I don't really know why AFI felt the need to revisit their original list after only 10 years, but it's interesting to see how political correctness changed it.
The new movies included: The General (1926), Intolerance (1916), Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Nashville (1975), Sullivan's Travels (1941), Cabaret (1972), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), In the Heat of the Night (1967), All the President's Men (1976), Spartacus (1960), Sunrise (1927), Titanic (1997), A Night at the Opera (1935), 12 Angry Men (1957), The Sixth Sense (1999), Swing Time (1936), Sophie's Choice (1982), The Last Picture Show (1971), Do the Right Thing (1989), Blade Runner (1982), and Toy Story (1995).
Almost 1/4 of the list was replaced, some by newer movies.
The films removed from the list included: Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Birth of a Nation (1915), From Here to Eternity (1953), Amadeus (1984), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The Third Man (1949), Fantasia (1940), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Stagecoach (1939), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), An American in Paris (1951), Wuthering Heights (1939), Dances with Wolves (1990), Giant (1956), Fargo (1996), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Frankenstein (1931), Patton (1970), The Jazz Singer (1927), My Fair Lady (1964), A Place in the Sun (1951), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967).
I think the ones that surprise me the most are Rebel Without a Cause, Jazz Singer, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, as they're considered landmark movies. But of course, Nashville - which nobody's even heard of - and Titanic - which was cinematically impressive but had a crappy storyline - are good enough to replace them. Obviously this means I don't know anything.
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