Mallard Watches the AFI Top 100

 Pictured above are photos from the 50 films I've watched so far from the American Film Institute Top 100 Movies list. Instead of watching the films based on the AFI's rankings, however, I've viewed them chronologically, taking me so far from 1916's Intolerance to 1964's Dr. Strangelove.

1.     Intolerance                                                        1916

2.     The Gold Rush                                                  1925                 

3.     The General                                                       1927

4.     Sunrise                                                               1927

5.     City Lights                                                         1931

6.     King Kong                                                         1933

7.     Duck Soup                                                         1933

8.     It Happened One Night                                      1934

9.     A Night at the Opera                                          1935

10.  Modern Times                                                    1936

11.  Swing Time                                                        1936

12.  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs                   1937

13.  Bringing Up Baby                                              1938

14.  The Wizard of Oz                                               1939

15.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington                          1939

16.  Gone With the Wind                                           1939

17.  The Grapes of Wrath                                          1940

18.  The Philadelphia Story                                       1940                 

19.  Citizen Kane                                                       1941

20.  The Maltese Falcon                                            1941                 

21.  Sullivan’s Travels                                               1941

22.  Yankee Doodle Dandy                                        1942

23.  Casablanca                                                          1942

24.  Double Indemnity                                               1944

25.  The Best Years of Our Lives                               1946

26.  It’s a Wonderful Life                                           1946

27.  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre                       1948

28.  Sunset Blvd.                                                        1950

29.  All About Eve                                                     1950

30.  A Streetcar Named Desire                                  1951

31.  The African Queen                                             1951

32.  Singin’ in the Rain                                              1952                 

33.  High Noon                                                          1952

34.  Shane                                                                  1953

35.  On the Waterfront                                               1954

36.  Rear Window                                                      1954

37.  The Searchers                                                      1956

38.  12 Angry Men                                                    1957                 

39.  The Bridge on the River Kwai                           1957

40.  Vertigo                                                                1958

41.  Some Like it Hot                                                1959

42.  North By Northwest                                           1959

43.  Ben-Hur                                                              1959                 

44.  The Apartment                                                    1960

45.  Psycho                                                                 1960

46.  Spartacus                                                             1960

47.  West Side Story                                                   1961

48.  Lawrence of Arabia                                             1962

49.  To Kill a Mockingbird                                         1962

50.  Dr. Strangelove                                                    1964