AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Published 2007
The American Film Institute's canonical ranked list of the 100 greatest American films of all time, published in 2007 (10th-anniversary edition). The starting point for any conversation about the American canon.
AFI Top 10 of All Time
The 10 films AFI ranks above all others. Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Casablanca, and the rest of the cap.
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
- Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
- Michael Curtiz – Casablanca
- Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
- Gene Kelly – Singin' in the Rain
- Victor Fleming – Gone with the Wind
- David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
- Steven Spielberg – Schindler's List
- Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
- Victor Fleming – The Wizard of Oz
AFI Top 25
Top 25 — wider field, still definitive. Pro-tier needed to launch with all 25.
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
- Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
- Michael Curtiz – Casablanca
- Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
- Gene Kelly – Singin' in the Rain
- Victor Fleming – Gone with the Wind
- David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
- Steven Spielberg – Schindler's List
- Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
- Victor Fleming – The Wizard of Oz
- Charlie Chaplin – City Lights
- John Ford – The Searchers
- George Lucas – Star Wars
- Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho
- Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard
- Mike Nichols – The Graduate
- Buster Keaton – The General
- Elia Kazan – On the Waterfront
- Frank Capra – It's a Wonderful Life
- Roman Polanski – Chinatown
- Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot
- John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath
- Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Robert Mulligan – To Kill a Mockingbird
The Full AFI Top 100(100)
All 100 films in their official rank order.
#1Citizen Kane
1941
#2The Godfather
1972
#3Casablanca
1943
#4Raging Bull
1980
#5Singin' in the Rain
1952
#6Gone with the Wind
1939
#7Lawrence of Arabia
1962
#8Schindler's List
1993
#9Vertigo
1958
#10The Wizard of Oz
1939
#11City Lights
1931
#12The Searchers
1956
#13Star Wars
1977
#14Psycho
1960
#152001: A Space Odyssey
1968
#16Sunset Boulevard
1950
#17The Graduate
1967
#18The General
1926
#19On the Waterfront
1954
#20It's a Wonderful Life
1946
#21Chinatown
1974
#22Some Like It Hot
1959
#23The Grapes of Wrath
1940
#24E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
#25To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
#26Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
#27High Noon
1952
#28All About Eve
1950
#29Double Indemnity
1944
#30Apocalypse Now
1979
#31The Maltese Falcon
1941
#32The Godfather Part II
1974
#33One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
#34Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938
#35Annie Hall
1977
#36The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
#37The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
#38The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
#39Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
#40The Sound of Music
1965
#41King Kong
1933
#42Bonnie and Clyde
1967
#43Midnight Cowboy
1969
#44The Philadelphia Story
1940
#45Shane
1953
#46It Happened One Night
1934
#47A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
#48Rear Window
1954
#49Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
#50The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
#51West Side Story
1961
#52Taxi Driver
1976
#53The Deer Hunter
1978
#54M*A*S*H
1970
#55North by Northwest
1959
#56Jaws
1975
#57Rocky
1976
#58The Gold Rush
1925
#59Nashville
1975
#60Duck Soup
1933
#61Sullivan's Travels
1941
#62American Graffiti
1973
#63Cabaret
1972
#64Network
1976
#65The African Queen
1952
#66Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
#67Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966
#68Unforgiven
1992
#69Tootsie
1982
#70A Clockwork Orange
1971
#71Saving Private Ryan
1998
#72The Shawshank Redemption
1994
#73Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
#74The Silence of the Lambs
1991
#75In the Heat of the Night
1967
#76Forrest Gump
1994
#77All the President's Men
1976
#78Modern Times
1936
#79The Wild Bunch
1969
#80The Apartment
1960
#81Spartacus
1960
#82Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927
#83Titanic
1997
#84Easy Rider
1969
#85A Night at the Opera
1935
#86Platoon
1986
#8712 Angry Men
1957
#88Bringing Up Baby
1938
#89The Sixth Sense
1999
#90Swing Time
1936
#91Sophie's Choice
1982
#92GoodFellas
1990
#93The French Connection
1971
#94Pulp Fiction
1994
#95The Last Picture Show
1971
#96Do the Right Thing
1989
#97Blade Runner
1982
#98Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
#99Toy Story
1995
#100Ben-Hur
1959
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