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. 17 -

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  3. 16 -

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  4. 54 -

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  5. 53 -

    Amadeus

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  6. 77 -

    American Graffiti

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  7. 68 -

    An American in Paris

    1951, in 18 top lists Check
  8. 31 -

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  9. 93 -

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  10. 28 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  11. 72 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  12. 37 -

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  13. 44 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  14. 27 -

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  15. 13 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  16. 97 -

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  17. 50 -

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    1969, in 21 top lists Check
  18. 2 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  19. 19 -

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  20. 1 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  21. 76 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  22. 46 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  23. 64 -

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  24. 75 -

    Dances with Wolves

    1990, in 18 top lists Check
  25. 79 -

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  26. 39 -

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  27. 38 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  28. 26 -

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

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  29. 85 -

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  30. 25 -

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 30 top lists Check
  31. 88 -

    Easy Rider

    1969, in 17 top lists Check
  32. 58 -

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  33. 84 -

    Fargo

    1996, in 27 top lists Check
  34. 71 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  35. 87 -

    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
  36. 70 -

    The French Connection

    1971, in 23 top lists Check
  37. 52 -

    From Here to Eternity

    1953, in 13 top lists Check
  38. 82 -

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  39. 3 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  40. 32 -

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  41. 74 -

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 30 top lists Check
  42. 4 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  43. 94 -

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  44. 7 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  45. 21 -

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
  46. 99 -

    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    1967, in 7 top lists Check
  47. 33 -

    High Noon

    1952, in 18 top lists Check
  48. 35 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  49. 11 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  50. 48 -

    Jaws

    1975, in 28 top lists Check
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