In 1998 the American Film Institute produced a list of 100 feature length films from the United States of America that had a significant social impact. This list would go on to later be updated in 2007 with significant changes.
- Citizen Kane (1941) ★★★★★
- Casablanca (1942) ★★★★★
- The Godfather (1972) ★★★★★
- Gone With The Wind (1939) ★★★★★
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- The Graduate (1967) ★★★★
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Sunset Blvd. (1950)
- The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) ★★★★★
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Star Wars (1977)
- All About Eve (1950) ★★★★★
- The African Queen (1951)
- Psycho (1960)
- Chinatown (1974) ★★★★★
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) ★★★★
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) ★★★★
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ★★★★★
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) ★★★★★
- Bonnie And Clyde (1967) ★★★★★
- Apocalypse Now (1979) ★★★
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Annie Hall (1977) ★★★★★
- The Godfather Part II (1974) ★★★★★
- High Noon (1952) ★★★★★
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Double Indemnity (1944) ★★★★★
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) ★★★★
- North by Northwest (1959)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Rear Window (1954)
- King Kong (1933)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971) ★★★★
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Jaws (1975)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) ★★★★★
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Amadeus (1984) ★★★
- All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) ★★★★★
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- MASH (1970)
- The Third Man (1949)
- Fantasia (1940) ★★★★
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Tootsie (1982)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) ★★★★
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Network (1976)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- An American in Paris (1951)
- Shane (1953)
- The French Connection (1971) ★★★★★
- Forrest Gump (1994) ★★★★★
- Ben-Hur (1959) ★★★★★
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- The Gold Rush (1925) ★★★★
- Dances with Wolves (1990)
- City Lights (1931) ★★★★★
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Rocky (1976)
- The Deer Hunter (1978) ★★★
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Giant (1956)
- Platoon (1986)
- Fargo (1996) ★★★★★
- Duck Soup (1933) ★★★★★
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Frankenstein (1931) ★★★★★
- Easy Rider (1969)
- Patton (1970)
- The Jazz Singer (1927)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- The Apartment (1960) ★★★★★
- GoodFellas (1990) ★★★★
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- The Searchers (1956)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938) ★★★★
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
When it comes to US cinema, Chinatown has to be onw of my all time favourites - phenomenal film.
ReplyDeleteWhat a list, really! I like that they've based it on impact. It's very interesting to look at films from a historical and sociological point of view, rather than just entertainment value or what not.
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