Nate Dredge's: The 100 Greatest Films of All Time, Version 1.0

Well I’ve decided to finally attempt a “100 Best List”. This of course will be a continuing project, a work in progress, because I’m bound to change my mind on some of these, forgot films I should have added, and want to add new films. So I ask for your feedback on this so I can further refine the list over time. I’m going to build this list first off of borrowings from other pre-existing lists, such as those prepared by AFI, and build from there. Also I should point out this list is limited to films I’ve seen, and there are some major, important, and assuredly deserving of list statues films that I haven’t. Also remember that this reflects my thinking at this particular time, I’d probably produce a slightly different list if I were to attempt this in a week or so. Also remember this a ’Greatest List’, there are films that I might enjoy more that I will leave off the list because they don’t qualify for what I’d consider ’Great’ statues, also I’m limiting myself to American films. So now on to my original top 100 list, presented in no particular order:

1. The Crowd (1928)
2. City Lights (1931)
3. Duck Soup (1933)
4. A Night at the Opera (1936)
5. Citizen Kane (1941)
6. The Lady Eve (1941)
7. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
8. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
9. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
10. Singing in the Rain (1952)
11. Giant (1956)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. The Apartment (1960)
14. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
15. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
16. DR. STRANGELOVE, or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYINGAND LOVE THE BOMB
17. Patton (1970)
18. The Godfather (1972)
19. The Godfather Part II (1974)
20. Apocalypse Now (1979)
21. Being There (1979)
22. China Town (1974)
23. Nashville (1975)
24. Back to the Future (1985)
25. Millers Crossing (1990)
26. Unforgiving (1992)
27. Fargo (1996)
28. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. On Golden Pond (1981)
31. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
32. Twelve Angry Men (1957)
33. A Place in the Sun (1951)
34. Grand Hotel (1932)
35. The Gold Rush (1925)
36. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
37. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
38. Network (1976)
39. Driving Ms. Daisy (1989)
40. Vertigo (1958)
41. The Elephant Man (1980)
42. Blue Velvet (1986)
43. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
44. All Quite on the Western Front (1930)
45. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
46. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
47. Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
48. Rear Window (1954)
49. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
50. Double Indemnity (1944)
51. It Happened One Night (1934)
52. The Night of the Iguana (1964)
53. High Noon (1952)
54. Annie Hall (1977)
55. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
56. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
57. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
58. Gone With The Wind (1939)
59. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
60. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
61. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
62. Psycho (1960)
63. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
64. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
65. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
66. Forrest Gump (1994)
67. Nixon (1994)
68. The Great Dictator (1940)
69. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
70. The African Queen (1951)
71. Harvey (1950)
72. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
73. North By Northwest (1959)
74. Rocky (1976)
75. Schindlers List (1993)
76. L. A. Confidential (1997)
77. The Great Escape (1963)
78. Touch of Evil (1958)
79. Once Upon A Time in America (1984)
80. Gandhi (1982)
81. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
82. Ed Wood (1994)
83. A Christmas Story (1983)
84. Mystic River (2003)
85. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
86. Sgt. York (1941)
87. His Girl Friday (1940)
88. Sabrina (1954)
89. The Train (1965)
90. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
91. Advise and Consent (1962)
92. The Heiress (1949)
93. Inherit The Wind (1960)
94. Laura (1944)
95. San Francisco (1936)
96. Scent of a Women (1992)
97. The Verdict (1982)
98. Pieces of April (2003)
99. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
100. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)