AFI's 100 Most Inspiring Films of All Time

American Film Institute ^ | 2006 | no attribution

[Leaning Right]

AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers is a list of the 100 most inspiring films of all time.

These 100 movies inspire us, encourage us to make a difference and send us from the theatre with a greater sense of possibility and hope for the future. A jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians selected the classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, starring James Stewart, as the most inspiring movie of all time.

[Leaning Right]

Here's a little something non-political for a Sunday. The list is over 10 years old now, but it's still interesting. (In today's uber-PC climate, I shudder to think what movies critics would now call "inspiring".)

Here's the AFI top ten:

1. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1946
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1962
3. SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
4. ROCKY 1976
5. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 1939
6. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982
7. THE GRAPES OF WRATH 1940
8. BREAKING AWAY 1979
9. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET 1947
10. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998

[Leaning Right]

I forgot to check the Excerpt box (or maybe the Russians deleted it). Here’s the link to the article:

http://www.afi.com/100Years/cheers.aspx

[golux]

Where's My Lai Four?

[bramps]

I’m impressed that they had Breaking Away that high. I love that movie.

[Vermont Lt]

No Hunger Games?

What’s more inspiring than a bunch of teenagers running around the woods trying to kill each other?

[bramps]

Not impressed that Remember The Titans is not on the list.

[Artemis Webb]

"Here's a little something non-political...>

Bless you.

[dynachrome]

No “Sharknado”?

[heterosupremacist]

Re: 6. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982 ~

Why did illegal aliens dislike ET?

He learned English, and all he ever wanted was to go home...

[morphing libertarian]

what did ET inspire us todo?

[Artemis Webb]

I’m glad Rocky is on the list. It’s easy to make fun of the endless sequels, but Rocky is still a GREAT movie.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Home phone.

[Artemis Webb]

Eat Reese’s Pieces.

[morphing libertarian]

I don’t have home phone. Inspired by a dozen other movies to unplug.

[morphing libertarian]

I was inspired y Tom Jones to eat chicken with busty women.

[Artemis Webb]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tezjznL9NzM

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“The Best Years of Our Lives.” 1948.

[gibsonguy]

Well why isn’t Yentl on the list?

[Liz]

Capra receives the DSM from Gen George Marshall.

Frank Capra walked away from the movie business because "he refused to adjust to the cynicism of the new order." In his autobiography written in 1971, Capra expressed his feelings about the shifting film industry: "The winds of change blew through the dream factories of make-believe, tore at its crinoline tatters.... The hedonists, the homosexuals, the hemophiliac bleeding hearts, the God-haters, the quick-buck artists who substituted shock for talent, all cried: "Shake 'em! Rattle 'em! God is dead. Long live pleasure! Nudity? Yea! Wife-swapping? Yea! Liberate the world from prudery. Emancipate our films from morality!".... Kill for thrill – shock! Shock! To hell with the good in man, Dredge up his evil – shock! Shock!"

Capra added that in his opinion, "practically all the Hollywood film-making of today is stooping to cheap salacious pornography in a crazy bastardization of a great art to compete for the 'patronage' of deviates and masturbators."

[Alberta's Child]

There's an underrated movie that should be on that list: Groundhog Day. In the director's cut, there's an interview with director Harold Ramis where he says it was listed in a survey of religious, government and business leaders as the movie most likely for viewers to identify with 100 years in the future.