AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movies - 10th Anniversary

The American Film Institute has refreshed their list of the best movies of all time. Their original chart was published in 2007. This updated list contains many films either left off the previous or made since 1996.

Rank 1997 Change Title (Year) Director
1 1 - Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
2 3 ↑1 The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
3 2 ↓1 Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
4 24 ↑20 Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
5 10 ↑5 Singin' In The Rain (1952) Stanley Donen
6 4 ↓2 Gone With The Wind (1939) Victor Fleming
7 5 ↓2 Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) David Lean
8 9 ↑1 Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg
9 61 ↑52 Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
10 6 ↓4 The Wizard Of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming
11 76 ↑65 City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin
12 96 ↑84 The Searchers (1956) John Ford
13 15 ↑2 Star Wars (1977) George Lucas
14 18 ↑4 Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
15 22 ↑7 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
16 12 ↓4 Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
17 7 ↓10 The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols
18 - New The General (1927) Buster Keaton
19 8 ↓11 On The Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan
20 11 ↓9 It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra
21 19 ↓2 Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
22 14 ↓8 Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder
23 21 ↓2 The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) John Ford
24 25 ↑1 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg
25 34 ↑9 To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Robert Mulligan
26 29 ↑3 Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) Frank Capra
27 33 ↑6 High Noon (1952) Fred Zinnemann
28 16 ↓12 All About Eve (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
29 38 ↑9 Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder
30 28 ↓2 Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
31 23 ↓8 The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
32 32 - The Godfather Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
33 20 ↓13 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Milos Forman
34 49 ↑15 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) David Hand
35 31 ↓4 Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen
36 13 ↓23 The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) David Lean
37 37 - The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler
38 30 ↓8 The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston
39 26 ↓13 Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick
40 55 ↑15 The Sound Of Music (1965) Robert Wise
41 43 ↑2 King Kong (1933) Merian C. Cooper
42 27 ↓15 Bonnie And Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn
43 36 ↓7 Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger
44 51 ↑7 The Philadelphia Story (1940) George Cukor
45 69 ↑24 Shane (1953) George Stevens
46 35 ↓11 It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra
47 45 ↓2 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan
48 42 ↓6 Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
49 - New Intolerance (1916) D.W. Griffith
50 - New The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) Peter Jackson
51 41 ↓10 West Side Story (1961) Robert Wise
52 47 ↓5 Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
53 79 ↑26 The Deer Hunter (1978) Michael Cimino
54 56 ↑2 M*A*S*H (1970) Robert Altman
55 40 ↓15 North By Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
56 48 ↓8 Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg
57 78 ↑21 Rocky (1976) John G. Avildsen
58 74 ↑16 The Gold Rush (1925) Charlie Chaplin
59 - New Nashville (1975) Robert Altman
60 85 ↑25 Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey
61 - New Sullivan's Travels (1941) Preston Sturges
62 77 ↑15 American Graffiti (1973) George Lucas
63 - New Cabaret (1972) Bob Fosse
64 66 ↑2 Network (1976) Sidney Lumet
65 17 ↓48 The African Queen (1951) John Huston
66 60 ↓6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Steven Spielberg
67 - New Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Mike Nichols
68 98 ↑30 Unforgiven (1992) Clint Eastwood
69 62 ↓7 Tootsie (1982) Sydney Pollack
70 46 ↓24 A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
71 - New Saving Private Ryan (1998) Steven Spielberg
72 - New The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Frank Darabont
73 50 ↓23 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) George Roy Hill
74 65 ↓9 The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme
75 - New In The Heat Of The Night (1967) Norman Jewison
76 71 ↓5 Forrest Gump (1994) Robert Zemeckis
77 - New All The President's Men (1976) Alan J. Pakula
78 81 ↑3 Modern Times (1936) Charlie Chaplin
79 80 ↑1 The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah
80 93 ↑13 The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder
81 - New Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick
82 - New Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau
83 - New Titanic (1997) James Cameron
84 88 ↑4 Easy Rider (1969) Dennis Hopper
85 - New A Night At The Opera (1935) Sam Wood
86 83 ↓3 Platoon (1986) Oliver Stone
87 - New 12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet
88 97 ↑9 Bringing Up Baby (1938) Howard Hawks
89 - New The Sixth Sense (1999) M. Night Shyamalan
90 - New Swing Time (1936) George Stevens
91 - New Sophie's Choice (1982) Alan J. Pakula
92 94 ↑2 Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese
93 70 ↓23 The French Connection (1971) William Friedkin
94 95 ↑1 Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
95 - New The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich
96 - New Do The Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee
97 - New Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott
98 100 ↑2 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Michael Curtiz
99 - New Toy Story (1995) John Lasseter
100 72 ↓28 Ben-Hur (1959) William Wyler
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