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. 2 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  2. 4 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  3. 7 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  4. 8 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  5. 10 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  6. 12 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  7. 17 -

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  8. 31 -

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  9. 35 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  10. 37 -

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  11. 39 -

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  12. 44 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  13. 51 -

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  14. 52 -

    From Here to Eternity

    1953, in 13 top lists Check
  15. 61 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  16. 62 -

    Tootsie

    1982, in 17 top lists Check
  17. 68 -

    An American in Paris

    1951, in 18 top lists Check
  18. 69 -

    Shane

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
  19. 71 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  20. 73 -

    Wuthering Heights

    1939, in 10 top lists Check
  21. 76 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  22. 82 -

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  23. 92 -

    A Place in the Sun

    1951, in 13 top lists Check
  24. 93 -

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  25. 97 -

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
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