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Titles in the National Film Registry
Chronological Order
1893
Blacksmithing Scene
1894
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1896
The John C. Rice-May Irwin Kiss
Rip Van Winkle
1901
President McKinley Inauguration Footage
Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatrer
1903
The Great Train Robbery
1904
Westinghouse Works
1906
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906
1909
Lady Helen’s Escapade
Princess Nicotine; or Smoke Fairy
A Corner in Wheat
1910
White Fawn’s Devotion
Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest
1912
From the Manger to the Cross
The Land beyond the Sunset
1913
The Evidence of the Film
Matrimony’s Speed Limit
Traffic in Souls
1914
Gertie the Dinosaur
Tess of the Storm Country
The Perils of Pauline
In the Land of the Head -Hunters (a.k.a.aka In the Land of the War Canoes)
The Exploits of Elaine
1915
The Italian
The Birth of a Nation
Fatty’s Tintype Tangle
Regeneration
The Cheat
1916
Hell’s Hinges
Where Are My Children?
Civilization
Intolerance
1916-17
The Curse of Quon Gwon
1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl
The Immigrant
Wild and Woolly
1918
The Blue Bird
1919
Broken Blossoms
1920
Within Our Gates
One Week
The Last of the Mohicans
The Making of an American
1921
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Miss Lulu Bett
Tol’able David
Manhatta
1922
Foolish Wives
Sky High
Cops
Nanook of the North
Salomée
1923
Safety Last!
1924
The Thief of Bagdad
Sherlock, Jr.
The Chechahcos
Greed
Peter Pan
1925
The Lost World
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
The Gold Rush
The Freshman
The Phantom of the Opera
The Big Parade
Clash of the Wolves
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Ben-Hur
1926
Hands Up
The Black Pirate
1924-26
Theodore Case Sound Tests: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck
The Son of the Sheik
Mighty Like a Moose
The Strong Man
So’s Your Old Man
Flesh and the Devil
1927
The General
It
7th Heaven
Wings
Sunrise
The Jazz Singer
1928
There It Is
Pass the Gravy
The Last Command
The Crowd
The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra
The Sex Life of the Polyp
The Cameraman
The Docks of New York
The Wedding March
The Power of the Press
Show People
Steamboat Willie
Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band
The Wind
The Fall of the House of Usher
1929
Big Business
Hallelujah
St. Louis Blues
Lambchops
Applause
H2O
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
Pups is Pups
The Big Trail
Morocco
From Stump to Ship
1931
Little Caesar
The Forgotten Frontier
City Lights
Dracula
Tabu
The Public Enemy
Frankenstein
A Bronx Morning
1932
Freaks
Scarface
Grand Hotel
The Music Box
Love Me Tonight
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Trouble in Paradise
Red Dust
1933
She Done Him Wrong
King Kong
42nd Street
Snow-White
Gold Diggers of 1933
Three Little Pigs
Baby Face
The Emperor Jones
Footlight Parade
The Invisible Man
Duck Soup
1934
It Happened One Night
Tarzan and His Mate
The Thin Man
Little Miss Marker
Punch Drunks
Imitation of Life
1935
Naughty Marietta
Bride of Frankenstein
Top Hat
A Night at the Opera
1936
Modern Times
Flash Gordon
The Plow That that Broke the Plains
Show Boat
Fury
Swing Time
My Man Godfrey
Dodsworth
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Rose Hobart
Master Hands
1937
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage
The Life of Emile Zola
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Awful Truth
The River
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Daughter of Shanghai
1938
March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany
Bringing Up Baby
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Porky in Wackyland
Our Day
1939
Gunga Din
Stagecoach
Verbena Tragica
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert
Wuthering Heights
The City
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Wizard of Oz
The Women
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Destry Rides Again
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther
Gone with the Wind
Tevye
1936-39
Trance and Dance in Bali
1940
His Girl Friday
The Shop Around the Corner
The Grapes of Wrath
Pinocchio
Siege
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina, May, 1940
Dance, Girl, Dance
Knute Rockne, All American
The Great Dictator
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Fantasia
Melody Ranch
The Bank Dick
The Philadelphia Story
1941
The Blood of Jesus
The Lady Eve
Sergeant York
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
How Green Was My Valley
Sullivan’s Travels
1940-1941
Kannapolis, NC
1942
Woman of the Year
Tulips Shall Grow
Jam Session
To Be or Not To Be
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Magnificent Ambersons
Now, Voyager
Road to Morocco
Casablanca
Cat People
1943
Shadow of a Doubt
The Ox-Bow Incident
Stormy Weather
Lassie Come Home
Meshes of the Afternoon
1944
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
The Memphis Belle
Double Indemnity
Going My Way
Jammin’ the Blues
Laura
Meet Me in St. Louis
National Velvet
Mom and Dad
The Battle of San Pietro
The House I Live In
1945
Mildred Pierce
Topaz
House I Live In
Detour
1943-45
Topaz
Why We Fight
1946
Notorious
1943-46
George Stevens WWII Footage
1946
The Big Sleep
The Killers
My Darling Clementine
Notorious
The Best Years of Our Lives
It’s a Wonderful Life
1944-46
George Stevens World War II Footage
1947
Miracle on 34th Street
Out of the Past
Motion Painting No. 1
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Pearl
The Naked City
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Red River
Louisiana Story
Force of Evil
In the Street
1949
White Heat
The Heiress
All the King’s Men
Adam’s Rib
Twelve O’Clock High
1950
Gun Crazy
D.O.A.
In a Lonely Place
The Asphalt Jungle
Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
1951
Gerald McBoing-Boing
The Thing From Another World
A Place in the Sun
The Day the Earth Stood Still
A Streetcar Named Desire
An American in Paris
Duck and Cover
The African Queen
1952
Magical Maestro
Singin’ in the Rain
High Noon
This Is Cinerama
The Bad and the Beautiful
1953
All My Babies
The Naked Spur
Duck Amuck
Shane
The Hitch-Hiker
From Here to Eternity
The Band Wagon
Roman Holiday
Little Fugitive
The Living Desert
The Tell-Tale Heart
Eaux d’Artifice
1954
Salt of the Earth
The House in the Middle
Johnny Guitar
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
On the Waterfront
Rear Window
Sabrina
A Star Is Born
Carmen Jones
A Time Out of War
1955
Marty
Kiss Me Deadly
The Night of the Hunter
Oklahoma!
Rebel Without a Cause
All That Heaven Allows
1956
One Froggy Evening
The Court Jester
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Searchers
Giant
The Ten Commandments
Disneyland Dream
Modesta
1939-56
Early Abstractions #1-5, 7, 10
1956
Modesta
1957
On the Bowery
The Tall T
12 Angry Men
A Face in the Crowd
Sweet Smell of Success
What’s Opera, Doc?
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Jailhouse Rock
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Paths of Glory
Glimpse of the Garden
The Hunters
Let’s All Go to the Lobby
1958
Touch of Evil
Vertigo
Gigi
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
A Movie
Free Radicals
1959
Some Like It Hot
North by Northwest
Pull My Daisy
Shadows
Ben-Hur
1960
Wild River
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Psycho
House of Usher
The Apartment
Primary
1961
A Raisin in the Sun
The Hustler
West Side Story
Flower Drum Song
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Ride the High Country
The Music Man
The Manchurian Candidate
How the West Was Won
Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill a Mockingbird
1963
The Nutty Professor
Shock Corridor
Zapruder Film of the Kennedy Assassination
America, America
1964
Point of Order
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Cool World
Empire
Nothing But a Man
The T.A.M.I. Show
Dog Star Man
The March
1965
The Sound of Music
The Pawnbroker
Dead Birds
1966
The Endless Summer
Castro Street
Through Navajo Eyes
1967
David Holzman’s Diary
A Time for Burning
Dont Look Back
In the Heat of the Night
Bonnie and Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
In Cold Blood
The Graduate
1968
Planet of the Apes
The Producers
2001: A Space Odyssey
High School
Night of the Living Dead
Bullitt
OffOn
Why Man Creates
1969
Midnight Cowboy
The Wild Bunch
Easy Rider
The Learning Tree
Medium Cool
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Czechoslovakia 1918-1968
Salesman
1970
MASH
Hospital
Patton
King: . . . A Filmed Record . . . Montgomery to Memphis
Woodstock
Five Easy Pieces
Multiple SIDosis
Serene Velocity
1971
Shaft
The Last Picture Show
The French Connection
The Hospital
Harold and Maude
Nostalgia
1969-71
Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son
1972
Cabaret
The Godfather
Deliverance
PeegeFilm Portrait
1971-72
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
Film Portrait
1973
Frank Film
American Graffiti
Enter the Dragon
Mean Streets
Badlands
The Sting
1974
Blazing Saddles
. . . No Lies
The Conversation
Chinatown
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
A Woman Under the Influence
The Godfather, Part II
Young Frankenstein
Fuji
1975
Nashville
Jaws
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1960-75
Think of Me First as a Person
1976
Taxi Driver
The Outlaw Josey Wales
To Fly!
Harlan County U.S.A.
Rocky
Network
Chulas Fronteras
1977
Killer of Sheep
Annie Hall
Star Wars
Eraserhead
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Days of Heaven
Halloween
The Deer Hunter
Powers of Ten
1979
Manhattan
Alien
Apocalypse Now
The Black Stallion
All That JazzFree Radicals
Free Radicals
1980
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers
Return of the Secaucus 7
Seven
Atlantic City
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Raging Bull
1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Chan Is Missing
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
1982
Blade Runner
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Koyaanisqatsi
Tootsie
1983
El Norte
1984
This Is Spinal Tap
Stranger Than than Paradise
The Terminator
1985
Back to the Future
1986
Sherman’s March
Hoosiers
1988
Tin Toy
The Thin Blue Line
Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter
1989
sex, lies, and videotape
Do the Right Thing
Water and Power
1990
GoodFellas
Dances With Wolves
1991
Daughters of the Dust
Boyz n the Hood
Beauty and the Beast
1992
Unforgiven
1993
Groundhog Day
Schindler’s List
1994
Hoop Dreams
1995
Toy Story
1996
Fargo