Here’s the full list of 800 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
Newark Athlete
1893
Blacksmith Scene
1894
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
1896
The Kiss
Rip Van Winkle
1897
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
1898
Something Good – Negro Kiss
1901
President McKinley Inauguration Footage
Star Theatre
1903
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
The Great Train Robbery
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
A Trip Down Market Street
1908
Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency
1909
A Corner in Wheat
Lady Helen’s Escapade
Princess Nicotine
1910
Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest
White Fawn’s Devotion
1911
Little Nemo
1912
The Cry of the Children
A Cure for Pokeritis
From the Manger to the Cross
The Land Beyond the Sunset
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1913
The Evidence of the Film
Lime Kiln Field Day
Matrimony’s Speed Limit
Preservation of the Sign Language
Suspense
Traffic in Souls
1914
The Bargain
The Exploits of Elaine
Gertie the Dinosaur
In the Land of the Head Hunters
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Mabel’s Blunder
The Perils of Pauline
Tess of the Storm Country
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
1915
The Birth of a Nation
The Cheat
Fatty’s Tintype Tangle
A Fool There Was
The Italian
Regeneration
1916
Civilization
The Curse of Quon Gwon
Hell’s Hinges
Intolerance
Shoes
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Where Are My Children?
1917
The Girl Without a Soul
The Immigrant
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Unmasked
Wild and Woolly
1918
The Blue Bird
Bread
The Sinking of the Lusitania
1919
Broken Blossoms
The Dragon Painter
A Virtuous Vamp
1920s-1930s
Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection
1920
The Daughter of Dawn
Heroes All
Humoresque
The Last of the Mohicans
The Making of an American
The Mark of Zorro
One Week
Within Our Gates
1921
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Kid
Manhatta
Miss Lulu Bett
Tol’able David
1922
Cops
Foolish Wives
Nanook of the North
Sky High
Two-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III (1922)
1923
The Chechahcos
Safety Last!
Salome
1924
Greed
HE Who Gets Slapped
The Iron Horse
The Navigator
Peter Pan
Sherlock Jr.
Solomon Sir Jones Films
The Thief of Bagdad
1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The Big Parade
Body and Soul
Clash of the Wolves
The Freshman
The Gold Rush [Second Screening of 1942 version]
Grass
Lady Windermere’s Fan
The Lost World
The Phantom of the Opera
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck
1926
The Black Pirate
Ella Cinders
Flesh and the Devil
The General
Hands Up!
Mighty Like a Moose
The Son of the Sheik
So’s Your Old Man
The Strong Man
1927
7th Heaven
The Battle of the Century
It
The Jazz Singer
The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra
Stark Love
Sunrise
Wings
1928
The Beau Brummels
The Cameraman
The Crowd
The Docks of New York
The Fall of the House of Usher
Jenkins Orphanage Band
The Last Command
Lonesome
Pass the Gravy
The Power of the Press
The Sex Life of the Polyp
Show People
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Steamboat Willie
There It Is
The Wedding March
The Wind
1929
Applause
Big Business
Black and Tan
H2O
Hallelujah!
Lambchops
St. Louis Blues
With Car and Camera Around the World
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
King of Jazz
Morocco
Pups Is Pups
The Revenge of Pancho Villa
1931
A Bronx Morning
City Lights
Dracula
Drácula
The Forgotten Frontier
Frankenstein
The Front Page
Little Caesar
The Public Enemy
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1932
Freaks
Grand Hotel
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Love Me Tonight
The Music Box
Red Dust
Scarface
A Study in Reds
Trouble in Paradise
1933
42nd Street
Baby Face
Duck Soup
The Emperor Jones
Employees Entrance
Footlight Parade
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Invisible Man
King Kong
The Power and the Glory
She Done Him Wrong
Snow-White
Sons of the Desert
State Fair
The Three Little Pigs
Wild Boys of the Road
1934
Imitation of Life
It Happened One Night
It’s a Gift
Little Miss Marker
Our Daily Bread
Punch Drunks
Tarzan and His Mate
The Thin Man
Twentieth Century
1935
Becky Sharp
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Informer
Naughty Marietta
A Night at the Opera
Ruggles of Red Gap
Top Hat
1936
Dodsworth
Flash Gordon
Fury
Master Hands
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Rose Hobart
Show Boat
Swing Time
1937
The Awful Truth
Daughter of Shanghai
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
The Life of Emile Zola
Lost Horizon
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Old Mill
The Prisoner of Zenda
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Legacy]
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Bringing Up Baby
Jezebel
Love Finds Andy Hardy
The March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany
Our Day
Porky in Wackyland
The River
Under Western Stars
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
Midnight
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Only Angels Have Wings
Stagecoach
Tevya
Verbena Tragica
The Wizard of Oz [Part 2] [Part 3]
The Women
Wuthering Heights
Young Mr. Lincoln
1940
The Bank Dick
Commandment Keeper Church
Dance, Girl, Dance
Down Argentine Way
Fantasia
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
His Girl Friday
Knute Rockne, All American
The Mark of Zorro
Melody Ranch
Men and Dust
The Philadelphia Story
Pinocchio
Rebecca
The Shop Around the Corner
Siege
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
Tarantella
1941
Ball of Fire
The Blood of Jesus
Citizen Kane [Part 2] [Part 3]
Dumbo
How Green Was My Valley
Kannapolis, N.C.
The Lady Eve
The Maltese Falcon
Sergeant York
Sullivan’s Travels
1942
Bambi
Casablanca [Legacy]
Cat People
Jam Session
The Magnificent Ambersons
Mrs. Miniver
Now, Voyager
Road to Morocco
To Be or Not To Be
Tulips Shall Grow
Woman of the Year
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943
Cabin in the Sky
The Gang’s All Here
George Stevens WWII Footage
Lassie Come Home
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Ox-Bow Incident
Shadow of a Doubt
Stormy Weather
Why We Fight
1944
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Going My Way
Hail the Conquering Hero
Jammin’ the Blues
Laura
Meet Me in St. Louis
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
The Negro Soldier
1945
The Battle of San Pietro
Detour
The House I Live In
Leave Her to Heaven
The Lost Weekend
Mildred Pierce
Mom and Dad
National Velvet
The Story of G.I. Joe
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Topaz
V-E + 1
A Walk in the Sun
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Sleep
Gilda
It’s a Wonderful Life
John Henry and the Inky-Poo
The Killers
Let There Be Light
My Darling Clementine
Notorious
The Story of Menstruation
1947
Gentleman’s Agreement
The Lady from Shanghai
Miracle on 34th Street
Motion Painting No. 1
Out of the Past
La Perla [The Pearl]
The Way of Peace
1948
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Force of Evil
In the Street
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Louisiana Story
The Naked City
Red River
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949
Adam’s Rib
All the King’s Men
The Heiress
The Lead Shoes
On the Town
Twelve O’Clock High
White Heat
1950
All About Eve
The Asphalt Jungle
Born Yesterday
Cinderella
D.O.A.
Gerald McBoing-Boing
Gun Crazy
In a Lonely Place
Outrage
Sunset Boulevard
Winchester ’73
1951
Ace in the Hole
The African Queen
An American in Paris
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Notes on the Port of St. Francis
A Place in the Sun
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Thing From Another World
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
Duck and Cover
High Noon
Magical Maestro
The Quiet Man
Singin’ in the Rain
This Is Cinerama
Trance and Dance in Bali
1953
All My Babies
The Band Wagon
The Big Heat
Duck Amuck
Eaux d’Artifice
From Here to Eternity
The Hitch-Hiker
House of Wax
Little Fugitive
The Living Desert
The Naked Spur
Pickup on South Street
Roman Holiday
Shane
The Tell-Tale Heart
The War of the Worlds
1954
Carmen Jones
The House in the Middle
Johnny Guitar
On the Waterfront
Rear Window
Sabrina
Salt of the Earth
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
A Star is Born
A Time Out of War
1955
All That Heaven Allows
Bad Day at Black Rock
Blackboard Jungle
East of Eden
Kiss Me Deadly
The Man with the Golden Arm
Marty
The Night of the Hunter
Oklahoma!
One Froggy Evening
The Phenix City Story
Rebel Without a Cause
1956
The Court Jester
Disneyland Dream
Forbidden Planet
Giant
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Modesta
On the Bowery
The Searchers
The Ten Commandments
1957
12 Angry Men
3:10 to Yuma
The Bridge on the River Kwai
A Face in the Crowd
Glimpse of the Garden
The Hunters
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Jailhouse Rock
Let’s All Go to the Lobby
Old Yeller
Paths of Glory
Sweet Smell of Success
The Tall T
What’s Opera, Doc?
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1958
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Free Radicals
Gigi
A MOVIE
Touch of Evil
Vertigo
1959
Anatomy of a Murder
Ben-Hur
The Cry of Jazz
Imitation of Life
North by Northwest
Pillow Talk
Porgy and Bess
Pull My Daisy
Rio Bravo
Shadows
Sleeping Beauty
Some Like It Hot
1960
The Apartment
House of Usher
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
The Magnificent Seven
Primary
Psycho [Legacy]
Spartacus
Wild River
1961
Allures
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Exiles
Flower Drum Song
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
One-Eyed Jacks
A Raisin in the Sun
West Side Story
1962
Days of Wine and Roses
The Hole
How the West Was Won
Lawrence of Arabia
The Manchurian Candidate
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Music Man
Ride the High Country
To Kill a Mockingbird
1963
America America
The Birds
The Cool World
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Dead Birds
Hud
Lilies of the Field
The Pink Panther
Shock Corridor
The Nutty Professor
Zapruder Film
1964
Dog Star Man
Dr. Strangelove
Empire
The March
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
Nothing But a Man
Parable
The Pawnbroker
Point of Order
The T.A.M.I. Show
1965
Felicia
The Sound of Music [Part 2]
1966
Castro Street
Cicero March
The Endless Summer
Seconds
They Call It Pro Football
Through Navajo Eyes
A Time for Burning
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
David Holzman’s Diary
Dont Look Back
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB
The Graduate
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
In Cold Blood
In the Heat of the Night
The Jungle
Point Blank
Portrait of Jason
The Producers
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey [Legacy]
Bullitt
Faces
Funny Girl
High School
The Inner World of Aphasia
Monterey Pop
Night of the Living Dead
OffOn
Once Upon a Time in the West
Planet of the Apes
Rosemary’s Baby
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Why Man Creates
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Czechoslovakia 1968
Easy Rider
I Am Joaquin
The Learning Tree
Medium Cool
Midnight Cowboy
My Name Is Oona
Putney Swope
Salesman
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
The Wild Bunch
1970
Five Easy Pieces
Hospital
I Am Somebody
King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis
Little Big Man
MASH
Multiple Sidosis
Patton
Serene Velocity
Wanda
Woodstock
1971
Brandy in the Wilderness
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
The French Connection
Growing Up Female
Harold and Maude
The Hospital
The Last Picture Show
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
A New Leaf
(nostalgia)
Shaft
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
Two-Lane Blacktop
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1972
Cabaret
A Computer Animated Hand
Deliverance
Film Portrait
The Godfather [Part 2]
Hot Dogs for Gauguin
Lives of Performers
Our Lady of the Sphere
Peege
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1973
American Graffiti
Badlands
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
Frank Film
Mean Streets
…No Lies
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The Sting
Wattstax
1974
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
Blazing Saddles
Chinatown
The Conversation
Fuji
The Godfather Part II
Hearts and Minds
A Woman Under the Influence
Young Frankenstein
1975
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man
Dog Day Afternoon
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Grey Gardens
Hester Street
Jaws
Nashville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Quasi at the Quackadero
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Think of Me First as a Person
1976
All the President’s Men
Chulas Fronteras
Harlan County, USA
Network
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Please Don’t Bury Me Alive!
Rocky
Taxi Driver
Time and Dreams
To Fly!
1977
Annie Hall
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Eraserhead
I, An Actress
Powers of Ten
Saturday Night Fever
Star Wars
1978
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
Girlfriends
Grease
Halloween
Killer of Sheep
The Last Waltz
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Superman
1979
Alien
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
Being There
The Black Stallion
Boulevard Nights
Manhattan
The Muppet Movie
Norma Rae
1980
Airplane!
Atlantic City
The Blues Brothers
Coal Miner’s Daughter
The Empire Strikes Back
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Hours for Jerome
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Moon Breath Beat
Raging Bull
Return of the Secaucus 7
The Shining
1981
The Decline of Western Civilization
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Zoot Suit
1982
The Atomic Café
Blade Runner
Chan Is Missing
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial [Second Screening of Special Edition]
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Illusions
Koyaanisqatsi
Losing Ground
Suzanne, Suzanne
Tootsie
1983
Bless Their Little Hearts
A Christmas Story
Michael Jackson’s Thriller
The Right Stuff
1984
Amadeus
Before Stonewall
El Norte
Ghostbusters
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People
Purple Rain
Stranger Than Paradise
The Terminator
This is Spinal Tap
The Times of Harvey Milk
1985
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
The Goonies
1986
Fake Fruit Factory
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Hoosiers
Luxo Jr.
Platoon
Precious Images
Sherman’s March
She’s Gotta Have It
Top Gun
1987
Broadcast News
La Bamba
The Princess Bride
1988
Die Hard
Stand and Deliver
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
The Thin Blue Line
Tin Toy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989
Do the Right Thing
Field of Dreams
The Lunch Date
Roger & Me
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter
Water and Power
1990
Dances with Wolves
Goodfellas
Paris is Burning
Sink or Swim
Slacker
To Sleep with Anger
1991
Beauty and the Beast
Boyz n the Hood
Daughters of the Dust
The Silence of the Lambs
Thelma & Louise
1992
El Mariachi
A League of Their Own
Malcolm X
Unforgiven
1993
Groundhog Day
The Joy Luck Club
Jurassic Park
Schindler’s List
1994
Clerks
The Devil Never Sleeps
Forrest Gump
Hoop Dreams
The Lion King
Pulp Fiction
The Red Book
The Shawshank Redemption
1995
One Survivor Remembers
Scratch and Crow
Toy Story
1996
Fargo
1997
4 Little Girls
Eve’s Bayou
L.A. Confidential
Study of a River
Titanic
1998
The Big Lebowski
Rushmore
Saving Private Ryan
Smoke Signals
1999
Boys Don’t Cry
Buena Vista Social Club
The Matrix
2000
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Memento
2001
The Ground
Shrek
2002
Decasia
Real Women Have Curves
2003
The Fog of War
2004
13 Lakes
2005
Brokeback Mountain
2006
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege
2008
The Dark Knight
The Hurt Locker
2010
Freedom Riders
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