Given the premise of my own project I could’t help but compare how the new AFI list ranks films alongside the They Shoot Pictures standings.

36 of the AFI 100 greatest American films are also on the TSPDT top 100 films of all time, including five in the top 10.

10 of the AFI 100 don’t place at all on the TSPDT 1000 (the highest ranking one being Streetcar Named Desire at #47)

Looking at the top 10 American films on the TSPDT 1000, Sunrise, The Godfather Part II and City Lights would replace Casablanca, Gone with the Wind and Schindler’s List on the AFI Top 10.

There are 14 American films on the TSPDT 100 that don’t place on the AFI 100: Touch of Evil (22), The Magnificent Ambersons (51), Night of the Hunter (52), Greed (64), Rio Bravo (67), Sherlock, Jr. (69), Blue Velvet (83), Notorious (86), Once Upon a Time in the West (87), His Girl Friday (90), My Darling Clementine (92), Letter from an Unknown Woman (95), Stagecoach (99), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (100).

(incidentally, this means that exactly half of the TSPDT 100 greatest films of all time are American)

Here’s how the AFI 100 fare on the TSPDT 1000:

AFI Rank. “Title” (Year) TSPDT rank

1. “Citizen Kane” (1941) same
2. “The Godfather” (1972) 7
3. “Casablanca” (1942) 25
4. “Raging Bull” (1980) 19
5. “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) 10
6. “Gone With the Wind” (1939) 88
7. “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) 13 – TSPDT lists this as a UK production
8. “Schindler’s List” (1993) 202
9. “Vertigo” (1958) 3
10. “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) 57
11. “City Lights” (1931) 21
12. “The Searchers” (1956) 9
13. “Star Wars” (1977) 104
14. “Psycho” (1960) 29
15. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) 4 – TSPDT lists this as a UK production
16. “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) 28
17. “The Graduate” (1967) 215
18. “The General” (1927) 27
19. “On the Waterfront” (1954) 80
20. “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) 43

21. “Chinatown” (1974) 40
22. “Some Like It Hot” (1959) 32
23. “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940) 134
24. “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) 144
25. “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) 249
26. “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939) 339
27. “High Noon” (1952) 264
28. “All About Eve” (1950) 74
29. “Double Indemnity” (1944) 108
30. “Apocalypse Now” (1979) 44

31. “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) 158
32. “The Godfather, Part II” (1974) 18
33. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) 160
34. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937) 272
35. “Annie Hall” (1977) 129
36. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957) 182 – listed on TSPDT as a UK production
37. “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) 114
38. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) 102
39. “Dr. Strangelove” (1964) 35 – listed on TSPDT as a UK production
40. “The Sound of Music” (1965) 353

41. “King Kong” (1933) 96
42. “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) 136
43. “Midnight Cowboy” (1969) 309
44. “The Philadelphia Story” (1940) 168
45. “Shane” (1953) 252
46. “It Happened One Night” (1934) 197
47. “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) not ranked
48. “Rear Window” (1954) 45
49. “Intolerance” (1916) 46
50. “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001) 905

51. “West Side Story” (1961) 255
52. “Taxi Driver” (1976) 39
53. “The Deer Hunter” (1978) 257
54. “M*A*S*H” (1970) not ranked
55. “North by Northwest” (1959) 63
56. “Jaws” (1975) 131
57. “Rocky” (1976) 551
58. “The Gold Rush” (1925) 37
59. “Nashville” (1975) 61
60. “Duck Soup” (1933) 98

61. “Sullivan’s Travels” (1941) 163
62. “American Graffiti” (1973) 533
63. “Cabaret” (1972) 341
64. “Network” (1976) 270
65. “The African Queen” (1951) 336
66. “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) 247
67. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966) not ranked
68. “Unforgiven” (1992) 230
69. “Tootsie” (1982) not ranked
70. “A Clockwork Orange” (1971) 93- TSPDT lists this as a UK production

71. “Saving Private Ryan” (1998) 852
72. “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) 515
73. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) 556
74. “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) 607
75. “In the Heat of the Night” (1967) 984
76. “Forrest Gump” (1994) 547
77. “All the President’s Men” (1976) 739
78. “Modern Times” (1936) 56
79. “The Wild Bunch” (1969) 55
80. “The Apartment” (1960) 76

81. “Spartacus” (1960) 378
82. “Sunrise” (1927) 11
83. “Titanic” (1997) 973
84. “Easy Rider” (1969) 386
85. “A Night at the Opera” (1935) 223
86. “Platoon” (1986) 758
87. “12 Angry Men” (1957) 688
88. “Bringing Up Baby” (1938) 106
89. “The Sixth Sense” (1999) not ranked
90. “Swing Time” (1936) not ranked

91. “Sophie’s Choice” (1982) not ranked
92. “Goodfellas” (1990) 112
93. “The French Connection” (1971) not ranked
94. “Pulp Fiction” (1994) 147
95. “The Last Picture Show” (1971) 327
96. “Do the Right Thing” (1989) 213
97. “Blade Runner” (1982) 66
98. “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942) not ranked
99. “Toy Story” (1995) not ranked
100. “Ben-Hur” (1959) 343