All 775 films listed by the year of their induction into the National Film Registry (1989-2019). You can nominate films for the Class of 2020 here. And be sure to check out this list of eligible films.
1989
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Crowd (1928)
The General (1926)
Gone With the Wind (1939) [Part 2] [Part 3]
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Searchers (1956)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
1990
All About Eve (1950)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Harlan County, USA (1976)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Ninotchka (1939)
Red River (1948)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
1991
The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
Gigi (1958)
Greed (1924)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
The Italian (1915)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Tevya (1939)
1992
The Big Parade (1925)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Detour (1945)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Morocco (1930)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Ride the High Country (1962)
1993
The Black Pirate (1926)
Blade Runner (1982)
Cat People (1942)
The Cheat (1915)
March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Shadows (1959)
Shane (1953)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Where Are My Children? (1916)
1994
The Cool World (1963)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
Force of Evil (1948)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Louisiana Story (1948)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Pinocchio (1940)
Scarface (1932)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
1995
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
American Graffiti (1973)
Chan Is Missing (1982)
The Conversation (1974)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
El Norte (1983)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
The Hospital (1971)
Jammin’ the Blues (1944)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
To Fly! (1976)
1996
The Awful Truth (1937)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
The Heiress (1949)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Show Boat (1936)
Verbena Tragica (1939)
1997
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Cops (1922)
Grass (1925)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1927)
Little Fugitive (1953)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage (1937)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
1998
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The City (1939)
From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Lost World (1925)
Modesta (1956)
Pass the Gravy (1928)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Powers of Ten (1977)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Sky High (1922)
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
Westinghouse Works 1904 (1904)
1999
Civilization (1916)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Duck Amuck (1953)
Gunga Din (1939)
In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Trance and Dance in Bali (1936-1939)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
2000
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Goodfellas (1990)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
Let’s All Go to the Lobby (1957)
The Living Desert (1953)
Porky in Wackyland (1938)
President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
The Tall T (1957)
Why We Fight (1943-1945)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
2001
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
All the King’s Men (1949)
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
The Evidence of the Film (1913)
The House in the Middle (1954)
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Rose Hobart (1936)
Serene Velocity (1970)
The Sound of Music (1965) [Part 2]
Stormy Weather (1943)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
2002
All My Babies (1953)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
From Stump to Ship (1930)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Melody Ranch (1940)
Sabrina (1954)
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck (1925)
Through Navajo Eyes (1966)
Why Man Creates (1968)
Wild River (1960)
2003
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
Film Portrait (1970)
Jenkins Orphanage Band (1928)
Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913)
National Velvet (1944)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
Tin Toy (1988)
The Wedding March (1928)
White Heat (1949)
2004
A Bronx Morning (1931)
The Court Jester (1956)
D.O.A. (1950)
Empire (1964)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Going My Way (1944)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Kannapolis, N.C. (1941)
Lady Helen’s Escapade (1909)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
There It Is (1928)
2005
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
Commandment Keeper Church (1940)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Hands Up! (1926)
The Johnson-Jeffries Fight (1910)
The Making of an American (1920)
Mom and Dad (1945)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
San Francisco Earthquake & Fire, April 18th 1906 (1906)
The Sting (1973)
2006
The Big Trail (1930)
The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916-1917)
Early Abstractions (1939-1956)
Halloween (1978)
The Last Command (1928)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-1972)
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Siege (1940)
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
Think of Me First as a Person (1975)
A Time Out of War (1954)
Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter (1989)
2007
Bullitt (1968)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
The Naked City (1948)
The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
The Strong Man (1926)
Tol’able David (1921)
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969-1971)
2008
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Free Radicals (1979)
George Stevens WWII Footage (1943-1946)
Hallelujah! (1929)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
The Killers (1946)
The Pawnbroker (1964)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Water and Power (1989)
2009
Heroes All (1920)
Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Jungle (1967)
The Lead Shoes (1949)
Little Nemo (1911)
Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
Precious Images (1986)
The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930-1936)
A Study in Reds (1932)
2010
All the President’s Men (1976)
The Cry of Jazz (1959)
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)
I Am Joaquin (1969)
Let There Be Light (1946)
Lonesome (1928)
Malcolm X (1992)
Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
Tarantella (1940)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
2011
Allures (1961)
A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
The Cry of the Children (1912)
El Mariachi (1992)
Hester Street (1975)
I, An Actress (1977)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-1940s)
Norma Rae (1979)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
2012
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897)
Hours for Jerome (1980-1982)
The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-1950s)
Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Test (1922)
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
One Survivor Remembers (1995)
Parable (1964)
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1989)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
They Call It Pro Football (1966)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)
2013
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
Brandy in the Wilderness (1969)
Cicero March (1966)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Martha Graham Dance Films (1929, 1930, 1935, 1944)
Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1951)
The Quiet Man (1952)
The Right Stuff (1983)
A Virtuous Vamp (1919)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
2014
Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Field Day (1913)
The Dragon Painter (1919)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
The Gang’s All Here (1943)
House of Wax (1953)
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
Please Don’t Bury Me Alive! (1976)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Unmasked (1917)
V-E + 1 (1945)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
2015
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
The Inner World of Aphasia (1968)
John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
The Old Mill (1937)
Our Daily Bread (1934)
Seconds (1966)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Sink or Swim (1990)
The Story of Menstruation (1946)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
Top Gun (1986)
2016
The Atomic Café (1982)
The Beau Brummels (1928)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Life of an American Fireman (1903)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Point Blank (1967)
Putney Swope (1969)
Solomon Sir Jones Films (1924-1928)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
2017
Boulevard Nights (1979)
Die Hard (1988)
Dumbo (1941)
Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection (1920s-1930s)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
The Goonies (1985)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)
La Bamba (1987)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
Spartacus (1960)
Superman (1978)
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
Titanic (1997)
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1937-1938)
2018
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Broadcast News (1987)
Cinderella (1950)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (1908)
The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People (1984)
Hud (1963)
The Informer (1935)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Monterey Pop (1968)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Navigator (1924)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
The Shining (1980)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898)
2019
Amadeus (1984)
Becky Sharp (1935)
Before Stonewall (1984)
Body and Soul (1925)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
Clerks (1994)
Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
Employees Entrance (1933)
Gaslight (1944)
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
Girlfriends (1978)
I Am Somebody (1970)
The Last Waltz (1978)
My Name Is Oona (1969)
A New Leaf (1971)
Old Yeller (1957)
Platoon (1986)
Purple Rain (1984)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Zoot Suit (1981)
