AFI 100
Each year, AFI presents another episode in its widely acclaimed series of CBS television specials — AFI’s Years…100 Movies, which launched AFI’s on-going celebration of the cinema centennial. Each special honors a different aspect of excellence in American film. This is my attempt at completing their list of the best movies. Every time I watch a movie on the list, I will write a review of that movie, and then tick it off the list.
On June, 2007, they presented a new, updated version of their AFI’s Years…100 Movies called the 10th Anniversary Edition. Because of this, some movies have dropped off my list, and others have been added. I have added, in brackets, the movie’s position on the old list, as well as (at the bottom of this page), the movies that dropped out. I will not continue to watch and review the movies that dropped out.
You can still see the old version of the list by clicking here.
Current Status

The List
- Citizen Kane (1)
- Godfather, The (3)
- Casablanca (2)
- Raging Bull (24)
- Singin’ in the Rain (10) | Read my review
- Gone with the Wind (4)
- Lawrence of Arabia (5)
- Schindler’s List (9)
- Vertigo (61)
- Wizard of Oz, The (6)
- City Lights (76)
- Searchers, The (96)
- Star Wars (15)
- Psycho (18)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (22)
- Sunset Blvd. (12)
- Graduate, The (7)
- General, The (New)
- On the Waterfront (8)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (11)
- Chinatown (19)
- Some Like It Hot (14)
- Grapes of Wrath, The (21)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (25)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (34)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (29)
- High Noon (33) | Read my review
- All About Eve (16)
- Double Indemnity (38)
- Apocalypse Now (28)
- Maltese Falcon, The (23)
- Godfather: Part II, The (32)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (20)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (49)
- Annie Hall (31)
- Bridge on the River Kwai, The (13)
- Best Years of Our Lives, The (37) | Read my review
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (30)
- Dr. Strangelove (26)
- Sound of Music, The (55)
- King Kong (43) | Read my review
- Bonnie and Clyde (27) | Read my review
- Midnight Cowboy (36)
- Philadelphia Story, The (51)
- Shane (69)
- It Happened One Night (35)
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (45) | Read my review
- Rear Window (42)
- Intolerance (New)
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (New)
- West Side Story (41)
- Taxi Driver (47)
- Deer Hunter, The (79) | Read my review
- MASH (56)
- North by Northwest (40)
- Jaws (48)
- Rocky (78)
- Gold Rush, The (74) | Read my review
- Nashville (New)
- Duck Soup (85)
- Sullivan’s Travels (New)
- American Graffiti (77) | Read my review
- Cabaret (New)
- Network (66)
- African Queen, The (17) | Read my review
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (60)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (New)
- Unforgiven (98)
- Tootsie (62)
- Clockwork Orange, A (46)
- Saving Private Ryan (New)
- Shawshank Redemption, The (New)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (50)
- Silence of the Lambs, The (65)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967) | Read my review
- Forrest Gump (71)
- All the President’s Men (New)
- Modern Times (81)
- Wild Bunch, The (80)
- Apartment, The (93) | Read my review
- Spartacus (New)
- Sunrise (New)
- Titanic (New)
- Easy Rider (88)
- Night at the Opera, A (New) | Read my review
- Platoon (83)
- 12 Angry Men (New)
- Bringing Up Baby (97)
- Sixth Sense, The (New)
- Swing Time (New)
- Sophie’s Choice (New)
- Goodfellas (94)
- French Connection, The (70)
- Pulp Fiction (95)
- Last Picture Show, The (New)
- Do the Right Thing (New)
- Blade Runner (New) | Read my review
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (100)
- Toy Story (New)
- Ben-Hur (72)


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