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In 1998, the American Film Institute reached out to, as it says on their website, “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.” The results were revealed on a CBS television special on June 16, 1998.
In 2007, AFI updated its list, repeating the original process and airing another CBS special on June 20, 2007.
The list presented here is an aggregate of the two lists. Here are the results:
1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
7. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
8. Schindler’s List (1993)
9. The Graduate (1967)
10. On the Waterfront (1954)
11. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
12. Raging Bull (1980)
13. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
14. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
15. Psycho (1960)
16. Some Like It Hot (1959)
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
18. Chinatown (1974)
19. All About Eve (1950)
20. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
21. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
22. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
24. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
25. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
26. Apocalypse Now (1979)
27. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
28. High Noon (1952)
29. The Godfather Part II (1974)
30. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. Double Indemnity (1944)
33. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
34. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
35. Vertigo (1958)
36. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
37. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
38. It Happened One Night (1934)
39. The African Queen (1951)
40. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
41. King Kong (1933)
42. City Lights (1931)
43. Rear Window (1954)
44. West Side Story (1961)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. The Sound of Music (1965)
47. North by Northwest (1959)
48. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
49. Taxi Driver (1976)
50. Jaws (1975)
51. The Searchers (1956)
52. M*A*S*H (1970)
53. Shane (1953)
54. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
55. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
56. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
57. Network (1976)
58. Tootsie (1982)
59. The Deer Hunter (1978)
60. The Gold Rush (1925)
61. Rocky (1976)
62. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
63. American Graffiti (1973)
64. Duck Soup (1933)
65. Forrest Gump (1994)
66. Modern Times (1936)
67. The Wild Bunch (1969)
68. The French Connection (1971)
69. Unforgiven (1992)
70. Platoon (1986)
71. Ben-Hur (1959)
72. Easy Rider (1969)
73. The Apartment (1960)
74. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
75. Goodfellas (1990)
76. Pulp Fiction (1994)
77. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
78. The General (1927)
79. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
80. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
81. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
82. From Here to Eternity (1953)
83. Amadeus (1984)
84. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
85. The Third Man (1949)
86. Fantasia (1940)
87. Nashville (1975)
88. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
89. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
90. Stagecoach (1939)
91. Cabaret (1972)
92. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
93. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
94. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
95. An American in Paris (1951)
96. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
97. Wuthering Heights (1939)
98. Dances with Wolves (1990)
99. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
100. All the President’s Men (1976)
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Originally posted 6/20/2007. | 
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