • The Godfather (1972) *
  • The Godfather, Part II (1974) *
  • The Gold Rush (1925) *
  • Gone With the Wind (1939) *
  • Goodfellas (1990)
  • The Graduate (1967) *
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940) *
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) * *
  • High Noon (1952) *
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967) *
  • Intolerance (1916)
  • It Happened One Night (1934) *
  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946) *
  • Jaws (1975) * *
  • The Jazz Singer (1927)
  • King Kong (1933) * *
  • The Last Picture Show (1971)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)  * *
  • The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) * *
  • M*A*S*H (1970) *
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941) *
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962) *
  • Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  • Modern Times (1936)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) *
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) *
  • My Fair Lady (1964) *
  • Nashville (1975)
  • Network (1976)
  • A Night at the Opera (1935) *
  • North by Northwest (1959) *
  • On the Waterfront (1954) *
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  • Patton (1970) *
  • The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • A Place in the Sun (1951) *
  • Platoon (1986)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) * *
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955) *
  • Rocky (1976) *
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  • Schindler's List (1993)
  • The Searchers (1956)
  • Shane (1953) *
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • Singin' in the Rain (1952) *
  • The Sixth Sense (1999) * *
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) * *
  • Some Like It Hot (1959) * *
  • Sophie's Choice (1982)
  • The Sound of Music (1965) * *
  • Sparticus (1960) *
  • Stagecoach (1939)
  • Star Wars (1977) * *
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) *
  • Sullivan's Travels (1941)
  • Sunrise (1927)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950) *
  • Swing Time (1936)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • The Third Man (1949) * *
  • Titanic (1997)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) * *
  • Tootsie (1982)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) *
  • Unforgiven (1982)
  • Vertigo (1958) *
  • West Side Story (1961) * *
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) *
  • The Wild Bunch (1969)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939) * *
  • Wuthering Heights (1939) *
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) *