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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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 38 top lists Check -
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The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
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On the Waterfront
1954, in 32 top lists Check -
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Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check -
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957, in 32 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
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All About Eve
1950, in 25 top lists Check -
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The African Queen
1951, in 11 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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Chinatown
1974, in 31 top lists Check -
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, in 35 top lists Check -
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940, in 24 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
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Raging Bull
1980, in 34 top lists Check -
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982, in 31 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948, in 25 top lists Check -
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Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
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High Noon
1952, in 19 top lists Check -
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1962, in 18 top lists Check -
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It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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Midnight Cowboy
1969, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946, in 30 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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Doctor Zhivago
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
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West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
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Rear Window
1954, in 31 top lists Check -
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King Kong
1933, in 26 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1951, in 15 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 29 top lists Check -
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937, in 25 top lists Check -
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969, in 21 top lists Check
Last updated on Dec 28, 2011; source