The American Film Institute (AFI), a national, non-profit institute located in Hollywood, California, provides leadership, education, and recognition of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media. The group is perhaps most recognizable on Oscar Night as they present their annual Life Achievement Award, the highest honor given for a career in film and television.

Convening a superb panel of film community leaders, they have selected the 100 greatest American movies of all time. See if your favorite is in the top ten, if not, build out your rental list.

Here is the complete list of the Best 100:

1. CITIZEN KANE (1941) – Orson Welles, 25, wrote, starred in, directed, and produced this classic, still Number One of everyone’s list.

2. CASABLANCA (1942) – The ending is still sad after all these years!

3. THE GODFATHER (1972) – “I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse," the line that helps make this epic mobster movie unforgettable.

4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) – Awarded Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh as Scarlett), Best Screenplay, Best Color Cinematography, Best Interior Decoration, Best Film Editing, and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel as Mamie the maid and the first time for an African American to be so honored).

5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) – Thomas Edward Lawrence, known to his family as Ned, was born in Wales in 1888. Serving with the British Military Intelligence in the Middle East, he used what he had learned to promote Arab causes. While the British Government had been well aware of his achievement, at the end of the war he was almost unknown to the general public. The true story, uncovered in 1919 when an American journalist, Lowell Thomas, arrived in London, the romantic account of the Bible-land victories was a huge success in a country which was numbed by the horrors of European trench warfare. Lawrence quickly became a popular hero and the movie became a classic.

6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) – Shirley Temple was offered the part but could not get out of her contract with Fox Film Corporation and so it went to a little known actress and singer, 17-year-old Judy Garland.

7. THE GRADUATE (1967) – A coming of age for all of us in the 60s!

8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

9. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)

10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) – No Oscars yet considered one of the best singing and dancing movies ever made!

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) – A fantastic first look at the Jedi knights, unlikely heroes and princess warriors of the future. Still fighting for what’s right!

16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)

17. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) Filmed in the Belgium Congo and Uganda, Bogart is superb as he portrays a scruffy, unshaven, hard-drinking captain of an old, temperamental, tramp steamer while Hepburn is cast as a prissy but proper World War I African missionary spinster caught in the backwaters of German occupation in Africa. Who would have guessed at the love that begrudgingly finds its way into their hearts?

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) – “Hello, Dave.”

23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) – John Huston directs an outstanding cast of characters in the greatest detective movie of all time. See the subtle twists and turns as Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade turns in one of his best performances ever, supported wonderfully by Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Ward Bond, and Mary Astor.

24. RAGING BULL (1980)

25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
The next 75 are just as entertaining as the first 25. And they make a great “Evening at the Classics” for your next party!

26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)

27. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)

28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)

29. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)

30. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)

31. ANNIE HALL (1977)

32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)

33. HIGH NOON (1952)

34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)

35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)

37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)

38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)

40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

42. REAR WINDOW (1954)

43. KING KONG (1933)

44. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)

45. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)

46. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)

47. TAXI DRIVER (1976)

48. JAWS (1975)

49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)

50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)

51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

53. AMADEUS (1984)

54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)

55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

56. M*A*S*H (1970)

57. THE THIRD MAN (1949)

58. FANTASIA (1940)

59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)

60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)

61. VERTIGO (1958)

62. TOOTSIE (1982)

63. STAGECOACH (1939)

64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

66. NETWORK (1976)

67. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)

68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)

69. SHANE (1953)

70. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)

71. FORREST GUMP (1994)

72. BEN-HUR (1959)

73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)

74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)

75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)

76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)

77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)

78. ROCKY (1976)

79. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)

80. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)

81. MODERN TIMES (1936)

82. GIANT (1956) – Rock Hudson, James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor made this Texas oil drama sizzle!

83. PLATOON (1986)

84. FARGO (1996)

85. DUCK SOUP (1933)

86. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)

87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

88. EASY RIDER (1969)

89. PATTON (1970)

90. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)

91. MY FAIR LADY (1964)

92. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)

93. THE APARTMENT (1960)

94. GOODFELLAS (1990)

95. PULP FICTION (1994)

96. THE SEARCHERS (1956)

97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)

98. UNFORGIVEN (1992)

99. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)

100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)