Below is a list of all 800 films on the National Film Registry. We’ll link the titles to their write-ups as we go along. Is your favorite not on the list? Be sure to nominate it for consideration from the National Film Registry. Check out this handy guide of eligible films to see if your favorite qualifies.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [Legacy]
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
All My Babies (1953)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
All the President’s Men (1976)
Allures (1961)
Amadeus (1984)
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
The Atomic Café (1982)
The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
The Awful Truth (1937)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
The Battle of the Century (1927)
The Beau Brummels (1928)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Before Stonewall (1984)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Parade (1925)
Bless Their Little Hearts (1983)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Boulevard Nights (1979)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
Brandy in the Wilderness (1971)
Bread (1918)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Broadcast News (1987)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Cat People (1942)
The Cheat (1915)
Cicero March (1966)
Cinderella (1950)
Citizen Kane (1941) [Part 2] [Part 3]
The City (1939)
Civilization (1916)
Clerks (1994)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
Commandment Keeper Church (1940)
A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
The Cool World (1963)
Cops (1922)
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897)
The Court Jester (1956)
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
The Cry of Jazz (1959)
The Cry of the Children (1912)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Detour (1945)
The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
Die Hard (1988)
Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (1908)
D.O.A. (1950)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)
Early Abstractions (1939)
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
El Norte (1983)
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Employees Entrance (1933)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) [Second Screening of 2002 version]
The Evidence of the Film (1913)
The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Footlight Parade (1933)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection (1920s-1930s)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Gaslight (1944)
The General (1926)
George Stevens WWII Footage (1943)
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
Girlfriends (1978)
The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
Going My Way (1944)
The Gold Rush (1925) [Second Screening of 1942 version]
Gone with the Wind (1939) [Part 2] [Part 3]
The Goonies (1985)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Grease (1978)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Ground (1993-2001)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People (1984)
Halloween (1978)
Hands Up! (1926)
Heroes All (1920)
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
The Hospital (1971)
Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)
Hours for Jerome (1980)
The House in the Middle (1954)
House of Wax (1953)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Hud (1963)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
I Am Somebody (1970)
I, An Actress (1977)
Illusions (1982)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Informer (1935)
The Inner World of Aphasia (1968)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Jammin’ the Blues (1944)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
Jenkins Orphanage Band (1928)
John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
The Jungle (1967)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Kannapolis, N.C. (1941)
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
The Kidnappers Foil (c. 1936-c. 1952)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
La Bamba (1987)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
Lady Helen’s Escapade (1909)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
The Last Waltz (1978)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lead Shoes (1949)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Let’s All Go to the Lobby (1957)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1927)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
Life of an American Fireman (1903)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Lime Kiln Field Day (1913)
Little Fugitive (1953)
The Living Desert (1953)
Losing Ground (1982)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Making of an American (1920)
Malcolm X (1992)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
Martha Graham Dance Films (1929, 1930, 1935, 1944)
Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913)
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983)
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
Modesta (1956)
Mom and Dad (1945)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
My Name Is Oona (1969)
The Naked Spur (1953)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
The Navigator (1924)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
A New Leaf (1971)
Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-1940s)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Ninotchka (1939)
Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1951)
The Old Mill (1937)
Old Yeller (1957)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Our Daily Bread (1934)
Our Lady of the Sphere (1972)
Outrage (1950)
The Pawnbroker (1964)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Platoon (1986)
Please Don’t Bury Me Alive! (1976)
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Point Blank (1967)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Powers of Ten (1977)
Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
Princess Nicotine (1909)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Purple Rain (1984)
Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Red River (1948)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage (1937)
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1989)
San Francisco Earthquake & Fire, April 18th 1906 (1906)
The Searchers (1956)
Seconds (1966)
Serene Velocity (1970)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
Shadows (1959)
Shane (1953)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shining (1980)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Show Boat (1936)
Shrek (2001)
Siege (1940)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
Sink or Swim (1990)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) [Legacy write-up]
Solomon Sir Jones Films (1924)
Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898)
The Sound of Music (1965) [Part 2]
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
The Sting (1973)
The Story of Menstruation (1946)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Strong Man (1926)
Superman (1978)
Suspense (1913)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
The Tall T (1957)
Tarantella (1940)
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
Tevya (1939)
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck (1925)
They Call It Pro Football (1966)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Think of Me First as a Person (1960-1975)
Through Navajo Eyes (1966)
A Time Out of War (1954)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Tin Toy (1988)
Titanic (1997)
Tol’able David (1921)
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969)
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Trance and Dance in Bali (1936-1939, 1952)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Two-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III (1922)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter (1989)
Unmasked (1917)
V-E + 1 (1945)
Verbena Tragica (1939)
A Virtuous Vamp (1919)
Water and Power (1989)
Wattstax (1973)
Westinghouse Works 1904 (1904)
White Heat (1949)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Why Man Creates (1968)
Why We Fight (1943)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Wild River (1960)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)
With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)
With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1937-1938)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) [Part 2] [Part 3]
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Zapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination (1963)
Zoot Suit (1981)
