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."

In subsequent years, the AFI has also produced other lists of the 50 Greatest American Screen Legends, 100 Funniest Comedies, 100 Most Thrilling Films, 100 Greatest Love Stories, 100 Greatest Heroes & Villains, 100 Greatest Songs in American Movies, 100 Greatest Movie Quotes in American Movies, and 100 Most Inspiring American Movies.

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America's 100 Greatest Movies (By Decade)
The original 400 Greatest American Films (Nominees)

Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 100 Greatest Films.

2. Casablanca (1942)

3. The Godfather (1972)

4. Gone With The Wind (1939)

5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

7. The Graduate (1967)

8. On The Waterfront (1954)

9. Schindler's List (1993)

10. Singin' In The Rain (1952)

11. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

13. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

14. Some Like It Hot (1959)

15. Star Wars (1977)

16. All About Eve (1950)

17. The African Queen (1951)

18. Psycho (1960)

19. Chinatown (1974)

20. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

24. Raging Bull (1980)

25. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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