AFI top 100 films of all time, 2007 edition


In 2007 AFI (American Film Institute) again invited 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry to determine the 100 greatest American movies. The updated edition was AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition. AFI previously created a first edition.

  1. Citizen Kane : 1941
  2. The Godfather : 1972
  3. Casablanca : 1942
  4. Raging Bull : 1980
  5. Singin' in the Rain : 1952
  6. Gone With the Wind : 1939
  7. Lawrence of Arabia : 1962
  8. Schindler's List : 1993
  9. Vertigo : 1958
  10. The Wizard of Oz : 1939
  11. City Lights : 1931
  12. The Searchers : 1956
  13. Star Wars : 1977
  14. Psycho : 1960
  15. 2001: A Space Odyssey : 1968
  16. Sunset Blvd. : 1950
  17. The Graduate : 1967
  18. The General : 1927
  19. On the Waterfront : 1954
  20. It's a Wonderful Life : 1946
  21. Chinatown : 1974
  22. Some Like It Hot : 1959
  23. The Grapes of Wrath : 1940
  24. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial : 1982
  25. To Kill a Mockingbird : 1962
  26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington : 1939
  27. High Noon : 1952
  28. All About Eve : 1950
  29. Double Indemnity : 1944
  30. Apocalypse Now : 1979
  31. The Maltese Falcon : 1941
  32. The Godfather Part II : 1974
  33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : 1975
  34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs : 1937
  35. Annie Hall : 1977
  36. The Bridge on the River Kwai : 1957
  37. The Best Years of Our Lives : 1946
  38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre : 1948
  39. Dr. Strangelove : 1964
  40. The Sound of Music : 1965
  41. King Kong : 1933
  42. Bonnie and Clyde : 1967
  43. Midnight Cowboy : 1969
  44. The Philadelphia Story : 1940
  45. Shane : 1953
  46. It Happened One Night : 1934
  47. A Streetcar Named Desire : 1951
  48. Rear Window : 1954
  49. Intolerance : 1916
  50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring : 2001
  51. West Side Story : 1961
  52. Taxi Driver : 1976
  53. The Deer Hunter : 1978
  54. M*A*S*H : 1970
  55. North by Northwest : 1959
  56. Jaws : 1975
  57. Rocky : 1976
  58. The Gold Rush : 1925
  59. Nashville : 1975
  60. Duck Soup : 1933
  61. Sullivan's Travels : 1941
  62. American Graffiti : 1973
  63. Cabaret : 1972
  64. Network : 1976
  65. The African Queen : 1951
  66. Raiders of the Lost Ark : 1981
  67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? : 1966
  68. Unforgiven : 1992
  69. Tootsie : 1982
  70. A Clockwork Orange : 1971
  71. Saving Private Ryan : 1998
  72. The Shawshank Redemption : 1994
  73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid : 1969
  74. The Silence of the Lambs : 1991
  75. In the Heat of the Night : 1967
  76. Forrest Gump : 1994
  77. All the President's Men : 1976
  78. Modern Times : 1936
  79. The Wild Bunch : 1969
  80. The Apartment : 1960
  81. Spartacus : 1960
  82. Sunrise : 1927
  83. Titanic : 1997
  84. Easy Rider : 1969
  85. A Night at the Opera : 1935
  86. Platoon : 1986
  87. 12 Angry Men : 1957
  88. Bringing Up Baby : 1938
  89. The Sixth Sense : 1999
  90. Swing Time : 1936
  91. Sophie's Choice : 1982
  92. GoodFellas : 1990
  93. The French Connection : 1971
  94. Pulp Fiction : 1994
  95. The Last Picture Show : 1971
  96. Do the Right Thing : 1989
  97. Blade Runner : 1982
  98. Yankee Doodle Dandy : 1942
  99. Toy Story : 1995
  100. Ben-Hur : 1959

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