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Film Research Guide

100 Best Films

Designated by the American Film Institute

The 100 Best Films list was compiled by the American Film Institute to celebrate the first one hundred yers of filmmaking in the United States. Over 1500 experts participated in compiling the list, which was completed in 1998.

This page offers links to VHS recordings, DVDs, and scripts for the 100 Best Films. Simply click on the appropriate box to see if the VHS, DVD, or script you want is available.

VHS recordings and DVDs are housed in Instructional Media on the second floor of Alden Library, which is open for these hours.

Scripts will be found on the 7th floor of Alden Library.


Rank Title Year Video DVD Script
1 Citizen Kane 1941 VHS DVD Script
2 Casablanca 1942 VHS DVD Script
3 The Godfather 1972 VHS DVD Script
4 Gone with the Wind 1939 VHS DVD Script
5 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 VHS DVD Script
6 The Wizard of Oz 1939 VHS DVD Script
7 The Graduate 1967 VHS DVD Script
8 On the Waterfront 1954 VHS DVD Script
9 Schindler's List 1993 VHS   Script
10 Singin' in the Rain 1952 VHS DVD Script
11 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 VHS DVD  
12 Sunset Boulevard 1950 VHS DVD Script
13 Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 VHS DVD Script
14 Some Like it Hot 1959 VHS DVD Script
15 Star Wars 1977 VHS DVD Script
16 All About Eve 1950 VHS DVD Script
17 African Queen 1951 VHS   Book
18 Psycho 1960 VHS DVD Script
19 Chinatown 1974 VHS DVD Script
20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 VHS DVD Script
21 Grapes of Wrath 1940 VHS   Script
22 2001:Space Odyssey 1968 VHS DVD Script
23 Maltese Falcon 1941 VHS DVD Script
24 Raging Bull 1980 VHS DVD Script
25 E.T. the Extra Terrestrial 1982 VHS DVD Script
26 Dr. Strangelove 1964 VHS DVD Book
27 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 VHS DVD Script
28 Apocalypse Now 1979 VHS DVD Script
29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 VHS DVD  
30 Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 VHS DVD Script
31 Annie Hall 1977 VHS DVD Script
32 Godfather Part II 1974 VHS DVD Script
33 High Noon 1952 VHS DVD Script
34 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 VHS DVD Script
35 It Happened One Night 1934 VHS DVD Script
36 Midnight Cowboy 1969 VHS DVD Script
37 Best Years of Our Lives 1946 VHS DVD  
38 Double Indemnity 1944 VHS DVD Script
39 Doctor Zhivago 1965 VHS DVD Script
40 North by Northwest 1959 VHS DVD Script
41 West Side Story 1961 VHS DVD  
42 Rear Window 1954 VHS DVD Script
43 King Kong 1933 VHS   Script
44 Birth of a Nation 1915 VHS DVD Script
45 Streetcar Named Desire 1951 VHS DVD Script
46 Clockwork Orange 1971 VHS DVD Script
47 Taxi Driver 1976 VHS DVD Script
48 Jaws 1975 VHS DVD Script
49 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 VHS   Script
50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 VHS DVD Script
51 Philadelphia Story 1940 VHS DVD Play
52 From Here to Eternity 1953 VHS DVD Script
53 Amadeus 1984 VHS DVD Script
54 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 VHS DVD Script
55 Sound of Music 1965 VHS DVD  
56 M*A*S*H 1970 VHS DVD Script
57 Third Man 1949 VHS DVD Script
58 Fantasia 1940 VHS DVD  
59 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 VHS DVD Script
60 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 VHS   Script
61 Vertigo 1958 VHS DVD Script
62 Tootsie 1982 VHS DVD Script
63 Stagecoach 1939 VHS DVD Script
64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 VHS DVD Script
65 Silence of the Lambs 1991 VHS DVD Script
66 Network 1976 VHS DVD Script
67 Manchurian Candidate 1962 VHS DVD Script
68 American in Paris 1951 VHS DVD  
69 Shane 1953 VHS DVD Script
70 French Connection 1971 VHS DVD Script
71 Forrest Gump 1994 VHS DVD Script
72 Ben-Hur 1959 VHS   Book
73 Wuthering Heights 1939   DVD Book
74 Gold Rush 1925 VHS DVD  
75 Dances with Wolves 1990 VHS DVD Script
76 City Lights 1931 VHS DVD  
77 American Graffiti 1973 VHS DVD Script
78 Rocky 1976 VHS DVD Script
79 Deer Hunter 1978 VHS DVD Script
80 Wild Bunch 1969 VHS DVD Script
81 Modern Times 1936 VHS DVD  
82 Giant 1956 VHS DVD  
83 Platoon 1986 VHS DVD Script
84 Fargo 1996 VHS DVD Script
85 Duck Soup 1933 VHS DVD Script
86 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 VHS    
87 Frankenstein 1931 VHS DVD Script
88 Easy Rider 1969 VHS DVD Script
89 Patton 1970 VHS DVD Script
90 Jazz Singer 1927 VHS   Script
91 My Fair Lady 1964 VHS DVD  
92 Place in the Sun 1951 VHS DVD  
93 Apartment 1960 VHS DVD Script
94 Goodfellas 1990 VHS DVD Script
95 Pulp Fiction 1994 VHS DVD Script
96 Searchers 1956 VHS DVD Script
97 Bringing up Baby 1938 VHS   Script
98 Unforgiven 1992 VHS DVD Script
99 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 VHS DVD Script
100 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 VHS DVD Script
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