Nate Dredge's: The 100 Greatest Films of All Time, Version 2.0

A slightly altered list eliminating Gandhi (not really an American movie) and Mystic River, for Mrs. Miniver (technically American) and Gangs of New York. Presented Chronologically:

1925
The Gold Rush

1928
The Crowd

1930
All Quite on the Western Front

1931
City Lights

1932
Grand Hotel

1933
Duck Soup

1934
It Happened One Night

1935
Mutiny on the Bounty

1936
A Night at the Opera
San Francisco

1938
Angles With Dirty Faces
Bringing Up Baby

1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Gone With The Wind

1940
His Girl Friday
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator

1941
Citizen Kane
Sgt. York
Sullivan’s Travels
The Lady Eve
The Maltese Falcon

1942
Mrs. Miniver
Yankee Doodle Dandy

1943
Shadow of a Doubt

1944
Double Indemnity
Laura

1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
It’s a Wonderful Life

1948
The Treasure of the Sera Madra

1949
The Heiress

1950
Harvey
Sunset Blvd.

1951
A Place in the Sun
The African Queen

1952
High Noon
Singing in the Rain

1954
Rear Window
Sabrina

1956
Giant
The Searchers

1957
A Face in the Crowd
Bridge on the River Kwai
Twelve Angry Men
Witness For The Prosecution

1958
Touch of Evil
Vertigo

1959
Anatomy of a Murder
North By Northwest

1960
The Apartment
Inherit The Wind
Psycho

1962
Advise and Consent
Lawrence of Arabia
The Manchurian Candidate
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
To Kill A Mockingbird

1963
The Great Escape

1964
Dr. Stranglove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
The Night of the Iguana

1965
Dr. Zhivago
The Train

1967
In the Heat of the Night

1968
2001: A Space Odyssey

1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970
Patton
Ryan’s Daughter

1972
The Godfather

1974
China Town
The Godfather Part II

1975
Nashville

1976
Network
Rocky

1977
Annie Hall

1979
Apocalypse Now
Being There

1980
The Elephant Man

1981
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982
E.T.- The Extraterrestrial
The Verdict

1983
A Christmas Story

1984
Once Upon A Time in America

1985
Back to the Future

1986
Blue Velvet

1989
Driving Ms. Daisy

1990
Millers Crossing

1992
Scent of a Women
Unforgiven

1993
Schindler’s List

1994
Ed Wood
Forrest Gump
Nixon
The Shawshank Redemption

1996
Fargo

1997
L.A. Confidential

1999
American Beauty

2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2003
Gangs of New York
Pieces of April