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100 Greatest American Movies of All Time
List according The American Film Institute (AFI), as selected by a blue-ribbon panel of leaders from across the film community. Published at http://afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx.*

1. Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Directed by: Orson Welles)
2. Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Directed by: Michael Curtiz)
3. The Godfather (Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Gone with the Wind (Directed by: Victor Fleming & Sam Wood & George Cukor)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (Directed by: David Lean)
6. The Wizard Of Oz (Directed by: Richard Thorpe & King Vidor & Victor Fleming)
7. The Graduate (Directed by: Mike Nichols)
8. On the Waterfront (Directed by: Elia Kazan)
9. Schindler's List (Directed by: Steven Spielberg)
10 Singin' In The Rain (Directed by: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
11 It's A Wonderful Life (Directed by: Frank Capra)
12 Sunset Boulevard (Directed by: Billy Wilder)
13 The Bridge on the River Kwai (Directed by: David Lean)

14 Some Like It Hot (Directed by: Billy Wilder)
15 Star Wars (Directed by: George Lucas)
16 All About Eve (Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
17 The African Queen (Directed by: John Huston)
18 Psycho (Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock)
19 Chinatown (Directed by: Roman Polanski)
20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Directed by: Milos Forman)
21 The Grapes Of Wrath (Directed by: John Ford)
22 2001: A Space Odyssey (Directed by: Stanley Kubrick)
23 The Maltese Falcon (Directed by: John Huston)
24 Raging Bull (Directed by: Martin Scorsese)
25 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Directed by: Steven Spielberg)
26 Dr. Strangelove (Directed by: Stanley Kubrick)
27 Bonnie And Clyde (Directed by: Arthur Penn)
28 Apocalypse Now (Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola)
29 Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (Directed by: Frank Capra)
30 The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Directed by: John Huston)
31 Annie Hall (Directed by: Woody Allen)
32 The Godfather, Part II (Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola)
33 High Noon (Directed by: Fred Zinnemann)
34 To Kill A Mockingbird (Directed by: Robert Mulligan)
35 It Happened One Night (Directed by: Frank Capra)
36 Midnight Cowboy (Directed by: John Schlesinger)
37 The Best Years of Our Lives (Directed by: William Wyler)
38 Double Indemnity (Directed by: Billy Wilder)
39 Doctor Zhivago (Directed by: David Lean)
40 North by Northwest (Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock)
41 West Side Story (Directed by: Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
42 Rear Window (Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock)
43 King Kong (Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper)
44 The Birth Of A Nation (Directed by: D.W. Griffith)
45 A Streetcar Named Desire (Directed by: Elia Kazan)
46 A Clockwork Orange (Directed by: Stanley Kubrick)
47 Taxi Driver (Directed by: Martin Scorsese)
48 Jaws (Directed by: Steven Spielberg)
49 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (Directed by: David Hand)
50 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Directed by: George Roy Hill)
51 The Philadelphia Story (Directed by: George Cukor)
52 From Here to Eternity (Directed by: Fred Zinnemann)
53 Amadeus (Directed by: Milos Forman)
54 All Quiet on the Western Front (Directed by: Lewis Milestone)
55 The Sound of Music (Directed by: Robert Wise)
56 M*A*S*H (Directed by: Robert Altman)
57 The Third Man (Directed by: Carol Reed)
58 Fantasia (Directed by: Ford Beebe & Others)
59 Rebel Without A Cause (Directed by: Nicholas Ray)
60 Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Directed by: Steven Spielberg)
61 Vertigo (Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock)
62 Tootsie (Directed by: Sydney Pollack)
63 Stagecoach (Directed by: John Ford)
64 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Directed by: Steven Spielberg)
65 The Silence of the Lambs (Directed by: Jonathan Demme)
66 Network (Directed by: Sidney Lumet)
67 The Manchurian Candidate (Directed by: John Frankenheimer)
68 An American in Paris (Directed by: Vincente Minnelli)
69 Shane (Directed by: George Stevens)
70 The French Connection (Directed by: William Friedkin)
71 Forrest Gump (Directed by: Robert Zemeckis)
72 Ben-Hur (Directed by: William Wyler)
73 Wuthering Heights (Directed by: William Wyler)
74 The Gold Rush (Directed by: Charles Chaplin)
75 Dances with Wolves (Directed by: Kevin Costner)
76 City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition) (Directed by: Charles Chaplin)
77 American Graffiti (Directed by: George Lucas)
78 Rocky (Directed by: John G. Avildsen)
79 The Deer Hunter (Directed by: Michael Cimino)
80 The Wild Bunch (Directed by: Sam Peckinpah)
81 Modern Times (Directed by: Charles Chaplin)
82 Giant (Directed by: George Stevens)
83 Platoon (Directed by: Oliver Stone)
84 Fargo (Directed by: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen)
85 Duck Soup (Directed by: Leo McCarey)
86 Mutiny on the Bounty (Directed by: Frank Lloyd)
87 Frankenstein (Directed by: James Whale)
88 Easy Rider (Directed by: Dennis Hopper)
89 Patton (Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner)
90 The Jazz Singer (Directed by: Alan Crosland)
91 My Fair Lady (Directed by: George Cukor)
92 A Place In The Sun (Directed by: George Stevens)
93 The Apartment (Directed by: Billy Wilder)
94 Goodfellas (Directed by: Martin Scorsese)
95 Pulp Fiction (Directed by: Quentin Tarantino)
96 The Searchers (Directed by: John Ford)
97 Bringing Up Baby (Directed by: Howard Hawks)
98 Unforgiven (Directed by: Clint Eastwood)
99 Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Directed by: Stanley Kramer)
100 Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Directed by: Michael Curtiz)

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