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The American Film Institute (AFI) is a non-profit organization founded in 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was established to preserve the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States and to educate filmmakers.

The AFI was founded by a group of prominent people in the film industry, including George Stevens, Jr., Gregory Peck, John Ford, and Bette Davis. The organization's first director was George Stevens, Jr., and its current CEO is Bob Gazzale.

The AFI has a number of programs and initiatives, including:

The AFI Conservatory: A two-year graduate film school that offers training in directing, cinematography, editing, producing, production design, and screenwriting. The Conservatory has produced some of the most successful filmmakers working today, including David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, and Terrence Malick.
The AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center: A performing arts center in Silver Spring, Maryland, that shows classic and contemporary films and hosts a variety of events, including the AFI Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival. The Silver Theatre is one of the leading venues in the country for showcasing independent and foreign films.
The AFI National Film Preservation Board: A board of film scholars and industry professionals that selects 25 films each year to be added to the National Film Registry. The Registry is a list of films that are deemed to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The AFI Life Achievement Award: An award that is given annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the film industry. Past recipients of the award include Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks.

In addition to the above, the AFI also publishes a variety of educational materials, including books, articles, and online resources. It also hosts a number of public events, such as screenings, lectures, and workshops.

The AFI is a vital resource for filmmakers, film scholars, and film enthusiasts alike. It is a place where people can learn about the history of cinema, see classic and contemporary films, and meet and network with other people who are passionate about film.

Here are some additional details about the AFI's work in preserving and celebrating American cinema:

The AFI has helped to restore and preserve over 10,000 films, including many classics such as Citizen Kane and The Wizard of Oz.
The AFI has created a number of educational programs and resources, including the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, the AFI Digital Collections, and the AFI Archive.
The AFI hosts a variety of public events, including the AFI Film Festival, the AFI Docs Film Festival, and the AFI Awards.
The AFI is a valuable asset to the American film industry and to the public. It is an organization that is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of American cinema.

Top 100 Films

Here is a list of the Top 100 Films:

Film	Release year	Director	Production companies	1998 Rank	2007 Rank
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles	RKO Radio Pictures	1	1
Casablanca	1942	Michael Curtiz	Warner Bros. Pictures	2	3
The Godfather	1972	Francis Ford Coppola	Paramount Pictures, Alfran Productions	3	2
Gone with the Wind	1939	Victor Fleming	Selznick International Pictures	4	6
Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean	Horizon Pictures	5	7
The Wizard of Oz	1939	Victor Fleming	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	6	10
The Graduate	1967	Mike Nichols	Lawrence Turman	7	17
On the Waterfront	1954	Elia Kazan	Horizon-American Pictures	8	19
Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg	Amblin Entertainment	9	8
Singin' in the Rain	1952	Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	10	5
It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Frank Capra	Liberty Pictures	11	20
Sunset Boulevard	1950	Billy Wilder	Paramount Pictures	12	16
The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean	Horizon-American Pictures	13	36
Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder	Ashton Productions, The Mirisch Company	14	22
Star Wars	1977	George Lucas	Lucasfilm	15	13
All About Eve	1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	20th Century-Fox	16	28
The African Queen	1951	John Huston	Horizon Enterprises, Romulus Films	17	65
Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock	Shamley Productions	18	14
Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski	Long Road Productions	19	21
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	Miloš Forman	Fantasy Films	20	33
The Grapes of Wrath	1940	John Ford	20th Century-Fox	21	23
2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Stanley Kubrick	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	22	15
The Maltese Falcon	1941	John Huston	Warner Bros. Pictures	23	31
Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese	Chartoff-Winkler Productions	24	4
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	Steven Spielberg	Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment	25	24
Dr. Strangelove	1964	Stanley Kubrick	Hawk Films, Polaris Productions	26	39
Bonnie and Clyde	1967	Arthur Penn	Tatira-Hiller Productions	27	42
Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola	Omni Zoetrope	28	30
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	Frank Capra	Columbia Pictures	29	26
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	John Huston	Warner Bros. Pictures	30	38
Annie Hall	1977	Woody Allen	United Artists	31	35
The Godfather Part II	1974	Francis Ford Coppola	The Coppola Company	32	32
High Noon	1952	Fred Zinnemann	Stanley Kramer Productions	33	27
To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Robert Mulligan	Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Brentwood Productions	34	25
It Happened One Night	1934	Frank Capra	Columbia Pictures	35	46
Midnight Cowboy	1969	John Schlesinger	Jerome Hellman Productions	36	43
The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	William Wyler	Samuel Goldwyn Productions	37	37
Double Indemnity	1944	Billy Wilder	Paramount Pictures	38	29
Doctor Zhivago	1965	David Lean	Carlo Ponti Productions	39	-
North by Northwest	1959	Alfred Hitchcock	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	40	55
West Side Story	1961	Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins	Beta Productions, The Mirisch Company, Seven Arts Productions, B & P Enterprises	41	51
Rear Window	1954	Alfred Hitchcock	Paramount Pictures, Patron	42	48
King Kong	1933	Merian C. Cooper	RKO Radio Pictures	43	41
The Birth of a Nation	1915	D. W. Griffith	David W. Griffith Corp.	44	-
A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Elia Kazan	Warner Bros. Pictures, Charles K. Feldman Productions	45	47
A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick	Polaris Productions, Hawk Films	46	70
Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese	B & P Enterprises, Italo-Judeo	47	52
Jaws	1975	Steven Spielberg	Universal Pictures, Zanuck/Brown Company	48	56
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	David Hand, et al.	Walt Disney Productions	49	34
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	George Roy Hill	Campanile Productions	50	73
The Philadelphia Story	1940	George Cukor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	51	44
From Here to Eternity	1953	Fred Zinnemann	Columbia Pictures	52	-
Amadeus	1984	Miloš Forman	The Saul Zaentz Company	53	-
All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	Lewis Milestone	Universal Pictures	54	-
The Sound of Music	1965	Robert Wise	Argyle Enterprises, 20th Century-Fox	55	40
MASH	1970	Robert Altman	Aspen Productions	56	54
The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed	London Film Productions	57	-
Fantasia	1940	Walt Disney	Walt Disney Productions	58	-
Rebel Without a Cause	1955	Nicholas Ray	Warner Bros. Pictures	59	-
Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	Steven Spielberg	Lucasfilm	60	66
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock	Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Paramount Pictures	61	9
Tootsie	1982	Sydney Pollack	Mirage Enterprises, Punch Productions, Columbia Pictures, Delphi Productions	62	69
Stagecoach	1939	John Ford	Walter Wanger Productions	63	-
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg	Columbia Pictures, EMI	64	-
The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme	Strong Heart Productions	65	74
Network	1976	Sidney Lumet	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists	66	64
The Manchurian Candidate	1962	John Frankenheimer	M. C. Productions	67	-
An American in Paris	1951	Vincente Minnelli	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	68	-
Shane	1953	George Stevens	Paramount Pictures	69	45
The French Connection	1971	William Friedkin	D'Antoni Productions	70	93
Forrest Gump	1994	Robert Zemeckis	The Tisch Company	71	76
Ben-Hur	1959	William Wyler	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	72	100
Wuthering Heights	1939	William Wyler	Samuel Goldwyn Productions	73	-
The Gold Rush	1925	Charlie Chaplin	Charles Chaplin Productions	74	58
Dances with Wolves	1990	Kevin Costner	TIG Productions, Majestic Films International	75	-
City Lights	1931	Charlie Chaplin	Charles Chaplin Productions	76	11
American Graffiti	1973	George Lucas	Coppola Co., Lucasfilm	77	62
Rocky	1976	John G. Avildsen	Chartoff-Winkler Productions	78	57
The Deer Hunter	1978	Michael Cimino	EMI	79	53
The Wild Bunch	1969	Sam Peckinpah	Phil Feldman Productions, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts	80	79
Modern Times	1936	Charlie Chaplin	Charles Chaplin Film Corp.	81	78
Giant	1956	George Stevens	Warner Bros. Pictures	82	-
Platoon	1986	Oliver Stone	Hemdale Film Corporation	83	86
Fargo	1996	Joel Coen	Working Title Films	84	-
Duck Soup	1933	Leo McCarey	Paramount Productions	85	60
Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	Frank Lloyd	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	86	-
Frankenstein	1931	James Whale	Universal Pictures	87	-
Easy Rider	1969	Dennis Hopper	The Pando Company, Raybert Productions	88	84
Patton	1970	Franklin J. Schaffner	20th Century-Fox	89	-
The Jazz Singer	1927	Alan Crosland	Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corp.	90	-
My Fair Lady	1964	George Cukor	Warner Bros. Pictures	91	-
A Place in the Sun	1951	George Stevens	Paramount Pictures	92	-
The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder	The Mirisch Company	93	80
Goodfellas	1990	Martin Scorsese	Warner Bros. Pictures, Irwin Winkler Productions	94	92
Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino	A Band Apart, Jersey Films	95	94
The Searchers	1956	John Ford	C. V. Whitney Pictures	96	12
Bringing Up Baby	1938	Howard Hawks	RKO Radio Pictures	97	88
Unforgiven	1992	Clint Eastwood	The Malpaso Company	98	68
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	1967	Stanley Kramer	Columbia Pictures	99	-
Yankee Doodle Dandy	1942	Michael Curtiz	Warner Bros. Pictures	100	98
The General	1926	Buster Keaton	Buster Keaton Productions, Joseph M. Schenck Productions	-	18
Intolerance	1916	D. W. Griffith	Reliance-Majestic Studios	-	49
The Fellowship of the Ring	2001	Peter Jackson	New Line Cinema, WingNut Films	-	50
Nashville	1975	Robert Altman	ABC Motion Pictures	-	59
Sullivan's Travels	1941	Preston Sturges	Paramount Pictures	-	61
Cabaret	1972	Bob Fosse	ABC Pictures, Allied Artists	-	63
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	Mike Nichols	Warner Bros.	-	67
Saving Private Ryan	1998	Steven Spielberg	Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures	-	71
The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont	Castle Rock Entertainment	-	72
In the Heat of the Night	1967	Norman Jewison	The Mirisch Corporation	-	75
All the President's Men	1976	Alan J. Pakula	Wildwood Enterprises	-	77
Spartacus	1960	Stanley Kubrick	Bryna Productions	-	81
Sunrise	1927	F.W. Murnau	Fox Film Corporation	-	82
Titanic	1997	James Cameron	Lightstorm Entertainment, Paramount Pictures	-	83
A Night at the Opera	1935	Sam Wood	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	-	85
12 Angry Men	1957	Sidney Lumet	Orion-Nova Productions	-	87
The Sixth Sense	1999	M. Night Shyamalan	Hollywood Pictures	-	89
Swing Time	1936	George Stevens	RKO Radio Pictures	-	90
Sophie's Choice	1982	Alan J. Pakula	ITC Entertainment	-	91
The Last Picture Show	1971	Peter Bogdanovich	BBS Productions	-	95
Do the Right Thing	1989	Spike Lee	40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks	-	96
Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott	The Ladd Company, Shaw Brothers	-	97
Toy Story	1995	John Lasseter	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios	-	99

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