The following is a complete list of AFI's 100 greatest American movies as announced by the American Film Institute (AFI) on June 16, 1998. These 100 top films were selected by a blue-ribbon panel of leaders from across the American film community and were all produced during the first 100 years of American filmmaking.

1. Citizen Kane, (1941) Orson Welles
   
2. Casablanca, (1942) Michael Curtiz
   
3. The Godfather, (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
   
4. Gone With the Wind, (1939) Victor Fleming
   
5. Lawrence of Arabia, (1962) David Lean
   
6. The Wizard of Oz, (1939) Victor Fleming
   
7. The Graduate, (1967) Mike Nichols
   
8. On the Waterfront, (1954) Elia Kazan
   
9. Schindler's List, (1993) Steven Spielberg
   
10. Singin' In the Rain, (1952) Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
    
11. It's a Wonderful Life, (1946) Frank Capra
    
12. Sunset Boulevard, 1950) Billy Wilder
    
13. The Bridge On the River Kwai, (1957) David Lean
    
14. Some Like It Hot, (1959) Billy Wilder
    
15. Star Wars, (1977) George Lucas
    
16. All About Eve, (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    
17. The African Queen, (1951) John Huston
    
18. Psycho, (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
    
19. Chinatown, (1974) Roman Polanski
    
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, (1975) Milos Forman
    
21. The Grapes of Wrath, (1940) John Ford
    
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey, (1968) Stanley Kubrick
    
23. The Maltese Falcon, (1941) John Huston
    
24. Raging Bull, (1980) Martin Scorsese
    
25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, (1982) Steven Spielberg
    
26. Dr. Strangelove, (1964) Stanley Kubrick
    
27. Bonnie & Clyde, (1967) Arthur Penn
    
28. Apocalypse Now, (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
    
29. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, (1939) Frank Capra
    
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, (1948) John Huston
    
31. Annie Hall, (1977) Woody Allen
    
32. The Godfather, Part II, (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
    
33. High Noon, (1952) Fred Zinnemann
    
34. To Kill a Mockingbird, (1962) Robert Mulligan
    
35. It Happened One Night, (1934) Frank Capra
    
36. Midnight Cowboy, (1969) John Schlesinger
    
37. The Best Years of Our Lives, (1946) William Wyler
    
38. Double Indemnity, (1944) Billy Wilder
    
39. Doctor Zhivago, (1965) David Lean
    
40. North By Northwest, (1959) Alfred Hitccock
    
41. West Side Story, (1961) Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
    
42. Rear Window, (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
    
43. King Kong, (1933) Merian C. Cooper
    
44. The Birth of a Nation, (1915) D. W. Griffith
    
45. A Streetcar Named Desire, (1951) Elia Kazan
    
46. A Clockwork Orange, (1971) Stanley Kubrick
    
47. Taxi Driver, (1976) Martin Scorsese
    
48. Jaws, (1975) Steven Spielberg
    
49. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, (1937) David Hand, et al.
    
50. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, (1969) George Roy Hill
    
51. The Philadelphia Story, (1940) George Cukor
    
52. From Here To Eternity, (1953) Fred Zinnemann
    
53. Amadeus, (1984) Milos Forman
    
54. All Quiet On the Western Front, (1930) Lewis Milestone
    
55. The Sound of Music, (1965) Robert Wise
    
56. M*A*S*H, (1970) Robert Altman
    
57. The Third Man, (1949) Carol Reed
    
58. Fantasia, (1940) Joe Grant, Dick Huemer
    
59. Rebel Without a Cause, (1955) Nicholas Ray
    
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark, (1981) Steven Spielberg
    
61. Vertigo, (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
    
62. Tootsie, (1982) Sydney Pollack
    
63. Stagecoach, (1939) John Ford
    
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, (1977) Steven Spielberg
    
65. The Silence of the Lambs, (1991) Jonathan Demme
    
66. Network, (1976) Sidney Lumet
    
67. The Manchurian Candidate, (1962) John Frankenheimer
    
68. An American In Paris, (1951) Vincente Minnelli
    
69. Shane, (1953) George Stevens
    
70. The French Connection, (1971) William Friedkin
    
71. Forrest Gump, (1994) Robert Zemeckis
    
72. Ben-Hur, (1959) William Wyler
    
73. Wuthering Heights, (1939) William Wyler
    
74. The Gold Rush, (1925) Charlie Chaplin
    
75. Dances With Wolves, (1990) Kevin Costner
    
76. City Lights, (1931) Charlie Chaplin
    
77. American Graffiti, (1973) George Lucas
    
78. Rocky, (1976) John Avildsen
    
79. The Deer Hunter, (1978) Michael Cimino
    
80. The Wild Bunch, (1969) Sam Peckinpah
    
81. Modern Times, (1936) Charlie Chaplin
    
82. Giant, (1956) George Stevens
    
83. Platoon, (1986) Oliver Stone
    
84. Fargo, (1996) Joel Cohen
    
85. Duck Soup, (1933) Leo McCarey
    
86. Mutiny On the Bounty, (1935) Frank Lloyd
    
87. Frankenstein, (1931) James Whale
    
88. Easy Rider, (1969) Dennis Hopper
    
89. Patton, (1970) Franklin Schaffner
    
90. The Jazz Singer, (1927) Alan Crosland
    
91. My Fair Lady, (1964) George Cukor
    
92. A Place In the Sun, (1951) George Stevens
    
93. The Apartment, (1960) Billy Wilder
    
94. Goodfellas, (1990) Martin Scorsese
    
95. Pulp Fiction, (1994) Quentin Tarantino
    
96. The Searchers, (1956) John Ford
    
97. Bringing Up Baby, (1938) Howard Hawks
    
98. Unforgiven, (1992) Clint Eastwood
    
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, (1967) Stanley Kramer
    
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy, (1942) Michael Curtiz