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Total: 587  
Seen: 57 (9.7%)
See Again: 0 (0.0%)
Unseen: 530 (90.3%)

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Films in the National Film Registry

Every year, the National Film Preservation Board in the United States selects up to twenty-five "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films" films for preservation. These films are listed in the National Film Registry. (Note that not all films are narrative or feature films; also, Why We Fight was actually seven propaganda movies released between 1942 and 1945 but inducted into the Film Registry as one. Likewise, Flash Gordon was a serial.)

 

1. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
3. 42nd Street (1933)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
6. Adam's Rib (1949)
7. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
8. The African Queen (1951)
9. Airplane! (1980)
10. Alien (1979)
11. All About Eve (1950)
12. All My Babies (1953)
13. All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
14. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
15. All That Jazz (1979)
16. All the King's Men (1949)
17. All the President's Men (1976)
18. Allures (1961)
19. America, America (1963)
20. American Graffiti (1973)
21. An American In Paris (1951)
22. Animal House (1978)
23. Annie Hall (1977)
24. Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
25. The Apartment (1960)
26. Applause (1929)
27. Apocalypse Now (1979)
28. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
29. Atlantic City (1980)
30. The Awful Truth (1937)
31. Baby Face (1933)
32. Back To the Future (1985)
33. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
34. Badlands (1973)
35. Bambi (1942)
36. The Band Wagon (1953)
37. The Bank Dick (1940)
38. The Two-Gun Man In the Bargain (1914)  (a.k.a. The Bargain)
39. The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
40. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
41. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
42. Ben-Hur (1959)
43. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
44. Big Business (1929)
45. The Big Heat (1953)
46. The Big Parade (1925)
47. The Big Sleep (1946)
48. The Big Trail (1930)
49. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
50. The Black Pirate (1926)
51. Blacksmith Scene (1893)
52. The Black Stallion (1979)
53. Blade Runner (1982)
54. Blazing Saddles (1974)
55. The Blood of Jesus (1941)
56. The Blue Bird (1918)
57. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
58. Boyz N the Hood (1991)
59. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
60. The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
61. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
62. Broken Blossoms (1919)
63. A Bronx Morning (1931)
64. The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
65. Bullitt (1968)
66. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
67. Cabaret (1972)
68. The Cameraman (1928)
69. Carmen Jones (1954)
70. Casablanca (1942)
71. Castro Street (1966)
72. Cat People (1942)
73. Chan Is Missing (1982)
74. The Cheat (1915)
75. The Chechahcos (1924)
76. Chinatown (1974)
77. Chulas Fronteras (1976)
78. Citizen Kane (1941)
79. The City (1939)
80. City Lights (1931)
81. Civilization (1916)
82. Clash of the Wolves (1925)
83. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
84. Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
85. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
86. A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
87. The Conversation (1974)
88. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
89. The Cool World (1964)
90. Cops (1922)
91. A Corner In Wheat (1909)
92. The Court Jester (1956)
93. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
94. The Crowd (1928)
95. Cry of Jazz (1959)
96. The Cry of the Children (1912)
97. A Cure For Pokeritis (1912)
98. The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916)
99. Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
100. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
101. Dances With Wolves (1990)
102. Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
103. Daughters of the Dust (1991)
104. David Holzman's Diary (1967)
105. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
106. Days of Heaven (1978)
107. Dead Birds (1965)
108. The Deer Hunter (1978)
109. Deliverance (1972)
110. Destry Rides Again (1939)
111. Detour (1945)
112. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
113. Disneyland Dream (1956)
114. D.O.A. (1950)
115. Do the Right Thing (1989)
116. The Docks of New York (1928)
117. Dodsworth (1936)
118. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
119. Dog Star Man: Part I (1962)
120. Don't Look Back (1967)
121. Double Indemnity (1944)
122. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
123. Dracula (1931)
124. The Drums of Winter (1989)
125. Duck Amuck (1953)
126. Duck and Cover (1952)
127. Duck Soup (1933)
128. E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
129. Early Abstractions #1-5, 7, 10 (1987)
130. Easy Rider (1969)
131. Eaux D'artifice (1953)
132. THX 1138 4EB (1967)
133. The Emperor Jones (1933)
134. Empire (1964)
135. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
136. The Endless Summer (1966)
137. Enter the Dragon (1973)
138. Eraserhead (1977)
139. The Evidence of the Film (1913)
140. The Exiles (1961)
141. The Exorcist (1973)
142. The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
143. A Face In the Crowd (1957)
144. Faces (1968)
145. Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
146. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
147. Fantasia (1940)
148. Fargo (1996)
149. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
150. Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
151. Film Portrait (1973)
152. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
153. Flash Gordon (1936)
154. Flesh and the Devil (1926)
155. Flower Drum Song (1961)
156. Foolish Wives (1922)
157. Footlight Parade (1933)
158. Force of Evil (1948)
159. The Forgotten Frontier (1931)
160. Forrest Gump (1994)
161. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
162. Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band (1928)
163. Frank Film (1973)
164. Frankenstein (1931)
165. Freaks (1932)
166. Free Radicals (1979)
167. The French Connection (1971)
168. The Freshman (1925)
169. From Here To Eternity (1953)
170. From Stump To Ship (1930)
171. From the Manger To the Cross (1912)
172. The Front Page (1931)
173. Fuji (1974)
174. Fury (1936)
175. Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980)
176. The General (1927)
177. George Stevens' World War II Footage: That Justice Be Done (1945)
178. George Stevens' World War II Footage: Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)
179. George Stevens' World War II Footage: The Nazi Plan (1945)
180. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
181. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
182. Giant (1956)
183. Gigi (1958)
184. Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
185. The Godfather (1972)
186. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
187. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
188. The Gold Rush (1925)
189. Gone With the Wind (1939)
190. Going My Way (1944)
191. Goodfellas (1990)
192. The Graduate (1967)
193. Grand Hotel (1932)
194. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
195. Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life (1925)
196. The Great Dictator (1940)
197. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
198. Greed (1924)
199. Grey Gardens (1976)
200. Groundhog Day (1993)
201. Growing Up Female (1971)
202. Gun Crazy (1950)
203. Gunga Din (1939)
204. H2O (1929)
205. Hallelujah! (1929)
206. Halloween (1978)
207. Hands Up! (1926)
208. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
209. Harold and Maude (1971)
210. The Heiress (1949)
211. Hell's Hinges (1916)
212. Heroes All (1920)
213. Hester Street (1975)
214. High Noon (1952)
215. High School (1968)
216. Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
217. His Girl Friday (1940)
218. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
219. Hoop Dreams (1994)
220. Hoosiers (1986)
221. Hospital (1970)
222. The Hospital (1971)
223. The House I Live In (1945)
224. The House In the Middle (1954)
225. Hot Dogs For Gauguin (1972)
226. House of Usher (1960)
227. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
228. How the West Was Won (1962)
229. The Hunters (1957)
230. The Hustler (1961)
231. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
232. I Am Joaquin (1969)
233. I, an Actress (1977)
234. Imitation of Life (1934)
235. The Immigrant (1917)
236. In a Lonely Place (1950)
237. In Cold Blood (1967)
238. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
239. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
240. In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
241. In the Street (1948)
242. Intolerance (1916)
243. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
244. The Invisible Man (1933)
245. The Iron Horse (1924)
246. It (1927)
247. It Happened One Night (1934)
248. It's a Gift (1934)
249. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
250. The Italian (1915)
251. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
252. Jam Session (1942)
253. Jammin' the Blues (1944)
254. Jaws (1975)
255. Jazz On a Summer's Day (1960)
256. The Jazz Singer (1927)
257. Jeffries-Johnson World Championship Fight (1910)
258. Jezebel (1938)
259. Johnny Guitar (1954)
260. The Jungle (1967)
261. Kannapolis, N.C. (1941)
262. The Kid (1921)
263. Killer of Sheep (1978)
264. The Killers (1946)
265. King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis (1970)
266. King Kong (1933)
267. The Kiss (1896)
268. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
269. Knute Rockne All American (1940)
270. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
271. The Lady Eve (1941)
272. Lady Helen's Escapade (1909)
273. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
274. Lambchops (1929)
275. Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
276. Lassie Come Home (1943)
277. The Last Command (1928)
278. The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
279. The Last Picture Show (1971)
280. Laura (1944)
281. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
282. Lead Shoes (1949)
283. The Learning Tree (1969)
284. Let There Be Light (1946)
285. Let's All Go To the Lobby (1957)
286. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
287. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
288. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
289. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
290. Little Caesar (1931)
291. Little Fugitive (1953)
292. Little Miss Marker (1934)
293. Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911)  (a.k.a. Little Nemo)
294. The Living Desert (1953)
295. Lonesome (1928)
296. The Lost Weekend (1945)
297. The Lost World (1925)
298. Louisiana Story (1948)
299. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
300. Love Me Tonight (1932)
301. Mabel's Blunder (1914)
302. Magical Maestro (1952)
303. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
304. Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
305. The Making of an American (1920)
306. Malcolm X (1992)
307. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
308. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
309. Manhatta (1921)
310. Manhattan (1979)
311. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
312. The March (1964)
313. March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
314. El Mariachi (1992)
315. Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
316. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
317. Marty (1955)
318. M*A*S*H (1970)
319. Master Hands (1936)
320. Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
321. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
322. Mean Streets (1973)
323. Medium Cool (1969)
324. Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
325. Melody Ranch (1940)
326. The Memphis Belle (1944)
327. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
328. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
329. Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
330. Mildred Pierce (1945)
331. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
332. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
333. Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
334. Modern Times (1936)
335. Modesta (1956)
336. Mom and Dad (1945)
337. Morocco (1930)
338. Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
339. A Movie (1958)
340. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
341. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
342. Multiple Sidosis (1970)
343. The Muppet Movie (1979)
344. The Music Box (1932)
345. The Music Man (1962)
346. My Darling Clementine (1946)
347. My Man Godfrey (1936)
348. The Naked City (1948)
349. The Naked Spur (1953)
350. Nanook of the North (1922)
351. Nashville (1975)
352. National Velvet (1944)
353. Naughty Marietta (1935)
354. The Negro Soldier (1944)
355. Network (1976)
356. Newark Athlete (1891)
357. Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-40s)
358. A Night At the Opera (1935)
359. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
360. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
361. Ninotchka (1939)
362. ...No Lies (1974)
363. Norma Rae (1979)
364. El Norte (1983)
365. North By Northwest (1959)
366. Nostalgia (1971)
367. Nothing But a Man (1964)
368. Notorious (1946)
369. Now, Voyager (1942)
370. The Nutty Professor (1963)
371. Offon (1972)
372. Oklahoma! (1955)
373. On the Bowery (1957)
374. On the Waterfront (1954)
375. Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
376. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
377. One Froggy Evening (1955)
378. One Week (1920)
379. Our Day (1938)
380. Our Lady of the Sphere (1972)
381. Out of the Past (1947)
382. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
383. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
384. Pass the Gravy (1928)
385. Paths of Glory (1957)
386. Patton (1970)
387. The Pawnbroker (1965)
388. The Pearl (1947)
389. Peege (1972)
390. The Perils of Pauline (1914)
391. Peter Pan (1924)
392. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
393. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
394. Pillow Talk (1959)
395. The Pink Panther (1963)
396. Pinocchio (1940)
397. A Place In the Sun (1951)
398. Planet of the Apes (1968)
399. The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
400. Point of Order (1964)
401. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
402. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
403. Porgy and Bess (1959)
404. Porky In Wackyland (1938)
405. The Power of the Press (1928)
406. Powers of Ten (1977)
407. Precious Images (1986)
408. Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
409. President McKinley Inauguration (1901)
410. Primary (1960)
411. Princess Nicotine; Or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
412. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
413. The Producers (1968)
414. Psycho (1960)
415. The Public Enemy (1931)
416. Pull My Daisy (1959)
417. Punch Drunks (1934)
418. Pups Is Pups (1930)
419. Quasi At the Quackadero (1976)
420. Raging Bull (1980)
421. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
422. A Raisin In the Sun (1961)
423. Rear Window (1954)
424. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
425. The Red Book (1996)
426. Red Dust (1932)
427. Red River (1948)
428. Regeneration (1915)
429. Reminiscences of a Journey To Lithuania (1972)
430. Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage (1937)
431. Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
432. The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1936)
433. Ride the High Country (1962)
434. Rip Van Winkle (1896)
435. The River (1938)
436. Road To Morocco (1942)
437. Rocky (1976)
438. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
439. Roman Holiday (1953)
440. Rose Hobart (1936)
441. Sabrina (1954)
442. Safety Last (1923)
443. Salesman (1969)
444. Salome (1923)
445. Salt of the Earth (1954)
446. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
447. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
448. Scarface (1932)
449. Schindler's List (1993)
450. Scratch and Crow (1995)
451. The Searchers (1956)
452. Serene Velocity (1970)
453. Sergeant York (1941)
454. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
455. 7th Heaven (1927)
456. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
457. The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
458. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
459. Shadows (1959)
460. Shaft (1971)
461. Shane (1953)
462. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
463. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
464. Sherman's March (1986)
465. Shock Corridor (1963)
466. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
467. Show Boat (1936)
468. Show People (1928)
469. Siege (1940)
470. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
471. Singin' In the Rain (1952)
472. Sky High (1922)
473. Snow-White (1933)
474. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
475. Some Like It Hot (1959)
476. The Son of the Sheik (1926)
477. So's Your Old Man (1926)
478. The Sound of Music (1965)
479. Stagecoach (1939)
480. Stand and Deliver (1988)
481. A Star Is Born (1954)
482. Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)  (a.k.a. Star Theatre)
483. Stark Love (1927)
484. Star Wars (1977)
485. Steamboat Willie (1928)
486. The Sting (1973)
487. St. Louis Blues (1929)
488. Stormy Weather (1943)
489. Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
490. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
491. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
492. The Strong Man (1926)
493. A Study In Reds (1932)
494. Study of a River (1996)
495. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
496. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
497. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
498. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
499. Swing Time (1936)
500. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
501. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
502. The Tall T (1957)
503. The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
504. Tarantella (1940)
505. Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
506. Taxi Driver (1976)
507. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
508. The Ten Commandments (1956)
509. The Terminator (1984)
510. Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
511. Tevye (1939)
512. Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925)
513. There It Is (1928)
514. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
515. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
516. The Thin Man (1934)
517. The Thing From Another World (1951)
518. Think of Me First As a Person (1975)
519. This Is Cinerama (1952)
520. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
521. Three Little Pigs (1933)
522. Thriller (1983)
523. Through Navajo Eyes: Intrepid Shadows (1966)
524. Through Navajo Eyes: The Navajo Silversmith (1966)
525. Through Navajo Eyes: A Navajo Weaver (1966)
526. Through Navajo Eyes: Old Antelope Lake (1966)
527. Through Navajo Eyes: Second Weaver (1966)
528. Through Navajo Eyes: The Shallow Well Project (1966)
529. Through Navajo Eyes: The Spirit of the Navajos (1966)
530. A Time For Burning (1967)
531. A Time Out of War (1954)
532. Tin Toy (1988)
533. To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
534. To Fly! (1976)
535. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
536. Tol'able David (1921)
537. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
538. Tootsie (1982)
539. Top Hat (1935)
540. Topaz (1945)
541. Touch of Evil (1958)
542. Toy Story (1995)
543. Traffic In Souls (1913)
544. Trance and Dance In Bali (1952)
545. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
546. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)
547. A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
548. Trouble In Paradise (1932)
549. Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
550. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
551. Twentieth Century (1934)
552. Under Western Stars (1938)
553. Unforgiven (1992)
554. Verbena Tragica (1939)
555. Vertigo (1958)
556. The War of the Worlds (1953)
557. Water and Power (1989)
558. The Wedding March (1928)
559. West Side Story (1961)
560. Westinghouse Works (1904)
561. What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
562. Where Are My Children? (1916)
563. White Fawn's Devotion (1910)
564. White Heat (1949)
565. Why Man Creates (1968)
566. Why We Fight, 1: Prelude To War (1943)
567. Why We Fight, 2: The Nazis Strike (1943)
568. Why We Fight, 3: Divide and Conquer (1943)
569. Why We Fight, 4: The Battle of Britain (1943)
570. Why We Fight, 5: The Battle of Russia (1943)
571. Why We Fight, 6: The Battle of China (1944)
572. Why We Fight, 7: War Comes To America (1945)
573. Wild and Woolly (1917)
574. The Wild Bunch (1969)
575. Wild River (1960)
576. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
577. The Wind (1928)
578. Wings (1927)
579. Within Our Gates (1920)
580. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
581. Woman of the Year (1942)
582. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
583. The Women (1939)
584. Woodstock (1970)
585. Wuthering Heights (1939)
586. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
587. Young Frankenstein (1974)
588. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
589. Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (1963)