TOP 100
2007 Anniversary List
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1910s
1 works
1920s
3 works
1930s
12 works
AFI-006
Gone with the Wind
1939 • Victor Fleming
AFI-010
The Wizard of Oz
1939 • Victor Fleming
AFI-011
City Lights
1931 • Charlie Chaplin
AFI-026
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 • Frank Capra
AFI-034
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937 • David Hand
AFI-041
King Kong
1933 • Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
AFI-046
It Happened One Night
1934 • Frank Capra
AFI-060
Duck Soup
1933 • Leo McCarey
AFI-078
Modern Times
1936 • Charlie Chaplin
AFI-085
A Night at the Opera
1935 • Sam Wood
AFI-088
Bringing Up Baby
1938 • Howard Hawks
AFI-090
Swing Time
1936 • George Stevens
1940s
11 works
AFI-001
Citizen Kane
1941 • Orson Welles
AFI-003
Casablanca
1942 • Michael Curtiz
AFI-020
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 • Frank Capra
AFI-023
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 • John Ford
AFI-029
Double Indemnity
1944 • Billy Wilder
AFI-031
The Maltese Falcon
1941 • John Huston
AFI-037
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 • William Wyler
AFI-038
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 • John Huston
AFI-044
The Philadelphia Story
1940 • George Cukor
AFI-061
Sullivan's Travels
1941 • Preston Sturges
AFI-098
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 • Michael Curtiz
1950s
16 works
AFI-005
Singin' in the Rain
1952 • Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
AFI-009
Vertigo
1958 • Alfred Hitchcock
AFI-012
The Searchers
1956 • John Ford
AFI-016
Sunset Blvd.
1950 • Billy Wilder
AFI-019
On the Waterfront
1954 • Elia Kazan
AFI-022
Some Like It Hot
1959 • Billy Wilder
AFI-027
High Noon
1952 • Fred Zinnemann
AFI-028
All About Eve
1950 • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
AFI-036
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 • David Lean
AFI-045
Shane
1953 • George Stevens
AFI-047
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 • Elia Kazan
AFI-048
Rear Window
1954 • Alfred Hitchcock
AFI-055
North by Northwest
1959 • Alfred Hitchcock
AFI-065
The African Queen
1951 • John Huston
AFI-087
12 Angry Men
1957 • Sidney Lumet
AFI-100
Ben-Hur
1959 • William Wyler
1960s
17 works
AFI-007
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 • David Lean
AFI-014
Psycho
1960 • Alfred Hitchcock
AFI-015
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 • Stanley Kubrick
AFI-017
The Graduate
1967 • Mike Nichols
AFI-025
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 • Robert Mulligan
AFI-039
Dr. Strangelove
1964 • Stanley Kubrick
AFI-040
The Sound of Music
1965 • Robert Wise
AFI-042
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 • Arthur Penn
AFI-043
Midnight Cowboy
1969 • John Schlesinger
AFI-051
West Side Story
1961 • Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
AFI-067
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 • Mike Nichols
AFI-073
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 • George Roy Hill
AFI-075
In the Heat of the Night
1967 • Norman Jewison
AFI-079
The Wild Bunch
1969 • Sam Peckinpah
AFI-080
The Apartment
1960 • Billy Wilder
AFI-081
Spartacus
1960 • Stanley Kubrick
AFI-084
Easy Rider
1969 • Dennis Hopper
1970s
20 works
AFI-002
The Godfather
1972 • Francis Ford Coppola
AFI-013
Star Wars
1977 • George Lucas
AFI-021
Chinatown
1974 • Roman Polanski
AFI-030
Apocalypse Now
1979 • Francis Ford Coppola
AFI-032
The Godfather Part II
1974 • Francis Ford Coppola
AFI-033
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 • Miloš Forman
AFI-035
Annie Hall
1977 • Woody Allen
AFI-052
Taxi Driver
1976 • Martin Scorsese
AFI-053
The Deer Hunter
1978 • Michael Cimino
AFI-054
M*A*S*H
1970 • Robert Altman
AFI-056
Jaws
1975 • Steven Spielberg
AFI-057
Rocky
1976 • John G. Avildsen
AFI-059
Nashville
1975 • Robert Altman
AFI-062
American Graffiti
1973 • George Lucas
AFI-063
Cabaret
1972 • Bob Fosse
AFI-064
Network
1976 • Sidney Lumet
AFI-070
A Clockwork Orange
1971 • Stanley Kubrick
AFI-077
All the President's Men
1976 • Alan J. Pakula
AFI-093
The French Connection
1971 • William Friedkin
AFI-095
The Last Picture Show
1971 • Peter Bogdanovich
1980s
8 works
AFI-004
Raging Bull
1980 • Martin Scorsese
AFI-024
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 • Steven Spielberg
AFI-066
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 • Steven Spielberg
AFI-069
Tootsie
1982 • Sydney Pollack
AFI-086
Platoon
1986 • Oliver Stone
AFI-091
Sophie's Choice
1982 • Alan J. Pakula
AFI-096
Do the Right Thing
1989 • Spike Lee
AFI-097
Blade Runner
1982 • Ridley Scott
1990s
11 works
AFI-008
Schindler's List
1993 • Steven Spielberg
AFI-068
Unforgiven
1992 • Clint Eastwood
AFI-071
Saving Private Ryan
1998 • Steven Spielberg
AFI-072
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 • Frank Darabont
AFI-074
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 • Jonathan Demme
AFI-076
Forrest Gump
1994 • Robert Zemeckis
AFI-083
Titanic
1997 • James Cameron
AFI-089
The Sixth Sense
1999 • M. Night Shyamalan
AFI-092
Goodfellas
1990 • Martin Scorsese
AFI-094
Pulp Fiction
1994 • Quentin Tarantino
AFI-099
Toy Story
1995 • John Lasseter
