America's Best Movies by the AFI (Top 100), Part 1 [1.-25.

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The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California, in mid-June 1998 commemorated the extraordinary first 100 years of American movies by making a "definitive selection of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, as determined by more than 1,500 leaders from the American film community." The 400 Nominated Films were feature-length fictional movies produced between 1912 and 1996 "with the goal of amassing a capsule of the first 100 years of American cinema, across decades and across genres."

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• 1. Citizen Kane (1941) Director: Orson Welles; Stars: Orson Welles; Joseph Cotten Acclaimed for its innovative narrative structure, deep focus photography and sound track, Welles' first feature tells the story of a William Randol
• 2. Casablanca (1942) Director: Michael Curtiz; Stars: Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Claude Rains Bogart, as jaded idealist Rick Blaine, an American nightclub owner in French Morocco who sacrifices the love of a lifetime to join
• 3. The Godfather (1972) Director: Francis Ford Coppola; Stars: Marlon Brando; Al Pacino; James Caan; Robert Duvall Brando is Don Vito Corleone, the sympathetic Godfather of a New York crime family, whose business it is to make off
• 4. Gone With The Wind (1939) Director: Victor Fleming; Stars: Clark Gable; Vivien Leigh; Hattie McDaniel Margaret Mitchell's "Immortal tale of the old South" has Leigh as Scarlett and Gable as Rhett. The burning of Atlan
• 5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Director: David Lean; Stars: Peter O'Toole; Alec Guinness; Anthony Quinn The epic story of T. E. Lawrence, a British officer who leads an Arab revolt against Turkey during World War I. The film became
• 6. The Wizard of Oz (1939) Director: Victor Fleming; Stars: Judy Garland; Ray Bolger; Margaret Hamilton Garland's Dorothy Gale is transported from her black-and-white Kansas home to the colorful land of Oz via tornado. From here s
• 7. The Graduate (1967) Director: Mike Nichols; Stars: Dustin Hoffman; Anne Bancroft; Katharine Ross Hoffman, a recent college graduate, spends his summer trying to find out what to do next in this biting comedy. The Simon and Garf
• 8. On The Waterfront (1954) Director: Elia Kazan; Stars: Marlon Brando; Karl Malden; Lee J. Cobb; Eva Marie Saint Brando, a longshoreman who "could have been a contender" rebels against his brother and corruption on New
• 9. Schindler's List (1993) Director: Steven Spielberg; Stars: Liam Neeson; Ralph Fiennes; Ben Kingsley Neeson is an opportunistic German industrialist who saves hundreds of Jews from the death camps during World War II by giving t
• 10. Singin' In The Rain (1952) Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen; Stars: Gene Kelly; Debbie Reynolds; Donald O'Connor This musical set in Hollywood during the conversion from silent to sound films has Kelly singing, dancing and
• 11. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Director: Frank Capra; Stars: James Stewart; Donna Reed; Lionel Barrymore This Christmas classic features a complex performance by Stewart as a suicidal man redeemed by friendship and the recogniti
• 12. Sunset Boulevard (1950) Director: Billy Wilder; Stars: Gloria Swanson; William Holden Swanson is ready for her close-up in this pungent slice of Hollywood life depicting a reclusive, former silent screen actress who kills
• 13. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) Director: David Lean; Stars: William Holden; Alec Guinness Guinness is the rigid British officer who refuses to bow to torture in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Holden is an Ame
• 14. Some Like It Hot (1959) Director: Billy Wilder; Stars: Jack Lemmon; Tony Curtis; Marilyn Monroe Wilder's comic take on the 1928 St. Valentine's Day massacre provided sex symbol Monroe with two of her most unusual rivals, Curti
• 15. Star Wars (1977) Director: George Lucas; Stars: Mark Hamill; Harrison Ford; Carrie Fisher; Alec Guinness A landmark science fiction fantasy about a young man, Luke Skywalker, who finds his calling as a Jedi warrior and with th
• 16. All About Eve (1950) Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Stars: Bette Davis; Anne Baxter; George Sanders Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy ride in this story of an aging actress who is undone by a young, ambitious fan. Sophi
• 17. The African Queen (1951) Director: John Huston; Stars: Humphrey Bogart; Katharine Hepburn Spinster Hepburn and drunkard boat captain Bogart battle each other and an uncharted river in this unlikely love story set in Afric
• 18. Psycho (1960) Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Stars: Anthony Perkins; Janet Leigh; Vera Miles; John Gavin Leigh is on the lam with stolen money and makes the mistake of checking into the Bates Motel, run by Perkins...and his mothe
• 19. Chinatown (1974) Director: Roman Polanski; Stars: Jack Nicholson; Faye Dunaway; John Huston Nicholson is Jake Gittes, a private detective in 1930s Los Angeles who is lured into the world of water rights and land deals while in
• 20. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Director: Milos Forman; Stars: Jack Nicholson; Louise Fletcher; Brad Dourif Nicholson is a troublemaker committed to a mental institution who sparks new life in the downtrodden inmates, g
• 21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Director: John Ford; Stars: Henry Fonda; Jane Darwell; John Carradine This moving Depression-era social drama based on John Steinbeck's novel, follows the hopeful migration of worke rs from the Oklah
• 22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Director: Stanley Kubrick; Stars: Keir Dullea; William Sylvester; Gary Lockwood Kubrick's science fiction epic puts mankind in context between ape and space voyager. The film created a stir for its
• 23. The Maltese Falcon (1941) Director: John Huston; Stars: Humphrey Bogart; Mary Astor; Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet Huston's directorial debut found detective Bogart trying to solve his partner's murder intertwined with recov
• 24. Raging Bull (1980) Director: Martin Scorsese; Stars: Robert De Niro; Cathy Moriarty; Joe Pesci De Niro is Jake LaMotta, the middleweight boxing champion whose opponents in the ring are no match for the demons he fights in his
• 25. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Director: Steven Spielberg; Stars: Dee Wallace; Henry Thomas; Drew Barrymore Eliot is a young boy from a broken home who discovers an extraterrestrial creature that has been stranded on eart