AFI - 100 Years... 100 Movies (2007)

The American Film Institute produced a follow-up list to their 1998 list of films from the United States of America with the greatest social impact. There are a number of changes due to more films being released.

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