Useful Notes / National Film Registry

The National Film Registry is a department of the United States Library of Congress designed to preserve American-made films (both feature-length films and shorts) that are "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" since its inception in 1989. While live-action narrative films are the backbone of the Registry, documentaries are also eligible, as are animated films, newsreel footage, home movies, and anything else that captured important cultural and historical moments for posterity.

This is among the highest honors a movie can receive, much higher than even the Academy Awards (and, believe it or not, less politically meddled with as it is open via email).

Twenty-five movies are selected each year for the Registry. To qualify, an entry must be at least ten years old and to be produced or co-produced in North America. Members of the public are allowed to suggest up to 50 titles per year for inclusion. Anyone interested in suggesting some worthy titles can do so here. If your favorite isn't on there, check out their list of those not yet named.

The musical and audio equivalent is the National Recording Registry.

See also These Amazing Shadows (a.k.a. The Film Registry Movie).

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Films added to the registry include:

1989 (The first 25 entries)

• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
• Nanook of the North (1922)
• The General (1926)
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
• The Crowd (1928)
• Modern Times (1936)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) ^note The first Disney animated movie and piece of animation to be inducted.
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• Casablanca (1942)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• High Noon (1952)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1964)
• The Learning Tree (1969)
• Star Wars a.k.a. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) ^note Original version, as the Registry happens to have a copyright deposit print from the original theatrical release. The Registry does not have a mandate to preserve particular versions of films, despite George Lucas being one of the original advocates for the program in the mid-eighties. Also became the first film of the 1970s to be inducted.

1990

• The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• The Freshman (1925)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• Love Me Tonight (1932)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• Top Hat (1935)
• Dodsworth (1936)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• The River (1938)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• Fantasia (1940)
• How Green Was My Valley (1941)
• Sullivan's Travels (1941)
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Red River (1948)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• All About Eve (1950)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Primary (1960)
• The Godfather (1972)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
• Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
• Killer of Sheep (1978)
• Raging Bull (1980)^note The first movie to be preserved in its first year of eligibility and the first to be included from the 1980s. Interestingly, its induction was announced a few days before the 10th anniversary of its premiere (December 19, 1980). It is likely the only film ever to be allowed to sneak in under the 10-year limit.

1991

• Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
• The Italian (1915)
• The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
• Greed (1924)
• Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
• City Lights (1931)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
• Trouble in Paradise (1932)
• King Kong (1933)
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
• Tevya (1939)
• The Blood of Jesus (1941)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• A Place in the Sun (1951)
• Gigi (1958)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• David Holzman's Diary (1967)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• High School (1968)
• Chinatown (1974)

1992, the year which brought the total to 100

• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Within Our Gates (1920)
• The Big Parade (1925)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• Big Business (1929)
• Morocco (1930)
• Footlight Parade (1933)
• The Bank Dick (1940)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Detour (1945)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
• Adam's Rib (1949)
• Carmen Jones (1954)
• Salt of the Earth (1954)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• What's Opera, Doc? (1957)^note The first Looney Tunes animation to included.
• Psycho (1960)
• Ride the High Country (1962)
• Dog Star Man (1964)
• Castro Street (1966)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Salesman (1969)
• Nashville (1975)
• Annie Hall (1977)

1993

• The Cheat (1915)
• Where Are My Children? (1916)
• The Black Pirate (1926)
• The Wind (1928)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• A Night at the Opera (1935)
• Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Cat People (1942)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• Lassie Come Home (1943)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• Magical Maestro (1952)^note So far, the only Tex Avery short to be inducted.
• Eaux d'Artifice (1953)
• Shane (1953)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• Shadows (1959)
• Nothing But a Man (1964)
• Point of Order (1964)
• Badlands (1973)
• The Godfather Part II (1974)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Chulas Fronteras (1976)
• Blade Runner (1982)

1994

• A Corner in Wheat (1909)
• The Exploits Of Elaine (1914)
• Hell's Hinges (1916)
• Safety Last! (1923)
• Tabu (1931)
• Freaks (1932)
• Scarface (1932)
• Snow White (1933)
• Pinocchio (1940)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• Force of Evil (1948)
• Louisiana Story (1948)
• The African Queen (1951)
• Marty (1955)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• A Movie (1958)
• The Apartment (1960)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• The Cool World (1963)
• Zapruder Film (1963)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Hospital (1970)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

1995

• Blacksmith Scene (1893) ^note  first film from the 1800s to be inducted.
• Rip Van Winkle (1896)
• Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
• Manhatta (1921)
• 7th Heaven (1927)
• Fury (1936)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940)
• Jammin' the Blues (1944)
• Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• All That Heaven Allows (1955)
• North By Northwest (1959)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• The Hospital (1971)
• Cabaret (1972)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• The Conversation (1974)
• To Fly! (1976 — an early IMAX short)
• Chan Is Missing (1982)
• El Norte (1983)

1996

• Broken Blossoms (1919)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
• The Jazz Singer (1927)
• The Forgotten Frontier (1931)
• She Done Him Wrong (1933)
• Flash Gordon (serial) (1936)
• Show Boat (1936)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• Destry Rides Again (1939)
• Verbena Tragica (1939)
• Road to Morocco (1942)
• To Be or Not to Be (1942)
• Topaz (1943–1945)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• The Heiress (1949)
• Pull My Daisy (1959)
• Shock Corridor (1963)
• The Graduate (1967)
• The Producers (1967)
• M*A*S*H (1970)
• Woodstock (1970)
• Frank Film (1973)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)

1997

• Cops (1922)
• Ben-Hur (1925)
• Grass (1925)
• Wings (1927)
• The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928)
• The Music Box (1932)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
• Republic Steel Strike Newsreel Footage (1937)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
• Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
• Little Fugitive (1953)
• The Naked Spur (1953)
• Rear Window (1954)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• The Hustler (1961) (1961)
• West Side Story (1961) (1961)
• How the West Was Won (1962)
• Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
• Harold and Maude (1971)
• Mean Streets (1973)
• Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)

1998

• Westinghouse Works, 1904 (1904)
• From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
• The Immigrant (1917)
• Sky High (1922)
• The Lost World (1925)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Pass the Gravy (1928)
• Steamboat Willie (1928)
• The Public Enemy (1931)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• Little Miss Marker (1934)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• The City (1939)
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses (1940)
• The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
• Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
• Gun Crazy (1950)
• The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
• Modesta (1956)
• Dead Birds (1963)
• Don't Look Back (1967)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Powers of Ten (1977)
• Tootsie (1982)

1999

• The Kiss (1896)
• In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
• Civilization (1916)
• The Docks of New York (1928)
• Lambchops (1929)
• The Emperor Jones (1933)
• Master Hands (1936)
• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
• Trance And Dance In Bali (1936-1939)
• Gunga Din (1939)
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
• Woman of the Year (1942)
• Laura (1944)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Duck Amuck (1953)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)

• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)

2000

• President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
• The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
• Regeneration (1915)
• Salome (1923)
• Peter Pan (1924)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
• Little Caesar (1931)
• Dracula (1931) (Tod Browning version)
• The Life of Émile Zola (1937)
• Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
• Porky in Wackyland (1938)
• Why We Fight (1942-1945)
• The Living Desert (1953)
• A Star Is Born (1954)
• The Tall T (1957)
• Intermission: Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• Multiple SIDosis (1970)
• Shaft (1971)
• Network (1976)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
• Sherman's March (1986)
• Goodfellas (1990)^note The first film from the 1990s to be inducted.

2001

• The Evidence of the Film (1913)
• Miss Lulu Bett (1922)
• It (1927)
• Rose Hobart (1936)
• Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
• Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
• Jam Session (1942)
• Stormy Weather (1943)
• The Memphis Belle (1944)
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• All the King's Men (1949)
• The Thing from Another World (1951)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
• The House in the Middle (1954)
• America America (1963)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Serene Velocity (1970)
• Jaws (1975)
• Animal House (1978)
• All That Jazz (1979)
• Manhattan (1979)
• Hoosiers (1986)
• The Thin Blue Line (1988)

2002

• Star Theatre (1901)
• Wild and Woolly (1917)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
• Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925)
• From Stump To Ship (1930)
• Punch Drunks (1934)
• Melody Ranch (1940)
• The Pearl (1948)
• The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
• This is Cinerama (1952)
• All My Babies (1953)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Sabrina (1954)
• Wild River (1960)
• The Endless Summer (1966)
• Navajo Film Themselves (1966)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Why Man Creates (1968)
• Fuji (1974)
• Alien (1979)
• The Black Stallion (1979)
• Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
• This is Spın̈al Tap (1984)
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)^note The first Disney Renaissance film to be selected.
• Boyz n the Hood (1991)

2003

• Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894-1895)
• Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
• Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
• The Chechahcos (1924)
• The Son of the Sheik (1926)
• Jenkins Orphanage Band (Fox Movietone News) (1928)
• Show People (1928)
• The Wedding March (1928)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
• Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
• Naughty Marietta (1935)
• Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
• National Velvet (1944)
• White Heat (1949)
• One Froggy Evening (1955)
• The Hunters (1957)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Medium Cool (1969)
• Patton (1970)
• Nostalgia (1971)
• Film Portrait (1972)
• Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• Tin Toy (1988)

2004

• Lady Helen's Escapade (1909)
• The Blue Bird (1918)
• Clash of the Wolves (1925)
• There It Is (1928)
• Pups Is Pups (1930)
• A Bronx Morning (1931)
• Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
• Swing Time (1936)
• Kanapolis, NC (1941)
• Going My Way (1944)
• D.O.A. (1950)
• Duck and Cover (1951)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
• The Court Jester (1956)
• Jailhouse Rock (1957)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• The Nutty Professor (1963)
• Empire (1964)
• OffOn (1968)
• Enter the Dragon (1973)
• Eraserhead (1977)
• Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
• Daughters of the Dust (1991)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• Schindler's List (1993)

2005

• San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
• Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
• The Making Of An American (1920)
• Hands Up! (1926)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• The Power of the Press (1928)
• H₂O (1929)
• Baby Face (1933)
• Imitation of Life (1934)
• Commander Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina (May 1940) (1940)
• Mom and Dad (1945)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• Giant (1956)
• House of Usher (1960)
• A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
• The Music Man (1962)
• A Time for Burning (1966)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• The French Connection (1971)
• The Sting (1973)
• The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• Hoop Dreams (1994)
• Toy Story (1995)^note The first animated film not to be hand drawn or stop motion get selected.

2006

• Traffic in Souls (1913)
• Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
• The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916-1917)
• Flesh and the Devil (1927)
• The Last Command (1928)
• Applause (1929)
• St. Louis Blues (1929)
• The Big Trail (1930)
• Red Dust (1932)
• Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
• Early Abstractions (1939-1956)
• Siege (1940)
• Notorious (1946)
• In The Street (1948)
• A Time Out of War (1954)
• Think Of Me First As A Person (1960-1975)
• T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
• Reminiscences Of A Journey To Lithuania (1971-1972)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Rocky (1976)
• Halloween (1978)
• Drums Of Winter (1988)
• Sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Fargo (1996)

2007

• Tol'able David (1921)
• Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
• The Strong Man (1926)
• The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
• Grand Hotel (1932)
• The Three Little Pigs (1933)
• Our Day (1938)
• The Women (1939)
• Wuthering Heights (1939)
• Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• The House I Live In (1945)
• The Naked City (1948)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• Oklahoma! (1955)
• A Glimpse Of The Garden (1957)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969-1971)
• Peege (1972)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)

2008

• White Fawn's Devotion (1910)
• The Perils of Pauline (1914)
• One Week (1920)
• Foolish Wives (1922)
• So's Your Old Man (1926)
• Hallelujah! (1929)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• Sergeant York (1941)

• George Stevens World War II Footage (1943-1946)

• The Killers (1946)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• Disneyland Dream (1956)
• A Face in the Crowd (1957)
• On the Bowery (1957)
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
• Flower Drum Song (1961)
• The March (1964)
• The Pawnbroker (1965)
• In Cold Blood (1967)
• Deliverance (1972)
• No Lies (1973)
• Free Radicals (1979)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Water And Power (1989)

2009

• Little Nemo (1911)
• Mabel's Blunder (1914)
• Heroes All (1920)
• Stark Love (1927)
• The Revenge Of Pancho Villa (1930-1936)
• A Study In Reds (1932)
• Jezebel (1938)
• Under Western Stars (1938)
• The Mark of Zorro (1940)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
• The Lead Shoes (1949)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
• Pillow Talk (1959)
• The Exiles (1961)
• The Jungle (1967)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
• The Muppet Movie (1979)
• Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982)^note The first, and so far only, music video in the registry.
• Precious Images (1986)
• The Red Book (1994)
• Scratch and Crow (1995)

2010

• Newark Athlete (1891) ^note  currently both the oldest film in the Registry and the longest time between release and induction, at 109 years.
• A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
• Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
• The Bargain (1914)
• Lonesome (1928)
• The Front Page (1931)
• It's a Gift (1934)
• Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
• Tarantella (1940)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
• Let There Be Light (1946)
• Cry Of Jazz (1959)
• The Pink Panther (1963)
• Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
• I Am Joaquin (1969)
• Our Lady Of The Sphere (1969)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• All the President's Men (1976)
• Grey Gardens (1976)
• Saturday Night Fever (1977)
• Airplane! (1980)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• Study Of A River (1996)

2011

• A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
• The Cry of the Children (1912)
• The Kid (1921)
• The Iron Horse (1924)
• Nicholas Brothers’ Home Movies (1930s-'40s)
• Twentieth Century (1934)
• Bambi (1942)
• The Negro Soldier (1944)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• The Big Heat (1953)
• The War of the Worlds (1953)
• Porgy and Bess (1959)
• Allures (1961)
• Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
• Faces (1968)
• Growing Up Female (1971)
• A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
• Hester Street (1975)
• I, an Actress (1977)
• Norma Rae (1979)
• Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
• Stand and Deliver (1988)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• El Mariachi (1992)
• Forrest Gump (1994)

2012

• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
• The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)
• Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests (1922)
• The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-1950s)
• The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
• Sons of the Desert (1933)
• The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
• Born Yesterday (1950)
• 3:10 to Yuma (1957) (1957)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
• Parable (1964)
• They Call It Pro Football (1967)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
• The Spook Who Sat By The Door (1973)
• Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
• Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
• Slacker (1991)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• One Survivor Remembers (1995)
• The Matrix (1999)

2013

• A Virtuous Vamp (1919)
• The Daughter of Dawn (1920)
• Ella Cinders (1926)
• King of Jazz (1930)
• Martha Graham Early Dance Films (1931-1944)
• Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
• Midnight (1939)
• Men and Dust (1940)
• Gilda (1946)
• Notes On The Port of St. Francis (1951)
• The Quiet Man (1952)
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• The Hole (1962)
• Mary Poppins (1964)
• Cicero March (1966)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Brandy In The Wilderness (1969)
• The Right Stuff (1983)
• Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
• The Lunch Date (1989)
• Roger & Me (1989)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Decasia (2002)^note First film released in the 21st century and the 2000's to be inducted into the registry.

2014

• Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913)
• Shoes (1916)
• Unmasked (1917)
• The Dragon Painter (1919)
• The Power and the Glory (1933)
• State Fair (1933)
• Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
• Down Argentine Way (1940)
• The Gang's All Here (1943)
• V-E + 1 (1945)
• The Way of Peace (1947)
• House of Wax (1953)
• Rio Bravo (1959)
• Felicia (1965)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Little Big Man (1970)
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
• Please Don't Bury Me Alive! (1976)
• Moon Breath Beat (1980)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Luxo Jr. (1986)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
• 13 Lakes (2004)

2015

• Edison Kinetoscopic Record Of A Sneeze (1894)
• Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
• A Fool There Was (1915)
• Humoresque (1920)
• The Mark of Zorro (1920)
• Black and Tan (1929)
• Drácula (1931) (Spanish-language version)
• Our Daily Bread (1934)
• The Old Mill (1937)
• Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
• John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
• The Story of Menstruation (1946)
• Winchester '73 (1950)
• Imitation Of Life (1959)
• Seconds (1966)
• Portrait of Jason (1967)
• The Inner World Of Aphasia (1968)
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
• Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)
• Being There (1979)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Top Gun (1986)
• Sink Or Swim (1990)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)^note First Stephen King adaptation to get preserved.
• L.A. Confidential (1997)

2016

• Life of an American Fireman (1903)
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
• Solomon Sir Jones films (1924-28)
• The Beau Brummels (1928)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
• Lost Horizon (1937)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• A Walk in the Sun (1945)
• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• East of Eden (1955)
• The Birds (1963)
• Point Blank (1967)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• Putney Swope (1969)
• The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
• The Atomic Cafe (1982)
• Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Paris Is Burning (1990)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Rushmore (1998)

2017

• Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)
• The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
• Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection (1920s-1930s)
• He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
• With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1937-1938)
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
• Dumbo (1941)
• Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
• Ace in the Hole (1951)
• Spartacus (1960)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• Wanda (1971)
• Lives of Performers (1972)
• Time and Dreams (1976)
• Superman (1978)^note  The first superhero movie to be inducted into the registry.
• Boulevard Nights (1979)
• The Goonies (1985)
• La Bamba (1987)
• Die Hard (1988)
• Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
• Field of Dreams (1989)
• To Sleep with Anger (1990)
• 4 Little Girls (1997)
• Titanic (1997)
• Memento (2000)

2018

• Something Good — Negro Kiss (1898)
• Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (1908)
• The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
• The Navigator (1924)
• The Informer (1935)
• Rebecca (1940)
• Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
• The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
• On the Town (1949)
• Cinderella (1950)
• Pickup on South Street (1953)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
• One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
• Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
• Hud (1963)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• Monterey Pop (1968)
• Hearts and Minds (1974)
• The Shining (1980)
• Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People (1984)
• Broadcast News (1987)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Eve's Bayou (1997)
• Smoke Signals (1998)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)^note The first feature film released in the 21st century to be inducted.

2019

• Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
• Body and Soul (1925)
• Employees' Entrance (1933)
• Becky Sharp (1935)
• George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
• Gaslight (1944)
• The Phenix City Story (1955)
• Old Yeller (1957)
• Sleeping Beauty (1959)
• My Name Is Oona (1969)
• I Am Somebody (1970)
• A New Leaf (1971)
• Girlfriends1978 (1978)
• The Last Waltz (1978)
• Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
• Zoot Suit (1981)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Before Stonewall (1984)
• Purple Rain (1984)
• Platoon (1986)
• She's Gotta Have It (1986)
• Clerks (1994)
• Boys Don't Cry (1999)
• Real Women Have Curves (2002)
• The Fog of War (2003)

2020

• Suspense (1913)
• Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
• Bread (1918)
• The Battle of the Century (1927)
• With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)
• Cabin in the Sky (1943)
• Outrage (1950)
• The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
• Lilies of the Field (1963)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
• Wattstax (1973)
• Grease (1978)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• Losing Ground (1982)
• Illusions (1982)
• The Joy Luck Club (1993)
• The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)
• Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
• The Ground (1993-2001)
• Shrek (2001)^note The first animated production from the 21st century, the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and first full-length animated film not released by Disney, in the registry.
• Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
• The Hurt Locker (2008)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Freedom Riders (2010)^note The first film of the 2010s to be inducted

2021

• Ringling Brothers Parade Film (1902)
• Jubilo (1919)
• The Flying Ace (1926)
• Hellbound Train (1930)
• Flowers and Trees (1932)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• Evergreen (1965)
• Requiem-29 (1970)
• The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
• Pink Flamingos (1972)
• Sounder (1972)
• The Long Goodbye (1973)
• Cooley High (1975)
• Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
• Chicana (1979)
• The Wobblies (1979)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• Stop Making Sense (1984)
• Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)
• The Watermelon Woman (1996)
• Selena (1997)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• WALL•E (2008)

2022

• Mardi Gras Carnival (1898)
• Cab Calloway Home Movies (1948-1951)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
• Charade (1963)
• Scorpio Rising (1963)
• Behind Every Good Man (1967)
• Titicut Follies (1967)
• Mingus (1968)
• Manzanar (1971)
• Betty Tells Her Story (1972)
• Super Fly (1972)
• Attica (1974)
• Carrie (1976)
• Union Maids (1976)
• Word is Out: Stories of Our Lives (1977)
• Bush Mama (1979)
• The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
• Itam Hakim, Hopiit (1984)
• Hairspray (1988)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• Tongues Untied (1989)
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
• House Party (1990)
• Iron Man (2008) ^note  The third superhero film, and the first Marvel Comics-based film, in the registry.
• Pariah (2011)

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