American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Films of All Time

Below are my reviews for all the films mentioned in the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Films of All Time.

  1. It’s a Wonderful Life
  2. To Kill A Mockingbird
  3. Schindler’s List
  4. Rocky
  5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  6. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
  7. The Grapes of Wrath
  8. Breaking Away*
  9. Miracle on 34th Street*
  10. Saving Private Ryan
  11. The Best Years of Our Lives
  12. Apollo 13*
  13. Hoosiers*
  14. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  15. The Miracle Worker*
  16. Norma Rae*
  17. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
  18. The Diary of Anne Frank*
  19. The Right Stuff*
  20. Philadelphia
  21. In the Heat of the Night
  22. The Pride of the Yankees*
  23. The Shawshank Redemption
  24. National Velvet*
  25. Sullivan’s Travels
  26. The Wizard of Oz
  27. High Noon
  28. Field of Dreams
  29. Gandhi
  30. Lawrence of Arabia
  31. Glory
  32. Casablanca
  33. City Lights
  34. All The President’s Men
  35. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner*
  36. On the Waterfront
  37. Forrest Gump
  38. Pinocchio
  39. Star Wars
  40. Mrs. Miniver
  41. The Sound of Music
  42. 12 Angry Men
  43. Gone With the Wind
  44. Spartacus
  45. On the Golden Pond*
  46. Lilies on the Field*
  47. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  48. The African Queen
  49. Meet John Doe
  50. Seabiscuit*
  51. The Color Purple*
  52. Dead Poet’s Society
  53. Shane
  54. Rudy*
  55. The Defiant Ones*
  56. Ben-Hur
  57. Sergeant York*
  58. Close Encounter of the Third Kind
  59. Dances with Wolves
  60. The Killing Fields*
  61. Sounder*
  62. Braveheart*
  63. Rain Man
  64. The Black Stallion*
  65. A Raisin in the Sun*
  66. Silkwood*
  67. The Day the Earth Stood Still*
  68. An Officer and a Gentlemen*
  69. The Spirit of St. Louis*
  70. Coal Miner’s Daughter*
  71. Cool Hand Luke*
  72. Dark Victory*
  73. Erin Brockovich
  74. Gunga Din*
  75. The Verdict
  76. Birdman of Alcatraz*
  77. Driving Miss Daisy
  78. Thelma and Louise
  79. The Ten Commandments*
  80. Babe
  81. Boys Town*
  82. Fiddler on the Roof*
  83. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  84. Serpico
  85. What’s Love Got to Do With It*
  86. Stand and Deliver*
  87. Working Girl*
  88. Yankee Doodle Dandy
  89. Harold and Maude*
  90. Hotel Rwanda*
  91. The Paper Chase*
  92. Fame*
  93. A Beautiful Mind
  94. Captains Courageous*
  95. Places in the Heart*
  96. Searching for Bobby Fishcer*
  97. Madame Curie*
  98. The Karate Kid
  99. Ray*
  100. Chariots of Fire



*Films I have not seen yet