American Film Institute: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers | Award Season

The AFI's hundred most inspiring American films.

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• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Dances with Wolves
• Saving Private Ryan
• Seabiscuit
• National Velvet
• Braveheart
• Schindler's List
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Sullivan's Travels
• Philadelphia
• Rain Man
• Gandhi
• Field of Dreams
• The Black Stallion
• The Paper Chase
• Forrest Gump
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Shane
• Harold and Maude
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Thelma & Louise
• Silkwood
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• On Golden Pond
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Norma Rae
• The Killing Fields
• Pinocchio
• The Pride of the Yankees
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Rudy
• In the Heat of the Night
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Cool Hand Luke
• Dead Poets Society
• The Defiant Ones
• The Karate Kid
• Fame
• Glory
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Places in the Heart
• A Beautiful Mind
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Stand and Deliver
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• The Verdict
• Erin Brockovich
• High Noon
• Driving Miss Daisy
• 12 Angry Men
• Hotel Rwanda
• Working Girl
• Madame Curie
• Lilies of the Field
• Spartacus
• Rocky
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Ten Commandments
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Meet John Doe
• Ben-Hur
• All the President's Men
• The Miracle Worker
• Apollo 13
• Dark Victory
• Casablanca
• Babe
• City Lights
• Boys Town
• Searching for Bobby Fischer
• The Sound of Music
• Mrs. Miniver
• Gunga Din
• Breaking Away
• Chariots of Fire
• What's Love Got to Do with It
• The African Queen
• Sergeant York
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Fiddler on the Roof
• The Right Stuff
• On the Waterfront
• Captains Courageous
• The Spirit of St. Louis
• Ray
• Serpico
• Hoosiers
• The Wizard of Oz
• Gone with the Wind
• Sounder
• The Color Purple
• Star Wars