AFI's 10 Top 10 represents a big list of all Top 10 Best American Movies in 10 Movie Genres according to the American Film Institute.
This list was made public in 2008 and is the 13th part of AFI's 100 Years.
| ANIMATION |
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| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) |
| 2 |
Pinocchio (1940) |
| 3 |
Bambi (1942) |
| 4 |
The Lion King (1994) |
| 5 |
Fantasia (1940) |
| 6 |
Toy Story (1995) |
| 7 |
Beauty
and the Beast (1991) |
| 8 |
Shrek (2001) |
| 9 |
Cinderella (1950) |
| 10 |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
| COURTROOM DRAMA |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
To Kill
a Mockingbird (1962) |
| 2 |
12 Angry Men (1957) |
| 3 |
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) |
| 4 |
The Verdict (1982) |
| 5 |
A Few Good Men (1992) |
| 6 |
Witness
for the Prosecution (1957) |
| 7 |
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
| 8 |
In Cold Blood (1967) |
| 9 |
A Cry in the Dark (1988) |
| 10 |
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) |
| EPIC |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
Lawrence of
Arabia (1962) |
| 2 |
Ben-Hur (1959) |
| 3 |
Schindler's List (1993) |
| 4 |
Gone with
the Wind (1939) |
| 5 |
Spartacus (1960) |
| 6 |
Titanic (1997) |
| 7 |
All
Quiet on the Western Front (1930) |
| 8 |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
| 9 |
Reds (1981) |
| 10 |
The
Ten Commandments (1956) |
| FANTASY |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
The Wizard
of Oz (1939) |
| 2 |
The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
| 3 |
It's a Wonderful
Life (1946) |
| 4 |
King Kong (1933) |
| 5 |
Miracle on 34th
Street (1947) |
| 6 |
Field of Dreams (1989) |
| 7 |
Harvey (1950) |
| 8 |
Groundhog Day (1993) |
| 9 |
The
Thief of Bagdad (1924) |
| 10 |
Big (1988) |
| GANGSTER |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
The Godfather (1972) |
| 2 |
Goodfellas (1990) |
| 3 |
The Godfather
Part II (1974) |
| 4 |
White Heat (1949) |
| 5 |
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
| 6 |
Scarface: The Shame
of the Nation (1932) |
| 7 |
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
| 8 |
The Public Enemy (1931) |
| 9 |
Little Caesar (1931) |
| 10 |
Scarface (1983) |
| MYSTERY |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
Vertigo (1958) |
| 2 |
Chinatown (1974) |
| 3 |
Rear Window (1954) |
| 4 |
Laura (1944) |
| 5 |
The Third Man (1949) |
| 6 |
The Maltese
Falcon (1941) |
| 7 |
North by Northwest (1959) |
| 8 |
Blue Velvet (1986) |
| 9 |
Dial M for Murder (1954) |
| 10 |
The Usual Suspects (1995) |
| ROMANTIC COMEDY |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
City Lights (1931) |
| 2 |
Annie Hall (1977) |
| 3 |
It Happened One
Night (1934) |
| 4 |
Roman Holiday (1953) |
| 5 |
The Philadelphia
Story (1940) |
| 6 |
When Harry Met
Sally... (1989) |
| 7 |
Adam's Rib (1949) |
| 8 |
Moonstruck (1987) |
| 9 |
Harold and Maude (1971) |
| 10 |
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) |
| SCIENCE FICTION |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
2001: A
Space Odyssey (1968) |
| 2 |
Star
Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) |
| 3 |
E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
| 4 |
A Clockwork
Orange (1971) |
| 5 |
The
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
| 6 |
Blade Runner (1982) |
| 7 |
Alien (1979) |
| 8 |
Terminator
2: Judgment Day (1991) |
| 9 |
Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
| 10 |
Back to the Future (1985) |
| SPORTS |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
Raging Bull (1980) |
| 2 |
Rocky (1976) |
| 3 |
The Pride of
the Yankees (1942) |
| 4 |
Hoosiers (1986) |
| 5 |
Bull Durham (1988) |
| 6 |
The Hustler (1961) |
| 7 |
Caddyshack (1980) |
| 8 |
Breaking Away (1979) |
| 9 |
National Velvet (1944) |
| 10 |
Jerry Maguire (1996) |
| WESTERN |
|---|
| Position |
Movie Title (Release Year) |
| 1 |
The Searchers (1956) |
| 2 |
High Noon (1952) |
| 3 |
Shane (1953) |
| 4 |
Unforgiven (1992) |
| 5 |
Red River (1948) |
| 6 |
The Wild Bunch (1969) |
| 7 |
Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
| 8 |
McCabe and Mrs.
Miller (1971) |
| 9 |
Stagecoach (1939) |
| 10 |
Cat Ballou (1965) |
Note: For the previous list of AFI 100 Movies released in 1998, See AFI 1998
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