AFI's Top 100 ~  American Movies New Biographical Dictionary of Film

"All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies." ~ Steve Martin

Here is the complete list of the American Film Institute's Top 100 American movies of the 20th Century:

1 Citizen Kane, 1941
2 Casablanca, 1942

Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

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 Boulevard, 1950
13 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 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, 1964

27 Bonnie and Clyde, 1967
28 Apocalypse Now, 1979
29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939
30 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

Natalie Wood

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 & Seven Dwarfs, 1937
50 Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid, 1969

Films 51-100