National Film Registry
Company type | Film preservation |
---|---|
Industry | Archiving |
Founded | 1988 United States |
Founder | United States Congress |
Parent | Library of Congress |
Website | loc |
The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. 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]
Criteria
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] To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old.[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]
"Taken together, the ... films in the National Film Registry represent a stunning range of American filmmaking—including Hollywood features, documentaries, avant-garde and amateur productions, films of regional interest, ethnic, animated, and short film subjects—all deserving recognition, preservation and access by future generations. As we begin this new millennium, the registry stands among the finest summations of American cinema's wondrous first century."
The NFR includes films ranging from Hollywood classics to orphan films. A film is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released. The Registry contains newsreels, silent films, experimental films, short films, films out of copyright protection, film serials, home movies, documentaries, and independent films. As of the 2016 listing, there are 700 films preserved in the Registry.[10]
Currently, the earliest listed film is Newark Athlete (1891), and the most recent is 13 Lakes (2004). Counting the 11 multi-year serials in the NFR once each (as the NFR does) by year of completion, the years with the most films selected are 1939 and 1940, with 18 films from each year chosen for preservation. The time between a film's debut and its selection varies greatly. The longest span is 119 years; Newark Athlete was originally released in 1891 and selected for preservation in 2010. The shortest span is the minimum 10 years; this distinction is shared by Raging Bull, Do the Right Thing, Goodfellas, Toy Story, Fargo and 13 Lakes.
Films
Film title | Film type | Year of release |
Year of induction |
Ref |
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12 Angry Men | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2007 | [18] |
13 Lakes | Documentary | 2004 | 2014 | [19] |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Narrative feature | 1916 | 2016 | [20] |
2001: A Space Odyssey | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1991 | [21] |
3:10 to Yuma | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2012 | [22] |
42nd Street | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1998 | [23] |
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Narrative feature | 1958 | 2008 | [24] |
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1948 | 2001 | [25] |
Adam's Rib | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1992 | [26] |
The Adventures of Robin Hood | Narrative feature | 1938 | 1995 | [27] |
The African Queen | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1994 | [28] |
Airplane! | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2010 | [29] |
Alien | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2002 | [30] |
All About Eve | Narrative feature | 1950 | 1990 | [31] |
All My Babies | Documentary | 1953 | 2002 | [30] |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Narrative feature | 1930 | 1990 | [31] |
All That Heaven Allows | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1995 | [27] |
All That Jazz | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2001 | [25] |
All the King's Men | Narrative feature | 1949 | 2001 | [25] |
All the President's Men | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2010 | [29] |
Allures | Short subject/experimental film | 1961 | 2011 | [32] |
America America | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2001 | [25] |
American Graffiti | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1995 | [27] |
An American in Paris | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1993 | [33] |
Anatomy of a Murder | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2012 | [22] |
Annie Hall | Narrative feature | 1977 | 1992 | [26] |
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman | Documentary | 1974 | 2003 | [34] |
The Apartment | Narrative feature | 1960 | 1994 | [28] |
Apocalypse Now | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2000 | [35] |
Appalachian Spring (one of the four Martha Graham dance films added in 2013) | Short | 1944 | 2013 | [36][37] |
Applause | Narrative feature | 1929 | 2006 | [38] |
The Asphalt Jungle | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2008 | [24] |
Atlantic City | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2003 | [34] |
The Atomic Cafe | Documentary | 1982 | 2016 | [20] |
The Augustas | Home film/documentary | 1930s–1950s | 2012 | [22] |
The Awful Truth | Narrative feature | 1937 | 1996 | [39] |
Baby Face | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2005 | [40] |
Back to the Future | Narrative feature | 1985 | 2007 | [18] |
The Bad and the Beautiful | Narrative feature | 1952 | 2002 | [30] |
Badlands | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1993 | [33] |
Ball of Fire | Narrative feature | 1941 | 2016 | [20] |
Bambi | Animated narrative feature | 1942 | 2011 | [32] |
The Band Wagon | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1995 | [27] |
The Bank Dick | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1992 | [26] |
The Bargain | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2010 | [29] |
The Battle of San Pietro | Documentary | 1945 | 1991 | [21] |
The Beau Brummels | Short subject | 1928 | 2016 | [20] |
Beauty and the Beast | Animated narrative feature | 1991 | 2002 | [30] |
Being There | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2015 | [41] |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1997 | [42] |
Ben-Hur | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2004 | [43] |
Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day | Narrative feature | 1913 | 2014 | [19] |
The Best Years of Our Lives | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1989 | [44] |
Big Business | Short subject | 1929 | 1992 | [26] |
The Big Heat | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2011 | [32] |
The Big Lebowski | Narrative feature | 1998 | 2014 | [19] |
The Big Parade | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1992 | [26] |
The Big Sleep | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1997 | [42] |
The Big Trail | Narrative feature | 1930 | 2006 | [38] |
The Birds | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2016 | [20] |
The Birth of a Nation | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1992 | [26] |
Black and Tan | Documentary short | 1929 | 2015 | [41] |
The Black Pirate | Narrative feature | 1926 | 1993 | [33] |
The Black Stallion | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2002 | [30] |
Blackboard Jungle | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2016 | [20] |
Blacksmith Scene | Short subject | 1893 | 1995 | [27] |
Blade Runner | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1993 | [33] |
Blazing Saddles | Narrative feature | 1974 | 2006 | [38] |
Bless Their Little Hearts | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2013 | [37] |
The Blood of Jesus | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1991 | [21] |
The Blue Bird | Narrative feature | 1918 | 2004 | [43] |
Bonnie and Clyde | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1992 | [26] |
Born Yesterday | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2012 | [22] |
Boyz n the Hood | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2002 | [30] |
Brandy in the Wilderness | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2013 | [37] |
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2012 | [22] |
The Breakfast Club | Narrative feature | 1985 | 2016 | [20] |
Bride of Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1998 | [23] |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1997 | [42] |
Bringing Up Baby | Narrative feature | 1938 | 1990 | [31] |
Broken Blossoms | Narrative feature | 1919 | 1996 | [39] |
A Bronx Morning | Short subject | 1931 | 2004 | [43] |
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man | Documentary | 1975 | 2005 | [40] |
Bullitt | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2007 | [18] |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2003 | [34] |
Cabaret | Narrative feature | 1972 | 1995 | [27] |
The Cameraman | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2005 | [40] |
Carmen Jones | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1992 | [26] |
Casablanca | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1989 | [44] |
Castro Street | Documentary/short subject/experimental film | 1966 | 1992 | [26] |
Cat People | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1993 | [33] |
Chan Is Missing | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1995 | [27] |
The Cheat | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1993 | [33] |
The Chechahcos | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2003 | [34] |
Chinatown | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1991 | [21] |
A Christmas Story | Narrative feature | 1983 | 2012 | [22] |
Chulas Fronteras | Documentary | 1976 | 1993 | [33] |
Cicero March | Documentary/short subject | 1966 | 2013 | [37] |
Citizen Kane | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1989 | [44] |
The City | Documentary | 1939 | 1998 | [23] |
City Lights | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1991 | [21] |
Civilization | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1999 | [45] |
The Clash of the Wolves | Narrative feature | 1925 | 2004 | [43] |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2007 | [18] |
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther | Documentary/short subject | 1939 | 2001 | [25] |
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 | Documentary/short subject | 1940 | 2005 | [40] |
A Computer Animated Hand | Animated short subject/experimental film | 1972 | 2011 | [32] |
The Conversation | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1995 | [27] |
Cool Hand Luke | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2005 | [40] |
The Cool World | Narrative feature | 1963 | 1994 | [28] |
Cops | Short subject | 1922 | 1997 | [42] |
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight | Documentary | 1897 | 2012 | [22] |
A Corner in Wheat | Short subject | 1909 | 1994 | [28] |
The Court Jester | Narrative feature | 1956 | 2004 | [43] |
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | Documentary | 1963 | 2011 | [32] |
The Crowd | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1989 | [44] |
Cry of Jazz | Short subject | 1959 | 2010 | [29] |
The Cry of the Children | Short subject | 1912 | 2011 | [32] |
A Cure for Pokeritis | Short subject | 1912 | 2011 | [32] |
The Curse of Quon Gwon | Short subject | 1916–1917 | 2006 | [38] |
Czechoslovakia 1968 | Documentary/short subject | 1969 | 1997 | [42] |
Dance, Girl, Dance | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2007 | [18] |
Dances with Wolves | Narrative feature | 1990 | 2007 | [18] |
Daughter of Dawn | Narrative feature | 1920 | 2013 | [37] |
Daughter of Shanghai | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2006 | [38] |
Daughters of the Dust | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2004 | [43] |
David Holzman's Diary | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1991 | [21] |
The Day the Earth Stood Still | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1995 | [27] |
Days of Heaven | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2007 | [18] |
Dead Birds | Documentary | 1964 | 1998 | [23] |
Decasia | Documentary | 2002 | 2013 | [37] |
The Decline of Western Civilization | Documentary | 1981 | 2016 | [20] |
The Deer Hunter | Narrative feature | 1978 | 1996 | [39] |
Deliverance | Narrative feature | 1972 | 2008 | [24] |
Destry Rides Again | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1996 | [39] |
Detour | Narrative feature | 1945 | 1992 | [26] |
Dickson Experimental Sound Film | Short subject/experimental film | 1894 or 1895 | 2003 | [34] |
Dirty Harry | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2012 | [22] |
Disneyland Dream | Home film | 1956 | 2008 | [24] |
D.O.A. | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2004 | [43] |
Do the Right Thing | Narrative feature | 1989 | 1999 | [45] |
The Docks of New York | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1999 | [45] |
Dodsworth | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1990 | [31] |
Dog Day Afternoon | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2009 | [46] |
Dog Star Man Part IV | Short subject/experimental film | 1964 | 1992 | [26] |
Dont Look Back | Documentary | 1967 | 1998 | [23] |
Double Indemnity | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1992 | [26] |
Down Argentine Way | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2014 | [19] |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Narrative feature | 1964 | 1989 | [44] |
Dracula | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2000 | [35] |
Dracula | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2015 | [41] |
The Dragon Painter | Narrative feature | 1919 | 2014 | [19] |
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend | Short subject | 1906 | 2015 | [41] |
Drums of Winter | Documentary | 1988 | 2006 | [38] |
Duck Amuck | Animated short subject | 1953 | 1999 | [45] |
Duck and Cover | Animated short subject | 1951 | 2004 | [43] |
Duck Soup | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1990 | [31] |
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer | Documentary | 1975 | 2015 | [41] |
Early Abstractions[I] | Animated short subjects | 1939–1956 | 2006 | [38] |
East of Eden | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2016 | [20] |
Easy Rider | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1998 | [23] |
Eaux d'Artifice | Short subject | 1953 | 1993 | [33] |
Edison Kinetographic Record of a Sneeze | Documentary short subject | 1894 | 2015 | [41] |
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB | Short subject | 1967 | 2010 | [29] |
El Mariachi | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2011 | [32] |
El Norte | Narrative feature | 1983 | 1995 | [27] |
Ella Cinders | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2013 | [37] |
The Emperor Jones | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1999 | [45] |
Empire | Experimental film | 1964 | 2004 | [43] |
The Endless Summer | Documentary | 1966 | 2002 | [30] |
Enter the Dragon | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2004 | [43] |
Eraserhead | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2004 | [43] |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1994 | [28] |
The Evidence of the Film | Short subject | 1913 | 2001 | [25] |
The Exiles | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2009 | [46] |
The Exorcist | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2010 | [29] |
The Exploits of Elaine[VII] | Film serial | 1914 | 1994 | [28] |
A Face in the Crowd | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2008 | [24] |
Faces | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2011 | [32] |
Fake Fruit Factory | Documentary/short subject | 1986 | 2011 | [32] |
The Fall of the House of Usher | Short subject | 1928 | 2000 | [35] |
Fantasia | Animated narrative feature | 1940 | 1990 | [31] |
Fargo | Narrative feature | 1996 | 2006 | [38] |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Narrative feature | 1982 | 2005 | [40] |
Fatty's Tintype Tangle | Short subject | 1915 | 1995 | [27] |
Felicia | Short subject | 1965 | 2014 | [19] |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2014 | [19] |
Film Portrait | Documentary | 1970 | 2003 | [34] |
Five Easy Pieces | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2000 | [35] |
Flash Gordon[II] | Film serial | 1936 | 1996 | [39] |
Flesh and the Devil | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2006 | [38] |
Flower Drum Song | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2008 | [24] |
A Fool There Was | Narrative feature | 1915 | 2015 | [41] |
Foolish Wives | Narrative feature | 1922 | 2008 | [24] |
Footlight Parade | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1992 | [26] |
Forbidden Planet | Narrative feature | 1956 | 2013 | [37] |
Force of Evil | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1994 | [28] |
The Forgotten Frontier | Documentary | 1931 | 1996 | [39] |
Forrest Gump | Narrative feature | 1994 | 2011 | [32] |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Narrative feature | 1921 | 1995 | [27] |
Jenkins Orphanage Band (Fox Movietone News) | Newsreel | 1928 | 2003 | [34] |
Frank Film | Animated short subject | 1973 | 1996 | [39] |
Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1991 | [21] |
Freaks | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1994 | [28] |
Free Radicals | Animated short subject | 1979 | 2008 | [24] |
The French Connection | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2005 | [40] |
The Freshman | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1990 | [31] |
From Here to Eternity | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2002 | [30] |
From Stump to Ship | Industrial/short subject | 1930 | 2002 | [30] |
From the Manger to the Cross | Narrative feature | 1912 | 1998 | [23] |
The Front Page | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2010 | [29] |
Frontier (one of the four Martha Graham dance films added in 2013) | Short | 1935 | 2013 | [36][37] |
Fuji | Short subject | 1974 | 2002 | [30] |
Funny Girl | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2016 | [20] |
Fury | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1995 | [27] |
The Gang's All Here | Narrative feature | 1943 | 2014 | [19] |
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers | Documentary | 1980 | 2004 | [43] |
The General | Narrative feature | 1926 | 1989 | [44] |
George Stevens World War II Footage | Documentary | 1943–1946 | 2008 | [24] |
Gerald McBoing-Boing | Animated short subject | 1950 | 1995 | [27] |
Gertie the Dinosaur | Animated short subject | 1914 | 1991 | [21] |
Ghostbusters | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2015 | [41] |
Giant | Narrative feature | 1956 | 2005 | [40] |
Gigi | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1991 | [21] |
Gilda | Narrative feature | 1946 | 2013 | [37] |
Glimpse of the Garden | Short subject | 1957 | 2007 | [18] |
The Godfather | Narrative feature | 1972 | 1990 | [31] |
The Godfather Part II | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1993 | [33] |
Going My Way | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2004 | [43] |
Gold Diggers of 1933 | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2003 | [34] |
The Gold Rush | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1992 | [26] |
Gone with the Wind | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | [44] |
Goodfellas | Narrative feature | 1990 | 2000 | [35] |
The Graduate | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1996 | [39] |
Grand Hotel | Narrative feature | 1932 | 2007 | [18] |
The Grapes of Wrath | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1989 | [44] |
Grass | Documentary | 1925 | 1997 | [42] |
The Great Dictator | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1997 | [42] |
The Great Train Robbery | Short subject | 1903 | 1990 | [31] |
Greed | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1991 | [21] |
Grey Gardens | Documentary | 1976 | 2010 | [29] |
Groundhog Day | Narrative feature | 1993 | 2006 | [38] |
Growing Up Female | Documentary | 1971 | 2011 | [32] |
Gun Crazy | Narrative feature | 1950 | 1998 | [23] |
Gunga Din | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1999 | [45] |
H2O | Short subject | 1929 | 2005 | [40] |
Hail the Conquering Hero | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2015 | [41] |
Hallelujah! | Narrative feature | 1929 | 2008 | [24] |
Halloween | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2006 | [38] |
Hands Up! | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2005 | [40] |
Harlan County, USA | Documentary | 1976 | 1990 | [31] |
Harold and Maude | Narrative feature | 1971 | 1997 | [42] |
The Heiress | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1996 | [39] |
Hell's Hinges | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1994 | [28] |
Heretic (one of the four Martha Graham dance films added in 2013) | Short | 1929 | 2013 | [36][37] |
Heroes All | Documentary | 1920 | 2009 | [46] |
Hester Street | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2011 | [32] |
High Noon | Narrative feature | 1952 | 1989 | [44] |
High School | Documentary | 1968 | 1991 | [21] |
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage | Newsreel | 1937 | 1997 | [42] |
His Girl Friday | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1993 | [33] |
The Hitch-Hiker | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1998 | [23] |
The Hole | Animated short subject | 1962 | 2013 | [37] |
Hoop Dreams | Documentary | 1994 | 2005 | [40] |
Hoosiers | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2001 | [25] |
Hospital | Documentary | 1970 | 1994 | [28] |
The Hospital | Narrative feature | 1971 | 1995 | [27] |
Hot Dogs for Gauguin | Short subject | 1972 | 2009 | [46] |
Hours for Jerome Parts 1 and 2 | Experimental film | 1980–1982 | 2012 | [22] |
The House I Live In | Short subject | 1945 | 2007 | [18] |
The House in the Middle | Documentary/short subject | 1954 | 2001 | [25] |
House of Usher | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2005 | [40] |
House of Wax | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2014 | [19] |
How Green Was My Valley | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1990 | [31] |
How the West Was Won | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1997 | [42] |
Humoresque | Narrative feature | 1920 | 2015 | [41] |
The Hunters | Documentary | 1957 | 2003 | [34] |
The Hustler | Narrative feature | 1961 | 1997 | [42] |
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1991 | [21] |
I Am Joaquin | Short subject | 1969 | 2010 | [29] |
I, an Actress | Short subject | 1977 | 2011 | [32] |
Imitation of Life | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2005 | [40] |
Imitation of Life | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2015 | [41] |
The Immigrant | Short subject | 1917 | 1998 | [23] |
In a Lonely Place | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2007 | [18] |
In Cold Blood | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2008 | [24] |
In the Heat of the Night | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2002 | [30] |
In the Land of the Head Hunters | Narrative feature | 1914 | 1999 | [45] |
In the Street | Documentary/short subject | 1948 | 2006 | [38] |
The Incredible Shrinking Man | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2009 | [46] |
The Inner World of Aphasia | Documentary short subject | 1968 | 2015 | [41] |
Inside Nazi Germany | Documentary/short subject | 1938 | 1993 | [33] |
Intolerance | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1989 | [44] |
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Documentary | 2000 | 2014 | [19] |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1994 | [28] |
The Invisible Man | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2008 | [24] |
The Iron Horse | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2011 | [32] |
It | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2001 | [25] |
It Happened One Night | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1993 | [33] |
It's a Gift | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2010 | [29] |
It's a Wonderful Life | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1990 | [31] |
The Italian | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1991 | [21] |
Jailhouse Rock | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2004 | [43] |
Jam Session | Short subject | 1942 | 2001 | [25] |
Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest | Documentary | 1910 | 2005 | [40] |
Jammin' the Blues | Short subject | 1944 | 1995 | [27] |
Jaws | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2001 | [25] |
Jazz on a Summer's Day | Documentary | 1959 | 1999 | [45] |
The Jazz Singer | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1996 | [39] |
Jezebel | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2009 | [46] |
John Henry and the Inky-Poo | Animated short subject | 1946 | 2015 | [41] |
Johnny Guitar | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2008 | [24] |
Judgment at Nuremberg | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2013 | [37] |
The Jungle | Short subject | 1967 | 2009 | [46] |
Kannapolis, N.C. | Documentary | 1941 | 2004 | [43] |
The Kid | Narrative feature | 1921 | 2011 | [32] |
The Kidnappers Foil | Narrative feature | 1930s–1950s | 2012 | [22] |
Killer of Sheep | Narrative feature | 1978 | 1990 | [31] |
The Killers | Narrative feature | 1946 | 2008 | [24] |
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Documentary | 1970 | 1999 | [45] |
King Kong | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1991 | [21] |
King of Jazz | Narrative feature | 1930 | 2013 | [37] |
The Kiss | Short subject | 1896 | 1999 | [45] |
Kiss Me Deadly | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1999 | [45] |
Knute Rockne, All American | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1997 | [42] |
Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Test | Experimental film | 1922 | 2012 | [22] |
Koyaanisqatsi | Narrative feature | 1982 | 2000 | [35] |
L.A. Confidential | Narrative feature | 1997 | 2015 | [41] |
The Lady Eve | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1994 | [28] |
Lady Helen's Escapade | Short subject | 1909 | 2004 | [43] |
Lady Windermere's Fan | Narrative feature | 1925 | 2002 | [30] |
Lambchops | Short subject | 1929 | 1999 | [45] |
Lamentation (one of the four Martha Graham dance films added in 2013) | Short | 1930 | 2013 | [36][37] |
The Land Beyond the Sunset | Short subject | 1912 | 2000 | [35] |
Lassie Come Home | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1993 | [33] |
The Last Command | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2006 | [38] |
The Last of the Mohicans | Narrative feature | 1920 | 1995 | [27] |
The Last Picture Show | Narrative feature | 1971 | 1998 | [23] |
Laura | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1999 | [45] |
Lawrence of Arabia | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1991 | [21] |
The Lead Shoes | Short subject/experimental film | 1949 | 2009 | [46] |
A League of Their Own | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2012 | [22] |
The Learning Tree | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1989 | [44] |
Let's All Go to the Lobby | Animated short subject | 1957 | 2000 | [35] |
Let There Be Light | Documentary | 1946 | 2010 | [29] |
Letter from an Unknown Woman | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1992 | [26] |
The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra | Short subject | 1927 | 1997 | [42] |
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Documentary | 1980 | 1996 | [39] |
The Life of an American Fireman | Short subject | 1903 | 2016 | [20] |
The Life of Emile Zola | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2000 | [35] |
The Lion King | Animated narrative feature | 1994 | 2016 | [20] |
Little Big Man | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2014 | [19] |
Little Caesar | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2000 | [35] |
Little Fugitive | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1997 | [42] |
Little Miss Marker | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1998 | [23] |
Little Nemo | Animated short subject | 1911 | 2009 | [46] |
The Living Desert | Documentary | 1953 | 2000 | [35] |
Lonesome | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2010 | [29] |
Lost Horizon | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2016 | [20] |
The Lost Weekend | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2011 | [32] |
The Lost World | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1998 | [23] |
Louisiana Story | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1994 | [28] |
Love Finds Andy Hardy | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2000 | [35] |
Love Me Tonight | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1990 | [31] |
The Lunch Date | Short subject | 1989 | 2013 | [37] |
Luxo Jr. | Animated short subject | 1986 | 2014 | [19] |
Mabel's Blunder | Short subject | 1914 | 2009 | [46] |
Magical Maestro | Animated short subject | 1952 | 1993 | [33] |
The Magnificent Ambersons | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1991 | [21] |
The Magnificent Seven | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2013 | [37] |
Make Way for Tomorrow | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2010 | [29] |
The Making of an American | Short subject | 1920 | 2005 | [40] |
Malcolm X | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2010 | [29] |
The Maltese Falcon | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1989 | [44] |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Narrative feature | 1962 | 2007 | [18] |
The Manchurian Candidate | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1994 | [28] |
Manhatta | Documentary/short subject | 1921 | 1995 | [27] |
Manhattan | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2001 | [25] |
The March | Documentary/short subject | 1964 | 2008 | [24] |
Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert | Documentary | 1939 | 2001 | [25] |
The Mark of Zorro | Narrative feature | 1920 | 2015 | [41] |
The Mark of Zorro | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2009 | [46] |
Marty | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1994 | [28] |
Mary Poppins | Narrative feature | 1964 | 2013 | [37] |
MASH | Narrative feature | 1970 | 1996 | [39] |
Master Hands | Documentary | 1936 | 1999 | [45] |
Matrimony's Speed Limit | Short subject | 1913 | 2003 | [34] |
The Matrix | Narrative feature | 1999 | 2012 | [22] |
McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2010 | [29] |
Mean Streets | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1997 | [42] |
Medium Cool | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2003 | [34] |
Meet Me in St. Louis | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1994 | [28] |
Melody Ranch | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2002 | [30] |
Memphis Belle | Documentary | 1944 | 2001 | [25] |
Men and Dust | Documentary/short subject | 1940 | 2013 | [37] |
Meshes of the Afternoon | Short subject/experimental film | 1943 | 1990 | [31] |
Michael Jackson's Thriller | Music video | 1983 | 2009 | [46] |
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair | Narrative feature/documentary | 1939 | 2012 | [22] |
Midnight | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2013 | [37] |
Midnight Cowboy | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1994 | [28] |
Mighty Like a Moose | Short subject | 1926 | 2007 | [18] |
Mildred Pierce | Narrative feature | 1945 | 1996 | [39] |
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2001 | [25] |
Miracle on 34th Street | Narrative feature | 1947 | 2005 | [40] |
Miss Lulu Bett | Narrative feature | 1922 | 2001 | [25] |
Modern Times | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1989 | [44] |
Modesta | Short subject | 1956 | 1998 | [23] |
Mom and Dad | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2005 | [40] |
Moon Breath Beat | Short subject | 1980 | 2014 | [19] |
Morocco | Narrative feature | 1930 | 1992 | [26] |
Motion Painting No. 1 | Animated short subject | 1947 | 1997 | [42] |
A Movie | Short subject/experimental film | 1958 | 1994 | [28] |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | [44] |
Mrs. Miniver | Narrative feature | 1942 | 2009 | [46] |
Multiple Sidosis | Short subject | 1970 | 2000 | [35] |
The Muppet Movie | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2009 | [46] |
The Music Box | Short subject | 1932 | 1997 | [42] |
The Music Man | Narrative feature | 1962 | 2005 | [40] |
The Musketeers of Pig Alley | Short subject | 1912 | 2016 | [20] |
My Darling Clementine | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1991 | [21] |
My Man Godfrey | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1999 | [45] |
The Naked City | Narrative feature | 1948 | 2007 | [18] |
The Naked Spur | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1997 | [42] |
Nanook of the North | Documentary | 1922 | 1989 | [44] |
Nashville | Narrative feature | 1975 | 1992 | [26] |
National Lampoon's Animal House | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2001 | [25] |
National Velvet | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2003 | [34] |
Naughty Marietta | Narrative feature | 1935 | 2003 | [34] |
The Negro Soldier | Documentary | 1944 | 2011 | [32] |
Network | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2000 | [35] |
Newark Athlete | Short subject | 1891 | 2010 | [29] |
Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies | Home film | 1930s–1940s | 2011 | [32] |
A Night at the Opera | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1993 | [33] |
The Night of the Hunter | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1992 | [26] |
Night of the Living Dead | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1999 | [45] |
Ninotchka | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1990 | [31] |
No Lies | Short subject | 1973 | 2008 | [24] |
Norma Rae | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2011 | [32] |
North by Northwest | Narrative feature | 1959 | 1995 | [27] |
(nostalgia) | Documentary/short subject | 1971 | 2003 | [34] |
Notes on the Port of St. Francis | Documentary/short subject | 1951 | 2013 | [37] |
Nothing But a Man | Narrative feature | 1964 | 1993 | [33] |
Notorious | Narrative feature | 1946 | 2006 | [38] |
Now, Voyager | Narrative feature | 1942 | 2007 | [18] |
The Nutty Professor | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2004 | [43] |
OffOn | Short subject/experimental film | 1968 | 2004 | [43] |
Oklahoma! | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2007 | [18] |
The Old Mill | Animated short subject | 1937 | 2015 | [41] |
On the Bowery | Documentary | 1957 | 2008 | [24] |
On the Waterfront | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1989 | [44] |
Once Upon a Time in the West | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2009 | [46] |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Narrative feature | 1975 | 1993 | [33] |
One Froggy Evening | Animated short subject | 1956 | 2003 | [34] |
One Survivor Remembers | Documentary/short subject | 1995 | 2012 | [22] |
One Week | Short subject | 1920 | 2008 | [24] |
Our Daily Bread | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2015 | [41] |
Our Day | Documentary/short subject | 1938 | 2007 | [18] |
Our Lady of the Sphere | Experimental film | 1969 | 2010 | [29] |
Out of the Past | Narrative feature | 1947 | 1991 | [21] |
The Outlaw Josey Wales | Narrative feature | 1976 | 1996 | [39] |
The Ox-Bow Incident | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1998 | [23] |
Parable | Short subject | 1964 | 2012 | [22] |
Paris Is Burning | Documentary | 1990 | 2016 | [20] |
Pass the Gravy | Short subject | 1928 | 1998 | [23] |
Paths of Glory | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1992 | [26] |
Patton | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2003 | [34] |
The Pawnbroker | Narrative feature | 1964 | 2008 | [24] |
The Pearl | Narrative feature | 1948 | 2002 | [30] |
Peege | Short subject | 1972 | 2007 | [18] |
The Perils of Pauline[VIII] | Film serial | 1914 | 2008 | [24] |
Peter Pan | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2000 | [35] |
The Phantom of the Opera | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1998 | [23] |
The Philadelphia Story | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1995 | [27] |
Pillow Talk | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2009 | [46] |
The Pink Panther | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2010 | [29] |
Pinocchio | Animated narrative feature | 1940 | 1994 | [28] |
A Place in the Sun | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1991 | [21] |
Planet of the Apes | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2001 | [25] |
Please Don't Bury Me Alive! | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2014 | [19] |
The Plow That Broke the Plains | Documentary/short subject | 1936 | 1999 | [45] |
Point Blank | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2016 | [20] |
Point of Order | Documentary | 1964 | 1993 | [33] |
The Poor Little Rich Girl | Narrative feature | 1917 | 1991 | [21] |
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | Animated short subject | 1936 | 2004 | [43] |
Porgy and Bess | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2011 | [32] |
Porky in Wackyland | Animated short subject | 1938 | 2000 | [35] |
Portrait of Jason | Documentary | 1967 | 2015 | [41] |
The Power and the Glory | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2014 | [19] |
The Power of the Press | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2005 | [40] |
Powers of Ten | Documentary/short subject | 1977 | 1998 | [23] |
Precious Images | Compilation short subject | 1986 | 2009 | [46] |
Preservation of the Sign Language | Short subject | 1913 | 2010 | [29] |
President McKinley Inauguration Footage | Documentary/short subject | 1901 | 2000 | [35] |
Primary | Documentary | 1960 | 1990 | [31] |
The Princess Bride | Narrative feature | 1987 | 2016 | [20] |
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy | Short subject | 1909 | 2003 | [34] |
The Prisoner of Zenda | Narrative feature | 1937 | 1991 | [21] |
The Producers | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1996 | [39] |
Psycho | Narrative feature | 1960 | 1992 | [26] |
The Public Enemy | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1998 | [23] |
Pull My Daisy | Short subject | 1959 | 1996 | [39] |
Pulp Fiction | Narrative feature | 1994 | 2013 | [37] |
Punch Drunks | Short subject | 1934 | 2002 | [30] |
Pups Is Pups | Short subject | 1930 | 2004 | [43] |
Putney Swope | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2016 | [20] |
Quasi at the Quackadero | Animated short subject | 1975 | 2009 | [46] |
The Quiet Man | Narrative feature | 1952 | 2013 | [37] |
Raging Bull | Narrative feature | 1980 | 1990 | [31] |
Raiders of the Lost Ark | Narrative feature | 1981 | 1999 | [45] |
A Raisin in the Sun | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2005 | [40] |
Rear Window | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1997 | [42] |
Rebel Without a Cause | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1990 | [31] |
The Red Book | Animated short subject | 1994 | 2009 | [46] |
Red Dust | Narrative feature | 1932 | 2006 | [38] |
Red River | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1990 | [31] |
Regeneration | Narrative feature | 1915 | 2000 | [35] |
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | Documentary | 1971–1972 | 2006 | [38] |
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage | Newsreel | 1937 | 1997 | [42] |
Return of the Secaucus 7 | Narrative feature | 1980 | 1997 | [42] |
The Revenge of Pancho Villa | Narrative feature | 1930–1936 | 2009 | [46] |
Ride the High Country | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1992 | [26] |
The Right Stuff | Narrative feature | 1983 | 2013 | [37] |
Rio Bravo | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2014 | [19] |
Rip Van Winkle[III] | Film serial | 1896 | 1995 | [27] |
The River | Documentary/short subject | 1938 | 1990 | [31] |
Road to Morocco | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1996 | [39] |
Rocky | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2006 | [38] |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2005 | [40] |
Roger & Me | Documentary | 1989 | 2013 | [37] |
Roman Holiday | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1999 | [45] |
Rose Hobart | Short subject/experimental film | 1936 | 2001 | [25] |
Rosemary's Baby | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2014 | [19] |
Ruggles of Red Gap | Narrative feature | 1935 | 2014 | [19] |
Rushmore | Narrative feature | 1998 | 2016 | [20] |
Sabrina | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2002 | [30] |
Safety Last! | Narrative feature | 1923 | 1994 | [28] |
Salesman | Documentary | 1969 | 1992 | [26] |
Salomé | Narrative feature | 1923 | 2000 | [35] |
Salt of the Earth | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1992 | [26] |
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia | Documentary | 1990 | 2012 | [22] |
San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 | Documentary | 1906 | 2005 | [40] |
Saturday Night Fever | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2010 | [29] |
Saving Private Ryan | Narrative feature | 1998 | 2014 | [19] |
Scarface | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1994 | [28] |
Schindler's List | Narrative feature | 1993 | 2004 | [43] |
Scratch and Crow | Animated short subject | 1995 | 2009 | [46] |
The Searchers | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1989 | [44] |
Seconds | Narrative feature | 1966 | 2015 | [41] |
Serene Velocity | Short subject | 1970 | 2001 | [25] |
Sergeant York | Narrative feature | 1941 | 2008 | [24] |
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2004 | [43] |
Seventh Heaven | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1995 | [27] |
sex, lies, and videotape | Narrative feature | 1989 | 2006 | [38] |
The Sex Life of the Polyp | Short subject | 1928 | 2007 | [18] |
Shadow of a Doubt | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1991 | [21] |
Shadows | Narrative feature | 1959 | 1993 | [33] |
Shaft | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2000 | [35] |
Shane | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1993 | [33] |
The Shawshank Redemption | Narrative feature | 1994 | 2015 | [41] |
She Done Him Wrong | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1996 | [39] |
Sherlock Jr. | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1991 | [21] |
Sherman's March | Documentary | 1986 | 2000 | [35] |
Shock Corridor | Narrative feature | 1963 | 1996 | [39] |
Shoes | Narrative feature | 1916 | 2014 | [19] |
The Shop Around the Corner | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1999 | [45] |
Show Boat | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1996 | [39] |
Show People | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2003 | [34] |
Siege | Documentary/short subject | 1940 | 2006 | [38] |
The Silence of the Lambs | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2011 | [32] |
Singin' in the Rain | Narrative feature | 1952 | 1989 | [44] |
Sink or Swim | Experimental film | 1990 | 2015 | [41] |
Sky High | Narrative feature | 1922 | 1998 | [23] |
Slacker | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2012 | [22] |
Snow-White | Animated short subject | 1933 | 1994 | [28] |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Animated narrative feature | 1937 | 1989 | [44] |
So's Your Old Man | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2008 | [24] |
Solomon Sir Jones films | Home film | 1924-1928 | 2016 | [20] |
Some Like It Hot | Narrative feature | 1959 | 1989 | [44] |
The Son of the Sheik | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2003 | [34] |
Sons of the Desert | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2012 | [22] |
The Sound of Music | Narrative feature | 1965 | 2001 | [25] |
The Spook Who Sat by the Door | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2012 | [22] |
Stagecoach | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1995 | [27] |
Stand and Deliver | Narrative feature | 1988 | 2011 | [32] |
A Star Is Born | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2000 | [35] |
Star Theatre | Short subject | 1901 | 2002 | [30] |
Star Wars | Narrative feature | 1977 | 1989 | [44] |
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2010 | [29] |
Stark Love | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2009 | [46] |
State Fair | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2014 | [19] |
Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2016 | [20] |
Steamboat Willie | Animated short subject | 1928 | 1998 | [23] |
The Sting | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2005 | [40] |
Stormy Weather | Narrative feature | 1943 | 2001 | [25] |
The Story of G.I. Joe | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2009 | [46] |
The Story of Menstruation | Animated short subject | 1946 | 2015 | [41] |
Stranger Than Paradise | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2002 | [30] |
A Streetcar Named Desire | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1999 | [45] |
The Strong Man | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2007 | [18] |
A Study in Reds | Short subject | 1932 | 2009 | [46] |
Study of a River | Short subject/experimental film | 1997 | 2010 | [29] |
St. Louis Blues | Short subject | 1929 | 2006 | [38] |
Sullivan's Travels | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1990 | [31] |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1989 | [44] |
Sunset Boulevard | Narrative feature | 1950 | 1989 | [44] |
Suzanne, Suzanne | Documentary short subject | 1982 | 2016 | [20] |
Sweet Smell of Success | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1993 | [33] |
Swing Time | Narrative feature | 1936 | 2004 | [43] |
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm | Documentary | 1968 | 2015 | [41] |
The T.A.M.I. Show | Documentary | 1964 | 2006 | [38] |
Tabu | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1994 | [28] |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse | Home film | 1940 | 1998 | [23] |
The Tall T | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2000 | [35] |
Tarantella | Short subject/experimental film | 1940 | 2010 | [29] |
Tarzan and His Mate | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2003 | [34] |
Taxi Driver | Narrative feature | 1976 | 1994 | [28] |
The Tell-Tale Heart | Animated short subject | 1953 | 2001 | [25] |
The Ten Commandments | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1999 | [45] |
The Terminator | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2008 | [24] |
Tess of the Storm Country | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2006 | [38] |
Tevya | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1991 | [21] |
Thelma & Louise | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2016 | [20] |
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck | Short subject | 1925 | 2002 | [30] |
There It Is | Short subject | 1928 | 2004 | [43] |
They Call It Pro Football | Documentary | 1967 | 2012 | [22] |
The Thief of Bagdad | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1996 | [39] |
The Thin Blue Line | Documentary | 1988 | 2001 | [25] |
The Thin Man | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1997 | [42] |
The Thing from Another World | Narrative feature | 1951 | 2001 | [25] |
Think of Me First as a Person | Documentary/home film | 1960–1975 | 2006 | [38] |
This Is Cinerama | Documentary | 1952 | 2002 | [30] |
This is Spinal Tap | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2002 | [30] |
Three Little Pigs | Animated short subject | 1933 | 2007 | [18] |
Through Navajo Eyes[IV] | Film serial | 1966 | 2002 | [30] |
A Time for Burning | Documentary | 1966 | 2005 | [40] |
A Time Out of War | Short subject | 1954 | 2006 | [38] |
The Times of Harvey Milk | Documentary | 1984 | 2012 | [22] |
Tin Toy | Animated short subject | 1988 | 2003 | [34] |
To Be or Not to Be | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1996 | [39] |
To Fly! | Documentary | 1976 | 1995 | [27] |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1995 | [27] |
Tol'able David | Narrative feature | 1921 | 2007 | [18] |
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son | Experimental film | 1969–1971 | 2007 | [18] |
Tootsie | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1998 | [23] |
Top Gun | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2015 | [41] |
Top Hat | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1990 | [31] |
Topaz | Documentary | 1943–1945 | 1996 | [39] |
Touch of Evil | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1993 | [33] |
Toy Story | Animated narrative feature | 1995 | 2005 | [40] |
Traffic in Souls | Narrative feature | 1913 | 2006 | [38] |
Trance and Dance in Bali | Documentary/short subject | 1936–1939[V] | 1999 | [45] |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1990 | [31] |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2010 | [29] |
A Trip Down Market Street | Documentary | 1906 | 2010 | [29] |
Trouble in Paradise | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1991 | [21] |
Tulips Shall Grow | Animated short subject | 1942 | 1997 | [42] |
Twelve O'Clock High | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1998 | [23] |
Twentieth Century | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2011 | [32] |
Two-Lane Blacktop | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2012 | [22] |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2012 | [22] |
Under Western Stars | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2009 | [46] |
Unforgiven | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2004 | [43] |
Unmasked | Narrative feature | 1917 | 2014 | [19] |
V-E +1 | Documentary | 1945 | 2014 | [19] |
Verbena Tragica | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1996 | [39] |
Vertigo | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1989 | [44] |
A Virtuous Vamp | Narrative feature | 1919 | 2013 | [37] |
A Walk in the Sun | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2016 | [20] |
The Way of Peace | Narrative short | 1947 | 2014 | [19] |
The War of the Worlds | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2011 | [32] |
Water and Power | Documentary | 1989 | 2008 | [24] |
The Wedding March | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2003 | [34] |
West Side Story | Narrative feature | 1961 | 1997 | [42] |
Westinghouse Works, 1904[VI] | Film serial | 1904 | 1998 | [23] |
What's Opera, Doc? | Animated short subject | 1957 | 1992 | [26] |
Where Are My Children? | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1993 | [33] |
White Fawn's Devotion | Short subject | 1910 | 2008 | [24] |
White Heat | Narrative feature | 1949 | 2003 | [34] |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Narrative feature | 1988 | 2016 | [20] |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Narrative feature | 1966 | 2013 | [37] |
Why Man Creates | Animated documentary/short subject | 1968 | 2002 | [30] |
Why We Fight[IX] | Documentary film serial | 1943–1945 | 2000 | [35] |
Wild and Woolly | Narrative feature | 1917 | 2002 | [30] |
Wild Boys of the Road | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2013 | [37] |
The Wild Bunch | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1999 | [45] |
Wild River | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2002 | [30] |
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2000 | [35] |
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2014 | [19] |
Winchester '73 | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2015 | [41] |
The Wind | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1993 | [33] |
Wings | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1997 | [42] |
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2012 | [22] |
Within Our Gates | Narrative feature | 1920 | 1992 | [26] |
The Wizard of Oz | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | [44] |
Woman of the Year | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1999 | [45] |
A Woman Under the Influence | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1990 | [31] |
The Women | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2007 | [18] |
Woodstock | Documentary | 1970 | 1996 | [39] |
Wuthering Heights | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2007 | [18] |
Yankee Doodle Dandy | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1993 | [33] |
Young Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1974 | 2003 | [34] |
Young Mr. Lincoln | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2003 | [34] |
Zapruder film | Home film | 1963 | 1994 | [28] |
^ I Parts 1–5, 7, and 10
^ II A serial of thirteen short films
^ III A serial of eight short films
^ IV A serial of seven short films
^ V Not released until 1952
^ VI A serial of twenty-one short films
^ VII A serial of fourteen short films
^ VIII A serial of twenty short films
^ IX A serial of seven feature films
Number of films by release year
This table is through the 2015 induction list (675 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 | 1 |
1904 | 1 |
1906 | 3 |
1909 | 3 |
1910 | 2 |
1911 | 1 |
1912 | 4 |
1913 | 5 |
1914 | 9 |
1915 | 6 |
1916 | 5 |
1917 | 5 |
1918 | 1 |
1919 | 3 |
1920 | 8 |
1921 | 4 |
1922 | 6 |
1923 | 2 |
1924 | 6 |
1925 | 10 |
1926 | 7 |
1927 | 9 |
1928 | 15 |
1929 | 7 |
1930 | 7 |
1931 | 9 |
1932 | 9 |
1933 | 15 |
1934 | 9 |
1935 | 5 |
1936 | 12 |
1937 | 9 |
1938 | 9 |
1939 | 18 |
1940 | 18 |
1941 | 8 |
1942 | 12 |
1943 | 6 |
1944 | 12 |
1945 | 10 |
1946 | 11 |
1947 | 4 |
1948 | 9 |
1949 | 7 |
1950 | 7 |
1951 | 9 |
1952 | 6 |
1953 | 15 |
1954 | 10 |
1955 | 6 |
1956 | 10 |
1957 | 15 |
1958 | 5 |
1959 | 12 |
1960 | 6 |
1961 | 8 |
1962 | 8 |
1963 | 7 |
1964 | 11 |
1965 | 2 |
1966 | 7 |
1967 | 10 |
1968 | 13 |
1969 | 12 |
1970 | 10 |
1971 | 11 |
1972 | 8 |
1973 | 9 |
1974 | 8 |
1975 | 10 |
1976 | 10 |
1977 | 7 |
1978 | 5 |
1979 | 9 |
1980 | 8 |
1981 | 1 |
1982 | 6 |
1983 | 5 |
1984 | 6 |
1985 | 1 |
1986 | 7 |
1988 | 4 |
1989 | 5 |
1990 | 4 |
1991 | 5 |
1992 | 4 |
1993 | 2 |
1994 | 5 |
1995 | 3 |
1996 | 1 |
1997 | 2 |
1998 | 2 |
1999 | 1 |
2000 | 1 |
2002 | 1 |
2004 | 1 |
Unknown | 3 |
See also
- National Recording Registry
- These Amazing Shadows, a 2011 documentary film that tells the history and importance of the registry
References
- ^ "Reagan Signs Law on Film". The New York Times. September 28, 1988. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ^ "Legislative Authorization". National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ^ "Public Law 110–336—Oct. 2, 2008" (PDF). United States Government Printing Office. Retrieved August 15, 2009.
- ^ http://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/about-this-program
- ^ Fox, Michael (May 28, 2003). "Running Around San Francisco for an Education". SF Weekly. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
- ^ a b c "National Film Registry Adds 25 Films". Millimeter. December 17, 2002. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ Molotsky, Irvin (September 20, 1989). "25 Films Chosen for the National Registry". The New York Times. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
- ^ "National treasures". Ellensburg Daily Record. United Press International. October 16, 1989. Retrieved August 4, 2009.
- ^ Keogh, Jim (March 25, 1999). "Public gets ticket to put favorite flicks in registry" (Fee required). Telegram & Gazette. Retrieved August 4, 2009.
- ^ ""Shawshank Redemption," "Ghostbusters" added to National Film Registry" (Press release). CBS News. December 16, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
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External links
- National Film Registry homepage
- Classic Movie Hub: National Film Registry List
- These Amazing Shadows site for Independent Lens on PBS