The Best 'AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers' Movies

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Star Wars

1977    George Lucas    Rated PG

Action    Adventure    Cyborg / Android / Robot

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The Shawshank Redemption

1994    Frank Darabont    Rated R

Buddy Film    Drama    Escape Film

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Casablanca

1942    Michael Curtiz    Rated PG

Drama    Romance    Romantic Drama

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975    Milos Forman    Rated R

Comedy Drama    Drama    Medical Drama

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City Lights

1931    Charles Chaplin    Rated G

Comedy Drama    Drama    Melodrama

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12 Angry Men

1957    Sidney Lumet    Not Rated

Based-on-Theatre    Courtroom Drama    Drama

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Schindler's List

1993    Steven Spielberg    Rated R

Based-on-a-True-Story    Biopic    Drama

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Forrest Gump

1994    Robert Zemeckis    Rated PG13

Americana    Comedy Drama    Drama

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Saving Private Ryan

1998    Steven Spielberg    Rated R

Combat Films    Ensemble Film    Epic

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Cool Hand Luke

1967    Stuart Rosenberg    Not Rated

Drama    Prison Film

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On the Waterfront

1954    Elia Kazan    Not Rated

Crime    Crime Drama    Drama

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Rocky

1976    John G. Avildsen    Rated PG

Drama    Sports Drama

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The Wizard of Oz

1939    Victor Fleming    Not Rated

Adventure    Based-on-Theatre    Family

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It's a Wonderful Life

1946    Frank Capra    Not Rated

Americana    Comedy Drama    Drama

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939    Frank Capra    Not Rated

Americana    Comedy Drama    Drama

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To Kill a Mockingbird

1962    Robert Mulligan    Not Rated

Childhood Drama    Courtroom Drama    Crime

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Lawrence of Arabia

1962    David Lean    Rated G

Adventure    Adventure Drama    Drama

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All the President's Men

1976    Alan J. Pakula    Rated PG

Based-on-a-True-Story    Docudrama    Drama

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

1982    Steven Spielberg    Rated PG

Adventure    Drama    Family

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