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AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
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AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies

Click logo for AFI Site. 		I don't think there's one word that can describe a mans life.
-- Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles in Citizen Kane)

The American Film Institute continues its celebration of the first century of American filmmaking with AFI'S 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. This year, to honor the 10th Anniversary of AFI's100 Years...Series AFI is repolling the experts and asking, "What are the greatest American films of all time? And which is the greatest?"

Voted the number one movie once again was Citizen Kane. The complete list follows.
  1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
  2. THE GODFATHER (1972)
  3. CASABLANCA (1942)
  4. RAGING BULL (1980)
  5. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
  6. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
  7. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
  8. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
  9. VERTIGO (1958)
  10. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
  11. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
  12. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
  13. STAR WARS (1977)
  14. PSYCHO (1960)
  15. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
  16. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
  17. THE GRADUATE (1967)
  18. THE GENERAL (1927)
  19. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
  20. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
  21. CHINATOWN (1974)
  22. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
  23. GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (1940)
  24. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
  25. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
  26. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
  27. HIGH NOON (1952)
  28. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
  29. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
  30. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
  31. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
  32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
  33. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
  34. SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
  35. ANNIE HALL (1977)
  36. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
  37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
  38. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
  39. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
  40. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
  41. KING KONG (1933)
  42. BONNIE & CLYDE (1967)
  43. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
  44. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
  45. SHANE (1953)
  46. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
  47. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
  48. REAR WINDOW (1954)
  49. INTOLERANCE (1916)
  50. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS (2001)
  51. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
  52. TAXI DRIVER (1976)
  53. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
  54. M*A*S*H (1970)
  55. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
  56. JAWS (1975)
  57. ROCKY (1976)
  58. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
  59. NASHVILLE (1975)
  60. DUCK SOUP (1933)
  61. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941)
  62. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
  63. CABARET (1972)
  64. NETWORK (1976)
  65. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
  66. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
  67. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
  68. UNFORGIVEN (1992)
  69. TOOTSIE (1982)
  70. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
  71. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)
  72. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)
  73. BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
  74. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
  75. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
  76. FORREST GUMP (1994)
  77. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976)
  78. MODERN TIMES (1936)
  79. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
  80. THE APARTMENT (1960)
  81. SPARTACUS (1960)
  82. SUNRISE (1927)
  83. TITANIC (1997)
  84. EASY RIDER (1969)
  85. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)
  86. PLATOON (1986)
  87. 12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
  88. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
  89. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)
  90. SWING TIME (1936)
  91. SOPHIE'S CHOICE (1982)
  92. GOODFELLAS (1990)
  93. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
  94. PULP FICTION (1994)
  95. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
  96. DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
  97. BLADE RUNNER (1982)
  98. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
  99. TOY STORY (1995)
  100. BEN-HUR (1959)
See the 250 Nominees

What you leave behind...

These movies from the original 1997 list didn't make the cut this time:
  1. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  2. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
  3. From Here To Eternity (1953)
  4. Amadeus (1984)
  5. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
  6. The Third Man (1949)
  7. Fantasia (1940)
  8. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
  9. Stagecoach (1939)
  10. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
  11. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  12. An American In Paris (1951)
  13. Wuthering Heights (1939)
  14. Dances With Wolves (1990)
  15. Giant (1956)
  16. Fargo (1996)
  17. Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
  18. Frankenstein (1931)
  19. Patton (1970)
  20. The Jazz Singer (1927)
  21. My Fair Lady (1964)
  22. A Place In The Sun (1951)
  23. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
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