List from American Film Institute's "AFI 100 Years..." series, in June 2003.
  These are cool lists, because I agree with them pretty well, and I like a majority of these movies or want to see them anyway. (Though there are some that I hadn't heard of, but am now intrigued.)
  Movies with Great Heroes:
  
    - Atticus Finch (_To Kill a Mockingbird_, Gregory Peck) 
- Indiana Jones (_Raiders of the Lost Ark_, Harrison Ford) 
- James Bond (_Dr. No_, Sean Connery) 
- Will Kane (_High Noon_, Gary Cooper) 
- Rick Blaine (_Casablanca_, Humphrey Bogart) 
- Clarice Starling (_The Silence of the Lambs_, Jodie Foster) 
- Rocky Balboa (_Rocky_, Sylvester Stallone) 
- Ellen Ripley (_Aliens_, Sigourney Weaver) 
- George Bailey (_It's a Wonderful Life_, James Stewart) 
- T. E. Lawrence (_Lawrence of Arabia_, Peter O'Toole) 
- Jefferson Smith (_Mr. Smith Goes to Washington_, James Stewart) 
- Tom Joad (_The Grapes of Wrath_, Henry Fonda) 
- Oskar Schindler (_Schindler's List_, Liam Neeson) 
- Han Solo (_Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope_, Harrison Ford) 
- Norma Rae Webster (_Norma Rae_, Sally Field) 
- Shane (_Shane_, Alan Ladd) 
- Harry Callahan (_Dirty Harry_, Clint Eastwood) 
- Robin Hood (_The Adventures of Robin Hood_, Errol Flynn) 
- Virgil Tibbs (_In the Heat of the Night_, Sidney Poitier) 
- Butch & Sundance (_Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_, Paul Newman & Robert Redford) 
- Mahatma Gandhi (_Gandhi_, Ben Kingsley) 
- Spartacus (_Spartacus_, Kirk Douglas) 
- Terry Malloy (_On the Waterfront_, Marlon Brando) 
- Thelma Dickinson & Louise Sawyer (_Thelma & Louise_, Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon) 
- Lou Gehrig (_The Pride of the Yankees_, Gary Cooper) 
- Superman (_Superman_, Christopher Reeve) 
- Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein (_All the President's Men_, Robert Redford & Dustin Hoffman) 
- Juror #8 (_12 Angry Men_, Henry Fonda) 
- General George Patton (_Patton_, George C. Scott) 
- Luke Jackson (_Cool Hand Luke_, Paul Newman) 
- Erin Brockovich (_Erin Brockovich_, Julia Roberts) 
- Philip Marlowe (_The Big Sleep_, Humphrey Bogart) 
- Marge Gunderson (_Fargo_, Frances McDormand) 
- Tarzan (_Tarzan the Ape Man_, Johnny Weissmuller) 
- Alvin York (_Sergeant York_, Gary Cooper) 
- Rooster Cogburn (_True Grit_, John Wayne) 
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (_Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope_, Alec Guinness) 
- The Tramp (_City Lights_, Charlie Chaplin) 
- Lassie (_Lassie Come Home_, Pal) 
- Frank Serpico (_Serpico_, Al Pacino) 
- Arthur Chipping (_Goodbye, Mr. Chips_, Peter O'Toole) 
- Father Edward J. Flanagan (_Boys Town_, Spencer Tracy) 
- Moses (_The Ten Commandments_, Charlton Heston) 
- Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (_The French Connection_, Gene Hackman) 
- Zorro (_The Mark of Zorro_, Tyrone Power) 
- Batman (_Batman_, Michael Keaton) 
- Karen Silkwood (_Silkwood_, Meryl Streep) 
- The Terminator (_Terminator 2: Judgment Day_, Arnold Schwarzenegger) 
- Andrew Beckett (_Philadelphia_, Tom Hanks) 
- Maximus Decimus Meridius (_Gladiator_, Russell Crowe) 
Movies with Great Villains:
  
    - Hannibal Lecter (_The Silence of the Lambs_, Anthony Hopkins) 
- Norman Bates (_Psycho_, Anthony Perkins) 
- Darth Vader (_Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back_, David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones) 
- Wicked Witch of the West (_The Wizard of Oz_, Margaret Hamilton) 
- Nurse Ratched (_One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_, Louise Fletcher) 
- Mr. Potter (_It's a Wonderful Life_, Lionel Barrymore) 
- Alex Forrest (_Fatal Attraction_, Glenn Close) 
- Phyllis Dietrichson (_Double Indemnity_, Barbara Stanwyck) 
- Regan MacNeil (_The Exorcist_, Linda Blair and voiced, when possessed by the demon, by Mercedes McCambridge) 
- The Queen (_Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_, Lucille La Verne) 
- Michael Corleone (_The Godfather Part II_, Al Pacino) 
- Alex DeLarge (_A Clockwork Orange_, Malcolm McDowell) 
- HAL 9000 (_2001: A Space Odyssey_, voiced by Douglas Rain) 
- The Alien (_Alien_, Bolaji Badejo and Tom Woodruff, Jr.) 
- Amon Göth (_Schindler's List_, Ralph Fiennes) 
- Noah Cross (_Chinatown_, John Huston) 
- Annie Wilkes (_Misery_, Kathy Bates) 
- The Shark (_Jaws_) 
- Captain Bligh (_Mutiny on the Bounty_, Charles Laughton) 
- Man (_Bambi_) 
- Mrs. John Iselin (_The Manchurian Candidate_, Angela Lansbury) 
- The Terminator (_The Terminator_, Arnold Schwarzenegger) 
- Eve Harrington (_All About Eve_, Anne Baxter) 
- Gordon Gekko (_Wall Street_, Michael Douglas) 
- Jack Torrance (_The Shining_, Jack Nicholson) 
- Cody Jarrett (_White Heat_, James Cagney) 
- Martians (_The War of the Worlds_) 
- Max Cady (_Cape Fear_, Robert Mitchum) 
- Reverend Harry Powell (_The Night of the Hunter_, Robert Mitchum) 
- Travis Bickle (_Taxi Driver_, Robert De Niro) 
- Mrs. Danvers (_Rebecca_, Judith Anderson) 
- Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow (_Bonnie and Clyde_, Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty) 
- Count Dracula (_Dracula_, Béla Lugosi) 
- Dr. Christian Szell (_Marathon Man_, Laurence Olivier) 
- J.J. Hunsecker (_Sweet Smell of Success_, Burt Lancaster) 
- Frank Booth (_Blue Velvet_, Dennis Hopper) 
- Harry Lime (_The Third Man_, Orson Welles) 
- Caesar Enrico Bandello (_Little Caesar_, Edward G. Robinson) 
- Cruella De Vil (_One Hundred and One Dalmatians_, Betty Lou Gerson) 
- Freddy Krueger (_A Nightmare on Elm Street_, Robert Englund) 
- Joan Crawford (_Mommie Dearest_, Faye Dunaway) 
- Tom Powers (_The Public Enemy_, James Cagney) 
- Regina Giddens (_The Little Foxes_, Bette Davis) 
- Baby Jane Hudson (_What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?_, Bette Davis) 
- The Joker (_Batman_, Jack Nicholson) 
- Hans Gruber (_Die Hard_, Alan Rickman) 
- Tony Camonte (_Scarface_, Paul Muni) 
- Verbal Kint (_The Usual Suspects_, Kevin Spacey) 
- Auric Goldfinger (_Goldfinger_, Gert Fröbe) 
- Alonzo Harris (_Training Day_, Denzel Washington) 
I haven't decided how to check these off--those that I have seen or it I should rewatch them all, because they are good movies.  I'll figure it out.