The American Film Institute's 2002 special, which aired on 11th June with Candice Bergen as the host, celebrated the greatest love stories in American cinema.
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Title |
Year |
Director |
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| 1 |
Casablanca |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
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| 2 |
Gone with the Wind |
1939 |
Victor Fleming |
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| 3 |
West Side Story |
1961 |
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins |
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| 4 |
Roman Holiday |
1953 |
William Wyler |
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| 5 |
An Affair to Remember |
1957 |
Leo McCarey |
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| 6 |
The Way We Were |
1973 |
Sydney Pollack |
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| 7 |
Doctor Zhivago |
1965 |
David Lean |
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| 8 |
It's a Wonderful Life |
1946 |
Frank Capra |
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| 9 |
Love Story |
1970 |
Arthur Hiller |
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| 10 |
City Lights |
1931 |
Charles Chaplin |
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| 11 |
Annie Hall |
1977 |
Woody Allen |
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| 12 |
My Fair Lady |
1964 |
George Cukor |
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| 13 |
Out of Africa |
1985 |
Sydney Pollack |
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| 14 |
The African Queen |
1951 |
John Huston |
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| 15 |
Wuthering Heights |
1939 |
William Wyler |
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| 16 |
Singin' in the Rain |
1952 |
Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen |
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| 17 |
Moonstruck |
1987 |
Norman Jewison |
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| 18 |
Vertigo |
1958 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| 19 |
Ghost |
1990 |
Jerry Zucker |
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| 20 |
From Here to Eternity |
1953 |
Fred Zinnemann |
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| 21 |
Pretty Woman |
1990 |
Garry Marshall |
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| 22 |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Mark Rydell |
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| 23 |
Now, Voyager |
1942 |
Irving Rapper |
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| 24 |
King Kong |
1933 |
Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack |
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| 25 |
When Harry Met Sally... |
1989 |
Rob Reiner |
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| 26 |
The Lady Eve |
1941 |
Preston Sturges |
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| 27 |
The Sound of Music |
1965 |
Robert Wise |
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| 28 |
The Shop Around the Corner |
1940 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
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| 29 |
An Officer and a Gentleman |
1982 |
Taylor Hackford |
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| 30 |
Swing Time |
1936 |
George Stevens |
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| 31 |
The King and I |
1956 |
Walter Lang |
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| 32 |
Dark Victory |
1939 |
Edmund Goulding |
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| 33 |
Camille |
1936 |
George Cukor |
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| 34 |
Beauty and the Beast |
1991 |
Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale |
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| 35 |
Gigi |
1958 |
Vincente Minnelli |
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| 36 |
Random Harvest |
1942 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
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| 37 |
Titanic |
1997 |
James Cameron |
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| 38 |
It Happened One Night |
1934 |
Frank Capra |
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| 39 |
An American in Paris |
1951 |
Vincente Minnelli |
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| 40 |
Ninotchka |
1939 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
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| 41 |
Funny Girl |
1968 |
William Wyler |
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| 42 |
Anna Karenina |
1935 |
Clarence Brown |
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| 43 |
A Star is Born |
1954 |
George Cukor |
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| 44 |
The Philadelphia Story |
1940 |
George Cukor |
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| 45 |
Sleepless in Seattle |
1993 |
Nora Ephron |
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| 46 |
To Catch a Thief |
1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| 47 |
Splendor in the Grass |
1961 |
Elia Kazan |
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| 48 |
Last Tango in Paris |
1972 |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
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| 49 |
The Postman Always Rings Twice |
1946 |
Tay Garnett |
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| 50 |
Shakespeare in Love |
1998 |
John Madden |
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| 51 |
Bringing Up Baby |
1938 |
Howard Hawks |
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| 52 |
The Graduate |
1967 |
Mike Nichols |
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| 53 |
A Place in the Sun |
1951 |
George Stevens |
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| 54 |
Sabrina |
1954 |
Billy Wilder |
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| 55 |
Reds |
1981 |
Warren Beatty |
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| 56 |
The English Patient |
1996 |
Anthony Minghella |
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| 57 |
Two for the Road |
1967 |
Stanley Donen |
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| 58 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
1967 |
Stanley Kramer |
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| 59 |
Picnic |
1955 |
Joshua Logan |
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| 60 |
To Have and Have Not |
1944 |
Howard Hawks |
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| 61 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's |
1961 |
Blake Edwards |
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| 62 |
The Apartment |
1960 |
Billy Wilder |
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| 63 |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
1927 |
F. W. Murnau |
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| 64 |
Marty |
1955 |
Delbert Mann |
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| 65 |
Bonnie and Clyde |
1967 |
Arthur Penn |
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| 66 |
Manhattan |
1979 |
Woody Allen |
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| 67 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
1951 |
Elia Kazan |
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| 68 |
What's up, Doc? |
1972 |
Peter Bogdanovich |
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| 69 |
Harold and Maude |
1971 |
Hal Ashby |
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| 70 |
Sense and Sensibility |
1995 |
Ang Lee |
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| 71 |
Way Down East |
1920 |
D. W. Griffith |
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| 72 |
Roxanne |
1987 |
Fred Schepisi |
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| 73 |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
1947 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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| 74 |
Woman of the Year |
1942 |
George Stevens |
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| 75 |
The American President |
1995 |
Rob Reiner |
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| 76 |
The Quiet Man |
1952 |
John Ford |
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| 77 |
The Awful Truth |
1937 |
Leo McCarey |
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| 78 |
Coming Home |
1978 |
Hal Ashby |
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| 79 |
Jezebel |
1938 |
William Wyler |
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| 80 |
The Sheik |
1921 |
George Melford |
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| 81 |
The Goodbye Girl |
1977 |
Herbert Ross |
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| 82 |
Witness |
1985 |
Peter Weir |
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| 83 |
Morocco |
1930 |
Josef Von Sternberg |
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| 84 |
Double Indemnity |
1944 |
Billy Wilder |
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| 85 |
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing |
1955 |
Henry King |
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| 86 |
Notorious |
1946 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| 87 |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
1988 |
Philip Kaufman |
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| 88 |
The Princess Bride |
1987 |
Rob Reiner |
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| 89 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
1966 |
Mike Nichols |
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| 90 |
The Bridges of Madison County |
1995 |
Clint Eastwood |
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| 91 |
Working Girl |
1988 |
Mike Nichols |
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| 92 |
Porgy and Bess |
1959 |
Otto Preminger |
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| 93 |
Dirty Dancing |
1987 |
Emile Ardolino |
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| 94 |
Body Heat |
1981 |
Lawrence Kasdan |
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| 95 |
Lady and the Tramp |
1955 |
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske |
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| 96 |
Barefoot in the Park |
1967 |
Gene Saks |
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| 97 |
Grease |
1978 |
Randal Kleiser |
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| 98 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1939 |
William Dieterle |
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| 99 |
Pillow Talk |
1959 |
Michael Gordon |
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| 100 |
Jerry Maguire |
1996 |
Cameron Crowe |
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