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American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Movies (1915-1996)

This is the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies, selected by AFI's blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders of the American movie community.

Each movie has been considered based on the following criteria:

Feature-Length Fiction Film: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes in length.

American Film: English language film with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.

Critical Recognition: Formal commendation in print.

Major Award Winner: Recognition from competitive events including awards from organizations in the film community and major film festivals.

Popularity Over Time: Including figures for box office adjusted for inflation, television broadcasts and syndication, and home video sales and rentals.

Historical Significance: A film's mark on the history of the moving image through technical innovation, visionary narrative devices or other groundbreaking achievements.

Cultural Impact: A film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance.

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Ranking Title Year Ratings
#1 Citizen Kane 1941 B+/B/A-
#2 Casablanca 1942 A/B+/A
#3 The Godfather 1972 B-/C-/NA
#4 Gone With the Wind 1939 A/B+/A+
#5 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 A-/A-/B
#6 The Wizard of Oz 1939 B+/B/A+
#7 The Graduate 1967 B+/B/A-
#8 On the Waterfront 1954 C/B-/B
#9 Schindler's List 1993 B+/B+/B
#10 Singin' In the Rain 1952 A-/B/A-
#11 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 A/B/C+
#12 Sunset Boulevard 1950 B+/B-/B+
#13 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 B-/B-/B-
#14 Some Like It Hot 1959 B+/B-/B+
#15 Star Wars 1977 A/B+/NA
#16 All About Eve 1950 B/B-/B+
#17 The African Queen 1951 A-/C/B-
#18 Psycho 1960 C+/C+/B+
#19 Chinatown 1974 A-/B+/B-
#20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 B+/B/B+
#21 The Grapes Of Wrath 1940 B-/C-/B+
#22 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 A/A-/B+
#23 The Maltese Falcon 1941 A-/B-/A
#24 Raging Bull 1980 B+/B/A
#25 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 B+/A-/A-
#26 Dr. Strangelove 1964 C+/B-/B+
#27 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 B+/C+/B
#28 Apocalypse Now 1979 A-/A/B+
#29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 C+C+/B-
#30 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 C/C+/A
#31 Annie Hall 1977 B/C+/D
#32 The Godfather Part II 1974 B-/B/NA
#33 High Noon 1952 B/B/B-
#34 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 B/B/A-
#35 It Happened One Night 1934 B/B/B
#36 Midnight Cowboy 1969 C+/B/B
#37 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 D+/C+/D+
#38 Double Indemnity 1944 B+/B/A
#39 Doctor Zhivago 1965 A/B/A-
#40 North By Northwest 1959 B+/B+/B+
#41 West Side Story 1961 B+/B+/B
#42 Rear Window 1954 C/C/B
#43 King Kong 1933 B/B/A-
#44 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D+/B/C+
#45 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 B+/B-/A-
#46 A Clockwork Orange 1971 B+/B+/B+
#47 Taxi Driver 1976 A-/B+/A
#48 Jaws 1975 B-/A/A-
#49 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 A+/B+/A+
#50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 A-/B/A
#51 The Philadelphia Story 1940 B/B-/A-
#52 From Here to Eternity 1953 C-/B-/C
#53 Amadeus 1984 A-/B+/B+
#54 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 B-/B-/D-
#55 The Sound of Music 1965 A-/B+/A-
#56 M*A*S*H 1970 B/C+/B+
#57 The Third Man 1949 B-/C+/A
#58 Fantasia 1940 B/B+/B+
#59 Rebel Without A Cause 1955 B/B/B+
#60 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 A-/A-/NA
#61 Vertigo 1958 B/B/B+
#62 Tootsie 1982 B-/B-/B
#63 Stagecoach 1939 C-/B-/B+
#64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 A-/B+/B+
#65 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 B+/B-/A-
#66 Network 1976 B-/C-/B+
#67 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 B+/B/B-
#68 An American In Paris 1951 B+/C+/B+
#69 Shane 1953 C+/B-/C
#70 The French Connection 1971 B+/B/A-
#71 Forrest Gump 1994 B/B+/A
#72 Ben-Hur 1959 A/A-/A
#73 Wuthering Heights 1939 D+/D/C-
#74 The Gold Rush 1925 A-/B-/B+
#75 Dances With Wolves 1990 A-/A-/A-
#76 City Lights 1931 B+/B/B
#77 American Graffiti 1973 B/B-/B+
#78 Rocky 1976 B+/B-/A
#79 The Deer Hunter 1978 B+/B/C+
#80 The Wild Bunch 1969 A-/C-/B+
#81 Modern Times 1936 B+/B-/B
#82 Giant 1956 C/C/A-
#83 Platoon 1986 B+/B/A
#84 Fargo 1996 B+/B/B
#85 Duck Soup 1933 B-/B-/NA
#86 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 B/C+/D+
#87 Frankenstein 1931 D+/B/B+
#88 Easy Rider 1969 B/B/B+
#89 Patton 1970 C-/B+/A
#90 The Jazz Singer 1927 B+/B/A+
#91 My Fair Lady 1964 A-/B+/B+
#92 A Place in the Sun 1951 B-/C+/B
#93 The Apartment 1960 B+/B-/B
#94 Goodfellas 1990 A-/B/B+
#95 Pulp Fiction 1994 B/B/A-
#96 The Searchers 1956 A-/B/B
#97 Bringing Up Baby 1938 B-/B-/B+
#98 Unforgiven 1992 A-/B+/A
#99 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 B/B/C+
#100 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 A-/B-/A