AFI 100 Years… 100 Movies

The American Film Institute’s 100 greatest American films, 2007 edition. The canon, in order — how deep does yours go?

100 titles

  1. Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles
  2. The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola
  3. Casablanca (1943), Michael Curtiz
  4. Raging Bull (1980), Martin Scorsese
  5. Singin' in the Rain (1952), Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
  6. Gone with the Wind (1939), Victor Fleming
  7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean
  8. Schindler's List (1994), Steven Spielberg
  9. Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
  10. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  11. City Lights (1931), Charlie Chaplin
  12. The Searchers (1956), John Ford
  13. Star Wars (1977)
  14. Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock
  15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick
  16. Sunset Boulevard (1950), Billy Wilder
  17. The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols
  18. The General (1926), Buster Keaton
  19. On the Waterfront (1954), Elia Kazan
  20. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  21. Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski
  22. Some Like It Hot (1959), Billy Wilder
  23. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), John Ford
  24. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg
  25. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Frank Capra
  27. High Noon (1952)
  28. All About Eve (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  29. Double Indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder
  30. Apocalypse Now (1979), Francis Ford Coppola
  31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  32. The Godfather Part II (1974), Francis Ford Coppola
  33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Miloš Forman
  34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson
  35. Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen
  36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), David Lean
  37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), William Wyler
  38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  39. Dr. Strangelove (1964), Stanley Kubrick
  40. The Sound of Music (1965), Robert Wise
  41. King Kong (1933)
  42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  43. Midnight Cowboy (1969), John Schlesinger
  44. The Philadelphia Story (1940), George Cukor
  45. Shane (1953)
  46. It Happened One Night (1934), Frank Capra
  47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  48. Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock
  49. Intolerance (1916)
  50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Peter Jackson
  51. West Side Story (1961), Robert Wise
  52. Taxi Driver (1976), Martin Scorsese
  53. The Deer Hunter (1978), Michael Cimino
  54. M*A*S*H (1970)
  55. North by Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock
  56. Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg
  57. Rocky (1976), John G. Avildsen
  58. The Gold Rush (1925)
  59. Nashville (1975), Robert Altman
  60. Duck Soup (1933)
  61. Sullivan's Travels (1941), Preston Sturges
  62. American Graffiti (1973)
  63. Cabaret (1972)
  64. Network (1976)
  65. The African Queen (1951)
  66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Steven Spielberg
  67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Mike Nichols
  68. Unforgiven (1992), Clint Eastwood
  69. Tootsie (1982)
  70. A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick
  71. Saving Private Ryan (1998), Steven Spielberg
  72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Frank Darabont
  73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  74. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme
  75. In the Heat of the Night (1967), Norman Jewison
  76. Forrest Gump (1994), Robert Zemeckis
  77. All the President's Men (1976), Alan J. Pakula
  78. Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin
  79. The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah
  80. The Apartment (1960), Billy Wilder
  81. Spartacus (1960), Stanley Kubrick
  82. Sunrise (1927)
  83. Titanic (1997), James Cameron
  84. Easy Rider (1969)
  85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
  86. Platoon (1986), Oliver Stone
  87. 12 Angry Men (1957), Sidney Lumet
  88. Bringing Up Baby (1938), Howard Hawks
  89. The Sixth Sense (1999), M. Night Shyamalan
  90. Swing Time (1936)
  91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
  92. Goodfellas (1990), Martin Scorsese
  93. The French Connection (1971), William Friedkin
  94. Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino
  95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
  96. Do the Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee
  97. Blade Runner (1982), Ridley Scott
  98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  99. Toy Story (1995), John Lasseter
  100. Ben-Hur (1959), William Wyler