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. 44 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 74 -

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 top lists Check
  3. 90 -

    The Jazz Singer

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
  4. 54 -

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  5. 76 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  6. 87 -

    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
  7. 85 -

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  8. 43 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  9. 35 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  10. 86 -

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    1935, in 6 top lists Check
  11. 81 -

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  12. 49 -

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  13. 97 -

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  14. 4 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  15. 29 -

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    1939, in 15 top lists Check
  16. 63 -

    Stagecoach

    1939, in 21 top lists Check
  17. 6 -

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  18. 73 -

    Wuthering Heights

    1939, in 10 top lists Check
  19. 58 -

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  20. 21 -

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
  21. 51 -

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  22. 1 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  23. 23 -

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 26 top lists Check
  24. 2 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  25. 100 -

    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    1942, in 12 top lists Check
  26. 38 -

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  27. 37 -

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  28. 11 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  29. 30 -

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  30. 57 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  31. 16 -

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  32. 12 -

    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
  33. 17 -

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  34. 68 -

    An American in Paris

    1951, in 18 top lists Check
  35. 92 -

    A Place in the Sun

    1951, in 13 top lists Check
  36. 45 -

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1951, in 15 top lists Check
  37. 33 -

    High Noon

    1952, in 18 top lists Check
  38. 10 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  39. 52 -

    From Here to Eternity

    1953, in 13 top lists Check
  40. 69 -

    Shane

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
  41. 8 -

    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
  42. 42 -

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  43. 59 -

    Rebel Without a Cause

    1955, in 16 top lists Check
  44. 82 -

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  45. 96 -

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  46. 13 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  47. 61 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  48. 72 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  49. 40 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  50. 14 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
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