All 800 films listed by the year of their induction into the National Film Registry (1989-2020). You can nominate films for the Class of 2021 here. And be sure to check out this list of eligible films.
1989
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Citizen Kane (1941) [Part 2] [Part 3]
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) [Legacy]
The Wizard of Oz (1939) [Part 2] [Part 3]
1990
All About Eve (1950)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Ninotchka (1939)
Red River (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
1991
The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
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)
Detour (1945)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Morocco (1930)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Ride the High Country (1962)
1993
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)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
1995
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
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)
To Fly! (1976)
1996
The Awful Truth (1937)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
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)
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)
Modesta (1956)
Pass the Gravy (1928)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Powers of Ten (1977)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
Westinghouse Works 1904 (1904)
1999
Civilization (1916)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Gunga Din (1939)
In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
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
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)
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)
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]
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)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
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)
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)
White Heat (1949)
2004
A Bronx Morning (1931)
The Court Jester (1956)
D.O.A. (1950)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Going My Way (1944)
Kannapolis, N.C. (1941)
Lady Helen’s Escapade (1909)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
2005
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
Commandment Keeper Church (1940)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Hands Up! (1926)
Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest (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)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Siege (1940)
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
Think of Me First as a Person (1960-1975)
A Time Out of War (1954)
Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter (1989)
2007
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 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)
George Stevens WWII Footage (1943-1946)
Hallelujah! (1929)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
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)
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)
2010
All the President’s Men (1976)
The Cry of Jazz (1959)
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
I Am Joaquin (1969)
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)
Hester Street (1975)
I, An Actress (1977)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-1940s)
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)
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
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-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III (1922)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)
2013
Bless Their Little Hearts (1983)
Brandy in the Wilderness (1969)
Cicero March (1966)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Solomon Sir Jones Films (1924-1928)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
2017
Boulevard Nights (1979)
Die Hard (1988)
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)
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)
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)
Before Stonewall (1984)
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)
2020
The Battle of the Century (1927)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Bread (1918)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)
Grease (1978)
The Ground (1993-2001)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Illusions (1982)
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Losing Ground (1982)
The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
Outrage (1950)
Shrek (2001)
Suspense (1913)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Wattstax (1973)
With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)
