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In response to the American Film Institute announcing its list of 400 films to be voted on for its “100 Years…100 American Movies” list, the Los Angeles Daily News conducted its own poll of its readers, using the same list. The original list resulted in multiple ties and more than 100 titles. Ties have been broken here according to movies’ overall standing in Dave’s Movie Database and the list has been restricted to the first 100 titles.
1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
6. The Godfather (1972)
7. The African Queen (1951)
8. The Sound of Music (1965)
9. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
10. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
11. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
12. Schindler’s List (1993)
13. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
14. It Happened One Night (1934)
15. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
16. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
17. Patton (1970)
18. Dances with Wolves (1990)
19. King Kong (1933)
20. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
21. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
22. All About Eve (1950)
23. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
24. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
25. Stagecoach (1939)
26. Fantasia (1940)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. Ben-Hur (1959)
29. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
30. Psycho (1960)
31. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
32. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
33. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
34. Oklahoma! (1955)
35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
36. Forrest Gump (1994)
37. My Fair Lady (1964)
38. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
39. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
40. Some Like It Hot (1959)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
43. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
44. On the Waterfront (1954)
45. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
46. From Here to Eternity (1953)
47. An American in Paris (1951)
48. Laura (1944)
49. The Quiet Man (1952)
50. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
51. North by Northwest (1959)
52. The Graduate (1967)
53. Rocky (1976)
54. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
55. The Ten Commandments (1956)
56. Frankenstein (1931)
57. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
58. Double Indemnity (1944)
59. Mary Poppins (1964)
60. Braveheart (1995)
61. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
62. M*A*S*H (1970)
63. Lost Horizon (1937)
64. Raging Bull (1980)
65. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
66. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
67. Rebecca (1940)
68. Giant (1956)
69. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
70. Wings (1927)
71. The Jazz Singer (1927)
72. Annie Hall (1977)
73. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
74. 12 Angry Men (1957)
75. The Sting (1973)
76. The French Connection (1971)
77. The Gold Rush (1925)
78. American Graffiti (1973)
79. Tootsie (1982)
80. Rain Man (1988)
81. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
82. The Color Purple (1985)
83. The Longest Day (1962)
84. Apocalypse Now (1979)
85. Chinatown (1974)
86. The Third Man (1949)
87. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
88. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
89. Shane (1953)
90. Funny Girl (1968)
91. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
92. Gunga Din (1939)
93. The Godfather Part II (1974)
94. Vertigo (1958)
95. Taxi Driver (1976)
96. Rear Window (1954)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
98. The Lion King (1994)
99. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
100. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
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Originally posted 8/27/2019; last updated 5/29/2023. | 
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