American Film Institute's Top 100 Films

The first of the AFI 100 Years… series of cinematic milestones, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list was unveiled in 1998. A second list was unveiled in 2007.

AFI Rank (1998)	AFI Rank (2007)	Change (since 1998)
1. Citizen Kane	1. Citizen Kane	NO CHANGE
2. Casablanca	2. The Godfather	1
3. The Godfather	3. Casablanca	1
4. Gone With the Wind	4. Raging Bull	20
5. Lawrence of Arabia	5. Singin’ in the Rain	5
6. The Wizard of Oz	6. Gone With the Wind	2
7. The Graduate	7. Lawrence of Arabia	2
8. On the Waterfront	8. Schindler’s List	1
9. Schindler’s List	9. Vertigo	52
10. Singin’ in the Rain	10. The Wizard of Oz	4
11. It’s a Wonderful Life	11. City Lights	65
12. Sunset Boulevard	12. The Searchers	84
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai	13. Star Wars	2
14. Some Like it Hot	14. Psycho	4
15. Star Wars	15. 2001: A Space Odyssey	7
16. All About Eve	16. Sunset Boulevard	4
17. The African Queen	17. The Graduate	10
18. Psycho	18. The General	NEW
19. Chinatown	19. On the Waterfront	11
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	20. It’s a Wonderful Life	9
21. The Grapes of Wrath	21. Chinatown	2
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey	22. Some Like it Hot	8
23. The Maltese Falcon	23. The Grapes of Wrath	2
24. Raging Bull	24. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial	1
25. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial	25. To Kill a Mockingbird	9
26. Dr. Strangelove…	26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	3
27. Bonnie and Clyde	27. High Noon	6
28. Apocalypse Now	28. All About Eve	12
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	29. Double Indemnity	9
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	30. Apocalypse Now	2
31. Annie Hall	31. The Maltese Falcon	8
32. The Godfather: Part II	32. The Godfather: Part II	NO CHANGE
33. High Noon	33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	13
34. To Kill a Mockingbird	34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves	15
35. It Happened One Night	35. Annie Hall	4
36. Midnight Cowboy	36. The Bridge on the River Kwai	23
37. The Best Years of Our Lives	37. The Best Years of our Lives	NO CHANGE
38. Double Indemnity	38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	8
39. Doctor Zhivago	39. Dr. Strangelove…	13
40. North by Northwest	40. The Sound of Music	15
41. West Side Story	41. King Kong	2
42. Rear Window	42. Bonnie and Clyde	15
43. King Kong	43. Midnight Cowboy	7
44. The Birth of a Nation	44. The Philadelphia Story	7
45. A Streetcar Named Desire	45. Shane	24
46. A Clockwork Orange	46. It Happened One Night	11
47. Taxi Driver	47. A Streetcar Named Desire	2
48. Jaws	48. Rear Window	6
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves	49. Intolerance	NEW
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	NEW
51. The Philadelphia Story	51. West Side Story	10
52. From Here to Eternity	52. Taxi Driver	5
53. Amadeus	53. The Deer Hunter	26
54. All Quiet on the Western Front	54. MAS*H	2
55. The Sound of Music	55. North by Northwest	15
56. MAS*H	56. Jaws	8
57. The Third Man	57. Rocky	21
58. Fantasia	58. The Gold Rush	16
59. Rebel Without a Cause	59. Nashville	NEW
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark	60. Duck Soup	25
61. Vertigo	61. Sullivan’s Travels	NEW
62. Tootsie	62. American Graffiti	15
63. Stagecoach	63. Cabaret	NEW
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind	64. Network	2
65. The Silence of the Lambs	65. The African Queen	48
66. Network	66. Raiders of the Lost Ark	6
67. The Manchurian Candidate	67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	NEW
68. An American in Paris	68. Unforgiven	30
69. Shane	69. Tootsie	7
70. The French Connection	70. A Clockwork Orange	24
71. Forrest Gump	71. Saving Private Ryan	NEW
72. Ben-Hur	72. The Shawshank Redemption	NEW
73. Wuthering Heights	73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	23
74. The Gold Rush	74. The Silence of the Lambs	9
75. Dances with Wolves	75. In the Heat of the Night	NEW
76. City Lights	76. Forrest Gump	5
77. American Graffiti	77. All the President’s Men	NEW
78. Rocky	78. Modern Times	3
79. The Deer Hunter	79. The Wild Bunch	1
80. The Wild Bunch	80. The Apartment	13
81. Modern Times	81. Spartacus	NEW
82. Giant	82. Sunrise	NEW
83. Platoon	83. Titanic	NEW
84. Fargo	84. Easy Rider	4
85. Duck Soup	85. A Night at the Opera	NEW
86. Mutiny on the Bounty	86. Platoon	3
87. Frankenstein	87. 12 Angry Men	NEW
88. Easy Rider	88. Bringing Up Baby	9
89. Patton	89. The Sixth Sense	NEW
90. The Jazz Singer	90. Swing Time	NEW
91. My Fair Lady	91. Sophie’s Choice	NEW
92. A Place in the Sun	92. Goodfellas	2
93. The Apartment	93. The French Connection	23
94. Goodfellas	94. Pulp Fiction	1
95. Pulp Fiction	95. The Last Picture Show	NEW
96. The Searchers	96. Do the Right Thing	NEW
97. Bringing Up Baby	97. Blade Runner	NEW
98. Unforgiven	98. Yankee Doodle Dandy	2
99. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner	99. Toy Story	NEW
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy	100. Ben-Hur	28