The AFI's Top 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time

This is the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies, selected by AFI's blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders of the American movie community. Click on movie titles to find out more or purchase. Facts about the 100 list.

 

	1. Citizen Kane , 1941 2. Casablanca , 1942 3. The Godfather , 1972 4. Gone With the Wind, 1939 5. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 6. The Wizard of Oz, 1939 7. The Graduate, 1967 8. On the Waterfront, 1954 9. Schindler's List, 1993 10. Singin' in the Rain, 1952 11. It's a Wonderful Life, 1946 12. Sunset Blvd., 1950 13. The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957 14. Some Like It Hot, 1959 15. Star Wars, 1977 16. All About Eve, 1950 17. The African Queen, 1951 18. Psycho, 1960 19. Chinatown, 1974 20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975 21. The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 22. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 23. The Maltese Falcon, 1941 24. Raging Bull, 1980 25. E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 26. Dr.Strangelove, 1964 27. Bonnie & Clyde, 1967 28. Apocalypse Now, 1979 29. Mr.Smith Goes to Washington, 1939 30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948 31. Annie Hall, 1977 32. The Godfather, Part II, 1974 33. High Noon, 1952 34. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962 35. It Happened One Night, 1934 36. Midnight Cowboy, 1969 37. The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946 38. Double Indemnity, 1944 39. Doctor Zhivago, 1965 40. North by Northwest, 1959 41. West Side Story, 1961 42. Rear Window, 1954 43. King Kong, 1933 44. The Birth of a Nation, 1915 45. A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 46. A Clockwork Orange, 1971 47. Taxi Driver, 1976 48. Jaws, 1975 49. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 50. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, 1969 51. The Philadelphia Story, 1940 52. From Here to Eternity, 1953 53. Amadeus, 1984 54. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930 55. The Sound of Music, 1965 56. M*A*S*H, 1970 57. The Third Man, 1949 58. Fantasia, 1940 59. Rebel Without a Cause, 1955 60. Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 61. Vertigo, 1958 62. Tootsie, 1982 63. Stagecoach, 1939 64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 65. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 66. Network, 1976 67. The Manchurian Candidate, 1962 68. An American in Paris, 1951 69. Shane, 1953 70. The French Connection, 1971 71. Forrest Gump, 1994 72. Ben-Hur, 1959 73. Wuthering Heights, 1939 74. The Gold Rush, 1925 75. Dances With Wolves, 1990 76. City Lights, 1931 77. American Graffiti, 1973 78. Rocky, 1976 79. The Deer Hunter, 1978 80. The Wild Bunch, 1969 81. Modern Times, 1936 82. Giant, 1956 83. Platoon, 1986 84. Fargo, 1996 85. Duck Soup, 1933 86. Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935 87. Frankenstein, 1931 88. Easy Rider, 1969 89. Patton, 1970 90. The Jazz Singer, 1927 91. My Fair Lady, 1964 92. A Place in the Sun, 1951 93. The Apartment, 1960 94. GoodFellas, 1990 95. Pulp Fiction, 1994 96. The Searchers, 1956 97. Bringing Up Baby, 1938 98. Unforgiven, 1992 99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967 100. Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942

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FACTS ABOUT AFI'S 100 GREATEST AMERICAN MOVIES OF ALL TIME

• CITIZEN KANE (1941) was chosen the number one film of all time.

• The films span from 1915 (THE BIRTH OF A NATION) to 1996 (FARGO).

• Charlie Chaplin is the most celebrated actor/director on the list, with three films.

• Steven Spielberg directed five of the 100 greatest American movies, inlcuding the film ranked number nine, SCHINDLER'S LIST. Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder each directed four films on the list. Ten other directors each directed three. In total, 13 directors account for 43 percent of the top 100 films of all time.

• Marlon Brando is the only actor to star in two of the top 10 films.

• James Stewart and Robert DeNiro are the most represented actors in a starring role, each with five films in the top 100. Robert Duvall appears in six, including a small role in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. And character actor Ward Bond appears in the most films, seven—IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, BRINGING UP BABY, GONE WITH THE WIND, GRAPERS OF WRATH, THE MALTESE FALCON, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and THE SEARCHERS.

• Katharine Hepburn is the most represented leading actress, with four films. She is followed by Natalie Wood, Diane Keaton and Faye Dunaway, with three films each.

• A majority of the 100 great films are classifed as dramas. There are 11 comedies, eight musicals, nine war films, eight westerns, four science fiction films, four horror films and two animated films. There are four silent films on the list.

• The top ten includes movies from every decade, from the 1930s to the 1990s, with the exception of the 1980s. The first film on the 100 list from the 1980s is Martin Scorsese's RAGING BULL, at number 24.

• The 1950s is the most represented decade on the list, with 20 films.

• The year 1939, which remains the most celebrated year in the history of film, has five films in the top 100—GONE WITH THE WIND, THE WIZARD OF OZ, STAGECOACH, WUTHERING HEIGHTS and MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. Both 1951 and 1969 have four films each.

• THE GODFATHER, PART II is the only sequel represented on the list.