Las mejores

Esta es la lista de las mejores películas de la historia del cine en Estados Unidos, por géneros, según el American Film Institute (AFI):
DIBUJOS ANIMADOS:
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938).
2. Pinocchio (1940).
3. Bambi (1942).
4. The Lion King (1994).
5. Fantasía (1942).
6. Toy Story (1995).
7. Beauty and the Beast (1991).
8. Shrek (2001).
9. Cinderella (1950).
10. Finding Nemo (2003).
COMEDIA ROMANTICA:
1. City Lights (1931), de Charles Chaplin.
2. Annie Hall (1977), de Woody Allen.
3. It Happened One Night (1934), de Frank Capra.
4. Roman Holiday (1953), de William Wyler.
5. The Philadelphia Story (1941), de George Cukor.
6. When Harry Met Sally (1989), de Rob Reiner.
7. Adam's Rib (1949), de George Cukor.
8. Moonstruck (1987), de Norman Jewison.
9. Harold and Maude (1971), de Hal Ashby.
10. Sleepless in Seattle (1993), de Nora Ephron.
WESTERN:
1. The Searchers (1956), de John Ford.
2. High Noon (1952), de Fred Zinnemann.
3. Shane (1953), de George Stevens.
4. Unforgiven (1992), de Clint Eastwood.
5. Red River (1948), de Howard Hawks.
6. The Wild Bunch (1969), de Sam Peckinpah.
7. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969), de George Roy Hill.
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), de Robert Altman.
9. Stagecoach (1939), de John Ford.
10. Cat Ballou (1965), de Elliot Silverstein.
DEPORTES:
1. Raging Bull (1980), de Martin Scorsese.
2. Rocky (1977), de John G. Avildsen.
3. The Pride of the Yankees (1943), de Sam Wood.
4. Hoosiers (1986), de David Anspaugh.
5. Bull Durham (1988), de Ron Shelton.
6. The Hustler (1961), de Robert Rossen.
7. Caddyshack (1980), de Harold Ramis.
8. Breaking Away (1979), de Peter Yates.
9. National Velvet (1945), de Clarence Brown.
10. Jerry Maguire (1996), de Cameron Crowe.
MISTERIO:
1. Vertigo (1958), de Alfred Hitchcock.
2. Chinatown (1974), de Roman Polanski.
3. Rear Window (1954), de Alfred Hitchcock.
4. Laura (1944), de Otto Preminger.
5. The Third Man (1950), de Carol Reed.
6. The Maltese Falcon (1941), de John Huston.
7. North By Northwest (1959), de Alfred Hitchcock.
8. Blue Velvet (1986), de David Lynch.
9. Dial M for Murder (1954), de Alfred Hitchcock.
10. The Usual Suspects (1995), de Bryan Singer.
FANTASIA:
1. The Wizard of Oz (1939), de Victor Fleming y King Vidor.
2. The Lord of the Wings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), de Peter Jackson.
3. It's a Wonderful Life (1947), de Frank Capra.
4. King Kong (1933), de Merian C. Cooper y Ernest B. Schoedsack.
5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947), de George Seaton.
6. Field of Dreams (1989), de Phil Alden Robinson.
7. Harvey (1950), de Henry Koster.
8. Groundhog Day (1993), de Harold Ramis.
9. The Thief of Bagdad (1924), de Raoul Walsh.
10. Big (1988), de Penny Marshall.
CIENCIA FICCION:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), de Stanley Kubrick.
2. Star Wars: Episode IV (1977), de George Lucas.
3. ET - The Extra Terrestrial (1982), de Steven Spielberg.
4. A Clockwork Orange (1971), de Stanley Kubrick.
5. The Day of the Earth Stood Still (1951), de Robert Wise.
6. Blade Runner (1982), de Ridley Scott.
7. Alien (1979), de Ridley Scott.
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), de James Cameron.
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), de Don Siegel.
10. Back to the Future (1985), de Robert Zemeckis.
GANGSTERS:
1. The Godfather (1972), de Francis Ford Coppola.
2. Goodfellas (1990), de Martin Scorsese.
3. The Godfather Part II (1974), de Francis Ford Coppola.
4. White Heat (1949), de Raoul Walsh.
5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967), de Arthur Penn.
6. Scarface: The Same of a Nation (1932), de Howard Hawks.
7. Pulp Fiction (1994), de Quentin Tarantino.
8. The Public Enemy (1931), de William A. Wellman.
9. Little Caesar (1931), de Mervyn LeRoy.
10. Scarface (1983), de Brian de Palma.
TRIBUNALES:
1. To Kill a Mockinbird (1963), de Robert Mulligan.
2. Angry Men (1957), de Sidney Lumet.
3. Kramer vs Kramer (1979), de Robert Benton.
4. The Veredict (1982), de Sidney Lumet.
5. A Few Good Men (1992), de Rob Reiner.
6. Witness for the Prosecution (1958), de Billy Wilder.
7. Anatomy of a Murder (1959), de Otto Preminger.
8. In Cold Blood (1967), de Richard Brooks.
9. A Cry in the Dark (1988), de Fred Schepisi.
10. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), de Stanley Kramer.
EPICA:
1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), de David Lean.
2. Ben Hur (1959), de William Wyler.
3. Schindler's List (1993), de Steven Spielberg.
4. Gone with the Wind (1939), de Victor Fleming.
5. Spartacus (1960), de Stanley Kubrick.
6. Titanic (1997), de James Cameron.
7. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), de Lewis Milestone.
8. Saving Private Ryan (1998), de Steven Spielberg.
9. Reds (1981), de Warren Beatty.
10. The Ten Commandments (1956), de Cecil B. DeMille.
Fotografía superior: el actor John Wayne, protagonista del filme The Searches (1956), en el papel de Ethan Edwards (Warner Bros/AP).