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The American Film Institute's Top 100 Films

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In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) released a list of America's Greatest 100 Movies [.pdf file].

82 of AFI's 100 are included in the National Film Registry list - while 18 titles are not included on the NFR list.

Fletcher Library's extensive media collection includes nearly all of the commercially available titles. The format (videodisc, videotape or DVD) of each available title is indicated by an image. Jump to the Alphabetical Listing of Titles: With Fletcher Library Holdings Noted, or consult the Key to Formats information.

Note: Items in "VDISC" format require the use of a videodisc player (which are available for loan [to qualified users] at the Circulation Desk). For further information, please see the Borrowing Small Media Equipment web-page.

Alphabetical Listing of Titles: With Fletcher Library Holdings Noted

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17. The African Queen (1951): PN1997 .A31164x 1992 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Set in German East Africa in 1914, this film centers on a journey down an uncharted river by a prim missionary and a derelict captain of a river boat as they battle nature, fall in love and attempt to destroy a German gunboat. (catalog record)

16. All About Eve (1950): PN1997 .A3229x 1980 VIDEO v.1-2 West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The rise to fame of a ruthless and ambitious young actress. (catalog record)

54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): PT2635 .E68 I613 1994 West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war. (catalog record)

53. Amadeus (1984): PN1997 .A34223 1984 DVD West Media; Adapted from Peter Shaffer's play, the film presents the life of Antonio Salieri, an 18th century Viennese composer obsessed with and jealous of the musical genius of the age, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (catalog record)

77. American Graffiti (1973): PN1997.A342832 1998 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; One summer night in the life of a group of high school friends in 1962 just before they go off to college, jobs, or the army. (catalog record)

68. An American in Paris (1951): PN1997 .A343 1986 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A musical based on George Gershwin's popular songs about an ex-American G.I. artist in Paris after the war who becomes involved in a love triangle, between his sponser, best friend and a lovely young woman. (catalog record)

31. Annie Hall (1977): PN1995.9.C55 A563 1998 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. (catalog record)

93. The Apartment (1960): PN1995.9 .C55 A63x 1989 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his supervisor, but falls in love with the supervisor's girlfriend. (catalog record)

28. Apocalypse Now (1979): PN1997 .A66x 1997 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A United States Army officer, trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War. (catalog record)

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72. Ben-Hur (1959): PN1997 .B3763 1983 VIDEO v.1-2; PN1997 .B37632 1988 VIDEO v.1-2 Hayden Lower Level (Tempe); This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The story of a Jewish prince, set in the time of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Christianity. Starrring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet and Stephen Boyd. (catalog record)

37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946): PN1997 .B43x 1985 VIDEO v.1-2 West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Three returning WWII veterans face problems as they attempt to pick up the threads of their previous lives. (catalog record)

44. The Birth of a Nation (1915): PN1997 .B563 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; This epic story of the Civil War as seen through the lives of two families is a controversial classic of film history. (catalog record)

27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967): PN1997 .B67972 1997 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. (catalog record)

13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): PN1997 .B7393 2000 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it. (catalog record)

97. Bringing Up Baby (1938): PN1995.9 .C55 B75x 1989 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist, and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention. (catalog record)

50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): PN1997 .B883x 1984 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Two legendary outlaws keep one step ahead of the law until they are finally tracked down to Bolivia. (catalog record)

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2. Casablanca (1942): PN1997 .C3525x 1998 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis. (catalog record)

19. Chinatown (1974): PN1997 .C46445 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Private eye living in pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. This leads to double dealings and deceits and the uncovering of a web of personal and political scandals. (catalog record)

1. Citizen Kane (1941): PN1997 .C51175 1996 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Orson Welles' film portrait of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane. (catalog record)

Citizen Kane (1941): PN1997 .C5123 2001 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

76. City Lights (1931): PN1995.9 .C55 C58x 1992 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight. (catalog record)

City Lights (1931): PN1995.9.C55 C533 2003 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

46. A Clockwork Orange (1971): PN1997 .C64638 2001 DVD West Media; Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, murderous adolescents and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime. (catalog record)

64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): PN1997 .C6555x 1998 VIDEO West Media; Humans make contact with aliens after witnessing the arrival of flying saucers from another world. In this Special Edition of the 1977 movie, director Spielberg has replaced certain scenes with previously unreleased footage and expanded the dimensions of special effects with a breathtaking new ending that leads viewers inside the dazzling Mothership. (catalog record)

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75. Dances with Wolves (1990): PN1997 .D2635 1999 VIDEO West Media; Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an abandoned fort, with a Sioux tribe as his only neighbor. They overcome the language barrier and mutual fear and distrust to become friends. His knowledge of their ultimate fate forces him to make a crucial decision. (catalog record)

79. The Deer Hunter (1978): PN1997 .D436x 1991 VDISC West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Drama of the friendship of a group of steelworkers from Pennsylvania who have their relationship and their courage tested when three of them go to war in Vietnam. (catalog record)

39. Doctor Zhivago (1965): PN1997 .D6384 2001 DVD West Media; A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget. (catalog record)

38. Double Indemnity (1944): PN1997 .D683x 1987 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death-- then push him from a train. It's an almost perfect crime. (catalog record)

26. Dr. Strangelove (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1964): PN1995.9 .C55 D678x 1983 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. (catalog record)

85. Duck Soup (1933): PN1995.9 .C55 D73x 1980 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A pointed political satire using most of the Marx Brothers famous routines. (catalog record)

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25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982): PN1997 .E226x 1988 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A story of a lost alien who befriends a 10-year-old boy named Elliott. (catalog record)

88. Easy Rider (1969): PN1997 .E293 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America. (catalog record)

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84. Fargo (1996): PN1997 .F35254 2003 DVD West Media; A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong. (catalog record)

71. Forrest Gump (1994): PN1997 .F5859x 1995 VDISC West Media; Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disablility to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love. (catalog record)

Forrest Gump (1994): PN1997 .F8593 1996 VIDEO West Media; (catalog record)

87. Frankenstein (1931): PN1997 .F683x 1991 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; An adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel about the scientist who creates a terrifying monster. (catalog record)

70. The French Connection (1971): PN1997 .F7432 2001 DVD West Media; Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France. (catalog record)

52. From Here to Eternity (1953): PN1997 .F7653 2001 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A drama about life in the regular Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (catalog record)

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82. Giant (1956): PN1997 .G45x 1999 VDISC West Media; Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons. (catalog record)

3. The Godfather (1972): PN1997 .G5683x 1997 VDISC West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A portrait of the Corleone family's rise to power. Shows family life and the crime business in which they are engaged. (catalog record)

The Godfather (1972): PN1997 .G568342 2001 DVD v.1 West Media; Included in "The Godfather DVD Collection." (catalog record)

32. The Godfather, Part II (1974): PN1997 .G56832x 1997 VDISC West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The continuation of the saga of a Mafia family in America with its far-reaching effects on politics, law enforcement and other seemingly legitimate organizations. (catalog record)

The Godfather, Part II (1974): PN1997 .G568342 2001 DVD v.2 West Media; Included in "The Godfather DVD Collection." (catalog record)

74. The Gold Rush (1925): PN1995.9.C55 G663 2003 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Chaplin's "Little tramp" searches for gold and romance in the Klondike in the mid-1800's. (catalog record)

4. Gone With the Wind (1939): PN1997 .G5883 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Set during the American Civil War, this story focuses on the lives and loves of Southerners during this period and the hardships they endured. (catalog record)

94. Goodfellas (1990): PN1997 .G5962 1997 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Based on the true story of low-level ganster, Henry Hill, this motion picture looks at the allure and the reality of the violent life of a mobster spanning the time of 1955-80. (catalog record)

7. The Graduate (1967): PN1997 .G783 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A college graduate spends his first summer out of school being seduced by the wife of his father's best friend. (catalog record)

21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940): PN1997 .G682x 1982 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. (catalog record)

99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967): PN1997 .G78x 1986 VIDEO West Media; An interracial marriage causes both sets of parents to examine each other's level of intolerance. (catalog record)

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33. High Noon (1952): PN1997 .H48x 1987 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A civic-minded marshal, on the verge of retirement, faces a revengeful killer in a gun duel after the indifferent townspeople refuse to assist him. (catalog record)

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35. It Happened One Night (1934): PN1995.9.C55 I843 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A rich young woman marries an idle playboy against her father's will. Her father holds her captive on his yacht but she escapes and, while on her way to New York, becomes entangled with an unemployed news reporter. (catalog record)

11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946): PN1997 .F67x 1980 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; George Bailey is prevented from committing suicide by a guardian angel, who takes him back through his life to show him what good he has done. (catalog record)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946): PN1997 .I7582 2001 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

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48. Jaws (1975): PN1997 .J34 2000 VIDEO v.1-2 West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it. (catalog record)

90. The Jazz Singer (1927): PN1997 .J3532x 1990 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer despite his father's objection and religious tradition. In motion picture history, this was the first feature film to utilize synchronous sound. (catalog record)

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43. King Kong (1933): PN1997 .K428x 1987 VDISC West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; In this modern version of the Beauty and the Beast legend, a captured ape, fifty feet tall, is brought to New York City. Fleeing from captivity, he climbs to the top of the Empire State Building where he fights off attacking Navy biplanes and falls to his death. (catalog record)

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5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962): PN1997 .L3833 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence, the man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity. (catalog record)

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56. M*A*S*H* (1970): PN1995.9.C55 M3799 2001 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Highlights the outrageous antics of three skilled young surgeonsdrafted from civilian life and assigned to a unit of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. (catalog record)

23. The Maltese Falcon (1941): PN1997 .M25673 2000 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. (catalog record)

67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962): PN1997 .M25913 1998 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career. (catalog record)

36. Midnight Cowboy (1969): PN1997 .M437x 1983 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man. (catalog record)

81. Modern Times (1936): PN1995.9 .C55 M55x 1989 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; This movie is a devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers and shows Charlie Chaplin as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. (catalog record)

29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): PN1997 .M8112 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Washington's youngest senator exposes corruption in high places, almost at the cost of his career. (catalog record)

86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935): PN1997 .M872x 1984 VIDEO West Media; A detailed account about the conflicts between the brutal Captain Bligh and his first mate, Fletcher Christain, which led to the mutiny aboard H.M.S. Bounty in the South Pacific in 1789. (catalog record)

91. My Fair Lady (1964): PN1997 .M894x 1990 VIDEO v.1-2; A Cockney waif is transformed by Professor Henry Higgins into an elegant lady. (catalog record)

My Fair Lady (1964): PN1997 .M8942 1998 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

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66. Network (1976): PN1997 .N38889 2000 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings." (catalog record)

40. North by Northwest (1959): PN1997 .N576x 1996 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Roger O. Thornhill is a victim of mistaken identity and is forced to embark on a run for his life by train, plane and automobile. (catalog record)

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8. On the Waterfront (1954): PN1997 .O4344 2001 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss. (catalog record)

20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975): PN1997 .O4523 1997 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Documents the symbolic struggle of the iconoclastic patient-prisoner Randle Patrick McMurphy who has deliberately feigned his insanity to be transferred from prison to a state mental facility. While there, he unites the patients as he rebels against the oppressive Nurse Ratched and the system that now surrounds him. (catalog record)

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89. Patton (1970): PN1997 .P3682 2001 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department. (catalog record)

51. The Philadelphia Story (1940): PN1995.9.C55 P456 2000 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage. (catalog record)

92. A Place in the Sun (1951): PN1997 .P5258x 1996 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A poor young man is determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a socialite but a factory girl holds a secret that threatens his professional and romantic prospects. (catalog record)

83. Platoon (1986): PN1997 .P5266x 1995 VDISC West Media; A young soldier in Vietnam discovers that his enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but fear, physical exhaustion, and anger within himself and others. Sergeants Barnes and Elias - one hard and callous, the other tough yet compassionate - draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and each other, dangerously dividing the loyalties of the platoon. (catalog record)

18. Psycho (1960): PN1997 .P7924 1999 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man. (catalog record)

Psycho (1960): PN1997 .P7925 1999 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

95. Pulp Fiction (1994): PN1997 .P864 2002 DVD West Media; Tells four separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers. (catalog record)

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24. Raging Bull (1980): PN1997 .R2186x 1991 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Depicts the life of Jake LaMotta, the controversial prize fighter of the 1940's. Shows his life from the beginning and as he fights his way up the ranks and earns the reputation as the "Raging Bull," a fighter who can't be stopped. (catalog record)

60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): PN1997 .R45 1999 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Indiana Jones is a bullwhip-cracking archeologist assigned by the U.S. Government to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Convenant before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use. Includes an interview with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Harrison Ford following the feature film. (catalog record)

42. Rear Window (1954): PN1997 .R256 2001 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. (catalog record)

59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955): PN1997 .R2584 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums. (catalog record)

78. Rocky (1976): PN1997 .R575393 1996 VIDEO West Media; Rocky Balboa, a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and the world heavyweight boxing crown. (catalog record)

Rocky (1976): PN1997 .R575394 2001 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

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9. Schindler's List (1993): PN1997.S3138x 1997 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The true story of the Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. (catalog record)

96. The Searchers (1956): PN1997 .S3195x 1988 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A Confederate war veteran tracks down the Indians who killed his brother and sister-in-law and carried off their daughter. (catalog record)

69. Shane (1953): PN1997 .S5314 2000 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun. (catalog record)

65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991): PN1997 .S4135x 1999 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Clarice Starling, a young female FBI agent, is sent to interview notorious serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter in hopes of obtaining information that will help the bureau catch another killer. (catalog record)

10. Singin' in the Rain (1952): PN1997 .S523 2000 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Actors are caught in the bumpy transition to talking pictures; a spoof of the early days of "talkie" films. (catalog record)

49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): PN1997.5 .S56x 1994 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The first full-length animated feature ever made, displays the fairy tale story of how Snow White finds romance with the Prince, thwarted by her vain and wicked stepmother and aided by the seven Dwarfs--Dopey, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful, Happy and Doc. (catalog record)

14. Some Like it Hot (1959): PN1997 .S6328 1997 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A comedy in which two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians. (catalog record)

55. The Sound of Music (1965): PN1997 .S6389792 2002 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain. Her charm wins over the rebellious children and the unbending captain. (catalog record)

63. Stagecoach (1939): PN1997 .S6595x 1988 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Nine travelers in a stagecoach are hunted by Indians. A milestone in the history of the western, which raised John Wayne from "B" movies to stardom. (catalog record)

15. Star Wars (1977): PN1997 .S6826 2000 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; "Episode IV: A New Hope." Set 30 years after the first episode in the desert planet of Tatooine. Young Luke Skywalker begins to discover his destiny when, searching for a lost droid, he is saved by Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi. As civil war rages in the galaxy, and Rebel forces struggle against the evil Galactic Empire, Luke and Obi-Wan enlist the aid of hotshot pilot Han Solo. Joined by two droids, they set out to rescue Rebel leader Princess Leia and make use of the stolen plans to destroy the Empire's ultimate weapon as they mount an attack against the Death Star for a climactic battle with the evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. (catalog record)

45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951): PN1997 .S7762x 1995 VDISC West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A repressed widow visits her sister in New Orleans after the family estate dwindles to nothing. She is raped and eventually driven mad by her brutal brother-in-law. (catalog record)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951): PN1997 .S77622 1997 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

12. Sunset Boulevard (1950): PN1997 .S86x 1990 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A harsh look at Hollywood in which an aging silent-movie queen makes a tragic attempt to return to stardom. (catalog record)

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47. Taxi Driver (1976): PN1997 .T38x 1985 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption. (catalog record)

57. The Third Man (1949): PN1997 .G6942x 1982 VIDEO West Media; An American "dime novelist" is invited to Vienna to visit a college friend, only to find that he was hit and killed by a car. Was it an accident or murder? (catalog record)

34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962): PN1997 .T59362 1998 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children. (catalog record)

62. Tootsie (1982): PN1995.9 .C55 T6147x 1983 VDISC West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Lee, falls for "Dorothy." (catalog record)

Tootsie (1982): PN1995.9.C55 T6148 2001 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948): PN1997 .T673x 1997 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Three prospectors succomb to greed in their search for gold. (catalog record)

22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): PN1997 .T863x 1999 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future. (catalog record)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): PN1997 .T8632 2001 DVD West Media; (catalog record)

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98. Unforgiven (1992): PN1997.U464x 1996 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. (catalog record)

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61. Vertigo (1958): PN1997 .V472 1999 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot involving a woman who is apparently being driven to suicide by one of her ancestors. (catalog record)

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41. West Side Story (1961): PN1997 .W4563 2003 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. (catalog record)

80. The Wild Bunch (1969): PN1997 .W535x 1986 VIDEO West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West. (catalog record)

6. The Wizard of Oz (1939): PN1997 .W5934 1999 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; Musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who visits the magical land of Oz. (catalog record)

73. Wuthering Heights (1939): PN1997 .W88 2000 VIDEO West Media; A love story set in the Yorkshire moors in the early 19th century. (catalog record)

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100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942): PN1997 .Y333 2003 DVD West Media; This title has been selected for the National Film Registry list.; A musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer. (catalog record)

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