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National Film Registry

Sort films by title, year of release, and year inducted into the registry by using the up and down arrows at the top of each column.

Film Title	Year of Release	Year Inducted
The Matrix	1999	2012
Study of a River	1996-1997	2010
Fargo	1996	2006
Scratch and Crow	1995	2009
Toy Story	1995	2005
One Survivor Remembers	1995	2012
Hoop Dreams	1994	2005
Red Book, The	1994	2009
Forrest Gump	1994	2011
Groundhog Day	1993	2006
Schindler’s List	1993	2004
Malcolm X	1992	2010
Unforgiven	1992	2004
El Mariachi	1992	2011
A League of Their Own	1992	2012
Beauty and the Beast	1991	2002
Boyz N the Hood	1991	2002
Daughters of the Dust	1991	2004
Silence of the Lambs	1991	2011
Slacker	1991	2012
Dances with Wolves	1990	2007
Goodfellas	1990	2000
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia	1990	2012
Do the Right Thing	1989	1999
sex, lies, and videotape	1989	2006
Water and Power	1989	2008
Drums of Winter	1988	2006
Thin Blue Line, The	1988	2001
Tin Toy	1988	2003
Stand and Deliver	1988	2011
Hoosiers	1986	2001
Precious Images	1986	2009
Sherman’s March	1986	2000
Fake Fruit Factory	1986	2011
Back to the Future	1985	2007
Stranger Than Paradise	1984	2002
Terminator, The	1984	2008
This Is Spinal Tap	1984	2002
The Times of Harvey Milk	1984	2012
El Norte	1983	1995
Koyaanisqatsi	1983	2000
Thriller, Michael Jackson’s	1983	2009
A Christmas Story	1983	2012
Blade Runner	1982	1993
Chan Is Missing	1982	1995
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	1982	1994
Fast Times at Ridgemont High	1982	2005
Tootsie	1982	1998
Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	1999
Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2	1980-82	2012
Airplane!	1980	2010
Atlantic City	1980	2003
Empire Strikes Back, The	1980	2010
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers	1980	2004
Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, The	1980	1996
Raging Bull	1980	1990
Return of the Secaucus 7	1980	1997
Alien	1979	2002
All That Jazz	1979	2001
Apocalypse Now	1979	2000
Black Stallion, The	1979	2002
Free Radicals	1979	2008
Manhattan	1979	2001
Muppet Movie, The	1979	2009
Norma Rae	1979	2011
Days of Heaven	1978	2007
Deer Hunter, The	1978	1996
Halloween	1978	2006
National Lampoon’s Animal House	1978	2001
Powers of Ten	1978	1998
Annie Hall	1977	1992
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	2007
Eraserhead	1977	2004
Killer of Sheep	1977	1990
Saturday Night Fever	1977	2010
Star Wars	1977	1989
I, an Actress	1977	2011
All the President’s Men	1976	2010
Chulas Fronteras	1976	1993
Grey Gardens	1976	2010
Harlan County, U.S.A.	1976	1990
Network	1976	2000
Outlaw Josey Wales, The	1976	1996
Rocky	1976	2006
Taxi Driver	1976	1994
To Fly!	1976	1995
Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man, The	1975	2005
Dog Day Afternoon	1975	2009
Jaws	1975	2001
Nashville	1975	1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	1975	1993
Quasi at the Quackadero	1975	2009
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The	1975	2005
Hester Street	1975	2011
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman	1974	2003
Blazing Saddles	1974	2006
Chinatown	1974	1991
Conversation, The	1974	1995
Fuji	1974	2002
Godfather Part II, The	1974	1993
Woman Under the Influence, A	1974	1990
Young Frankenstein	1974	2003
American Graffiti	1973	1995
Badlands	1973	1993
Enter the Dragon	1973	2004
Exorcist, The	1973	2010
Frank Film	1973	1996
Mean Streets	1973	1997
No Lies	1973	2008
Sting, The	1973	2005
The Spook Who Sat by the Door	1973	2012
Cabaret	1972	1995
Deliverance	1972	2008
Godfather, The	1972	1990
Harold and Maude	1972	1997
Hot Dogs for Gauguin	1972	2009
Peege	1972	2007
Computer Animated Hand, A	1972	2011
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania	1971-1972	2006
Nostalgia	1971	2003
French Connection, The	1971	2005
Hospital, The	1971	1995
Last Picture Show, The	1971	1998
McCabe & Mrs. Miller	1971	2010
Shaft	1971	2000
Growing Up Female	1971	2011
Dirty Harry	1971	2012
Two-Lane Blacktop	1971	2012
Film Portrait	1970	2003
Five Easy Pieces	1970	2000
Hospital	1970	1994
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	1970	1999
M*A*S*H	1970	1996
Multiple Sidosis	1970	2000
Patton	1970	2003
Serene Velocity	1970	2001
Woodstock	1970	1996
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son	1969-1971	2007
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	2003
Czechoslovakia 1968	1969	1997
Easy Rider	1969	1998
High School	1969	1991
I Am Joaquin	1969	2010
Learning Tree, The	1969	1989
Medium Cool	1969	2003
Midnight Cowboy	1969	1994
Our Lady of the Sphere	1969	2010
Salesman	1969	1992
Wild Bunch, The	1969	1999
2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	1991
Bullitt	1968	2007
David Holzman’s Diary	1968	1991
Night of the Living Dead	1968	1999
Offon	1968	2004
Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	2009
Planet of the Apes	1968	2001
Producers, The	1968	1996
Why Man Creates	1968	2002
Faces	1968	2011
Bonnie and Clyde	1967	1992
Cool Hand Luke	1967	2005
Don’t Look Back	1967	1998
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB	1967	2010
Graduate, The	1967	1996
In Cold Blood	1967	2008
In the Heat of the Night	1967	2002
Jungle, The	1967	2009
Castro Street	1966	1992
Endless Summer, The	1966	2002
Navajo Film Themselves (Through Navajo Eyes)	1966	2002
Time for Burning, A	1966	2005
They Call It Pro Football	1966	2012
Pawnbroker, The	1965	2008
Sound of Music, The	1965	2001
Dead Birds	1964	1998
Dr. Strangelove	1964	1989
Dog Star Man	1964	1992
Empire	1964	2004
March, The	1964	2008
Nothing But a Man	1964	1993
Point of Order	1964	1993
T.A.M.I. Show, The	1964	2006
Parable	1964	2012
America, America	1963	2001
Cool World, The	1963	1994
Nutty Professor, The	1963	2004
Pink Panther, The	1963	2010
Shock Corridor	1963	1996
Zapruder Film	1963	1994
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment	1963	2011
How the West Was Won	1962	1997
Lawrence of Arabia	1962	1991
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The	1962	2007
Manchurian Candidate, The	1962	1994
Music Man, The	1962	2005
Ride the High Country	1962	1992
To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	1995
Exiles, The	1961	2009
Flower Drum Song	1961	2008
Hustler, The	1961	1997
Raisin in the Sun, A	1961	2005
West Side Story	1961	1997
Allures	1961	2011
Breakfast at Tiffany’s	1961	2012
Think of Me First as a Person	1960-1975	2006
Apartment, The	1960	1994
House of Usher	1960	2005
Primary	1960	1990
Psycho	1960	1992
Wild River	1960	2002
Ben-Hur (1959)	1959	1997
Cry of Jazz	1959	2010
Jazz on a Summer’s Day	1959	1999
North By Northwest	1959	1995
Pillow Talk	1959	2009
Pull My Daisy	1959	1996
Shadows	1959	1993
Some Like It Hot	1959	1989
Porgy and Bess	1959	2011
Anatomy of a Murder	1959	2012
7th Voyage of Sinbad, The	1958	2008
Gigi	1958	1991
Movie, A	1958	1994
Touch of Evil	1958	1993
Vertigo	1958	1989
12 Angry Men	1957	2007
Bridge on the River Kwai, The	1957	1997
Face in the Crowd, A	1957	2008
Glimpse of the Garden	1957	2007
Hunters, The	1957	2003
Incredible Shrinking Man, The	1957	2009
Jailhouse Rock	1957	2004
Let’s All Go to the Lobby	1957	2000
On the Bowery	1957	2008
Paths of Glory	1957	1992
Sweet Smell of Success	1957	1993
Tall T, The	1957	2000
What’s Opera, Doc?	1957	1992
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?	1957	2000
3:10 to Yuma	1957	2012
Court Jester, The	1956	2004
Disneyland Dream	1956	2008
Giant	1956	2005
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	1956	1994
Modesta	1956	1998
One Froggy Evening	1956	2003
Searchers, The	1956	1989
Ten Commandments, The	1956	1999
All That Heaven Allows	1955	1995
Kiss Me Deadly	1955	1999
Marty	1955	1994
Night of the Hunter, The	1955	1992
Oklahoma!	1955	2007
Rebel Without a Cause	1955	1990
Carmen Jones	1954	1992
House in the Middle, The	1954	2001
Johnny Guitar	1954	2008
On the Waterfront	1954	1989
Rear Window	1954	1997
Sabrina	1954	2002
Salt of the Earth	1954	1992
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	1954	2004
Star Is Born, A	1954	2000
Time Out of War, A	1954	2006
All My Babies	1953	2002
Band Wagon, The	1953	1995
Duck Amuck	1953	1999
Eaux d’Artifice	1953	1993
From Here to Eternity	1953	2002
Hitch-Hiker, The	1953	1998
Little Fugitive	1953	1997
Living Desert, The	1953	2000
Naked Spur, The	1953	1997
Roman Holiday	1953	1999
Shane	1953	1993
Tell-Tale Heart, The	1953	2001
Big Heat, The	1953	2011
War of the Worlds	1953	2011
Bad and the Beautiful, The	1952	2002
High Noon	1952	1989
Magical Maestro	1952	1993
Singin’ in the Rain	1952	1989
This Is Cinerama	1952	2002
African Queen, The	1951	1994
American in Paris, An	1951	1993
Day the Earth Stood Still, The	1951	1995
Duck and Cover	1951	2004
Gerald McBoing-Boing	1951	1995
Place in the Sun, A	1951	1991
Streetcar Named Desire, A	1951	1999
Thing from Another World, The	1951	2001
All About Eve	1950	1990
Asphalt Jungle, The	1950	2008
D.O.A.	1950	2004
In a Lonely Place	1950	2007
Sunset Boulevard	1950	1989
Born Yesterday	1950	2012
Adam’s Rib	1949	1992
All the King’s Men	1949	2001
Gun Crazy aka Deadly Is the Female	1949	1998
Heiress, The	1949	1996
Lead Shoes, The	1949	2009
Twelve O’Clock High	1949	1998
White Heat	1949	2003
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein	1948	2001
Force of Evil	1948	1994
In the Street	1948	2006
Letter from an Unknown Woman	1948	1992
Louisiana Story	1948	1994
Naked City, The	1948	2007
Pearl, The	1948	2002
Red River	1948	1990
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The	1948	1990
Miracle on 34th Street	1947	2005
Motion Painting No. 1	1947	1997
Out of the Past	1947	1991
Best Years of Our Lives, The	1946	1989
Big Sleep, The	1946	1997
It's a Wonderful Life	1946	1990
Killers, The	1946	2008
Let There Be Light	1946	2010
My Darling Clementine	1946	1991
Notorious	1946	2006
Battle of San Pietro, The	1945	1991
Detour	1945	1992
House I Live In, The	1945	2007
Mildred Pierce	1945	1996
Story of G.I. Joe, The	1945	2009
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A	1945	2010
Lost Weekend, The	1945	2011
Double Indemnity	1944	1992
Going My Way	1944	2004
Jammin’ the Blues	1944	1995
Laura	1944	1999
Meet Me in St. Louis	1944	1994
Memphis Belle	1944	2001
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, The	1944	2001
Mom and Dad	1944	2005
National Velvet	1944	2003
Negro Soldier, The	1944	2011
George Stevens’ World War II Footage	1943-1946	2008
Topaz	1943-1945	1996
Why We Fight	1943-1945	2000
Lassie Come Home	1943	1993
Meshes of the Afternoon	1943	1990
Ox-Bow Incident, The	1943	1998
Shadow of a Doubt	1943	1991
Stormy Weather	1943	2001
Casablanca	1942	1989
Cat People	1942	1993
Jam Session	1942	2001
Magnificent Ambersons, The	1942	1991
Mrs. Miniver	1942	2009
Now, Voyager	1942	2007
Road to Morocco	1942	1996
To Be or Not to Be	1942	1996
Tulips Shall Grow	1942	1997
Woman of the Year	1942	1999
Yankee Doodle Dandy	1942	1993
Bambi	1942	2011
Blood of Jesus, The	1941	1991
Citizen Kane	1941	1989
How Green Was My Valley	1941	1990
Kannapolis, N.C.	1941	2004
Lady Eve, The	1941	1994
Maltese Falcon, The	1941	1989
Sergeant York	1941	2008
Sullivan’s Travels	1941	1990
Bank Dick, The	1940	1992
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina (May 1940)	1940	2005
Dance, Girl, Dance	1940	2007
Fantasia	1940	1990
Grapes of Wrath, The	1940	1989
Great Dictator, The	1940	1997
His Girl Friday	1940	1993
Knute Rockne, All American	1940	1997
Mark of Zorro, The	1940	2009
Melody Ranch	1940	2002
Philadelphia Story, The	1940	1995
Pinocchio	1940	1994
Shop Around the Corner, The	1940	1999
Siege	1940	2006
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse	1940	1998
Tarantella	1940	2010
Early Abstractions	1939-1956	2006
City, The	1939	1998
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther	1939	2001
Destry Rides Again	1939	1996
Gone With the Wind	1939	1989
Gunga Din	1939	1999
Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert	1939	2001
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	1989
Ninotchka	1939	1990
Stagecoach	1939	1995
Tevye	1939	1991
Verbena Tragica	1939	1996
Wizard of Oz, The	1939	1989
Women, The	1939	2007
Wuthering Heights	1939	2007
Young Mr. Lincoln	1939	2003
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair	1939	2012
Adventures of Robin Hood, The	1938	1995
Bringing Up Baby	1938	1990
Jezebel	1938	2009
Love Finds Andy Hardy	1938	2000
March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany	1938	1993
Our Day	1938	2007
Porky in Wackyland	1938	2000
River, The	1938	1990
Under Western Stars	1938	2009
Awful Truth, The	1937	1996
Daughter of Shanghai	1937	2006
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage	1937	1997
Life of Emile Zola, The	1937	2000
Make Way for Tomorrow	1937	2010
Prisoner of Zenda, The	1937	1991
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage	1937	1997
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	1989
Trance and Dance in Bali	1936-1939	1999
Dodsworth	1936	1990
Flash Gordon Serial	1936	1996
Fury	1936	1995
Master Hands	1936	1999
Modern Times	1936	1989
My Man Godfrey	1936	1999
Plow That Broke the Plains, The	1936	1999
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor	1936	2004
Rose Hobart	1936	2001
Show Boat	1936	1996
Swing Time	1936	2004
Bride of Frankenstein, The	1935	1998
Naughty Marietta	1935	2003
Night at the Opera, A	1935	1993
Top Hat	1935	1990
Imitation of Life	1934	2005
It Happened One Night	1934	1993
It's a Gift	1934	2010
Little Miss Marker	1934	1998
Punch Drunks	1934	2002
Tarzan and His Mate	1934	2003
Thin Man, The	1934	1997
Twentieth Century	1934	2011
42nd Street	1933	1998
Baby Face	1933	2005
Duck Soup	1933	1990
Emperor Jones, The	1933	1999
Footlight Parade	1933	1992
Gold Diggers of 1933	1933	2003
Invisible Man, The	1933	2008
King Kong	1933	1991
She Done Him Wrong	1933	1996
Snow White	1933	1994
Three Little Pigs, The	1933	2007
Sons of the Desert	1933	2012
Freaks	1932	1994
Grand Hotel	1932	2007
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	1932	1991
Love Me Tonight	1932	1990
Music Box, The	1932	1997
Red Dust	1932	2006
Scarface	1932	1994
Study in Reds, A	1932	2009
Trouble in Paradise	1932	1991
Bronx Morning, A	1931	2004
City Lights	1931	1991
Dracula	1931	2000
Forgotten Frontier, The	1931	1996
Frankenstein	1931	1991
Front Page, The	1931	2010
Public Enemy, The	1931	1998
Tabu	1931	1994
The Augustas	1930s-1950s	2012
Nicholas Brothers' Home Movies	1930s-'40s	2011
Kidnapper's Foil	1930s	2012
Revenge of Pancho Villa, The	1930-1936	2009
All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	1990
Big Trail, The	1930	2006
From Stump to Ship	1930	2002
Little Caesar	1930	2000
Morocco	1930	1992
Pups Is Pups	1930	2004
Applause	1929	2006
Big Business	1929	1992
H2O	1929	2005
Hallelujah!	1929	2008
Lambchops	1929	1999
St. Louis Blues	1929	2006
Cameraman, The	1928	2005
Crowd, The	1928	1989
Docks of New York, The	1928	1999
Fall of the House of Usher, The	1928	2000
Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band	1928	2003
Last Command, The	1928	2006
Lonesome	1928	2010
Pass the Gravy	1928	1998
Power of the Press, The	1928	2005
Sex Life of the Polyp, The	1928	2007
Show People	1928	2003
Steamboat Willie	1928	1998
There It Is	1928	2004
Wedding March, The	1928	2003
Wind, The	1928	1993
Flesh and the Devil	1927	2006
General, The	1927	1989
It	1927	2001
Jazz Singer, The	1927	1996
Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra, The	1927	1997
Seventh Heaven	1927	1995
Stark Love	1927	2009
Sunrise	1927	1989
Wings	1927	1997
Black Pirate, The	1926	1993
Hands Up!	1926	2005
Mighty Like a Moose	1926	2007
So’s Your Old Man	1926	2008
Son of the Sheik, The	1926	2003
Strong Man, The	1926	2007
Ben-Hur (1925)	1925	1997
Big Parade, The	1925	1992
Clash of the Wolves	1925	2004
Freshman, The	1925	1990
Gold Rush, The	1925	1992
Grass	1925	1997
Lady Windermere’s Fan	1925	2002
Lost World, The	1925	1998
Phantom of the Opera, The	1925	1998
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck	1925	2002
Chechahcos, The	1924	2003
Greed	1924	1991
Peter Pan	1924	2000
Sherlock, Jr.	1924	1991
Thief of Bagdad, The	1924	1996
Iron Horse, The	1924	2011
Safety Last!	1923	1994
Salomé	1923	2000
Cops	1922	1997
Foolish Wives	1922	2008
Miss Lulu Bett	1922	2001
Nanook of the North	1922	1989
Sky High	1922	1998
Two-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III	1922	2012
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The	1921	1995
Manhatta	1921	1995
Tol’able David	1921	2007
Kid, The	1921	2011
Heroes All	1920	2009
Last of the Mohicans, The	1920	1995
Making of an American, The	1920	2005
One Week	1920	2008
Within Our Gates	1920	1992
Broken Blossoms	1919	1996
Blue Bird, The	1918	2004
Immigrant, The	1917	1998
Poor Little Rich Girl, The	1917	1991
Wild and Woolly	1917	2002
Curse of Quon Gwon, The	1916-1917	2006
Civilization	1916	1999
Hell’s Hinges	1916	1994
Intolerance	1916	1989
Where Are My Children?	1916	1993
Birth of a Nation, The	1915	1992
Cheat, The	1915	1993
Fatty’s Tintype Tangle	1915	1995
Italian, The	1915	1991
Regeneration	1915	2000
Bargain, The	1914	2010
Exploits of Elaine, The	1914	1994
Gertie The Dinosaur	1914	1991
In the Land of the Head Hunters	1914	1999
Mabel’s Blunder	1914	2009
Perils of Pauline, The	1914	2008
Tess of the Storm Country	1914	2006
Uncle Tom's Cabin	1914	2012
The Wishing Ring: an Idyll of Old England	1914	2012
Evidence of the Film, The	1913	2001
Matrimony’s Speed Limit	1913	2003
Preservation of the Sign Language	1913	2010
Traffic in Souls	1913	2006
From the Manger to the Cross	1912	1998
Land Beyond the Sunset, The	1912	2000
Cry of the Children, The	1912	2011
Cure for Pokeritis, A	1912	2011
Little Nemo	1911	2009
Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest	1910	2005
White Fawn’s Devotion	1910	2008
Corner in Wheat, A	1909	1994
Lady Helen’s Escapade	1909	2004
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy	1909	2003
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906	1906	2005
Trip Down Market Street, A	1906	2010
Westinghouse Works 1904	1904	1998
Great Train Robbery, The	1903	1990
President McKinley Inauguration Footage	1901	2000
Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre	1901	2002
Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight	1897	2012
Kiss, The	1896	1999
Rip Van Winkle	1896	1995
Dickson Experimental Sound Film	1894-1895	2003
Blacksmith Scene	1893	1995
Newark Athlete	1891	2010