Missouri State University Subject Guides - Popular Movies at Meyer Library

Finding the movies.

To celebrate one hundred years of American films, the American Film Institute began publising a list of best movies from America. Following is that list, beginning with the top movies. You can find these movies in the MSU Meyer Library media collection by the call numbers listed. You can also click on the title to see if the movie is currently available.

Rank	Linked Title	Year	Local Call#
1	Citizen Kane	1941	DVD109
2	Casablanca	1942	N8413
3	The Godfather	1972	DVD939
4	Gone with the Wind	1939	DVD164
5	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	DVD617
6	The Wizard of Oz	1939	DVD107
7	The Graduate	1967	N7890
8	On the Waterfront	1954	N5434
9	Schindler's List	1993	N8372
10	Singin' in the Rain	1952	DVD1006
11	It's a Wonderful Life	1946	N8042
12	Sunset Boulevard	1950	DVD1057
13	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	N7758
14	Some Like It Hot	1959	DVD821
15	Star Wars	1977	DVD1061
16	All About Eve	1950	DVD657
17	The African Queen	1951	N5443
18	Psycho	1960	DVD34
19	Chinatown	1974	DVD1032
20	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	DVD27
21	The Grapes of Wrath	1940	N9453
22	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	N8715
23	The Maltese Falcon	1941	N8432
24	Raging Bull	1980	DVD28
25	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	DVD756
26	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	DVD758
27	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	DVD165
28	Apocalypse Now	1979	DVD108
29	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	DVD111
30	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	DVD820
31	Annie Hall	1977	DVD747
32	The Godfather Part II	1974	DVD940
33	High Noon	1952	DVD762
34	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	N8335
35	It Happened One Night	1934	DVD763
36	Midnight Cowboy	1969	N8430
37	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	DVD746
38	Double Indemnity	1944	DVD750
39	Doctor Zhivago	1965	N5393
40	North by Northwest	1959	DVD799
41	West Side Story	1961	N566
42	Rear Window	1954	DVD780
43	King Kong	1933	DVD755
44	The Birth of a Nation	1915	N8319
45	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	DVD1059
46	A Clockwork Orange	1971	DVD906
47	Taxi Driver	1976	DVD117
48	Jaws	1975	DVD113
49	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	DVD1134
50	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	DVD810
51	The Philadelphia Story	1940	DVD786
52	From Here to Eternity	1953	DVD662
53	Amadeus	1984	N242
54	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	N8973
55	The Sound of Music	1965	N8472
56	MAS*H	1970	DVD118
57	The Third Man	1949	N7862
58	Fantasia	1940	N8416
59	Rebel Without a Cause	1955	DVD779
60	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	N8610
61	Vertigo	1958	DVD819
62	Tootsie	1982	DVD622
63	Stagecoach	1939	DVD787
64	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	DVD760
65	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	DVD386
66	Network	1976	DVD1056
67	The Manchurian Candidate	1962	DVD823
68	An American in Paris	1951	DVD812
69	Shane	1953	DVD789
70	The French Connection	1971	DVD112
71	Forrest Gump	1994	N6523
72	Ben-Hur	1959	DVD694
73	Wuthering Heights	1939	DVD1137
74	The Gold Rush	1925	N2929
75	Dances with Wolves	1990	DVD1050
76	City Lights	1931	DVD761
77	American Graffiti	1973	DVD105
78	Rocky	1976	DVD664
79	The Deer Hunter	1978	DVD759
80	The Wild Bunch	1969	DVD751
81	Modern Times	1936	N1077
82	Giant	1956	DVD612
83	Platoon	1986	DVD822
84	Fargo	1996	DVD757
85	Duck Soup	1933	DVD1136
86	Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	DVD824
87	Frankenstein	1931	N8311
88	Easy Rider	1969	DVD110
89	Patton	1970	N8460
90	The Jazz Singer	1927	DVD1066
91	My Fair Lady	1964	N5332
92	A Place in the Sun	1951	DVD800
93	The Apartment	1960	DVD611
94	Goodfellas	1990	DVD782
95	Pulp Fiction	1994	N8106
96	The Searchers	1956	DVD788
97	Bringing Up Baby	1938	N8412
98	Unforgiven	1992	DVD781
99	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	1967	N9456
100	Yankee Doodle Dandy	1948	DVD832