
The American Film Institute released the second version of their 100 Years...100 Movies list on June 18, 2007 almost nine years after the original list. It presents 100 of the greatest American movies, as selected by 1,500 scholars and filmmakers. This version also includes some movies released after 1997, with many of the original entries either rearranged or even replaced—very few films that reappeared on the list retained their previous spot.
Twenty-three films from the original top 100 films list were removed in 2007: Doctor Zhivago, The Birth of a Nation (1915), From Here to Eternity, Amadeus, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Third Man, Fantasia, Rebel Without a Cause, Stagecoach, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Manchurian Candidate, An American in Paris, Wuthering Heights, Dances with Wolves, Giant, Fargo, Mutiny on the Bounty, Frankenstein, Patton, The Jazz Singer, My Fair Lady, A Place in the Sun, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Four films released between 19962006 were added: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Saving Private Ryan, Titanic (1997), and The Sixth Sense
Nineteen films made before 1996 were also added: The General, Intolerance, Nashville, Sullivan's Travels, Cabaret, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Shawshank Redemption, In the Heat of the Night, All the President's Men, Spartacus, Sunrise, A Night at the Opera, 12 Angry Men, Swing Time, Sophie's Choice, The Last Picture Show, Do the Right Thing, Blade Runner, and Toy Story
The complete list can be found here, the list of the 400 nominees here
, and a comparison to the original list here
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The list
- Citizen Kane
- The Godfather
- Casablanca
- Raging Bull
- Singin' in the Rain
- Gone with the Wind
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Schindler's List
- Vertigo
- The Wizard of Oz
- City Lights
- The Searchers
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- Psycho
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Sunset Boulevard
- The Graduate
- The General
- On the Waterfront
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Chinatown
- Some Like It Hot
- The Grapes of Wrath
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- High Noon
- All About Eve
- Double Indemnity
- Apocalypse Now
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- The Godfather Part II
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Annie Hall
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Dr. Strangelove
- The Sound of Music
- King Kong (1933)
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Midnight Cowboy
- The Philadelphia Story
- Shane
- It Happened One Night
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Rear Window
- Intolerance
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- West Side Story
- Taxi Driver
- The Deer Hunter
- M*A*S*H
- North By Northwest
- Jaws
- Rocky
- The Gold Rush
- Nashville
- Duck Soup
- Sullivan's Travels
- American Graffiti
- Cabaret
- Network
- The African Queen
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Unforgiven
- Tootsie
- A Clockwork Orange
- Saving Private Ryan
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- The Silence of the Lambs
- In the Heat of the Night
- Forrest Gump
- All the President's Men
- Modern Times
- The Wild Bunch
- The Apartment
- Spartacus
- Sunrise
- Titanic (1997)
- Easy Rider
- A Night at the Opera
- Platoon
- 12 Angry Men
- Bringing Up Baby
- The Sixth Sense
- Swing Time
- Sophie's Choice
- Goodfellas
- The French Connection
- Pulp Fiction
- The Last Picture Show
- Do the Right Thing
- Blade Runner
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Toy Story
- Ben-Hur