Films
| Film title | Film type | Year of release |
Year of induction |
Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Angry Men | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2007 | |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1991 | |
| 3:10 to Yuma | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2012 | |
| 42nd Street | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1998 | |
| 7th Voyage of Sinbad, TheThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Narrative feature | 1958 | 2008 | |
| Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1948 | 2001 | |
| Adam's Rib | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1992 | |
| Adventures of Robin Hood, TheThe Adventures of Robin Hood | Narrative feature | 1938 | 1995 | |
| African Queen, TheThe African Queen | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1994 | |
| Airplane! | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2010 | |
| Alien | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2002 | |
| All About Eve | Narrative feature | 1950 | 1990 | |
| All My Babies | Documentary | 1953 | 2002 | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Narrative feature | 1930 | 1990 | |
| All That Heaven Allows | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1995 | |
| All That Jazz | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2001 | |
| All the King's Men | Narrative feature | 1949 | 2001 | |
| All the President's Men | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2010 | |
| Allures | Experimental film | 1961 | 2011 | |
| America, America | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2001 | |
| American Graffiti | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1995 | |
| American in Paris, AnAn American in Paris | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1993 | |
| Anatomy of a Murder | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2012 | |
| Annie Hall | Narrative feature | 1977 | 1992 | |
| Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman | Documentary | 1974 | 2003 | |
| Apartment, TheThe Apartment | Narrative feature | 1960 | 1994 | |
| Apocalypse Now | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2000 | |
| Applause | Narrative feature | 1929 | 2006 | |
| Asphalt Jungle, TheThe Asphalt Jungle | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2008 | |
| Atlantic City | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2003 | |
| Augustas, TheThe Augustas | Home film/documentary | 1930s–1950s | 2012 | |
| Awful Truth, TheThe Awful Truth | Narrative feature | 1937 | 1996 | |
| Baby Face | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2005 | |
| Back to the Future | Narrative feature | 1985 | 2007 | |
| Bad and the Beautiful, TheThe Bad and the Beautiful | Narrative feature | 1952 | 2002 | |
| Badlands | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1993 | |
| Bambi | Animated narrative feature | 1942 | 2011 | |
| Band Wagon, TheThe Band Wagon | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1995 | |
| Bank Dick, TheThe Bank Dick | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1992 | |
| Bargain, TheThe Bargain | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2010 | |
| Battle of San Pietro, TheThe Battle of San Pietro | Documentary | 1945 | 1991 | |
| Beauty and the Beast | Animated narrative feature | 1991 | 2002 | |
| Ben-Hur | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1997 | |
| Ben-Hur | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2004 | |
| Best Years of Our Lives, TheThe Best Years of Our Lives | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1989 | |
| Big Business | Short subject | 1929 | 1992 | |
| Big Heat, TheThe Big Heat | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2011 | |
| Big Parade, TheThe Big Parade | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1992 | |
| Big Sleep, TheThe Big Sleep | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1997 | |
| Big Trail, TheThe Big Trail | Narrative feature | 1930 | 2006 | |
| Birth of a Nation, TheThe Birth of a Nation | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1992 | |
| Black Pirate, TheThe Black Pirate | Narrative feature | 1926 | 1993 | |
| Black Stallion, TheThe Black Stallion | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2002 | |
| Blacksmith Scene | Short subject | 1893 | 1995 | |
| Blade Runner | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1993 | |
| Blazing Saddles | Narrative feature | 1974 | 2006 | |
| Blood of Jesus, TheThe Blood of Jesus | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1991 | |
| Blue Bird, TheThe Blue Bird | Narrative feature | 1918 | 2004 | |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1992 | |
| Boyz n the Hood | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2002 | |
| Bride of Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1998 | |
| Bridge on the River Kwai, TheThe Bridge on the River Kwai | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1997 | |
| Bringing Up Baby | Narrative feature | 1938 | 1990 | |
| Broken Blossoms | Narrative feature | 1919 | 1996 | |
| Born Yesterday | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2012 | |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2012 | |
| Bronx Morning, AA Bronx Morning | Short subject | 1931 | 2004 | |
| Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man, TheThe Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man | Documentary | 1975 | 2005 | |
| Bullitt | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2007 | |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2003 | |
| Cabaret | Narrative feature | 1972 | 1995 | |
| Cameraman, TheThe Cameraman | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2005 | |
| Carmen Jones | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1992 | |
| Casablanca | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1989 | |
| Castro Street | Documentary/short subject/experimental film | 1966 | 1992 | |
| Cat People | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1993 | |
| Chan Is Missing | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1995 | |
| Cheat, TheThe Cheat | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1993 | |
| Chechahcos, TheThe Chechahcos | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2003 | |
| Chinatown | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1991 | |
| Christmas Story, AA Christmas Story | Narrative feature | 1983 | 2012 | |
| Chulas Fronteras | Documentary | 1976 | 1993 | |
| Citizen Kane | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1989 | |
| City, TheThe City | Documentary | 1939 | 1998 | |
| City Lights | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1991 | |
| Civilization | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1999 | |
| Clash of the Wolves | Narrative feature | 1925 | 2004 | |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2007 | |
| Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther | Documentary/short subject | 1939 | 2001 | |
| Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 | Documentary/short subject | 1940 | 2005 | |
| Computer Animated Hand, AA Computer Animated Hand | Animated short subject/experimental film | 1972 | 2011 | |
| Conversation, TheThe Conversation | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1995 | |
| Cool Hand Luke | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2005 | |
| Cool World, TheThe Cool World | Narrative feature | 1963 | 1994 | |
| Cops | Short subject | 1922 | 1997 | |
| Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, TheThe Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight | Documentary | 1897 | 2012 | |
| Corner in Wheat, AA Corner in Wheat | Short subject | 1909 | 1994 | |
| Court Jester, TheThe Court Jester | Narrative feature | 1956 | 2004 | |
| Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | Documentary | 1963 | 2011 | |
| Crowd, TheThe Crowd | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1989 | |
| Cry of Jazz | Short subject | 1959 | 2010 | |
| Cry of the Children, TheThe Cry of the Children | Short subject | 1912 | 2011 | |
| Cure for Pokeritis, AA Cure for Pokeritis | Short subject | 1912 | 2011 | |
| Curse of Quon Gwon, TheThe Curse of Quon Gwon | Short subject | 1916–1917 | 2006 | |
| Czechoslovakia 1968 | Documentary/short subject | 1969 | 1997 | |
| Dance, Girl, Dance | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2007 | |
| Dances with Wolves | Narrative feature | 1990 | 2007 | |
| Daughter of Shanghai | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2006 | |
| Daughters of the Dust | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2004 | |
| David Holzman's Diary | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1991 | |
| Day the Earth Stood Still, TheThe Day the Earth Stood Still | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1995 | |
| Days of Heaven | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2007 | |
| Dead Birds | Documentary | 1964 | 1998 | |
| Deer Hunter, TheThe Deer Hunter | Narrative feature | 1978 | 1996 | |
| Deliverance | Narrative feature | 1972 | 2008 | |
| Destry Rides Again | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1996 | |
| Detour | Narrative feature | 1945 | 1992 | |
| Dickson Experimental Sound Film | Short subject/experimental film | 1894 or 1895 | 2003 | |
| Dirty Harry | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2012 | |
| Disneyland Dream | Home film | 1956 | 2008 | |
| D.O.A. | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2004 | |
| Do the Right Thing | Narrative feature | 1989 | 1999 | |
| Docks of New York, TheThe Docks of New York | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1999 | |
| Dodsworth | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1990 | |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2009 | |
| Dog Star Man | Short subject/experimental film | 1964 | 1992 | |
| Dont Look Back | Documentary | 1967 | 1998 | |
| Double Indemnity | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1992 | |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Narrative feature | 1964 | 1989 | |
| Dracula | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2000 | |
| Drums of Winter | Documentary | 1988 | 2006 | |
| Duck Amuck | Animated short subject | 1953 | 1999 | |
| Duck and Cover | Animated short subject | 1951 | 2004 | |
| Duck Soup | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1990 | |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1994 | |
| Early Abstractions | Animated short subjects | 1939–1956 | 2006 | |
| Easy Rider | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1998 | |
| Eaux d'artifice | Short subject | 1953 | 1993 | |
| Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB | Short subject | 1967 | 2010 | |
| El Mariachi | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2011 | |
| El Norte | Narrative feature | 1983 | 1995 | |
| Emperor Jones, TheThe Emperor Jones | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1999 | |
| Empire | Experimental film | 1964 | 2004 | |
| Endless Summer, TheThe Endless Summer | Documentary | 1966 | 2002 | |
| Enter the Dragon | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2004 | |
| Eraserhead | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2004 | |
| Evidence of the Film, TheThe Evidence of the Film | Short subject | 1913 | 2001 | |
| Exiles, TheThe Exiles | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2009 | |
| Exorcist, TheThe Exorcist | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2010 | |
| Exploits of Elaine, TheThe Exploits of Elaine | Film serial | 1914 | 1994 | |
| Face in the Crowd, AA Face in the Crowd | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2008 | |
| Faces | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2011 | |
| Fake Fruit Factory | Documentary/short subject | 1986 | 2011 | |
| Fall of the House of Usher, TheThe Fall of the House of Usher | Short subject | 1928 | 2000 | |
| Fantasia | Animated narrative feature | 1940 | 1990 | |
| Fargo | Narrative feature | 1996 | 2006 | |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Narrative feature | 1982 | 2005 | |
| Fatty's Tintype Tangle | Short subject | 1915 | 1995 | |
| Film Portrait | Documentary | 1970 | 2003 | |
| Five Easy Pieces | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2000 | |
| Flash Gordon | Film serial | 1936 | 1996 | |
| Flesh and the Devil | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2006 | |
| Flower Drum Song | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2008 | |
| Foolish Wives | Narrative feature | 1922 | 2008 | |
| Footlight Parade | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1992 | |
| Force of Evil | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1994 | |
| Forgotten Frontier, TheThe Forgotten Frontier | Documentary | 1931 | 1996 | |
| Forrest Gump | Narrative feature | 1994 | 2011 | |
| Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, TheThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Narrative feature | 1921 | 1995 | |
| Jenkins Orphanage Band (Fox Movietone News) | Newsreel | 1928 | 2003 | |
| Frank Film | Animated short subject | 1973 | 1996 | |
| Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1991 | |
| Freaks | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1994 | |
| Free Radicals | Animated short subject | 1979 | 2008 | |
| French Connection, TheThe French Connection | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2005 | |
| Freshman, TheThe Freshman | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1990 | |
| From Here to Eternity | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2002 | |
| From Stump to Ship | Industrial/short subject | 1930 | 2002 | |
| From the Manger to the Cross | Narrative feature | 1912 | 1998 | |
| Front Page, TheThe Front Page | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2010 | |
| Fuji | Short subject | 1974 | 2002 | |
| Fury | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1995 | |
| Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers | Documentary | 1980 | 2004 | |
| General, TheThe General | Narrative feature | 1926 | 1989 | |
| George Stevens World War II Footage | Documentary | 1943–1946 | 2008 | |
| Gerald McBoing-Boing | Animated short subject | 1951 | 1995 | |
| Gertie the Dinosaur | Animated short subject | 1914 | 1991 | |
| Giant | Narrative feature | 1956 | 2005 | |
| Gigi | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1991 | |
| Glimpse of the Garden | Short subject | 1957 | 2007 | |
| Godfather, TheThe Godfather | Narrative feature | 1972 | 1990 | |
| Godfather Part II, TheThe Godfather Part II | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1993 | |
| Going My Way | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2004 | |
| Gold Diggers of 1933 | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2003 | |
| Gold Rush, TheThe Gold Rush | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1992 | |
| Gone with the Wind | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | |
| Goodfellas | Narrative feature | 1990 | 2000 | |
| Graduate, TheThe Graduate | Narrative feature | 1967 | 1996 | |
| Grand Hotel | Narrative feature | 1932 | 2007 | |
| Grapes of Wrath, TheThe Grapes of Wrath | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1989 | |
| Grass | Documentary | 1925 | 1997 | |
| Great Dictator, TheThe Great Dictator | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1997 | |
| Great Train Robbery, TheThe Great Train Robbery | Short subject | 1903 | 1990 | |
| Greed | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1991 | |
| Grey Gardens | Documentary | 1976 | 2010 | |
| Groundhog Day | Narrative feature | 1993 | 2006 | |
| Growing Up Female | Documentary | 1971 | 2011 | |
| Gun Crazy | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1998 | |
| Gunga Din | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1999 | |
| H2O | Short subject | 1929 | 2005 | |
| Hallelujah! | Narrative feature | 1929 | 2008 | |
| Halloween | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2006 | |
| Hands Up! | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2005 | |
| Harlan County, USA | Documentary | 1976 | 1990 | |
| Harold and Maude | Narrative feature | 1972 | 1997 | |
| Heiress, TheThe Heiress | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1996 | |
| Hell's Hinges | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1994 | |
| Heroes All | Documentary | 1920 | 2009 | |
| Hester Street | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2011 | |
| High Noon | Narrative feature | 1952 | 1989 | |
| High School | Documentary | 1969 | 1991 | |
| Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage | Newsreel | 1937 | 1997 | |
| His Girl Friday | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1993 | |
| Hitch-Hiker, TheThe Hitch-Hiker | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1998 | |
| Hoop Dreams | Documentary | 1994 | 2005 | |
| Hoosiers | Narrative feature | 1986 | 2001 | |
| Hospital | Documentary | 1970 | 1994 | |
| Hospital, TheThe Hospital | Narrative feature | 1971 | 1995 | |
| Hot Dogs for Gauguin | Short subject | 1972 | 2009 | |
| Hours for Jerome Parts 1 and 2 | Experimental film | 1980–1982 | 2012 | |
| House I Live In, TheThe House I Live In | Short subject | 1945 | 2007 | |
| House in the Middle, TheThe House in the Middle | Documentary/short subject | 1954 | 2001 | |
| House of Usher | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2005 | |
| How Green Was My Valley | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1990 | |
| How the West Was Won | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1997 | |
| Hunters, TheThe Hunters | Documentary | 1957 | 2003 | |
| Hustler, TheThe Hustler | Narrative feature | 1961 | 1997 | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1991 | |
| I Am Joaquin | Short subject | 1969 | 2010 | |
| I, an Actress | Short subject | 1977 | 2011 | |
| Imitation of Life | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2005 | |
| Immigrant, TheThe Immigrant | Short subject | 1917 | 1998 | |
| In a Lonely Place | Narrative feature | 1950 | 2007 | |
| In Cold Blood | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2008 | |
| In the Heat of the Night | Narrative feature | 1967 | 2002 | |
| In the Land of the Head Hunters | Narrative feature | 1914 | 1999 | |
| In the Street | Documentary/short subject | 1948 | 2006 | |
| Incredible Shrinking Man, TheThe Incredible Shrinking Man | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2009 | |
| Inside Nazi Germany | Documentary/short subject | 1938 | 1993 | |
| Intolerance | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1989 | |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1994 | |
| Invisible Man, TheThe Invisible Man | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2008 | |
| Iron Horse, TheThe Iron Horse | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2011 | |
| It | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2001 | |
| It Happened One Night | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1993 | |
| It's a Gift | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2010 | |
| It's a Wonderful Life | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1990 | |
| Italian, TheThe Italian | Narrative feature | 1915 | 1991 | |
| Jailhouse Rock | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2004 | |
| Jam Session | Short subject | 1942 | 2001 | |
| Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest | Documentary | 1910 | 2005 | |
| Jammin' the Blues | Short subject | 1944 | 1995 | |
| Jaws | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2001 | |
| Jazz on a Summer's Day | Documentary | 1959 | 1999 | |
| Jazz Singer, TheThe Jazz Singer | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1996 | |
| Jezebel | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2009 | |
| Johnny Guitar | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2008 | |
| Jungle, TheThe Jungle | Short subject | 1967 | 2009 | |
| Kid, TheThe Kid | Narrative feature | 1921 | 2011 | |
| Kidnappers Foil, TheThe Kidnappers Foil | Narrative feature | 1930s–1950s | 2012 | |
| Killer of Sheep | Narrative feature | 1977 | 1990 | |
| Killers, TheThe Killers | Narrative feature | 1946 | 2008 | |
| King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Documentary | 1970 | 1999 | |
| King Kong | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1991 | |
| Kiss, TheThe Kiss | Short subject | 1896 | 1999 | |
| Kiss Me Deadly | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1999 | |
| Kannapolis, N.C. | Documentary | 1941 | 2004 | |
| Knute Rockne, All American | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1997 | |
| Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Test | Experimental film | 1922 | 2012 | |
| Koyaanisqatsi | Narrative feature | 1983 | 2000 | |
| Lady Eve, TheThe Lady Eve | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1994 | |
| Lady Helen's Escapade | Short subject | 1909 | 2004 | |
| Lady Windermere's Fan | Narrative feature | 1925 | 2002 | |
| Lambchops | Short subject | 1929 | 1999 | |
| Land Beyond the Sunset, TheThe Land Beyond the Sunset | Short subject | 1912 | 2000 | |
| Lassie Come Home | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1993 | |
| Last Command, TheThe Last Command | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2006 | |
| Last of the Mohicans, TheThe Last of the Mohicans | Narrative feature | 1920 | 1995 | |
| Last Picture Show, TheThe Last Picture Show | Narrative feature | 1971 | 1998 | |
| Laura | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1999 | |
| Lawrence of Arabia | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1991 | |
| Lead Shoes, TheThe Lead Shoes | Short subject/experimental film | 1949 | 2009 | |
| League of Their Own, AA League of Their Own | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2012 | |
| Learning Tree, TheThe Learning Tree | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1989 | |
| Let's All Go to the Lobby | Animated short subject | 1957 | 2000 | |
| Let There Be Light | Documentary | 1946 | 2010 | |
| Letter from an Unknown Woman | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1992 | |
| Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra, TheThe Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra | Short subject | 1927 | 1997 | |
| Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, TheThe Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Documentary | 1980 | 1996 | |
| Life of Emile Zola, TheThe Life of Emile Zola | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2000 | |
| Little Caesar | Narrative feature | 1931 | 2000 | |
| Little Fugitive | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1997 | |
| Little Miss Marker | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1998 | |
| Little Nemo | Animated short subject | 1911 | 2009 | |
| Living Desert, TheThe Living Desert | Documentary | 1953 | 2000 | |
| Lonesome | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2010 | |
| Lost Weekend, TheThe Lost Weekend | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2011 | |
| Lost World, TheThe Lost World | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1998 | |
| Louisiana Story | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1994 | |
| Love Finds Andy Hardy | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2000 | |
| Love Me Tonight | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1990 | |
| Mabel's Blunder | Short subject | 1914 | 2009 | |
| Make Way for Tomorrow | Narrative feature | 1937 | 2010 | |
| Magical Maestro | Animated short subject | 1952 | 1993 | |
| Magnificent Ambersons, TheThe Magnificent Ambersons | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1991 | |
| Making of an American, TheThe Making of an American | Short subject | 1920 | 2005 | |
| Malcolm X | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2010 | |
| Maltese Falcon, TheThe Maltese Falcon | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1989 | |
| Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, TheThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Narrative feature | 1962 | 2007 | |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheThe Manchurian Candidate | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1994 | |
| Manhatta | Documentary/short subject | 1921 | 1995 | |
| Manhattan | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2001 | |
| March, TheThe March | Documentary/short subject | 1964 | 2008 | |
| Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert | Documentary | 1939 | 2001 | |
| Mark of Zorro, TheThe Mark of Zorro | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2009 | |
| Marty | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1994 | |
| MASH | Narrative feature | 1970 | 1996 | |
| Master Hands | Documentary | 1936 | 1999 | |
| Matrimony's Speed Limit | Short subject | 1913 | 2003 | |
| Matrix, TheThe Matrix | Narrative feature | 1999 | 2012 | |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2010 | |
| Mean Streets | Narrative feature | 1973 | 1997 | |
| Medium Cool | Narrative feature | 1969 | 2003 | |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | Narrative feature | 1944 | 1994 | |
| Melody Ranch | Narrative feature | 1940 | 2002 | |
| Memphis Belle | Documentary | 1944 | 2001 | |
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Short subject/experimental film | 1943 | 1990 | |
| Michael Jackson's Thriller | Music video | 1983 | 2009 | |
| Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair, TheThe Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair | Narrative feature/documentary | 1939 | 2012 | |
| Midnight Cowboy | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1994 | |
| Mighty Like a Moose | Short subject | 1926 | 2007 | |
| Mildred Pierce | Narrative feature | 1945 | 1996 | |
| Miracle of Morgan's Creek, TheThe Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2001 | |
| Miracle on 34th Street | Narrative feature | 1947 | 2005 | |
| Miss Lulu Bett | Narrative feature | 1922 | 2001 | |
| Modern Times | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1989 | |
| Modesta | Short subject | 1956 | 1998 | |
| Mom and Dad | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2005 | |
| Morocco | Narrative feature | 1930 | 1992 | |
| Motion Painting No. 1 | Animated short subject | 1947 | 1997 | |
| Movie, AA Movie | Short subject/experimental film | 1958 | 1994 | |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | |
| Mrs. Miniver | Narrative feature | 1942 | 2009 | |
| Multiple Sidosis | Short subject | 1970 | 2000 | |
| Muppet Movie, TheThe Muppet Movie | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2009 | |
| Music Box, TheThe Music Box | Short subject | 1932 | 1997 | |
| Music Man, TheThe Music Man | Narrative feature | 1962 | 2005 | |
| My Darling Clementine | Narrative feature | 1946 | 1991 | |
| My Man Godfrey | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1999 | |
| Naked City, TheThe Naked City | Narrative feature | 1948 | 2007 | |
| Naked Spur, TheThe Naked Spur | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1997 | |
| Nanook of the North | Documentary | 1922 | 1989 | |
| Nashville | Narrative feature | 1975 | 1992 | |
| National Lampoon's Animal House | Narrative feature | 1978 | 2001 | |
| National Velvet | Narrative feature | 1944 | 2003 | |
| Naughty Marietta | Narrative feature | 1935 | 2003 | |
| Negro Soldier, TheThe Negro Soldier | Documentary | 1944 | 2011 | |
| Network | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2000 | |
| Newark Athlete | Short subject | 1891 | 2010 | |
| Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies | Home film | 1930s–1940s | 2011 | |
| Night at the Opera, AA Night at the Opera | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1993 | |
| Night of the Hunter, TheThe Night of the Hunter | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1992 | |
| Night of the Living Dead | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1999 | |
| Ninotchka | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1990 | |
| No Lies | Short subject | 1973 | 2008 | |
| Norma Rae | Narrative feature | 1979 | 2011 | |
| North by Northwest | Narrative feature | 1959 | 1995 | |
| nostalgia (nostalgia) | Documentary/short subject | 1971 | 2003 | |
| Nothing But a Man | Narrative feature | 1964 | 1993 | |
| Notorious | Narrative feature | 1946 | 2006 | |
| Now, Voyager | Narrative feature | 1942 | 2007 | |
| Nutty Professor, TheThe Nutty Professor | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2004 | |
| OffOn | Short subject/experimental film | 1968 | 2004 | |
| Oklahoma! | Narrative feature | 1955 | 2007 | |
| On the Bowery | Documentary | 1957 | 2008 | |
| On the Waterfront | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1989 | |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2009 | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Narrative feature | 1975 | 1993 | |
| One Froggy Evening | Animated short subject | 1956 | 2003 | |
| One Survivor Remembers | Documentary/short subject | 1995 | 2012 | |
| One Week | Short subject | 1920 | 2008 | |
| Our Day | Documentary/short subject | 1938 | 2007 | |
| Our Lady of the Sphere | Experimental film | 1969 | 2010 | |
| Out of the Past | Narrative feature | 1947 | 1991 | |
| Outlaw Josey Wales, TheThe Outlaw Josey Wales | Narrative feature | 1976 | 1996 | |
| Ox-Bow Incident, TheThe Ox-Bow Incident | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1998 | |
| Parable | Narrative feature | 1964 | 2012 | |
| Pass the Gravy | Short subject | 1928 | 1998 | |
| Paths of Glory | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1992 | |
| Patton | Narrative feature | 1970 | 2003 | |
| Pawnbroker, TheThe Pawnbroker | Narrative feature | 1965 | 2008 | |
| Pearl, TheThe Pearl | Narrative feature | 1948 | 2002 | |
| Peege | Short subject | 1972 | 2007 | |
| Perils of Pauline, TheThe Perils of Pauline | Film serial | 1914 | 2008 | |
| Peter Pan | Narrative feature | 1924 | 2000 | |
| Phantom of the Opera, TheThe Phantom of the Opera | Narrative feature | 1925 | 1998 | |
| Philadelphia Story, TheThe Philadelphia Story | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1995 | |
| Pillow Talk | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2009 | |
| Pink Panther, TheThe Pink Panther | Narrative feature | 1963 | 2010 | |
| Pinocchio | Animated narrative feature | 1940 | 1994 | |
| Place in the Sun, AA Place in the Sun | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1991 | |
| Planet of the Apes | Narrative feature | 1968 | 2001 | |
| Plow That Broke the Plains, TheThe Plow That Broke the Plains | Documentary/short subject | 1936 | 1999 | |
| Point of Order | Documentary | 1964 | 1993 | |
| Poor Little Rich Girl, TheThe Poor Little Rich Girl | Narrative feature | 1917 | 1991 | |
| Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | Animated short subject | 1936 | 2004 | |
| Porgy And Bess | Narrative feature | 1959 | 2011 | |
| Porky in Wackyland | Animated short subject | 1938 | 2000 | |
| Power of the Press, TheThe Power of the Press | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2005 | |
| Powers of Ten | Documentary/short subject | 1978 | 1998 | |
| Precious Images | Compilation short subject | 1986 | 2009 | |
| Preservation of the Sign Language | Short subject | 1913 | 2010 | |
| President McKinley Inauguration Footage | Documentary/short subject | 1901 | 2000 | |
| Primary | Documentary | 1960 | 1990 | |
| Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy | Short subject | 1909 | 2003 | |
| Prisoner of Zenda, TheThe Prisoner of Zenda | Narrative feature | 1937 | 1991 | |
| Producers, TheThe Producers | Narrative feature | 1968 | 1996 | |
| Psycho | Narrative feature | 1960 | 1992 | |
| Public Enemy, TheThe Public Enemy | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1998 | |
| Pull My Daisy | Short subject | 1959 | 1996 | |
| Punch Drunks | Short subject | 1934 | 2002 | |
| Pups Is Pups | Short subject | 1930 | 2004 | |
| Quasi at the Quackadero | Animated short subject | 1975 | 2009 | |
| Raging Bull | Narrative feature | 1980 | 1990 | |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Narrative feature | 1981 | 1999 | |
| Raisin in the Sun, AA Raisin in the Sun | Narrative feature | 1961 | 2005 | |
| Rear Window | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1997 | |
| Rebel Without a Cause | Narrative feature | 1955 | 1990 | |
| Red Book, TheThe Red Book | Animated short subject | 1994 | 2009 | |
| Red Dust | Narrative feature | 1932 | 2006 | |
| Red River | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1990 | |
| Regeneration | Narrative feature | 1915 | 2000 | |
| Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | Documentary | 1971–1972 | 2006 | |
| Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage | Newsreel | 1937 | 1997 | |
| Return of the Secaucus 7 | Narrative feature | 1980 | 1997 | |
| Revenge of Pancho Villa, TheThe Revenge of Pancho Villa | Narrative feature | 1930–1936 | 2009 | |
| Ride the High Country | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1992 | |
| Rip Van Winkle | Film serial | 1896 | 1995 | |
| River, TheThe River | Documentary/short subject | 1938 | 1990 | |
| Road to Morocco | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1996 | |
| Rocky | Narrative feature | 1976 | 2006 | |
| Rocky Horror Picture Show, TheThe Rocky Horror Picture Show | Narrative feature | 1975 | 2005 | |
| Roman Holiday | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1999 | |
| Rose Hobart | Short subject/experimental film | 1936 | 2001 | |
| Sabrina | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2002 | |
| Safety Last! | Narrative feature | 1923 | 1994 | |
| Salesman | Documentary | 1969 | 1992 | |
| Salomé | Narrative feature | 1923 | 2000 | |
| Salt of the Earth | Narrative feature | 1954 | 1992 | |
| Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia | Documentary | 1990 | 2012 | |
| San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 | Documentary | 1906 | 2005 | |
| Saturday Night Fever | Narrative feature | 1977 | 2010 | |
| Scarface | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1994 | |
| Schindler's List | Narrative feature | 1993 | 2004 | |
| Scratch and Crow | Animated short subject | 1995 | 2009 | |
| Searchers, TheThe Searchers | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1989 | |
| Serene Velocity | Short subject | 1970 | 2001 | |
| Sergeant York | Narrative feature | 1941 | 2008 | |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2004 | |
| Seventh Heaven | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1995 | |
| sex, lies, and videotape | Narrative feature | 1989 | 2006 | |
| Sex Life of the Polyp, TheThe Sex Life of the Polyp | Short subject | 1928 | 2007 | |
| Shadow of a Doubt | Narrative feature | 1943 | 1991 | |
| Shadows | Narrative feature | 1959 | 1993 | |
| Shaft | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2000 | |
| Shane | Narrative feature | 1953 | 1993 | |
| She Done Him Wrong | Narrative feature | 1933 | 1996 | |
| Sherlock, Jr. | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1991 | |
| Sherman's March | Documentary | 1986 | 2000 | |
| Shock Corridor | Narrative feature | 1963 | 1996 | |
| Shop Around the Corner, TheThe Shop Around the Corner | Narrative feature | 1940 | 1999 | |
| Show Boat | Narrative feature | 1936 | 1996 | |
| Show People | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2003 | |
| Siege | Documentary/short subject | 1940 | 2006 | |
| Silence of the Lambs, TheThe Silence of the Lambs | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2011 | |
| Singin' in the Rain | Narrative feature | 1952 | 1989 | |
| Sky High | Narrative feature | 1922 | 1998 | |
| Slacker | Narrative feature | 1991 | 2012 | |
| Snow White | Animated short subject | 1933 | 1994 | |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Animated narrative feature | 1937 | 1989 | |
| So's Your Old Man | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2008 | |
| Some Like It Hot | Narrative feature | 1959 | 1989 | |
| Son of the Sheik | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2003 | |
| Sons of the Desert | Narrative feature | 1933 | 2012 | |
| Sound of Music, TheThe Sound of Music | Narrative feature | 1965 | 2001 | |
| Spook Who Sat by the Door, TheThe Spook Who Sat by the Door | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2012 | |
| Stagecoach | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1995 | |
| Stand and Deliver | Narrative feature | 1988 | 2011 | |
| Star Is Born, AA Star Is Born | Narrative feature | 1954 | 2000 | |
| Star Theatre | Short subject | 1901 | 2002 | |
| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | Narrative feature | 1977 | 1989 | |
| Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | Narrative feature | 1980 | 2010 | |
| Stark Love | Narrative feature | 1927 | 2009 | |
| Steamboat Willie | Animated short subject | 1928 | 1998 | |
| Sting, TheThe Sting | Narrative feature | 1973 | 2005 | |
| Stormy Weather | Narrative feature | 1943 | 2001 | |
| Story of G.I. Joe, TheThe Story of G.I. Joe | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2009 | |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2002 | |
| Streetcar Named Desire, AA Streetcar Named Desire | Narrative feature | 1951 | 1999 | |
| Strong Man, TheThe Strong Man | Narrative feature | 1926 | 2007 | |
| Study in Reds, AA Study in Reds | Narrative feature | 1932 | 2009 | |
| Study of a River | Experimental film | 1997 | 2010 | |
| St. Louis Blues | Short subject | 1929 | 2006 | |
| Sullivan's Travels | Narrative feature | 1941 | 1990 | |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1989 | |
| Sunset Boulevard | Narrative feature | 1950 | 1989 | |
| Sweet Smell of Success | Narrative feature | 1957 | 1993 | |
| Swing Time | Narrative feature | 1936 | 2004 | |
| T.A.M.I. Show, TheThe T.A.M.I. Show | Documentary | 1964 | 2006 | |
| Tabu | Narrative feature | 1931 | 1994 | |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse | Home film | 1940 | 1998 | |
| Tall T, TheThe Tall T | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2000 | |
| Tarantella | Short subject/experimental film | 1940 | 2010 | |
| Tarzan and His Mate | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2003 | |
| Taxi Driver | Narrative feature | 1976 | 1994 | |
| Tell-Tale Heart, TheThe Tell-Tale Heart | Animated short subject | 1953 | 2001 | |
| Ten Commandments, TheThe Ten Commandments | Narrative feature | 1956 | 1999 | |
| Terminator, TheThe Terminator | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2008 | |
| Tess of the Storm Country | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2006 | |
| Tevye | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1991 | |
| Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck | Short subject | 1925 | 2002 | |
| There It Is | Short subject | 1928 | 2004 | |
| They Call It Pro Football | Documentary | 1967 | 2012 | |
| Thief of Bagdad, TheThe Thief of Bagdad | Narrative feature | 1924 | 1996 | |
| Thin Blue Line, TheThe Thin Blue Line | Documentary | 1988 | 2001 | |
| Thin Man, TheThe Thin Man | Narrative feature | 1934 | 1997 | |
| Thing from Another World, TheThe Thing from Another World | Narrative feature | 1951 | 2001 | |
| Think of Me First as a Person | Documentary/home film | 1960–1975 | 2006 | |
| This Is Cinerama | Documentary | 1952 | 2002 | |
| This is Spinal Tap | Narrative feature | 1984 | 2002 | |
| Three Little Pigs | Animated short subject | 1933 | 2007 | |
| Through Navajo Eyes | Film serial | 1966 | 2002 | |
| Time for Burning, AA Time for Burning | Documentary | 1966 | 2005 | |
| Time Out of War, AA Time Out of War | Short subject | 1954 | 2006 | |
| Times of Harvey Milk, TheThe Times of Harvey Milk | Documentary | 1984 | 2012 | |
| Tin Toy | Animated short subject | 1988 | 2003 | |
| To Be or Not to Be | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1996 | |
| To Fly! | Documentary | 1976 | 1995 | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Narrative feature | 1962 | 1995 | |
| Tol'able David | Narrative feature | 1921 | 2007 | |
| Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son | Experimental film | 1969–1971 | 2007 | |
| Tootsie | Narrative feature | 1982 | 1998 | |
| Top Hat | Narrative feature | 1935 | 1990 | |
| Topaz | Documentary | 1943–1945 | 1996 | |
| Touch of Evil | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1993 | |
| Toy Story | Animated narrative feature | 1995 | 2005 | |
| Traffic in Souls | Narrative feature | 1913 | 2006 | |
| Trance and Dance in Bali | Documentary/short subject | 1936–1939 | 1999 | |
| Treasure of the Sierra Madre, TheThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Narrative feature | 1948 | 1990 | |
| Tree Grows in Brooklyn, AA Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Narrative feature | 1945 | 2010 | |
| Trip Down Market Street, AA Trip Down Market Street | Documentary | 1906 | 2010 | |
| Trouble in Paradise | Narrative feature | 1932 | 1991 | |
| Tulips Shall Grow | Animated short subject | 1942 | 1997 | |
| Twelve O'Clock High | Narrative feature | 1949 | 1998 | |
| Twentieth Century | Narrative feature | 1934 | 2011 | |
| Two-Lane Blacktop | Narrative feature | 1971 | 2012 | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2012 | |
| Under Western Stars | Narrative feature | 1938 | 2009 | |
| Unforgiven | Narrative feature | 1992 | 2004 | |
| Verbena Tragica | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1996 | |
| Vertigo | Narrative feature | 1958 | 1989 | |
| War of the Worlds, TheThe War of the Worlds | Narrative feature | 1953 | 2011 | |
| Water and Power | Documentary | 1989 | 2008 | |
| Wedding March, TheThe Wedding March | Narrative feature | 1928 | 2003 | |
| West Side Story | Narrative feature | 1961 | 1997 | |
| Westinghouse Works, 1904 | Film serial | 1904 | 1998 | |
| What's Opera, Doc? | Animated short subject | 1957 | 1992 | |
| Where Are My Children? | Narrative feature | 1916 | 1993 | |
| White Fawn's Devotion | Short subject | 1910 | 2008 | |
| White Heat | Narrative feature | 1949 | 2003 | |
| Why Man Creates | Animated documentary/short subject | 1968 | 2002 | |
| Why We Fight | Documentary film serial | 1943–1945 | 2000 | |
| Wild and Woolly | Narrative feature | 1917 | 2002 | |
| Wild Bunch, TheThe Wild Bunch | Narrative feature | 1969 | 1999 | |
| Wild River | Narrative feature | 1960 | 2002 | |
| Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Narrative feature | 1957 | 2000 | |
| Wind, TheThe Wind | Narrative feature | 1928 | 1993 | |
| Wings | Narrative feature | 1927 | 1997 | |
| Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England, TheThe Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England | Narrative feature | 1914 | 2012 | |
| Within Our Gates | Narrative feature | 1920 | 1992 | |
| Wizard of Oz, TheThe Wizard of Oz | Narrative feature | 1939 | 1989 | |
| Woman of the Year | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1999 | |
| Woman Under the Influence, AA Woman Under the Influence | Narrative feature | 1974 | 1990 | |
| Women, TheThe Women | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2007 | |
| Woodstock | Documentary | 1970 | 1996 | |
| Wuthering Heights | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2007 | |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | Narrative feature | 1942 | 1993 | |
| Young Frankenstein | Narrative feature | 1974 | 2003 | |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | Narrative feature | 1939 | 2003 | |
| Zapruder film | Home film | 1963 | 1994 |
^ I Parts 1–5, 7, and 10
^ II A serial of thirteen short films
^ III A serial of eight short films
^ IV A serial of seven short films
^ V Not released until 1952
^ VI A serial of twenty-one short films
^ VII A serial of fourteen short films
^ VIII A serial of twenty short films
^ IX A serial of seven feature films
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