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US National Film Registry U.S. National Film Registry - Titles In 1988, the (United States) Library of Congress established the National Film Preservation Board, to preserve film deemed "culturally, historically, or esthetically important". Each year, the board selects 25 films to add to the National Film Registry. Herein is the complete list of those films so honoured to date. 1989 1. Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. Citizen Kane (1941) 4. Crowd, The (1928) 5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) 6. General, The (1926) 7. Gone with the Wind (1939) 8. Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 9. High Noon (1952) 10. Intolerance (1916) 11. Learning Tree, The (1969) 12. Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 13. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 14. Modern Times (1936) 15. Nanook of the North (1922) 16. On the Waterfront (1954) 17. Searchers, The (1956) 18. Singin' in the Rain (1952) 19. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 20. Some Like It Hot (1959) 21. Star Wars (1977) 22. Sunrise (1927) 23. Sunset Boulevard (1950) 24. Vertigo (1958) 25. Wizard of Oz, The (1939) 1990 1. All About Eve (1950) 2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 3. Bringing Up Baby (1938) 4. Dodsworth (1936) 5. Duck Soup (1933) 6. Fantasia (1940) 7. Freshman, The (1925) 8. Godfather, The (1972) 9. Great Train Robbery, The (1903) 10. Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) 11. How Green Was My Valley (1941) 12. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 13. Killer of Sheep (1977) 14. Love Me Tonight (1932) 15. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) 16. Ninotchka (1939) 17. Primary (1960) 18. Raging Bull (1980) 19. Rebel Without a Cause (1965) 20. Red River (1948) 21. River, The (1937) 22. Sullivan's Travels (1941) 23. Top Hat (1935) 24. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 25. Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) 1991 1. Battle of San Pietro, The (1944) 2. Blood of Jesus, The (1941) 3. Chinatown (1974) 4. City Lights (1931) 5. David Holzman's Diary (1968) 6. Frankenstein (1931) 7. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) 8. Gigi (1958) 9. Greed (1925) 10. High School (1968) 11. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) 12. Italian, The (1915) 13. King Kong (1933) 14. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 15. Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) 16. My Darling Clementine (1946) 17. Out of the Past (1947) 18. Place in the Sun, A (1951) 19. Poor Little Rich Girl, The (1917) 20. Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937) 21. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 22. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 23. Tevye (1939) 24. Trouble in Paradise (1932) 25. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 1992 1. Adam's Rib (1949) 2. Annie Hall (1977) 3. Bank Dick, The (1940) 4. Big Business (1929) 5. Big Parade, The (1925) 6. Birth of a Nation, The (1915) 7. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 8. Carmen Jones (1954) 9. Castro Street (1966) 10. Detour (1945) 11. Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964) 12. Double Indemnity (1944) 13. Footlight Parade (1933) 14. Gold Rush, The (1925) 15. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) 16. Morocco (1930) 17. Nashville (1975) 18. Night of the Hunter, The (1955) 19. Paths of Glory (1957) 20. Psycho (1960) 21. Ride the High Country (1962) 22. Salesman (1969) 23. Salt of the Earth (1954) 24. What's Opera, Doc? (1957) 25. Within Our Gates (1920) 1993 1. American in Paris, An (1951) 2. Badlands (1973) 3. Black Pirate, The (1926) 4. Blade Runner (1982) 5. Cat People (1942) 6. Cheat, The (1915) 7. Chulas Fronteras (1976) 8. Eau d'Artifice (1953) 9. Godfather, Part II, The (1974) 10. His Girl Friday (1940) 11. It Happened One Night (1934) 12. Lassie Come Home (1943) 13. Magical Maestro (1952) 14. March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938) 15. Night at the Opera, A (1935) 16. Nothing But a Man (1964) 17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 18. Point of Order (1964) 19. Shadows (1959) 20. Shane (1953) 21. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 22. Touch of Evil (1958) 23. Where Are My Children? (1916) 24. Wind, The (1928) 25. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) 1994 1. African Queen, The (1951) 2. Apartment, The (1960) 3. Cool World, The (1963) 4. Corner in Wheat, A (1909) 5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 6. Exploits of Elaine, The (1914) 7. Force of Evil (1948) 8. Freaks (1932) 9. Hell's Hinges (1916) 10. Hospital (1970) 11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 12. Lady Eve, The (1941) 13. Louisiana Story (1948) 14. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) 15. Marty (1955) 16. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 17. Midnight Cowboy (1969) 18. Movie, A (1958) 19. Pinocchio (1940) 20. Safety Last (1923) 21. Scarface (1932) 22. Snow White (1933) 23. Tabu (1931) 24. Taxi Driver (1976) 25. Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (1963) 1995 1. Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) 2. All That Heaven Allows (1955) 3. American Graffiti (1973) 4. Band Wagon, The (1953) 5. Blacksmith Scene (1893) 6. Cabaret (1972) 7. Chan is Missing (1982) 8. Conversation, The (1974) 9. Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) 10. El Norte (1983) 11. Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915) 12. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) 13. Fury (1936) 14. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951) 15. Hospital, The (1971) 16. Jammin' the Blues (1944) 17. Last of the Mohicans, The (1920) 18. Manhatta (1921) 19. North by Northwest (1959) 20. Philadelphia Story, The (1940) 21. Rip Van Winkle (1896) 22. Seventh Heaven (1927) 23. Stagecoach (1939) 24. To Fly (1976) 25. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 1996 1. Awful Truth, The (1937) 2. Broken Blossoms (1919) 3. Deer Hunter, The (1978) 4. Destry Rides Again (1939) 5. Flash Gordon (1936/I) 6. Forgotten Frontier, The (1931) 7. Frank Film (1973) 8. Graduate, The (1967) 9. Heiress, The (1949) 10. Jazz Singer, The (1927) 11. Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980) 12. M*A*S*H (1970) 13. Mildred Pierce (1945) 14. Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) 15. Producers, The (1968) 16. Pull My Daisy (1958/I) 17. Road to Morocco (1942) 18. She Done Him Wrong (1933) 19. Shock Corridor (1963) 20. Show Boat (1936) 21. Thief of Bagdad, The (1924) 22. To Be or Not To Be (1942) 23. Topaz (1945) 24. Verbena Tragica (1939) 25. Woodstock (1970) 1997 1. Ben-Hur (1926) 2. Big Sleep, The (1946) 3. Bridge On the River Kwai, The (1957) 4. Cops (1922) 5. Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969) 6. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) 7. Great Dictator, The (1940) 8. Harold and Maude (1971) 9. Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937) 10. How the West Was Won (1962) 11. Hustler, The (1961) 12. Knute Rockne, All American (1940) 13. Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra, The (1928) 14. Little Fugitive (1953) 15. Mean Streets (1973) 16. Motion Painting no. 1 (1947) 17. Music Box, The (1932) 18. Naked Spur, The (1953) 19. Rear Window (1954) 20. Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage (1937) 21. Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) 22. Thin Man, The (1934) 23. Tulips Shall Grow (1942) 24. West Side Story (1961) 25. Wings (1927) 1998 1. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 2. City, The (1939) 3. Dead Birds (1965) 4. Don't Look Back (1967) 5. Easy Rider (1969) 6. 42nd Street (1933) 7. From The Manger to the Cross (1912) 8. Gun Crazy (1950) 9. Hitch-Hiker, The (1953) 10. Immigrant, The (1917) 11. Last Picture Show, The (1971) 12. Little Miss Marker (1934) 13. The Lost World (1925) 14. Modesta (1956) 15. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) 16. Pass the Gravy (1928) 17. Phantom of the Opera, The (1925) 18. Powers of Ten (1978) 19. Public Enemy, The (1931) 20. Sky High (1922) 21. Steamboat Willie (1928) 22. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940) 23. Tootsie (1982) 24. Twelve O'Clock High (1949) 25. Westinghouse Works, 1904 (1904) .
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