NFR Films by Year

Here’s the full list of 850 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

• Mardi Gras Carnival
• Something Good – Negro Kiss

1901

• President McKinley Inauguration Footage
• Star Theatre

1902

• Ringling Brothers Parade Film

1903

• Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
• The Great Train Robbery
• Life of an American Fireman

1904

• Westinghouse Works 1904

1905

• Interior New York Subway, 14^th Street to 42^nd 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; or, The Smoke Fairy

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
• Jubilo
• 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

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 Flying Ace
• The General
• Hands Up!
• Mighty Like a Moose
• The Son of the Sheik
• So’s Your Old Man
• The Strong Man

1927

• 7^th 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
• Hellbound Train
• 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

• Flowers and Trees
• 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

• 42^nd 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 [Part 2]
• 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 34^th Street
• Motion Painting No. 1
• Out of the Past
• La Perla [The Pearl]
• The Way of Peace

1948

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
• Cab Calloway Home Movies
• 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
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• 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
• Strangers on a Train
• 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 7^th 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
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1963

• America America
• The Birds
• Charade
• The Cool World
• Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
• Dead Birds
• Hud
• Lilies of the Field
• The Pink Panther
• Scorpio Rising
• 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

• Evergreen
• 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

• Behind Every Good Man
• 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
• Titicut Follies

1968

• 2001: A Space Odyssey [Legacy]
• Bullitt
• Faces
• Funny Girl
• High School
• The Inner World of Aphasia
• Mingus
• 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
• Requiem-29
• 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
• Manzanar
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• The Murder of Fred Hampton
• A New Leaf
• (nostalgia)
• Shaft
• Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

1972

• Betty Tells Her Story
• 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
• Pink Flamingos
• Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
• Sounder
• Super Fly

1973

• American Graffiti
• Badlands
• Enter the Dragon
• The Exorcist
• Frank Film
• The Long Goodbye
• Mean Streets
• …No Lies
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door
• The Sting
• Wattstax

1974

• Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
• Attica
• 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
• Cooley High
• 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
• Carrie
• Chulas Fronteras
• Harlan County, USA
• Network
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Please Don’t Bury Me Alive!
• Rocky
• Taxi Driver
• Time and Dreams
• To Fly!
• Union Maids

1977

• Annie Hall
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Eraserhead
• I, An Actress
• Powers of Ten
• Saturday Night Fever
• Star Wars
• Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

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
• Bush Mama
• Chicana
• Manhattan
• The Muppet Movie
• Norma Rae
• Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
• The Wobblies

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 Seven
• The Shining

1981

• The Decline of Western Civilization
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Zoot Suit

1982

• The Atomic Café
• The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
• 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
• Return of the Jedi
• The Right Stuff

1984

• Amadeus
• Before Stonewall
• El Norte
• Ghostbusters
• Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People
• Itam Hakim, Hopiit
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Purple Rain
• Stop Making Sense
• 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
• Who Killed Vincent Chin?

1988

• Die Hard
• Hairspray
• 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 Little Mermaid
• The Lunch Date
• Roger & Me
• Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape
• Tongues Untied
• Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter
• Water and Power
• When Harry Met Sally

1990

• Dances with Wolves
• Goodfellas
• House Party
• 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
• The Watermelon Woman

1997

• 4 Little Girls
• Eve’s Bayou
• L.A. Confidential
• Selena
• 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
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• 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
• Iron Man
• WALL-E

2010

• Freedom Riders

2011

• Pariah