Notable holdings

The AFI Top 100 in the archive

The American Film Institute's 100 Years…100 Movies lists of 1998 and 2007 name 123 films between them. The archive holds 121.

121/123Present

1,255Poster images

2Not held

2007	1998	Film	Director	Posters
1	1	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	12
2	3	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola	11
3	2	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	35
4	24	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	5
5	10	Singin' in the Rain	Gene Kelly	14
6	4	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming	59
7	5	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	15
8	9	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	1
9	61	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock	14
10	6	The Wizard of Oz	Victor Fleming	40
11	76	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin	9
12	96	The Searchers	John Ford	19
13	15	Star Wars	George Lucas	44
14	18	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	13
15	22	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	21
16	12	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	12
17	7	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	10
18	—	The General	Buster Keaton	5
19	8	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	9
20	11	It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	17
21	19	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	9
22	14	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder	16
23	21	The Grapes of Wrath	John Ford	16
24	25	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	8
25	34	To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	6
26	29	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Frank Capra	6
27	33	High Noon	Fred Zinnemann	11
28	16	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	7
29	38	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	11
30	28	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	12
31	23	The Maltese Falcon	John Huston	10
32	32	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola	7
33	20	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman	9
34	49	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	David Hand, et al.	52
35	31	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	5
36	13	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	10
37	37	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	5
38	30	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	7
39	26	Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick	4
—	39	Doctor Zhivago	David Lean	15
40	55	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	7
41	43	King Kong	Merian C. Cooper	45
42	27	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	9
43	36	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	8
—	44	The Birth of a Nation	D. W. Griffith	8
44	51	The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor	5
45	69	Shane	George Stevens	7
46	35	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	9
47	45	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	9
48	42	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock	10
49	—	Intolerance	D. W. Griffith	2
50	—	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson	5
51	41	West Side Story	Robert Wise	8
52	47	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	8
—	52	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	13
—	53	Amadeus	Miloš Forman	6
53	79	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	12
—	54	All Quiet on the Western Front	Lewis Milestone	10
54	56	MAS*H	Robert Altman	not held
55	40	North by Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	10
56	48	Jaws	Steven Spielberg	6
—	57	The Third Man	Carol Reed	13
57	78	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	4
—	58	Fantasia	Walt Disney	34
58	74	The Gold Rush	Charlie Chaplin	8
—	59	Rebel Without a Cause	Nicholas Ray	17
59	—	Nashville	Robert Altman	8
60	85	Duck Soup	Leo McCarey	11
61	—	Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges	4
62	77	American Graffiti	George Lucas	4
—	63	Stagecoach	John Ford	16
63	—	Cabaret	Bob Fosse	9
—	64	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	5
64	66	Network	Sidney Lumet	5
65	17	The African Queen	John Huston	11
66	60	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	13
—	67	The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer	6
67	—	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Mike Nichols	7
—	68	An American in Paris	Vincente Minnelli	5
68	98	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	2
69	62	Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	4
70	46	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	6
71	—	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	2
72	—	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont	1
73	50	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill	8
—	73	Wuthering Heights	William Wyler	9
74	65	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	9
—	75	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	4
75	—	In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	3
76	71	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	2
77	—	All the President's Men	Alan J. Pakula	2
78	81	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin	13
79	80	The Wild Bunch	Sam Peckinpah	7
80	93	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	7
81	—	Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick	9
—	82	Giant	George Stevens	15
82	—	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	F. W. Murnau	not held
83	—	Titanic	James Cameron	5
—	84	Fargo	Coen brothers	1
84	88	Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	6
85	—	A Night at the Opera	Sam Wood	8
86	83	Platoon	Oliver Stone	4
—	86	Mutiny on the Bounty	Frank Lloyd	6
—	87	Frankenstein	James Whale	34
87	—	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	3
88	97	Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	2
—	89	Patton	Franklin J. Schaffner	8
89	—	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan	2
—	90	The Jazz Singer	Alan Crosland	10
90	—	Swing Time	George Stevens	5
—	91	My Fair Lady	George Cukor	13
91	—	Sophie's Choice	Alan J. Pakula	1
—	92	A Place in the Sun	George Stevens	7
92	94	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese	3
93	70	The French Connection	William Friedkin	4
94	95	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	20
95	—	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	5
96	—	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee	1
97	—	Blade Runner	Ridley Scott	5
98	100	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Michael Curtiz	7
—	99	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Stanley Kramer	5
99	—	Toy Story	John Lasseter	3
100	72	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	16