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AFI's Top 50 Films
Pres. Lyndon Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and
the Humanities Act of 1965. This created the National Endowment for
the Arts, which established the American Film Institute (AFI), an
independent, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving film and
television heritage; identifying and training new talent; and
increasing recognition and understanding of the moving image as an art
form.
"The Top 100 Greatest American Movies," according to a poll of
filmmakers and conducted by AFI, were announced on a CBS-TV special in
1998. The list below is comprised of the Top 50 films from that list.
Trivia of note:
The Top 10 films include movies from every decade, from the 1930s to
the 1990s, with the exception of the 1980s. The first film on the AFI
list from the 1980s is Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, at Number 24.
Citizen Kane, starring Orson Wells, ranks as the all-time Number 1
film in American history.
The Godfather, Part II is the only sequel, at Number 32, represented
on the list. The Godfather (1972) ranked at Number 3.
Singin' in the Rain is the highest-ranking musical on the list, at
Number 10; West Side Story follows at Number 41.
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is the highest-ranking silent
film, at Number 44.
The highest-ranking film from the 1990s is Steven Spielberg's
Schindler's List, at Number 9.
List of AFI's Top 50 Films: 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 Boulevard (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 Stopped Worrying and Learned to 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)
Author: Vicki McClure Davidson
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