AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies: The Original List

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This is the American Film Institute’s original 1998 list of the 100 Greatest Movies, selected by AFI’s blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders of the American movie community. Films released in 1996 and prior were eligible. The list was revised in 2007 (see offiical top list).

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  1. 100 -

    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    1942, in 12 top lists Check
  2. 73 -

    Wuthering Heights

    1939, in 10 top lists Check
  3. 6 -

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  4. 80 -

    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
  5. 41 -

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
  6. 61 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  7. 98 -

    Unforgiven

    1992, in 24 top lists Check
  8. 30 -

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  9. 62 -

    Tootsie

    1982, in 17 top lists Check
  10. 34 -

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    1962, in 18 top lists Check
  11. 57 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  12. 47 -

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  13. 12 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  14. 45 -

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1951, in 15 top lists Check
  15. 15 -

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  16. 63 -

    Stagecoach

    1939, in 21 top lists Check
  17. 55 -

    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
  18. 14 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  19. 49 -

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  20. 10 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  21. 65 -

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  22. 69 -

    Shane

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
  23. 96 -

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  24. 9 -

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  25. 78 -

    Rocky

    1976, in 20 top lists Check
  26. 59 -

    Rebel Without a Cause

    1955, in 16 top lists Check
  27. 42 -

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  28. 60 -

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
  29. 24 -

    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  30. 95 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  31. 18 -

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  32. 83 -

    Platoon

    1986, in 21 top lists Check
  33. 92 -

    A Place in the Sun

    1951, in 13 top lists Check
  34. 51 -

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  35. 89 -

    Patton

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  36. 20 -

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  37. 8 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  38. 40 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  39. 66 -

    Network

    1976, in 14 top lists Check
  40. 91 -

    My Fair Lady

    1964, in 18 top lists Check
  41. 86 -

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    1935, in 6 top lists Check
  42. 56 -

    M*A*S*H

    1970, in 21 top lists Check
  43. 29 -

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    1939, in 15 top lists Check
  44. 81 -

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  45. 36 -

    Midnight Cowboy

    1969, in 22 top lists Check
  46. 67 -

    The Manchurian Candidate

    1962, in 15 top lists Check
  47. 23 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 26 top lists Check
  48. 5 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  49. 43 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  50. 90 -

    The Jazz Singer

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
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