National Film Registry
The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films which are believed to be deserving of preservation. The NFPB, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008.[1][2][3] The NFPB's mission, to which the NFR contributes, is to ensure the survival, conservation, and increased public availability of America's film heritage.[4] The 1996 law also created the non-profit National Film Preservation Foundation which, although affiliated with the NFPB, raises money from the private sector.[5]
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The NFPB adds to the NFR up to 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" each year, showcasing the range and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its preservation.[6] A film becomes eligible for inclusion ten years after its original release.[7] For the first selection in 1989, the public nominated almost 1,000 films for consideration. Members of the NFPB then developed individual ballots of possible films for inclusion. The ballots were tabulated into a list of 25 films which was then modified by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and his staff at the Library for the final selection.[6][8] Since 1997, members of the public have been able to nominate up to 50 films a year for the NFPB and Librarian to consider.[9]
The NFR includes films ranging from Hollywood classics to orphan films.[10] A film is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released in the traditional sense. The Registry contains newsreels, silent films, student films, experimental films, short films, music videos, films out of copyright protection or in the public domain, film serials, home movies, documentaries, animation, and independent films. As of the 2020 listing, there are 800 films in the Registry.[11]
Films
Film title | Film type | Year of release | Year of induction | Reference |
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12 Angry Men | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2007 | [12] |
13 Lakes | Documentary | 2004 | 2014 | [13] |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Narrative feature | 1916 | 2016 | [14] |
2001: A Space Odyssey | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1991 | [15] |
3:10 to Yuma | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2012 | [16] |
4 Little Girls | Documentary | 1997 | 2017 | [17] |
42nd Street | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1998 | [18] |
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Narrative feature | 1958 | 2008 | [19] |
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1948 | 2001 | [20] |
Ace in the Hole | Narrative feature | 1951 | 2017 | [17] |
Adam's Rib | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1992 | [21] |
The Adventures of Robin Hood± | Narrative feature | 1938 | 1995 | [22] |
The African Queen | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1994 | [23] |
Airplane!± | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2010 | [24] |
Alien | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2002 | [25] |
All About Eve | Narrative feature | 1950 | 1990 | [26] |
All My Babies | Documentary | 1953 | 2002 | [25] |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Narrative feature | 1930 | 1990 | [26] |
All That Heaven Allows | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1995 | [22] |
All That Jazz | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2001 | [20] |
All the King's Men | Narrative feature | 1949 | 2001 | [20] |
All the President's Men | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2010 | [24] |
Allures | Short subject/experimental film | 1961 | 2011 | [27] |
Amadeus | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2019 | [28] |
America America | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2001 | [20] |
American Graffiti± | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1995 | [22] |
An American in Paris | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1993 | [29] |
Anatomy of a Murder | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2012 | [16] |
Annie Hall | Narrative feature | 1977 | 1992 | [21] |
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman | Documentary | 1974 | 2003 | [30] |
The Apartment | Narrative feature | 1960 | 1994 | [23] |
Apocalypse Now | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2000 | [31] |
Applause | Narrative feature | 1929 | 2006 | [32] |
The Asphalt Jungle | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2008 | [19] |
Atlantic City | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2003 | [30] |
The Atomic Cafe | Documentary | 1982 | 2016 | [14] |
The Augustas | Home film | 1930s–1950s | 2012 | [16] |
The Awful Truth | Narrative feature | 1937 | 1996 | [33] |
Baby Face | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2005 | [34] |
Back to the Future | Narrative feature | 1985 | 2007 | [12] |
The Bad and the Beautiful | Narrative feature | 1952 | 2002 | [25] |
Bad Day at Black Rock | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2018 | [35] |
Badlands | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1993 | [29] |
Ball of Fire | Narrative feature | 1941 | 2016 | [14] |
Bambi | Animated narrative feature | 1942 | 2011 | [27] |
The Band Wagon | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1995 | [22] |
The Bank Dick | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1992 | [21] |
The Bargain | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2010 | [24] |
The Battle of San Pietro | Documentary | 1945 | 1991 | [15] |
The Battle of the Century | Short subject | 1927 | 2020 | [11] |
The Beau Brummels | Short subject | 1928 | 2016 | [14] |
Beauty and the Beast | Animated narrative feature | 1991 | 2002 | [25] |
Becky Sharp | Narrative feature | 1935 | 2019 | [28] |
Before Stonewall | Documentary | 1984 | 2019 | [28] |
Being There | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2015 | [36] |
Ben-Hur | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1997 | [37] |
Ben-Hur | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2004 | [38] |
Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day | Narrative feature | 1913 | 2014 | [13] |
The Best Years of Our Lives | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1989 | [39] |
Big Business | Short subject | 1929 | 1992 | [21] |
The Big Heat | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2011 | [27] |
The Big Lebowski | Narrative feature | 1998 | 2014 | [13] |
The Big Parade | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1992 | [21] |
The Big Sleep | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1997 | [37] |
The Big Trail | Narrative feature | 1930 | 2006 | [32] |
The Birds | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2016 | [14] |
The Birth of a Nation | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1992 | [21] |
Black and Tan | Short subject | 1929 | 2015 | [36] |
The Black Pirate | Narrative feature | 1926 | 1993 | [29] |
The Black Stallion | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2002 | [25] |
Blackboard Jungle± | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2016 | [14] |
Blacksmith Scene | Short subject | 1893 | 1995 | [22] |
Blade Runner | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1993 | [29] |
Blazing Saddles | Narrative feature | 1974 | 2006 | [32] |
Bless Their Little Hearts | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2013 | [40] |
The Blood of Jesus | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1991 | [15] |
The Blue Bird | Narrative feature | 1918 | 2004 | [38] |
The Blues Brothers | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2020 | [11] |
Body and Soul | Narrative feature | 1925 | 2019 | [28] |
Bonnie and Clyde± | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1992 | [21] |
Born Yesterday | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2012 | [16] |
Boulevard Nights | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2017 | [17] |
Boys Don't Cry | Narrative feature | 1999 | 2019 | [28] |
Boyz n the Hood | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2002 | [25] |
Brandy in the Wilderness | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2013 | [40] |
Bread | Short subject | 1918 | 2020 | [11] |
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2012 | [16] |
The Breakfast Club | Narrative feature | 1985 | 2016 | [14] |
Bride of Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1998 | [18] |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1997 | [37] |
Bringing Up Baby | Narrative feature | 1938 | 1990 | [26] |
Broadcast News | Narrative feature | 1987 | 2018 | [35] |
Brokeback Mountain | Narrative feature | 2005 | 2018 | [35] |
Broken Blossoms | Narrative feature | 1919 | 1996 | [33] |
A Bronx Morning | Short subject | 1931 | 2004 | [38] |
Buena Vista Social Club± | Documentary | 1999 | 2020 | [11] |
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man | Documentary | 1975 | 2005 | [34] |
Bullitt | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2007 | [12] |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2003 | [30] |
Cabaret | Narrative feature | 1972 | 1995 | [22] |
Cabin in the Sky | Narrative feature | 1943 | 2020 | [11] |
The Cameraman | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2005 | [34] |
Carmen Jones | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1992 | [21] |
Casablanca | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1989 | [39] |
Castro Street | Documentary/short subject/experimental film | 1966 | 1992 | [21] |
Cat People | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1993 | [29] |
Chan Is Missing | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1995 | [22] |
The Cheat | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1993 | [29] |
The Chechahcos | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2003 | [30] |
Chinatown | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1991 | [15] |
A Christmas Story | Narrative feature | 1983 | 2012 | [16] |
Chulas Fronteras | Documentary | 1976 | 1993 | [29] |
Cicero March | Documentary/short subject | 1966 | 2013 | [40] |
Cinderella | Animated narrative feature | 1950 | 2018 | [35] |
Citizen Kane | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1989 | [39] |
The City | Documentary | 1939 | 1998 | [18] |
City Lights | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1991 | [15] |
Civilization | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1999 | [41] |
The Clash of the Wolves | Narrative feature | 1925 | 2004 | [38] |
Clerks | Narrative feature | 1994 | 2019 | [28] |
A Clockwork Orange | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2020 | [11] |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2007 | [12] |
Coal Miner's Daughter | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2019 | [28] |
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther | Documentary/short subject | 1939 | 2001 | [20] |
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 | Documentary/short subject | 1940 | 2005 | [34] |
A Computer Animated Hand | Animated short subject/experimental film | 1972 | 2011 | [27] |
The Conversation | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1995 | [22] |
Cool Hand Luke | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2005 | [34] |
The Cool World | Narrative feature | 1963 | 1994 | [23] |
Cops | Short subject | 1922 | 1997 | [37] |
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight | Documentary | 1897 | 2012 | [16] |
A Corner in Wheat | Short subject | 1909 | 1994 | [23] |
The Court Jester | Narrative feature | 1956 | 2004 | [38] |
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | Documentary | 1963 | 2011 | [27] |
The Crowd | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1989 | [39] |
The Cry of the Children | Short subject | 1912 | 2011 | [27] |
The Cry of Jazz | Short subject | 1959 | 2010 | [24] |
A Cure for Pokeritis | Short subject | 1912 | 2011 | [27] |
The Curse of Quon Gwon | Short subject | 1916–1917 | 2006 | [32] |
Czechoslovakia 1968 | Documentary/short subject | 1969 | 1997 | [37] |
D.O.A. | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2004 | [38] |
Dance, Girl, Dance | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2007 | [12] |
Dances with Wolves | Narrative feature | 1990 | 2007 | [12] |
The Dark Knight | Narrative feature | 2008 | 2020 | [11] |
Daughter of Dawn | Narrative feature | 1920 | 2013 | [40] |
Daughter of Shanghai | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2006 | [32] |
Daughters of the Dust | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2004 | [38] |
David Holzman's Diary | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1991 | [15] |
The Day the Earth Stood Still | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1995 | [22] |
Days of Heaven | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2007 | [12] |
Days of Wine and Roses | Narrative feature | 1962 | 2018 | [35] |
Dead Birds | Documentary | 1964 | 1998 | [18] |
Decasia | Documentary | 2002 | 2013 | [40] |
The Decline of Western Civilization | Documentary | 1981 | 2016 | [14] |
The Deer Hunter | Narrative feature | 1978 | 1996 | [33] |
Deliverance | Narrative feature | 1972 | 2008 | [19] |
Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre | Documentary/short subject | 1901 | 2002 | [25] |
Destry Rides Again | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1996 | [33] |
Detour | Narrative feature | 1945 | 1992 | [21] |
The Devil Never Sleeps | Documentary | 1994 | 2020 | [11] |
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film | Short subject/experimental film | 1894 or 1895 | 2003 | [30] |
Die Hard | Narrative feature | 1988 | 2017 | [17] |
Dirty Harry | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2012 | [16] |
Disneyland Dream | Home film | 1956 | 2008 | [19] |
Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency | Newsreel footage | 1908 | 2018 | [35] |
Do the Right Thing± | Narrative feature | 1989 | 1999 | [41] |
The Docks of New York | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1999 | [41] |
Dodsworth | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1990 | [26] |
Dog Day Afternoon | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2009 | [42] |
Dog Star Man | Short subject/experimental film series | 1961–1964 | 1992 | [21] |
Dont Look Back | Documentary | 1967 | 1998 | [18] |
Double Indemnity | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1992 | [21] |
Down Argentine Way | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2014 | [13] |
Dr. Strangelove | Narrative feature | 1964 | 1989 | [39] |
Dracula | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2000 | [31] |
Drácula | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2015 | [36] |
The Dragon Painter | Narrative feature | 1919 | 2014 | [13] |
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend | Short subject | 1906 | 2015 | [36] |
Drums of Winter | Documentary | 1988 | 2006 | [32] |
Duck Amuck | Animated short subject | 1953 | 1999 | [41] |
Duck and Cover | Animated short subject | 1951 | 2004 | [38] |
Duck Soup | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1990 | [26] |
Dumbo | Animated narrative feature | 1941 | 2017 | [17] |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1994 | [23] |
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer | Documentary | 1975 | 2015 | [36] |
Early Abstractions[upper-roman 1] | Animated short subjects | 1939–1956 | 2006 | [32] |
East of Eden | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2016 | [14] |
Easy Rider | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1998 | [18] |
Eaux d'Artifice | Short subject | 1953 | 1993 | [29] |
Edison Kinetographic Record of a Sneeze | Documentary/short subject | 1894 | 2015 | [36] |
El Mariachi | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2011 | [27] |
El Norte | Narrative feature | 1983 | 1995 | [22] |
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB | Short subject | 1967 | 2010 | [24] |
Ella Cinders | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2013 | [40] |
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island | Documentary/short subject | 1903 | 2019 | [28] |
The Emperor Jones | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1999 | [41] |
Empire | Experimental film | 1964 | 2004 | [38] |
The Empire Strikes Back | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2010 | [24] |
Employees' Entrance | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2019 | [28] |
The Endless Summer | Documentary | 1966 | 2002 | [25] |
Enter the Dragon | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2004 | [38] |
Eraserhead | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2004 | [38] |
Eve's Bayou | Narrative feature | 1997 | 2018 | [35] |
The Evidence of the Film | Short subject | 1913 | 2001 | [20] |
The Exiles | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2009 | [42] |
The Exorcist | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2010 | [24] |
The Exploits of Elaine[upper-roman 2] | Serial film | 1914 | 1994 | [23] |
A Face in the Crowd | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2008 | [19] |
Faces | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2011 | [27] |
Fake Fruit Factory | Documentary/short subject | 1986 | 2011 | [27] |
The Fall of the House of Usher | Short subject | 1928 | 2000 | [31] |
Fantasia | Animated narrative feature | 1940 | 1990 | [26] |
Fargo | Narrative feature | 1996 | 2006 | [32] |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Narrative feature | 1982 | 2005 | [34] |
Fatty's Tintype Tangle | Short subject | 1915 | 1995 | [22] |
Felicia | Short subject | 1965 | 2014 | [13] |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2014 | [13] |
Field of Dreams | Narrative feature | 1989 | 2017 | [17] |
Film Portrait | Documentary | 1972 | 2003 | [30] |
Five Easy Pieces | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2000 | [31] |
Flash Gordon[upper-roman 3] | Serial film | 1936 | 1996 | [33] |
Flesh and the Devil | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2006 | [32] |
Flower Drum Song | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2008 | [19] |
The Fog of War | Documentary | 2003 | 2019 | [28] |
A Fool There Was | Narrative feature | 1915 | 2015 | [36] |
Foolish Wives | Narrative feature | 1922 | 2008 | [19] |
Footlight Parade | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1992 | [21] |
Forbidden Planet | Narrative feature | 1956 | 2013 | [40] |
Force of Evil | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1994 | [23] |
The Forgotten Frontier | Documentary | 1931 | 1996 | [33] |
Forrest Gump± | Narrative feature | 1994 | 2011 | [27] |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Narrative feature | 1921 | 1995 | [22] |
Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band | Newsreel | 1928 | 2003 | [30] |
Frank Film | Animated short subject | 1973 | 1996 | [33] |
Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1991 | [15] |
Freaks | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1994 | [23] |
Free Radicals | Animated short subject | 1979 | 2008 | [19] |
Freedom Riders | Documentary | 2010 | 2020 | [11] |
The French Connection | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2005 | [34] |
The Freshman | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1990 | [26] |
From Here to Eternity | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2002 | [25] |
From Stump to Ship | Short subject/industrial film | 1930 | 2002 | [25] |
From the Manger to the Cross | Narrative feature | 1912 | 1998 | [18] |
The Front Page | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2010 | [24] |
Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection | Home films | 1920s–1930s | 2017 | [17] |
Fuji | Short subject | 1974 | 2002 | [25] |
Funny Girl | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2016 | [14] |
Fury | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1995 | [22] |
The Gang's All Here | Narrative feature | 1943 | 2014 | [13] |
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers | Documentary | 1980 | 2004 | [38] |
Gaslight | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2019 | [28] |
The General | Narrative feature | 1926 | 1989 | [39] |
Gentleman's Agreement | Narrative feature | 1947 | 2017 | [17] |
George Stevens' World War II footage | Documentary | 1943–1946 | 2008 | [19] |
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute | Documentary/short subject | 1937 | 2019 | [28] |
Gerald McBoing-Boing | Animated short subject | 1950 | 1995 | [22] |
Gertie the Dinosaur | Animated short subject | 1914 | 1991 | [15] |
Ghostbusters | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2015 | [36] |
Giant | Narrative feature | 1956 | 2005 | [34] |
Gigi | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1991 | [15] |
Gilda | Narrative feature | 1946 | 2013 | [40] |
The Girl Without a Soul | Narrative feature | 1917 | 2018 | [35] |
Girlfriends | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2019 | [28] |
Glimpse of the Garden | Short subject | 1957 | 2007 | [12] |
The Godfather | Narrative feature | 1972 | 1990 | [26] |
The Godfather Part II | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1993 | [29] |
Going My Way | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2004 | [38] |
Gold Diggers of 1933 | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2003 | [30] |
The Gold Rush | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1992 | [21] |
Gone with the Wind | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | [39] |
Goodfellas | Narrative feature | 1990 | 2000 | [31] |
The Goonies | Narrative feature | 1985 | 2017 | [17] |
The Graduate± | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1996 | [33] |
Grand Hotel | Narrative feature | 1932 | 2007 | [12] |
The Grapes of Wrath | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1989 | [39] |
Grass | Documentary | 1925 | 1997 | [37] |
Grease | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2020 | [11] |
The Great Dictator | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1997 | [37] |
The Great Train Robbery | Short subject | 1903 | 1990 | [26] |
Greed | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1991 | [15] |
Grey Gardens | Documentary | 1975 | 2010 | [24] |
The Ground | Short subject/experimental film | 1993–2001 | 2020 | [11] |
Groundhog Day | Narrative feature | 1993 | 2006 | [32] |
Growing Up Female | Documentary | 1971 | 2011 | [27] |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2017 | [17] |
Gun Crazy | Narrative feature | 1950 | 1998 | [18] |
Gunga Din | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1999 | [41] |
H2O | Short subject | 1929 | 2005 | [34] |
Hail the Conquering Hero | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2015 | [36] |
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People | Animated short subject | 1984 | 2018 | [35] |
Hallelujah | Narrative feature | 1929 | 2008 | [19] |
Halloween | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2006 | [32] |
Hands Up! | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2005 | [34] |
Harlan County, USA | Documentary | 1976 | 1990 | [26] |
Harold and Maude | Narrative feature | 1971 | 1997 | [37] |
Hearts and Minds | Documentary | 1974 | 2018 | [35] |
He Who Gets Slapped | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2017 | [17] |
The Heiress | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1996 | [33] |
Hell's Hinges | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1994 | [23] |
Heroes All | Documentary | 1920 | 2009 | [42] |
Hester Street | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2011 | [27] |
High Noon | Narrative feature | 1952 | 1989 | [39] |
High School | Documentary | 1968 | 1991 | [15] |
Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage | Newsreel | 1937 | 1997 | [37] |
His Girl Friday | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1993 | [29] |
The Hitch-Hiker | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1998 | [18] |
The Hole | Animated short subject | 1962 | 2013 | [40] |
Hoop Dreams | Documentary | 1994 | 2005 | [34] |
Hoosiers | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2001 | [20] |
Hospital | Documentary | 1970 | 1994 | [23] |
The Hospital | Narrative feature | 1971 | 1995 | [22] |
Hot Dogs for Gauguin | Short subject | 1972 | 2009 | [42] |
Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 | Experimental film | 1980–1982 | 2012 | [16] |
The House I Live In | Short subject | 1945 | 2007 | [12] |
The House in the Middle | Documentary/short subject | 1954 | 2001 | [20] |
House of Usher | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2005 | [34] |
House of Wax | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2014 | [13] |
How Green Was My Valley | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1990 | [26] |
How the West Was Won | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1997 | [37] |
Hud | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2018 | [35] |
Humoresque | Narrative feature | 1920 | 2015 | [36] |
The Hunters | Documentary | 1957 | 2003 | [30] |
The Hurt Locker | Narrative feature | 2008 | 2020 | [11] |
The Hustler | Narrative feature | 1961 | 1997 | [37] |
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1991 | [15] |
I Am Joaquin | Short subject | 1969 | 2010 | [24] |
I Am Somebody | Documentary/short subject | 1970 | 2019 | [28] |
I, An Actress | Short subject | 1977 | 2011 | [27] |
Illusions | Short subject | 1982 | 2020 | [11] |
Imitation of Life | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2005 | [34] |
Imitation of Life | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2015 | [36] |
The Immigrant | Short subject | 1917 | 1998 | [18] |
In a Lonely Place | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2007 | [12] |
In Cold Blood | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2008 | [19] |
In the Heat of the Night | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2002 | [25] |
In the Land of the Head Hunters | Narrative feature | 1914 | 1999 | [41] |
In the Street | Documentary/short subject | 1948 | 2006 | [32] |
The Incredible Shrinking Man | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2009 | [42] |
The Informer | Narrative feature | 1935 | 2018 | [35] |
The Inner World of Aphasia | Documentary/short subject | 1968 | 2015 | [36] |
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street | Short subject | 1905 | 2017 | [17] |
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Documentary | 2000 | 2014 | [13] |
Intolerance | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1989 | [39] |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1994 | [23] |
The Invisible Man | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2008 | [19] |
The Iron Horse | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2011 | [27] |
It | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2001 | [20] |
It Happened One Night | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1993 | [29] |
It's a Gift | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2010 | [24] |
It's a Wonderful Life | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1990 | [26] |
The Italian | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1991 | [15] |
Jailhouse Rock | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2004 | [38] |
Jam Session | Short subject | 1942 | 2001 | [20] |
Jammin' the Blues | Short subject | 1944 | 1995 | [22] |
Jaws | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2001 | [20] |
Jazz on a Summer's Day | Documentary | 1959 | 1999 | [41] |
The Jazz Singer | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1996 | [33] |
Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest | Documentary | 1910 | 2005 | [34] |
Jezebel | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2009 | [42] |
John Henry and the Inky-Poo | Animated short subject | 1946 | 2015 | [36] |
Johnny Guitar | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2008 | [19] |
The Joy Luck Club | Narrative feature | 1993 | 2020 | [11] |
Judgment at Nuremberg | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2013 | [40] |
The Jungle | Short subject | 1967 | 2009 | [42] |
Jurassic Park | Narrative feature | 1993 | 2018 | [35] |
Kannapolis, N.C. | Documentary | 1941 | 2004 | [38] |
The Kid | Narrative feature | 1921 | 2011 | [27] |
Kid Auto Races at Venice | Short subject | 1914 | 2020 | [11] |
The Kidnappers Foil[upper-roman 4] | Narrative feature | 1930s–1950s | 2012 | [16] |
Killer of Sheep | Narrative feature | 1978 | 1990 | [26] |
The Killers | Narrative feature | 1946 | 2008 | [19] |
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Documentary | 1970 | 1999 | [41] |
King Kong | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1991 | [15] |
King of Jazz | Narrative feature | 1930 | 2013 | [40] |
The Kiss | Short subject | 1896 | 1999 | [41] |
Kiss Me Deadly | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1999 | [41] |
Knute Rockne, All American | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1997 | [37] |
Koyaanisqatsi | Documentary | 1982 | 2000 | [31] |
L.A. Confidential | Narrative feature | 1997 | 2015 | [36] |
La Bamba | Narrative feature | 1987 | 2017 | [17] |
The Lady Eve | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1994 | [23] |
The Lady from Shanghai | Narrative feature | 1947 | 2018 | [35] |
Lady Helen's Escapade | Short subject | 1909 | 2004 | [38] |
Lady Windermere's Fan | Narrative feature | 1925 | 2002 | [25] |
Lambchops | Short subject | 1929 | 1999 | [41] |
The Land Beyond the Sunset | Short subject | 1912 | 2000 | [31] |
Lassie Come Home | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1993 | [29] |
The Last Command | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2006 | [32] |
The Last of the Mohicans | Narrative feature | 1920 | 1995 | [22] |
The Last Picture Show | Narrative feature | 1971 | 1998 | [18] |
The Last Waltz | Documentary | 1978 | 2019 | [28] |
Laura | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1999 | [41] |
Lawrence of Arabia | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1991 | [15] |
The Lead Shoes | Short subject/experimental film | 1949 | 2009 | [42] |
A League of Their Own | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2012 | [16] |
The Learning Tree | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1989 | [39] |
Leave Her to Heaven | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2018 | [35] |
Let There Be Light | Documentary | 1946 | 2010 | [24] |
Let's All Go to the Lobby | Animated short subject | 1957 | 2000 | [31] |
Letter from an Unknown Woman | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1992 | [21] |
The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra | Short subject | 1927 | 1997 | [37] |
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Documentary | 1980 | 1996 | [33] |
Life of an American Fireman | Short subject | 1903 | 2016 | [14] |
The Life of Emile Zola | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2000 | [31] |
Lilies of the Field | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2020 | [11] |
The Lion King | Animated narrative feature | 1994 | 2016 | [14] |
Little Big Man | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2014 | [13] |
Little Caesar | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2000 | [31] |
Little Fugitive | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1997 | [37] |
Little Miss Marker | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1998 | [18] |
Little Nemo | Animated short subject | 1911 | 2009 | [42] |
Lives of Performers | Narrative feature | 1972 | 2017 | [17] |
The Living Desert | Documentary | 1953 | 2000 | [31] |
Lonesome | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2010 | [24] |
Losing Ground | Narrative feature | 1982 | 2020 | [11] |
Lost Horizon | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2016 | [14] |
The Lost Weekend | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2011 | [27] |
The Lost World | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1998 | [18] |
Louisiana Story | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1994 | [23] |
Love Finds Andy Hardy | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2000 | [31] |
Love Me Tonight | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1990 | [26] |
The Lunch Date | Short subject | 1990 | 2013 | [40] |
Luxo Jr. | Animated short subject | 1986 | 2014 | [13] |
M*A*S*H | Narrative feature | 1970 | 1996 | [33] |
Mabel's Blunder | Short subject | 1914 | 2009 | [42] |
Magical Maestro | Animated short subject | 1952 | 1993 | [29] |
The Magnificent Ambersons | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1991 | [15] |
The Magnificent Seven | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2013 | [40] |
Make Way for Tomorrow | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2010 | [24] |
The Making of an American | Short subject | 1920 | 2005 | [34] |
Malcolm X± | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2010 | [24] |
The Maltese Falcon | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1989 | [39] |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Narrative feature | 1962 | 2007 | [12] |
The Man with the Golden Arm | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2020 | [11] |
The Manchurian Candidate | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1994 | [23] |
Manhatta | Documentary/short subject | 1921 | 1995 | [22] |
Manhattan | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2001 | [20] |
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege | Documentary | 2006 | 2020 | [11] |
The March | Documentary/short subject | 1964 | 2008 | [19] |
The March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany | Newsreel | 1938 | 1993 | [29] |
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert± | Documentary | 1939 | 2001 | [20] |
The Mark of Zorro | Narrative feature | 1920 | 2015 | [36] |
The Mark of Zorro | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2009 | [42] |
Martha Graham dance films[upper-roman 5]± | Short subjects | 1931–1944 | 2013 | [40][43] |
Marty | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1994 | [23] |
Mary Poppins | Narrative feature | 1964 | 2013 | [40] |
Master Hands | Documentary | 1936 | 1999 | [41] |
Matrimony's Speed Limit | Short subject | 1913 | 2003 | [30] |
The Matrix | Narrative feature | 1999 | 2012 | [16] |
McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2010 | [24] |
Mean Streets± | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1997 | [37] |
Medium Cool | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2003 | [30] |
Meet Me in St. Louis | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1994 | [23] |
Melody Ranch | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2002 | [25] |
Memento | Narrative feature | 2000 | 2017 | [17] |
Memphis Belle | Documentary | 1944 | 2001 | [20] |
Men and Dust | Documentary/short subject | 1940 | 2013 | [40] |
Meshes of the Afternoon | Short subject/experimental film | 1943 | 1990 | [26] |
Michael Jackson's Thriller± | Music video | 1983 | 2009 | [42] |
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair | Industrial film | 1939 | 2012 | [16] |
Midnight | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2013 | [40] |
Midnight Cowboy | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1994 | [23] |
Mighty Like a Moose | Short subject | 1926 | 2007 | [12] |
Mildred Pierce | Narrative feature | 1945 | 1996 | [33] |
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2001 | [20] |
Miracle on 34th Street | Narrative feature | 1947 | 2005 | [34] |
Miss Lulu Bett | Narrative feature | 1922 | 2001 | [20] |
Modern Times | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1989 | [39] |
Modesta | Short subject | 1956 | 1998 | [18] |
Mom and Dad | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2005 | [34] |
Monterey Pop | Documentary | 1968 | 2018 | [35] |
Moon Breath Beat | Animated short subject | 1980 | 2014 | [13] |
Morocco | Narrative feature | 1930 | 1992 | [21] |
Motion Painting No. 1 | Animated short subject/experimental film | 1947 | 1997 | [37] |
A Movie | Short subject/experimental film | 1958 | 1994 | [23] |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | [39] |
Mrs. Miniver | Narrative feature | 1942 | 2009 | [42] |
Multiple SIDosis | Short subject | 1970 | 2000 | [31] |
The Muppet Movie | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2009 | [42] |
The Music Box | Short subject | 1932 | 1997 | [37] |
The Music Man | Narrative feature | 1962 | 2005 | [34] |
The Musketeers of Pig Alley | Short subject | 1912 | 2016 | [14] |
My Darling Clementine | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1991 | [15] |
My Fair Lady | Narrative feature | 1964 | 2018 | [35] |
My Man Godfrey | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1999 | [41] |
My Name is Oona | Short subject/experimental film | 1969 | 2019 | [28] |
The Naked City | Narrative feature | 1948 | 2007 | [12] |
The Naked Spur | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1997 | [37] |
Nanook of the North | Documentary | 1922 | 1989 | [39] |
Nashville | Narrative feature | 1975 | 1992 | [21] |
National Lampoon's Animal House | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2001 | [20] |
National Velvet | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2003 | [30] |
The Navigator | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2018 | [35] |
Naughty Marietta | Narrative feature | 1935 | 2003 | [30] |
Navajo Film Themselves[upper-roman 6] | Documentary/short subjects | 1966 | 2002 | [25] |
The Negro Soldier | Documentary | 1944 | 2011 | [27] |
Network | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2000 | [31] |
A New Leaf | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2019 | [28] |
Newark Athlete | Short subject | 1891 | 2010 | [24] |
Nicholas Brothers' home movies | Home films | 1930s–1940s | 2011 | [27] |
A Night at the Opera | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1993 | [29] |
The Night of the Hunter | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1992 | [21] |
Night of the Living Dead | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1999 | [41] |
Ninotchka | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1990 | [26] |
No Lies | Short subject | 1973 | 2008 | [19] |
Norma Rae | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2011 | [27] |
North by Northwest | Narrative feature | 1959 | 1995 | [22] |
(nostalgia) | Documentary/short subject | 1971 | 2003 | [30] |
Notes on the Port of St. Francis | Documentary/short subject | 1951 | 2013 | [40] |
Nothing but a Man | Narrative feature | 1964 | 1993 | [29] |
Notorious | Narrative feature | 1946 | 2006 | [32] |
Now, Voyager | Narrative feature | 1942 | 2007 | [12] |
The Nutty Professor | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2004 | [38] |
OffOn | Short subject/experimental film | 1968 | 2004 | [38] |
Oklahoma! | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2007 | [12] |
The Old Mill | Animated short subject | 1937 | 2015 | [36] |
Old Yeller | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2019 | [28] |
On the Bowery | Documentary | 1957 | 2008 | [19] |
On the Town | Narrative feature | 1949 | 2018 | [35] |
On the Waterfront | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1989 | [39] |
Once Upon a Time in the West | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2009 | [42] |
One-Eyed Jacks | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2018 | [35] |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Narrative feature | 1975 | 1993 | [29] |
One Froggy Evening | Animated short subject | 1955 | 2003 | [30] |
One Survivor Remembers | Documentary/short subject | 1995 | 2012 | [16] |
One Week | Short subject | 1920 | 2008 | [19] |
Only Angels Have Wings | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2017 | [17] |
Our Daily Bread | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2015 | [36] |
Our Day | Documentary/short subject | 1938 | 2007 | [12] |
Our Lady of the Sphere | Short subject/experimental film | 1972 | 2010 | [24] |
Out of the Past | Narrative feature | 1947 | 1991 | [15] |
The Outlaw Josey Wales | Narrative feature | 1976 | 1996 | [33] |
Outrage | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2020 | [11] |
The Ox-Bow Incident | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1998 | [18] |
Parable | Short subject | 1964 | 2012 | [16] |
Paris Is Burning | Documentary | 1990 | 2016 | [14] |
Pass the Gravy | Short subject | 1928 | 1998 | [18] |
Paths of Glory | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1992 | [21] |
Patton | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2003 | [30] |
The Pawnbroker | Narrative feature | 1964 | 2008 | [19] |
The Pearl | Narrative feature | 1947 | 2002 | [25] |
Peege | Short subject | 1973 | 2007 | [12] |
The Perils of Pauline[upper-roman 7] | Serial film | 1914 | 2008 | [19] |
Peter Pan | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2000 | [31] |
The Phantom of the Opera | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1998 | [18] |
The Phenix City Story | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2019 | [28] |
The Philadelphia Story | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1995 | [22] |
Pickup on South Street | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2018 | [35] |
Pillow Talk | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2009 | [42] |
The Pink Panther | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2010 | [24] |
Pinocchio± | Animated narrative feature | 1940 | 1994 | [23] |
A Place in the Sun | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1991 | [15] |
Planet of the Apes | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2001 | [20] |
Platoon | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2019 | [28] |
Please, Don't Bury Me Alive! | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2014 | [13] |
The Plow That Broke the Plains | Documentary/short subject | 1936 | 1999 | [41] |
Point Blank | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2016 | [14] |
Point of Order | Documentary | 1964 | 1993 | [29] |
The Poor Little Rich Girl | Narrative feature | 1917 | 1991 | [15] |
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | Animated short subject | 1936 | 2004 | [38] |
Porgy and Bess | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2011 | [27] |
Porky in Wackyland | Animated short subject | 1938 | 2000 | [31] |
Portrait of Jason | Documentary | 1967 | 2015 | [36] |
The Power and the Glory | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2014 | [13] |
The Power of the Press | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2005 | [34] |
Powers of Ten | Documentary/short subject | 1977 | 1998 | [18] |
Precious Images | Short subject/compilation | 1986 | 2009 | [42] |
Preservation of the Sign Language | Documentary/short subject | 1913 | 2010 | [24] |
President McKinley Inauguration Footage | Documentary/short subject | 1901 | 2000 | [31] |
Primary | Documentary | 1960 | 1990 | [26] |
The Princess Bride | Narrative feature | 1987 | 2016 | [14] |
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy | Short subject | 1909 | 2003 | [30] |
The Prisoner of Zenda | Narrative feature | 1937 | 1991 | [15] |
The Producers | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1996 | [33] |
Psycho | Narrative feature | 1960 | 1992 | [21] |
The Public Enemy | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1998 | [18] |
Pull My Daisy | Short subject | 1959 | 1996 | [33] |
Pulp Fiction± | Narrative feature | 1994 | 2013 | [40] |
Punch Drunks | Short subject | 1934 | 2002 | [25] |
Pups Is Pups | Short subject | 1930 | 2004 | [38] |
Purple Rain± | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2019 | [44] |
Putney Swope | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2016 | [14] |
Quasi at the Quackadero | Animated short subject | 1975 | 2009 | [42] |
The Quiet Man | Narrative feature | 1952 | 2013 | [40] |
Raging Bull | Narrative feature | 1980 | 1990 | [26] |
Raiders of the Lost Ark | Narrative feature | 1981 | 1999 | [41] |
A Raisin in the Sun | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2005 | [34] |
Real Women Have Curves | Narrative feature | 2002 | 2019 | [28] |
Rear Window | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1997 | [37] |
Rebecca | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2018 | [35] |
Rebel Without a Cause | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1990 | [26] |
The Red Book | Animated short subject | 1994 | 2009 | [42] |
Red Dust | Narrative feature | 1932 | 2006 | [32] |
Red River | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1990 | [26] |
Regeneration | Narrative feature | 1915 | 2000 | [31] |
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | Documentary | 1971–1972 | 2006 | [32] |
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage | Newsreel | 1937 | 1997 | [37] |
Return of the Secaucus 7 | Narrative feature | 1980 | 1997 | [37] |
The Revenge of Pancho Villa | Narrative feature | 1930–1936 | 2009 | [42] |
Reverend Solomon Sir Jones films | Home films | 1924–1928 | 2016 | [14] |
Ride the High Country | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1992 | [21] |
The Right Stuff | Narrative feature | 1983 | 2013 | [40] |
Rio Bravo | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2014 | [13] |
Rip Van Winkle[upper-roman 8] | Short subjects | 1903 | 1995 | [22] |
The River | Documentary/short subject | 1938 | 1990 | [26] |
Road to Morocco | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1996 | [33] |
Rocky | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2006 | [32] |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2005 | [34] |
Roger & Me | Documentary | 1989 | 2013 | [40] |
Roman Holiday | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1999 | [41] |
Rose Hobart | Short subject/experimental film | 1936 | 2001 | [20] |
Rosemary's Baby | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2014 | [13] |
Ruggles of Red Gap | Narrative feature | 1935 | 2014 | [13] |
Rushmore | Narrative feature | 1998 | 2016 | [14] |
Sabrina | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2002 | [25] |
Safety Last! | Narrative feature | 1923 | 1994 | [23] |
Salesman± | Documentary | 1969 | 1992 | [21] |
Salomé | Narrative feature | 1923 | 2000 | [31] |
Salt of the Earth | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1992 | [21] |
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia | Documentary | 1989 | 2012 | [16] |
San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 | Documentary/short subject | 1906 | 2005 | [34] |
Saturday Night Fever± | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2010 | [24] |
Saving Private Ryan | Narrative feature | 1998 | 2014 | [13] |
Scarface | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1994 | [23] |
Schindler's List | Narrative feature | 1993 | 2004 | [38] |
Scratch and Crow | Animated short subject | 1995 | 2009 | [42] |
The Searchers | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1989 | [39] |
Seconds | Narrative feature | 1966 | 2015 | [36] |
Serene Velocity | Short subject | 1970 | 2001 | [20] |
Sergeant York | Narrative feature | 1941 | 2008 | [19] |
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2004 | [38] |
Seventh Heaven | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1995 | [22] |
Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Narrative feature | 1989 | 2006 | [32] |
The Sex Life of the Polyp | Short subject | 1928 | 2007 | [12] |
Shadow of a Doubt | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1991 | [15] |
Shadows | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1993 | [29] |
Shaft± | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2000 | [31] |
Shane | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1993 | [29] |
The Shawshank Redemption | Narrative feature | 1994 | 2015 | [36] |
She Done Him Wrong | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1996 | [33] |
She's Gotta Have It | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2019 | [28] |
Sherlock Jr. | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1991 | [15] |
Sherman's March | Documentary | 1986 | 2000 | [31] |
The Shining | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2018 | [35] |
Shock Corridor | Narrative feature | 1963 | 1996 | [33] |
Shoes | Narrative feature | 1916 | 2014 | [13] |
The Shop Around the Corner | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1999 | [41] |
Show Boat | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1996 | [33] |
Show People | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2003 | [30] |
Shrek | Animated narrative feature | 2001 | 2020 | [11] |
Siege | Documentary/short subject | 1940 | 2006 | [32] |
The Silence of the Lambs | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2011 | [27] |
Singin' in the Rain | Narrative feature | 1952 | 1989 | [39] |
Sink or Swim | Experimental film | 1990 | 2015 | [36] |
The Sinking of the Lusitania | Animated short subject | 1918 | 2017 | [17] |
Sky High | Narrative feature | 1922 | 1998 | [18] |
Slacker | Narrative feature | 1990 | 2012 | [16] |
Sleeping Beauty | Animated narrative feature | 1959 | 2019 | [28] |
Smoke Signals | Narrative feature | 1998 | 2018 | [35] |
Snow White | Animated short subject | 1933 | 1994 | [23] |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Animated narrative feature | 1937 | 1989 | [39] |
So's Your Old Man | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2008 | [19] |
Some Like It Hot | Narrative feature | 1959 | 1989 | [39] |
Something Good – Negro Kiss | Experimental short film | 1898 | 2018 | [35] |
The Son of the Sheik | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2003 | [30] |
Sons of the Desert | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2012 | [16] |
The Sound of Music± | Narrative feature | 1965 | 2001 | [20] |
Spartacus | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2017 | [17] |
The Spook Who Sat by the Door | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2012 | [16] |
St. Louis Blues | Short subject | 1929 | 2006 | [32] |
Stagecoach | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1995 | [22] |
Stand and Deliver | Narrative feature | 1988 | 2011 | [27] |
A Star Is Born | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2000 | [31] |
Star Wars± | Narrative feature | 1977 | 1989 | [39] |
Stark Love | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2009 | [42] |
State Fair | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2014 | [13] |
Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2016 | [14] |
Steamboat Willie | Animated short subject | 1928 | 1998 | [18] |
The Sting | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2005 | [34] |
Stormy Weather | Narrative feature | 1943 | 2001 | [20] |
The Story of G.I. Joe | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2009 | [42] |
The Story of Menstruation | Animated short subject | 1946 | 2015 | [36] |
Stranger Than Paradise | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2002 | [25] |
A Streetcar Named Desire± | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1999 | [41] |
The Strong Man | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2007 | [12] |
A Study in Reds | Short subject | 1932 | 2009 | [42] |
Study of a River | Short subject/experimental film | 1997 | 2010 | [24] |
Sullivan's Travels | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1990 | [26] |
Sunrise | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1989 | [39] |
Sunset Boulevard | Narrative feature | 1950 | 1989 | [39] |
Superman | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2017 | [17] |
Suspense | Short subject | 1913 | 2020 | [11] |
Suzanne, Suzanne | Documentary/short subject | 1982 | 2016 | [14] |
Sweet Smell of Success | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1993 | [29] |
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2020 | [11] |
Swing Time | Narrative feature | 1936 | 2004 | [38] |
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One | Documentary | 1968 | 2015 | [36] |
The T.A.M.I. Show | Documentary | 1964 | 2006 | [32] |
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1994 | [23] |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse | Home film | 1940 | 1998 | [18] |
The Tall T | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2000 | [31] |
Tarantella | Short subject/experimental film | 1940 | 2010 | [24] |
Tarzan and His Mate | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2003 | [30] |
Taxi Driver | Narrative feature | 1976 | 1994 | [23] |
The Tell-Tale Heart | Animated short subject | 1953 | 2001 | [20] |
The Ten Commandments | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1999 | [41] |
The Terminator | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2008 | [19] |
Tess of the Storm Country | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2006 | [32] |
Tevya | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1991 | [15] |
Thelma & Louise | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2016 | [14] |
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser± | Documentary | 1988 | 2017 | [17] |
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck | Short subject/experimental film | 1925 | 2002 | [25] |
There It Is | Short subject | 1928 | 2004 | [38] |
They Call It Pro Football | Documentary | 1967 | 2012 | [16] |
The Thief of Bagdad | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1996 | [33] |
The Thin Blue Line | Documentary | 1988 | 2001 | [20] |
The Thin Man | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1997 | [37] |
The Thing from Another World | Narrative feature | 1951 | 2001 | [20] |
Think of Me First as a Person | Home film | 1960–1975 | 2006 | [32] |
This Is Cinerama | Documentary | 1952 | 2002 | [25] |
This Is Spinal Tap | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2002 | [25] |
Three Little Pigs | Animated short subject | 1933 | 2007 | [12] |
Time and Dreams | Documentary | 1976 | 2017 | [17] |
A Time for Burning | Documentary | 1966 | 2005 | [34] |
A Time Out of War | Short subject | 1954 | 2006 | [32] |
The Times of Harvey Milk± | Documentary | 1984 | 2012 | [16] |
Tin Toy | Animated short subject | 1988 | 2003 | [30] |
Titanic | Narrative feature | 1997 | 2017 | [17] |
To Be or Not to Be | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1996 | [33] |
To Fly! | Documentary | 1976 | 1995 | [22] |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1995 | [22] |
To Sleep with Anger | Narrative feature | 1990 | 2017 | [17] |
Tol'able David | Narrative feature | 1921 | 2007 | [12] |
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son | Experimental film | 1969–1971 | 2007 | [12] |
Tootsie | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1998 | [18] |
Top Gun± | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2015 | [36] |
Top Hat | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1990 | [26] |
Topaz | Documentary | 1943–1945 | 1996 | [33] |
Touch of Evil | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1993 | [29] |
Toy Story | Animated narrative feature | 1995 | 2005 | [34] |
Traffic in Souls | Narrative feature | 1913 | 2006 | [32] |
Trance and Dance in Bali | Documentary/short subject | 1936–1939[upper-roman 9] | 1999 | [41] |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1990 | [26] |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2010 | [24] |
A Trip Down Market Street | Documentary | 1906 | 2010 | [24] |
Trouble in Paradise | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1991 | [15] |
Tulips Shall Grow | Animated short subject | 1942 | 1997 | [37] |
Twelve O'Clock High | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1998 | [18] |
Twentieth Century | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2011 | [27] |
Two-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III | Experimental film | 1922 | 2012 | [16] |
Two-Lane Blacktop | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2012 | [16] |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2012 | [16] |
Under Western Stars | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2009 | [42] |
Unforgiven | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2004 | [38] |
Unmasked | Narrative feature | 1917 | 2014 | [13] |
V-E +1 | Documentary/short subject | 1945 | 2014 | [13] |
Verbena Tragica | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1996 | [33] |
Vertigo | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1989 | [39] |
A Virtuous Vamp | Narrative feature | 1919 | 2013 | [40] |
A Walk in the Sun | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2016 | [14] |
Wanda | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2017 | [17] |
The War of the Worlds | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2011 | [27] |
Water and Power | Documentary | 1989 | 2008 | [19] |
Wattstax | Documentary | 1973 | 2020 | [11] |
The Way of Peace | Animated short subject | 1947 | 2014 | [13] |
The Wedding March | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2003 | [30] |
West Side Story | Narrative feature | 1961 | 1997 | [37] |
Westinghouse Works, 1904[upper-roman 10] | Short subject/industrial films | 1904 | 1998 | [18] |
What's Opera, Doc? | Animated short subject | 1957 | 1992 | [21] |
Where Are My Children? | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1993 | [29] |
White Fawn's Devotion | Short subject | 1910 | 2008 | [19] |
White Heat | Narrative feature | 1949 | 2003 | [30] |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Animated/live-action hybrid narrative feature | 1988 | 2016 | [14] |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Narrative feature | 1966 | 2013 | [40] |
Why Man Creates | Animated documentary/short subject | 1968 | 2002 | [25] |
Why We Fight[upper-roman 11] | Documentary/propaganda film series | 1943–1945 | 2000 | [31] |
Wild and Woolly | Narrative feature | 1917 | 2002 | [25] |
Wild Boys of the Road | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2013 | [40] |
The Wild Bunch | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1999 | [41] |
Wild River | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2002 | [25] |
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2000 | [31] |
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2014 | [13] |
Winchester '73 | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2015 | [36] |
The Wind | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1993 | [29] |
Wings | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1997 | [37] |
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2012 | [16] |
With Car and Camera Around the World | Documentary | 1929 | 2020 | [11] |
With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain | Documentary | 1937–1938 | 2017 | [17] |
Within Our Gates | Narrative feature | 1920 | 1992 | [21] |
The Wizard of Oz± | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | [39] |
Woman of the Year | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1999 | [41] |
A Woman Under the Influence | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1990 | [26] |
The Women | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2007 | [12] |
Woodstock | Documentary | 1970 | 1996 | [33] |
Wuthering Heights | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2007 | [12] |
Yankee Doodle Dandy | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1993 | [29] |
Young Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1974 | 2003 | [30] |
Young Mr. Lincoln | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2003 | [30] |
Zapruder film | Home film | 1963 | 1994 | [23] |
Zoot Suit | Narrative feature | 1981 | 2019 | [28] |
Notes
- Numbers 1–5, 7, and 10
- A serial of fourteen short films
- A serial of thirteen short films
- Remade at least 25 times; the NFR entry encompasses all versions
- Heretic, Frontier, Lamentation, and Appalachian Spring
- A series of seven short films
- A serial of twenty short films
- A series of eight short films
- Not released until 1952
- A collection of twenty-one short films
- A series of seven feature films
- ± Indicates that the film's soundtrack or a significant piece of music featured in the film is also a National Recording Registry inductee.
Number of films by release year
This table is through the 2020 induction list (800 films total). For purposes of this list, multi-year serials are counted only once (as they are in the Registry) by year of completion.
Year of release | Number of films |
---|---|
1891 | 1 |
1893 | 1 |
1894 | 1 |
1895 | 1 |
1896 | 2 |
1897 | 1 |
1901 | 2 |
1903 | 3 |
1904 | 1 |
1905 | 1 |
1906 | 3 |
1909 | 3 |
1910 | 2 |
1911 | 1 |
1912 | 5 |
1913 | 6 |
1914 | 10 |
1915 | 6 |
1916 | 6 |
1917 | 5 |
1918 | 3 |
1919 | 3 |
1920 | 8 |
1921 | 4 |
1922 | 6 |
1923 | 2 |
1924 | 7 |
1925 | 11 |
1926 | 7 |
1927 | 10 |
1928 | 18 |
1929 | 8 |
1930 | 7 |
1931 | 9 |
1932 | 9 |
1933 | 16 |
1934 | 9 |
1935 | 6 |
1936 | 12 |
1937 | 11 |
1938 | 10 |
1939 | 20 |
1940 | 18 |
1941 | 10 |
1942 | 12 |
1943 | 7 |
1944 | 13 |
1945 | 11 |
1946 | 11 |
1947 | 5 |
1948 | 9 |
1949 | 7 |
1950 | 8 |
1951 | 10 |
1952 | 6 |
1953 | 16 |
1954 | 10 |
1955 | 10 |
1956 | 10 |
1957 | 16 |
1958 | 5 |
1959 | 13 |
1960 | 7 |
1961 | 8 |
1962 | 8 |
1963 | 9 |
1964 | 11 |
1965 | 2 |
1966 | 7 |
1967 | 12 |
1968 | 14 |
1969 | 14 |
1970 | 11 |
1971 | 15 |
1972 | 9 |
1973 | 10 |
1974 | 8 |
1975 | 10 |
1976 | 11 |
1977 | 7 |
1978 | 9 |
1979 | 10 |
1980 | 10 |
1981 | 3 |
1982 | 10 |
1983 | 5 |
1984 | 9 |
1985 | 3 |
1986 | 9 |
1987 | 2 |
1988 | 7 |
1989 | 6 |
1990 | 6 |
1991 | 6 |
1992 | 4 |
1993 | 3 |
1994 | 8 |
1995 | 3 |
1996 | 1 |
1997 | 4 |
1998 | 4 |
1999 | 3 |
2000 | 2 |
2001 | 2 |
2002 | 2 |
2003 | 1 |
2004 | 1 |
2005 | 1 |
2006 | 1 |
2008 | 2 |
2010 | 1 |
Unknown | 3 |
Age of Registry selections
The oldest film currently in the registry, Newark Athlete, was released in 1891, while the most recent, Freedom Riders, was released in 2010.
Span from release to selection
Released on January 9, 1894 and selected in October 2015, Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze has the longest span, at 121 years, while Raging Bull, released theatrically in the United States on December 19, 1980 and inducted in October 1990, holds the record for the shortest span, having been inducted slightly shy of the 10-year minimum.[26] Currently, only six other films have been inducted at the 10-year mark: Do the Right Thing,[45] Goodfellas,[46] Toy Story,[47] Fargo,[48] 13 Lakes,[49] and Freedom Riders.[50]
See also
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