Here’s the full list of 775 films on the National Film Registry, arranged for the more chronologically inclined. As always, you can nominate films for future induction, and be sure to take a look at this list of eligible films.
1891
1893
1894
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
1896
1897
1898
1901
President McKinley Inauguration Footage
1903
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
Life of an American Fireman
1904
Westinghouse Works 1904
1905
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street
1906
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
San Francisco Earthquake & Fire, April 18th 1906
1908
Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency
1909
Lady Helen’s Escapade
Princess Nicotine
1910
The Johnson-Jeffries Fight
1911
Little Nemo
1912
The Cry of the Children
1913
Lime Kiln Field Day
Preservation of the Sign Language
1914
The Exploits of Elaine
In the Land of the Head Hunters
The Perils of Pauline
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
1915
The Birth of a Nation
The Cheat
The Italian
1916
Civilization
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Where Are My Children?
1917
The Girl Without a Soul
Unmasked
1918
1919
Broken Blossoms
The Dragon Painter
A Virtuous Vamp
1920s-1930s
Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection
1920
Heroes All
1921
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Tol’able David
1922
Cops
Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Test
Sky High
1923
1924
Greed
The Navigator
Solomon Sir Jones Films
1925
The Big Parade
Body and Soul
The Gold Rush [Second Screening of 1942 version]
Grass
The Lost World
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck
1926
The Black Pirate
The General
Hands Up!
Mighty Like a Moose
The Strong Man
1927
7th Heaven
The Jazz Singer
The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra
1928
The Beau Brummels
The Crowd
The Docks of New York
The Fall of the House of Usher
Jenkins Orphanage Band
The Last Command
Lonesome
Pass the Gravy
Steamboat Bill Jr.
There It Is
The Wedding March
1929
Hallelujah!
1930s-1940s
The Augustas
The Kidnappers Foil
Martha Graham Dance Films
Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Big Trail
From Stump to Ship
Morocco
The Revenge of Pancho Villa
1931
A Bronx Morning
The Public Enemy
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1932
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Love Me Tonight
Scarface
A Study in Reds
1933
Employees Entrance
Footlight Parade
1934
Our Daily Bread
1935
Becky Sharp
The Informer
Naughty Marietta
Ruggles of Red Gap
1936
My Man Godfrey
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Rose Hobart
Show Boat
1937
The Awful Truth
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
The Old Mill
The Prisoner of Zenda
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Legacy]
1938
The March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany
Porky in Wackyland
With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain
1939
The City
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther
Destry Rides Again
Early Abstractions
Gone With the Wind [Part 2] [Part 3]
Gunga Din
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair
Ninotchka
Only Angels Have Wings
Tevya
Verbena Tragica
The Wizard of Oz
1940
Commandment Keeper Church
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
Knute Rockne, All American
Melody Ranch
Pinocchio
Siege
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Tarantella
1941
Citizen Kane
Dumbo
How Green Was My Valley
Kannapolis, N.C.
The Lady Eve
The Maltese Falcon
1942
Cat People
The Magnificent Ambersons
1943
The Gang’s All Here
George Stevens WWII Footage
Stormy Weather
Why We Fight
1944
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Going My Way
Jammin’ the Blues
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
The Negro Soldier
1945
Detour
Leave Her to Heaven
Mom and Dad
National Velvet
V-E + 1
1946
John Henry and the Inky-Poo
The Killers
Let There Be Light
My Darling Clementine
The Story of Menstruation
1947
Gentleman’s Agreement
The Lady from Shanghai
1948
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Force of Evil
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Louisiana Story
The Naked City
Red River
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949
All the King’s Men
The Heiress
The Lead Shoes
White Heat
1950
All About Eve
Cinderella
D.O.A.
1951
Notes on the Port of St. Francis
A Place in the Sun
1952
The Quiet Man
1953
All My Babies
Duck Amuck
House of Wax
Let’s All Go to the Lobby
Little Fugitive
The Living Desert
The Naked Spur
Pickup on South Street
Shane
1954
Carmen Jones
Johnny Guitar
On the Waterfront
Sabrina
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
A Time Out of War
1955
All That Heaven Allows
Bad Day at Black Rock
Kiss Me Deadly
Rebel Without a Cause
1956
The Court Jester
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Modesta
The Searchers
1957
3:10 to Yuma
Glimpse of the Garden
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Jailhouse Rock
Old Yeller
The Tall T
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1958
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Gigi
Touch of Evil
1959
The Cry of Jazz
Porgy and Bess
Rio Bravo
Shadows
Sleeping Beauty
Some Like It Hot
1960
The Magnificent Seven
Spartacus
Wild River
1961
Allures
One-Eyed Jacks
A Raisin in the Sun
1962
Days of Wine and Roses
Lawrence of Arabia
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Ride the High Country
1963
The Cool World
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Hud
Shock Corridor
1964
Empire
My Fair Lady
Parable
The Pawnbroker
1965
1966
Cicero March
Seconds
Through Navajo Eyes
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Cool Hand Luke
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Jungle
Point Blank
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey [Legacy]
Bullitt
The Inner World of Aphasia
Monterey Pop
Night of the Living Dead
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Why Man Creates
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I Am Joaquin
Midnight Cowboy
My Name Is Oona
Putney Swope
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
The Wild Bunch
1970
Five Easy Pieces
I Am Somebody
King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis
Serene Velocity
1971
Brandy in the Wilderness
The Hospital
The Last Picture Show
A New Leaf
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Two-Lane Blacktop
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1972
Film Portrait
Hot Dogs for Gauguin
Our Lady of the Sphere
1973
American Graffiti
The Exorcist
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The Sting
1974
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
The Conversation
A Woman Under the Influence
1975
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Hester Street
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Think of Me First as a Person
1976
Harlan County, USA
Please Don’t Bury Me Alive!
To Fly!
1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Drums of Winter
I, An Actress
Powers of Ten
1978
Days of Heaven
Girlfriends
Halloween
Killer of Sheep
The Last Waltz
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Superman
1979
Apocalypse Now
Boulevard Nights
Free Radicals
Norma Rae
1980
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Hours for Jerome
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Return of the Secaucus 7
The Shining
1981
The Decline of Western Civilization
Zoot Suit
1982
The Atomic Café
Blade Runner
Chan Is Missing
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial [Second Screening of Special Edition]
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
The Right Stuff
1984
Amadeus
Before Stonewall
Bless Their Little Hearts
El Norte
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People
Purple Rain
1985
The Breakfast Club
The Goonies
1986
Platoon
Precious Images
She’s Gotta Have It
Top Gun
1987
Broadcast News
La Bamba
1988
Die Hard
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Tin Toy
1989
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter
Water and Power
1990
Goodfellas
Sink or Swim
To Sleep with Anger
1991
Beauty and the Beast
Boyz n the Hood
Thelma & Louise
1992
El Mariachi
Malcolm X
1993
Jurassic Park
1994
Clerks
1995
One Survivor Remembers
1996
1997
Titanic
1998
Smoke Signals
1999
Boys Don’t Cry
2000
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2002
Real Women Have Curves
2003
2004
2005
