AFI's 10 Top 10

Animation
AFI defines "animated" as a genre in which the film's images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors.

#	Film	Year
1	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937
2	Pinocchio	1940
3	Bambi	1942
4	The Lion King	1994
5	Fantasia	1940
6	Toy Story	1995
7	Beauty and the Beast	1991
8	Shrek	2001
9	Cinderella	1950
10	Finding Nemo	2003

Fantasy
AFI defines "fantasy" as a genre in which live-action characters inhabit imagined settings and/or experience situations that transcend the rules of the natural world.

#	Film	Year
1	The Wizard of Oz	1939
2	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001
3	It's a Wonderful Life	1946
4	King Kong	1933
5	Miracle on 34th Street	1947
6	Field of Dreams	1989
7	Harvey	1950
8	Groundhog Day	1993
9	The Thief of Bagdad	1924
10	Big	1988

Gangster
AFI defines the "Gangster film" as a genre that centers on organized crime or maverick criminals in a 20th-century setting.

#	Film	Year
1	The Godfather	1972
2	Goodfellas	1990
3	The Godfather Part II	1974
4	White Heat	1949
5	Bonnie and Clyde	1967
6	Scarface	1932
7	Pulp Fiction	1994
8	The Public Enemy	1931
9	Little Caesar	1931
10	Scarface	1983

Science fiction
AFI defines "science fiction" as a genre that marries a scientific or technological premise with imaginative speculation.

#	Film	Year
1	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968
2	Star Wars	1977
3	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982
4	A Clockwork Orange	1971
5	The Day the Earth Stood Still	1951
6	Blade Runner	1982
7	Alien	1979
8	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991
9	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	1956
10	Back to the Future	1985

Western
AFI defines "western" as a genre of films set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier.

#	Film	Year
1	The Searchers	1956
2	High Noon	1952
3	Shane	1953
4	Unforgiven	1992
5	Red River	1948
6	The Wild Bunch	1969
7	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969
8	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	1971
9	Stagecoach	1939
10	Cat Ballou	1965

Sports
AFI defines "sports" as a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition.

#	Film	Year
1	Raging Bull	1980
2	Rocky	1976
3	The Pride of the Yankees	1942
4	Hoosiers	1986
5	Bull Durham	1988
6	The Hustler	1961
7	Caddyshack	1980
8	Breaking Away	1979
9	National Velvet	1944
10	Jerry Maguire	1996

Mystery
AFI defines "mystery" as a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime.

#	Film	Year
1	Vertigo	1958
2	Chinatown	1974
3	Rear Window	1954
4	Laura	1944
5	The Third Man	1949
6	The Maltese Falcon	1941
7	North by Northwest	1959
8	Blue Velvet	1986
9	Dial M for Murder	1954
10	The Usual Suspects	1995

Romantic comedy
AFI defines "romantic comedy" as a genre in which the development of a romance leads to comic situations.

#	Film	Year
1	City Lights	1931
2	Annie Hall	1977
3	It Happened One Night	1934
4	Roman Holiday	1953
5	The Philadelphia Story	1940
6	When Harry Met Sally...	1989
7	Adam's Rib	1949
8	Moonstruck	1987
9	Harold and Maude	1971
10	Sleepless in Seattle	1993

Courtroom drama
AFI defines "courtroom drama" as a genre of film in which a system of justice plays a critical role in the film's narrative.

#	Film	Year
1	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962
2	12 Angry Men	1957
3	Kramer vs. Kramer	1979
4	The Verdict	1982
5	A Few Good Men	1992
6	Witness for the Prosecution	1957
7	Anatomy of a Murder	1959
8	In Cold Blood	1967
9	A Cry in the Dark	1988
10	Judgment at Nuremberg	1961

Epic
AFI defines "epic" as a genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic interpretation of the past.

#	Film	Year
1	Lawrence of Arabia	1962
2	Ben-Hur	1959
3	Schindler's List	1993
4	Gone with the Wind	1939
5	Spartacus	1960
6	Titanic	1997
7	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930
8	Saving Private Ryan	1998
9	Reds	1981
10	The Ten Commandments	1956