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AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movies

The American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Movies" list was judged by 1,500 individuals within the film industry.

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AFI Top 100 (As of April 2023)

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CITIZEN KANE

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.
2. Casablanca (1942)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CASABLANCA

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
3. The Godfather (1972)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GODFATHER

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GONE WITH THE

The manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LAWRENCE OF

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WIZARD OF OZ

Young Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
7. The Graduate (1967)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GRADUATE

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ON THE WATER

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
9. Schindler's List (1993)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SCHINDLER'S LIST

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SINGIN' IN THE

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IT'S A WONDER.

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
12. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SUNSET BLVD

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BRIDGE ON THE

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
14. Some Like It Hot
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SOME LIKE IT

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
15. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV STAR WARS

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
16. All About Eve (1950)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ALL ABOUT EVE

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
17. The African Queen (1951)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV AFRICAN QUEEN

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
18. Psycho (1960)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PSYCHO

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
19. Chinatown (1974)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CHINATOWN

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ONE FLEW OVER

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GRAPES OF WR.

An Oklahoma family driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV 2001: A SPACE

The Monoliths push humanity to reach for the stars; after their discovery in Africa generations ago, the mysterious objects lead mankind on an awesome journey to Jupiter, with the help of H.A.L. 9000: the world's greatest supercomputer.
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MALTESE FALCON

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
24. Raging Bull (1980)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV RAGING BULL

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV E.T.

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
26. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DR. STRANGELO.

An insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BONNIE AND CL.

Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV APOCALYPSE NOW

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MR. SMITH GOES

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TREASURE OF

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
31. Annie Hall (1977)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ANNIE HALL

Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
32. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GODFATHER / PART II

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
33. High Noon (1952)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV HIGH NOON

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train.
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TO KILL A MOCK.

Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IT HAPPENED ONE

A renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MIDNIGHT COW.

A naïve hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BEST YEARS OF

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DOUBLE INDEMN.

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
40. North by Northwest (1959)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV NORTH BY

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
41. West Side Story (1961)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WEST SIDE STORY

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
42. Rear Window (1954)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV REAR WINDOW

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.
43. King Kong (1933)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV KING KONG

A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV STREETCAR

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CLOCKWORK

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TAXI DRIVER

A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption.
48. Jaws (1975)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV JAWS

When a killer shark unleashes chaos on beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SNOW WHITE

Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BUTCH CASSIDY

Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PHILADELPHIA S.

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FROM HERE TO

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
53. Amadeus (1984)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV AMADEUS

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ALL QUIET ON

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SOUND OF MUSIC

A young novitiate is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
56. MASH (1970)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MASH

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
57. The Third Man (1949)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV THIRD MAN

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
58. Fantasia (1940)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FANTASIA

A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music, ranging from the abstract to depictions of mythology and fantasy, and settings including the prehistoric, supernatural and sacred.
59. Nashville (1975)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV NASHVILLE

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV REBEL WITHOUT

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
60. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV INDIANA JONES / RAIDERS OF

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
61. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SULLIVAN'S TR.

Hollywood director John L Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
61. Vertigo (1958)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV VERTIGO

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
62. Tootsie (1982)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TOOTSIE

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
63. Cabaret (1972)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CABARET

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
63. Stagecoach (1939)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV STAGECOACH

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CLOSE ENCOUNT.

Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SILENCE OF THE

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
66. Network (1976)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV NETWORK

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MANCHURIAN

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WHO'S AFRAID

A bitter middle-aged couple, her derisive of his lowly position at a New England college, ask a new colleague and his wife over for drinks, and use them to fuel anguish and emotional pain toward each other through a distressing night.
68. An American in Paris (1951)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV AMERICAN IN

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
69. Shane (1953)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SHANE

A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.
70. The French Connection (1971)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FRENCH CONN.

A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FORREST GUMP

The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SAVING PRIVATE

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SHAWSHANK

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
73. Ben-Hur (1959)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BEN-HUR

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GOLD RUSH

A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
75. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IN THE HEAT OF

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
76. City Lights (1931)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV CITY LIGHTS

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
77. All the President's Men (1976)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ALL THE PRES.

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
77. American Graffiti (1973)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV AMERICAN GRAF.

A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.
78. Rocky (1976)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV ROCKY

A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DEER HUNTER

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WILD BUNCH

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
81. Modern Times (1936)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MODERN TIMES

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
81. Spartacus (1960)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SPARTACUS

The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
82. Sunrise (1927)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SUNRISE

A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme.
83. Platoon (1986)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PLATOON

Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
83. Titanic (1997)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TITANIC

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV NIGHT AT THE

A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
85. Duck Soup (1933)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DUCK SOUP

In this political satire, Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the dictator of mythical Freedonia, while Harpo and Chico are commissioned as spies by his political rival.
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV 12 ANGRY MEN

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
88. Easy Rider (1969)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV EASY RIDER

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SIXTH SENSE

A frightened, withdrawn Philadelphia boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
90. Swing Time (1936)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SWING TIME

Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiancée's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.
91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SOPHIE'S CHOICE

Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
93. The Apartment (1960)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV APARTMENT

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
94. Goodfellas (1990)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GOODFELLAS

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.
95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PULP FICTION

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LAST PICTURE

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DO THE RIGHT

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
96. The Searchers (1956)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SEARCHERS

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
97. Blade Runner (1982)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BLADE RUNNER

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
97. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV BRINGING UP

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
98. Unforgiven (1992)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WHO'S AFRAID

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
99. Toy Story (1995)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV TOY STORY

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV YANKEE DOODLE

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
The General (1927)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GENERAL

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
Intolerance (1916)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV INTOLERANCE

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LORD OF THE R. / FELLOWSHIP

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

Films from the 1997 List

These titles were listed on the original list, but were not on the 10th anniversary list.

73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WUTHERING

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DANCES WITH

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Native Americans, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
82. Giant (1956)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GIANT

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
84. Fargo (1996)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FARGO

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MUTINY ON THE

First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
87. Frankenstein (1931)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FRANKENSTEIN

Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts.
89. Patton (1970)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PATTON

The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV JAZZ SINGER

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV MY FAIR LADY

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society.
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV PLACE IN THE

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
99. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV GUESS WHO'S

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.