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. 22 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  2. 71 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  3. 46 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  4. 95 -

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  5. 25 -

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 30 top lists Check
  6. 15 -

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  7. 3 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  8. 4 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  9. 1 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  10. 48 -

    Jaws

    1975, in 28 top lists Check
  11. 31 -

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  12. 84 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  13. 6 -

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 38 top lists Check
  14. 28 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  15. 78 -

    Rocky

    1976, in 20 top lists Check
  16. 55 -

    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
  17. 26 -

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  18. 44 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  19. 47 -

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  20. 41 -

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
  21. 75 -

    Dances with Wolves

    1990, in 18 top lists Check
  22. 11 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  23. 2 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  24. 9 -

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  25. 32 -

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  26. 65 -

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  27. 60 -

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
  28. 7 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  29. 64 -

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  30. 58 -

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  31. 24 -

    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  32. 79 -

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  33. 20 -

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  34. 94 -

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  35. 5 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  36. 85 -

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  37. 61 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  38. 88 -

    Easy Rider

    1969, in 17 top lists Check
  39. 53 -

    Amadeus

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  40. 34 -

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    1962, in 18 top lists Check
  41. 19 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  42. 72 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  43. 56 -

    M*A*S*H

    1970, in 21 top lists Check
  44. 83 -

    Platoon

    1986, in 21 top lists Check
  45. 98 -

    Unforgiven

    1992, in 24 top lists Check
  46. 10 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  47. 49 -

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  48. 96 -

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  49. 97 -

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  50. 91 -

    My Fair Lady

    1964, in 18 top lists Check
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