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Film: American Film Institute's 100 Greatest American Films

How are the AFI Greatest Films chosen?

In 1998, the American Film Institute 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 400 nominated films compiled by AFI and select the 100 greatest American movies. - Source

AFI Greatest Films

1. Citizen Kane - 791.43 C58 (DVD section)

2. Casablanca - 791.43 C33 (DVD section)

3. The Godfather - 791.43 G58 (DVD section)

4. Gone With The Wind - 791.43 G63 (DVD section)

5. Lawrence of Arabia - 791.43 L41 (DVD section)

6. The Wizard of Oz  - 791.43 W83 (DVD section)

7. The Graduate - 791.43 G73 (DVD section)

8. On The Waterfront - 791.43 W32 (DVD section)

9. Schindler's List - 791.43 S33 (DVD section)

10. Singin' In The Rain - 791.43 S61 (DVD section)

11. It's A Wonderful Life - 791.43 I89 (DVD section)

12. Sunset Boulevard - 791.43 S95 (DVD section)

13. The Bridge On The River Kwai - 791.43 B85 (DVD section)

14. Some Like It Hot - 791.43 S69 (DVD section)

15. Star Wars - 791.43 S79 (DVD section)

16. All About Eve - 791.43 A41 (DVD section)

17. The African Queen - 791.43 A25 (DVD section)

18. Psycho - 791.43 P97 (DVD section)

19.Chinatown - 791.43 C53 (DVD section)

20. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - 791.43 O58 (DVD section)

21. The Grapes of Wrath - 791.43 G76 (DVD section)

22. 2001 : A Space Odyssey - 791.43 A11 (DVD section)

23. The Maltese Falcon - 791.43 M26 (DVD section)

24. Raging Bull - 791.43 R14 (DVD section)

25. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial - 791.43 E11 (DVD section)

26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 791.43 D75 (DVD section)

27. Bonnie And Clyde - 791.43 B71 (DVD section)

28. Apocalypse Now - 791.43 A64 (DVD section)

29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - 791.43 M93 (DVD section)

30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 791.43 T78 (DVD section)

31. Annie Hall - 791.43 A61 (DVD section)

32. The Godfather, Part II - 791.43 G58 (DVD section)

33. High Noon - 791.43 H63 (DVD section)

34. To Kill A Mockingbird - 791.43 T67 (DVD section)

35. It Happened One Night - 791.43 H25 (DVD section)

36. Midnight Cowboy - 791.43 M62 (DVD section)

37. The Best Years of Our Lives - 791.43 B56 (DVD section)

38. Double Indemnity - 791.43 D72 (DVD section)

39. Doctor Zhivago - 791.43 D63 (DVD section)

40. North By Northwest - 791.43 N86 (DVD section)

41. West Side Story - 791.43 W51 (DVD section)

42. Rear Window - 791.43 R28 (DVD section)

43. King Kong - 791.43 K52 (DVD section)

44. The Birth Of A Nation - 791.43 B61 (DVD section)

45. A Streetcar Named Desire - 791.43 S91 (DVD section)

46. A Clockwork Orange - 791.43 C64 (DVD section)

47. Taxi Driver - 791.43 T23 (DVD section)

48. Jaws - 791.43 J41 (DVD section)

49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs - 791.43 S67 (DVD section)

50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 791.43 B98 (DVD section)

51. The Philadelphia Story - 791.43 P54 (DVD section)

52. From Here to Eternity - 791.43 F93 (DVD section)

53. Amadeus - 791.43 A48 (DVD section)

54. All Quiet On The Western Front - 791.43 A41 (DVD section)

55. The Sound of Music - 791.43 S72 (DVD section)

56. M*A*S*H - 791.43 M39 (DVD section)

57. The Third Man- 791.43 T44 (DVD section)

58. Fantasia - 791.43 F21 (DVD section)

59. Rebel Without a Cause - 791.43 R28 (DVD section)

60. Raiders of the Lost Ark - 791.43 I39 (DVD section)

61. Vertigo - 791.43 V56 (DVD section)

62. Tootsie - 791.43 T67 (DVD section)

63. Stagecoach - 791.43 S77 (DVD section)

64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 791.43 C64 (DVD section)

65. The Silence of the Lambs - 791.43 S58 (DVD section)

66. Network - 791.43 N47 (DVD section)

67. The Manchurian Candidate - 791.43 M26 (DVD section)

68. An American In Paris - 791.43 A51 (DVD section)

69. Shane - 791.43 S52 (DVD section)

70. The French Connection - 791.43 F87 (DVD section)

71. Forrest Gump - 791.43 F72 (DVD section)

72. Ben-Hur - 791.43 B45 (DVD section)

73. Wuthering Heights - 791.45 W97 (DVD section)

74. The Gold Rush - 791.43 G61 (DVD section)

75. Dances With Wolves - 791.43 D17 (DVD section)

76. City Lights - 791.43 C58 (DVD section)

77. American Graffiti - 791.43 A51 (DVD section)

78. Rocky - 791.43 R68 (DVD section)

79. The Deer Hunter - 791.43 D31 (DVD section)

80. The Wild Bunch - 791.43 W66 (DVD section)

81. Modern Times - 791.43 M68 (DVD section)

82. Giant - 791.43 G43 (DVD section)

83. Platoon - 791.43 P71 (DVD section)

84. Fargo - 791.43 F22 (DVD section)

85. Duck Soup - 791.43 D83 (DVD section)

86. Mutiny on the Bounty - 791.43 M99 (DVD section)

87. Frankenstein - 791.43 F82 (DVD section)

88. Easy Rider - 791.43 E13 (DVD section)

89. Patton - 791.43 P32 (DVD section)

90. The Jazz Singer - 791.43 J42 (DVD section)

91. My Fair Lady - 791.43 M99 (DVD section)

92. A Place in the Sun - 791.43 P69 (DVD section)

93. The Apartment - 791.43 A63 (DVD section)

94. GoodFellas - 791.43 G65 (DVD section)

95. Pulp Fiction - 791.43 P98 (DVD section)

96. The Searchers - 791.43 S43 (DVD section)

97. Bringing Up Baby - 791.43 B85 (DVD section)

98. Unforgiven - 791.43 U56 (DVD section)

99. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 791.43 G93 (DVD section)

100. Yankee Doodle Dandy - 791.43 Y23 (DVD section)

 


1. Citizen Kane - 791.43 C58 (DVD section)

2. The Godfather - 791.43 G58 (DVD section)

3. Casablanca - 791.43 C33 (DVD section)

4. Raging Bull - 791.43 R14 (DVD section)

5. Singin' In The Rain - 791.43 S61 (DVD section)

6. Gone With The Wind - 791.43 G63 (DVD section)

7. Lawrence of Arabia - 791.43 L41 (DVD section)

8. Schindler's List - 791.43 S33 (DVD section)

9. Vertigo - 791.43 V56 (DVD section)

10. The Wizard of Oz  - 791.43 W83 (DVD section)

11. City Lights - 791.43 C58 (DVD section)

12. The Searchers - 791.43 S43 (DVD section)

13. Star Wars - 791.43 S79 (DVD section)

14. Psycho - 791.43 P97 (DVD section)

15. 2001 : A Space Odyssey - 791.43 A11 (DVD section)

16. Sunset Boulevard - 791.43 S95 (DVD section)

17. The Graduate - 791.43 G73 (DVD section)

18. The General - 791.43 G32 (DVD section)

19. On The Waterfront - 791.43 W32 (DVD section)

20. It's A Wonderful Life - 791.43 I89 (DVD section)

21. Chinatown - 791.43 C53 (DVD section)

22. Some Like It Hot - 791.43 S69 (DVD section)

23. The Grapes of Wrath - 791.43 G76 (DVD section)

24. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial - 791.43 E11 (DVD section)

25. To Kill A Mockingbird - 791.43 T67 (DVD section)

26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - 791.43 M93 (DVD section)

27. High Noon - 791.43 H63 (DVD section)

28. All About Eve - 791.43 A41 (DVD section)

29. Double Indemnity - 791.43 D72 (DVD section)

30. Apocalypse Now - 791.43 A64 (DVD section)

31. The Maltese Falcon - 791.43 M26 (DVD section)

32. The Godfather, Part II - 791.43 G58 (DVD section)

33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 791.43 O58 (DVD section)

34. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs - 791.43 S67 (DVD section)

35. Annie Hall - 791.43 A61 (DVD section)

36. The Bridge On The River Kwai - 791.43 B85 (DVD section)

37. The Best Years of Our Lives - 791.43 B56 (DVD section)

38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 791.43 T78 (DVD section)

39. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 791.43 D75 (DVD section)

40. The Sound of Music - 791.43 S72 (DVD section)

41. King Kong - 791.43 K52 (DVD section)

42. Bonnie And Clyde - 791.43 B71 (DVD section)

43. Midnight Cowboy - 791.43 M62 (DVD section)

44. The Philadelphia Story - 791.43 P54 (DVD section)

45. Shane - 791.43 S52 (DVD section)

46. It Happened One Night - 791.43 H25 (DVD section)

47. A Streetcar Named Desire - 791.43 S91 (DVD section)

48. Rear Window - 791.43 R28 (DVD section)

49. Intolerance - 791.43 I61 (DVD section)

50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - 791.43 L86 (DVD section)

51. West Side Story - 791.43 W51 (DVD section)

52. Taxi Driver - 791.43 T23 (DVD section)

53. The Deer Hunter - 791.43 D31 (DVD section)

54. M*A*S*H - 791.43 M39 (DVD section)

55. North By Northwest - 791.43 N86 (DVD section)

56. Jaws - 791.43 J41 (DVD section)

57. Rocky - 791.43 R68 (DVD section)

58. The Gold Rush - 791.43 G61 (DVD section)

59. Nashville - 791.43 N25 (DVD section)

60. Duck Soup - 791.43 D83 (DVD section)

61. Sullivan's Travels - 791.43 S95 (DVD section)

62. American Graffiti - 791.43 A51 (DVD section)

63. Cabaret - 791.43 C11 (DVD section)

64. Network - 791.43 N47 (DVD section)

65. The African Queen - 791.43 A25 (DVD section)

66. Raiders of the Lost Ark - 791.43 I39 (DVD section)

67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 791.43 W62 (DVD section)

68. Unforgiven - 791.43 U56 (DVD section)

69. Tootsie - 791.43 T67 (DVD section)

70. A Clockwork Orange - 791.43 C64 (DVD section)

71. Saving Private Ryan - 791.43 S26 (DVD section)

72. The Shawshank Redemption - 791.43 S53 (DVD section)

73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 791.43 B98 (DVD section)

74. The Silence of the Lambs - 791.43 S58 (DVD section)

75. In the Heat of the Night - 791.43 I35 (DVD section)

76. Forrest Gump - 791.43 F72 (DVD section)

77. All the President's Men - 791.43 A41 (DVD section)

78. Modern Times - 791.43 M68 (DVD section)

79. The Wild Bunch - 791.43 W66 (DVD section)

80. The Apartment - 791.43 A63 (DVD section)

81. Spartacus - 791.43 S73 (DVD section)

82. Sunrise - 791.43 S95 (DVD section)

83. Titanic - 791.43 T61 (DVD section)

84. Easy Rider - 791.43 E13 (DVD section)

85. A Night at the Opera - 791.43 N68 (DVD section)

86. Platoon - 791.43 P71 (DVD section)

87. 12 Angry Men - 791.43 T97 (DVD section)

88. Bringing Up Baby - 791.43 B85 (DVD section)

89. The Sixth Sense - 791.43 S62 (DVD section)

90. Swing Time - 791.43 S97 (DVD section)

91. Sophie's Choice - 791.43 S71 (DVD section)

92. GoodFellas - 791.43 G65 (DVD section)

93.  The French Connection - 791.43 F87 (DVD section)

94. Pulp Fiction - 791.43 P98 (DVD section)

95. The Last Picture Show - 791.43 L34 (DVD section)

96. Do the Right Thing - 791.43 D63 (DVD section)

97. Blade Runner - 791.43 B63 (DVD section)

98. Yankee Doodle Dandy - 791.43 Y23 (DVD section)

99. Toy Story - 791.43 T75 (DVD section)

100. Ben-Hur - 791.43 B45 (DVD section)

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