The American Film INstitute unveiled their latest take on the 100 greatest movies of all time. Here they are:

1. “Citizen Kane” (1941)
2. "The Godfather” (1972)
3. “Casablanca” (1942)
4. “Raging Bull” (1980)
5. “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952)
6. "Gone with the Wind” (1939)
7. "Lawrence of Arabia” (1962)
8. “Schindler’s List” (1993)
9. “Vertigo” (1958)
10. “The Wizard of Oz” (1939)
11. “City Lights” (1931)
12. “The Searchers” (1956)
13. “Star Wars” (1977)
14. “Psycho” (1960)
15. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)
16. “Sunset Boulevard” (1950)
17. “The Graduate” (1967)
18. “The General” (1927)
19. “On the Waterfront” (1954)
20. “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)
21. “Chinatown” (1974)
22. “Some Like It Hot” (1959)
23. “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940)
24. “E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982)
25. “To Kill A Mockingbird” (1962)
26. “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939)
27. “High Noon” (1952)
28. “All About Eve” (1950)
29. “Double Indemnity” (1944)
30. “Apocalypse Now” (1979)
31. “The Maltese Falcon” (1941)
32. “The Godfather, Part II” (1974)
33. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975)
34. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937)
35. “Annie Hall” (1977)
36. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)
37. “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946)
38. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948)
39. “Dr. Strangelove” (1964)
40. “The Sound of Music” (1965)
41. “King Kong” (1933)
42. “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967)
43. “Midnight Cowboy” (1969)
44. “The Philadelphia Story” (1940)
45. “Shane” (1953)
46. “It Happened One Night” (1934)
47. “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951)
48. “Rear Window” (1954)
49. “Intolerance” (1916)
50. “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001)
51. “West Side Story” (1961)
52. “Taxi Driver” (1976)
53. “The Deer Hunter” (1978)
54. “M*A*S*H” (1970)
55. “North by Northwest” (1959)
56. “Jaws” (1975)
57. “Rocky” (1976)
58. “The Gold Rush” (1925)
59. “Nashville” (1975)
60. “Duck Soup” (1933)
61. “Sullivan’s Travels” (1941)
62. “American Graffiti” (1973)
63. “Cabaret” (1972)
64. “Network” (1976)
65. “The African Queen” (1951)
66. “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981)
67. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966)
68. “Unforgiven” (1992)
69. “Tootsie” (1982)
70. “A Clockwork Orange” (1971)
71. “Saving Private Ryan” (1998)
72. “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994)
73. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969)
74. “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
75. “In the Heat of the Night” (1967)
76. “Forrest Gump” (1994)
77. “All the President’s Men” (1976)
78. “Modern Times” (1936)
79. “The Wild Bunch” (1969)
80. “The Apartment” (1960)
81. “Spartacus” (1960)
82. “Sunrise” (1927)
83. “Titanic” (1997)
84. “Easy Rider” (1969)
85. “A Night at the Opera” (1935)
86. “Platoon” (1986)
87. “12 Angry Men” (1957)
88. “Bringing Up Baby” (1938)
89. “The Sixth Sense” (1999)
90. “Swing Time” (1936)
91. “Sophie’s Choice” (1982)
92. “Goodfellas” (1990)
93. “The French Connection” (1971)
94. “Pulp Fiction” (1994)
95. “The Last Picture Show” (1971)
96. “Do the Right Thing” (1989)
97. “Blade Runner” (1982)
98. “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942)
99. “Toy Story” (1995)
100. “Ben-Hur” (1959)

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Personally, I think Schindler's List is way too high at #8.

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The Searchers is way too high on the list. While I enjoyed the movie, all that wacky slapstick at the wedding killed the tone of the movie for me. The Sinkiller was particularly goofy, IMHO.

Cant say i agree with this list but then who am I.

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I imagine your opinion is just as vaild as the people who put the list together. What's their qualification? They've seen a lot of movies? Well, so have we!

well, if you ask me, and, like, nobody usually does,... cause I just sit here on the drums,... and nobody really notices me,... or cares one way or the other what me thoughts are, or may have been at one time or another,
but if you ask me,.... I'd say the Lord of the Rings should not be on there, cause it's like, not a legitamate piece of cinema or narration
which is to say, I prefer the book, or would if I had read it.... cause I've read the Hobbit Time and time again until it became The Habbit
I used to just sit in a hole in the ground, and read The Hobbit,.. and pretend I was one, whenever things weren't going me way. And I think this Tolkien fellow; he's a fine writer indeed, but they've murdered his thoughts on film. But the cartoons are keen, and I've seen the Hobbit cartoon time and time again, and will see it many more times to come. Put those cartoons up there if you want to fix the list
http://www.geocities.com/estreightof...et/riddle.html

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You're not chained to that drum set, are you? If so, is Paul responsible?

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Paul's irresponsible, and chaining me to the drums is certainly 'is idea of 'ow to treat me.

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Well, this kind of list is always partial, IMO. Even if the best directors and movie experts of the world had done it, it still would be partial.
Movies are particular. You like it, someone else doesn't. Of course, there are movies most people like, but it's almost impossible to say "this is THE best movie".
It's AFI's opinion, may not be the Academy' opinion. May not be your opinion. You shouldn't take it as the complete and unchanging true, but as a point of view. At least that's what I always try to do.

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I'm only familiar with these movies on the list..

“Schindler’s List”
“Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”
“Saving Private Ryan”
“The Silence of the Lambs”
“Platoon”
“The Sixth Sense”
“Toy Story”

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