AFI - 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998)

In 1998 the American Film Institute produced a list of 100 feature length films from the United States of America that had a significant social impact. This list would go on to later be updated in 2007 with significant changes.

1. Citizen Kane (1941) ★★★★★
2. Casablanca (1942) ★★★★★
3. The Godfather (1972) ★★★★★
4. Gone With The Wind (1939) ★★★★★
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. The Graduate (1967) ★★★★
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
13. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) ★★★★★
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977)
16. All About Eve (1950) ★★★★★
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960)
19. Chinatown (1974) ★★★★★
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) ★★★★
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) ★★★★
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ★★★★★
26. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) ★★★★★
27. Bonnie And Clyde (1967) ★★★★★
28. Apocalypse Now (1979) ★★★
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
31. Annie Hall (1977) ★★★★★
32. The Godfather Part II (1974) ★★★★★
33. High Noon (1952) ★★★★★
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944) ★★★★★
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965) ★★★★
40. North by Northwest (1959)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. King Kong (1933)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971) ★★★★
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
50. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) ★★★★★
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984) ★★★
54. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) ★★★★★
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
56. MASH (1970)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940) ★★★★
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
61. Vertigo (1958)
62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) ★★★★
65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American in Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971) ★★★★★
71. Forrest Gump (1994) ★★★★★
72. Ben-Hur (1959) ★★★★★
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925) ★★★★
75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
76. City Lights (1931) ★★★★★
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978) ★★★
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
81. Modern Times (1936)
82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996) ★★★★★
85. Duck Soup (1933) ★★★★★
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931) ★★★★★
88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
93. The Apartment (1960) ★★★★★
94. GoodFellas (1990) ★★★★
95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing Up Baby (1938) ★★★★
98. Unforgiven (1992)
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)