Description: so this is a collection of the Films the National Film Preservation Board considers culturally significant and worthy of preserving. PS. you will notice that The Birth of a Nation is on this list That’s because its in the NFR! so im putting it on here. im not indorsing the fucking thing! get your Freaking priorities straight before calling me racist and sending death threats, ty. Enjoy the List. will likely forever be under construction as it contains over 800 films as of 2020. Note this is a recreation due to a long mishap of me being absent from the site and the list getting new ones added in recent years so i apologize to the 6 people who had my the original one Favorited. Edit: I have finally finished with the List!!!!!!! it took weeks to do mainly due to procrastination but i got it it done at least until the add more films to the film registry lol enjoy folks :) films not on the site
H20—1929 (short experimental film)
Martha Graham Dance Films——1931-1941 (Short Subject)
Reverend Solomon Sir Jones films——-1924-1928 (Home Films)
Ringling Brothers Parade Film——-1902 (Documentary/Short Subject)
Zora Lathan Student Films——1975-1976 (Set of Student Films)
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
( 1961 )
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
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The Breakfast Club
( 1985 )
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.
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Bride of Frankenstein
( 1935 )
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
( 1957 )
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
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Bringing Up Baby
( 1938 )
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
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Broadcast News
( 1987 )
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming new anchor, who embodies the growing trivialization of news that she is determined to fight against.
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Brokeback Mountain
( 2006 )
Two shepherds fall for each other, but their relationship becomes complicated when they both get married to their respective girlfriends.
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Broken Blossoms
( 1919 )
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
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A Bronx Morning (Short 1931)
Arrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx. Many typical neighborhood activities are shown, along with scenes from many local businesses.
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Buena Vista Social Club
( 1999 )
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
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The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (Short 1975)
A look at the Buffalo Creek disaster, which occurred when a coal-waste dam collapsed. Includes interviews with survivors, mining officials, and union representatives, along with footage of the flood itself.
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Bullitt
( 1968 )
A nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection.
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Bush Mama
( 1979 )
It details the life of Dorothy who is a poor black woman. Her husband is put in jail for no observable reason and she is pregnant with a second child. The government threatens to take away her welfare if she does not get an abortion.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
( 1969 )
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels..
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Cab Calloway Home Movies
( 1948 )
A collection of home movies filmed from 1948-1951 featuring the legendary entertainer Cab Calloway and his wife Nuffie in their home on Long Beach and on their travels across both of the Americas.
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Cabaret
( 1972 )
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
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Cabin in the Sky
( 1943 )
A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
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The Cameraman
( 1928 )
Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
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Carmen Jones
( 1954 )
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
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Carrie
( 1976 )
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
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Casablanca
( 1943 )
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
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Castro Street (Short 1966)
A visual documentary inspired by Erik Satie, showcasing the sights and sounds of the industrialized Castro Street in Richmond, California.
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Cat People
( 1942 )
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
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Chan Is Missing
( 1982 )
Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.
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Charade
( 1963 )
Romance and intrigue ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want to get their hands on a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. She soon loses trust in those who claim they want to help her.
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The Cheat
( 1915 )
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
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The Chechahcos
( 1924 )
Following a shipwreck, a family of prospectors become separated from their infant daughter in the Klondike. Years later, the grown-up daughter begins to unravel the truth about her heritage.
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Chelsea Girls
( 1966 )
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
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Chicana (Short 1979)
Over a collage of artworks, photographs, and documentary footage, Carmen Zapata and an array of Chicana activists narrate the history of struggles faced by Mexican and Mexican-American women from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.
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Chinatown
( 1974 )
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
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A Christmas Story
( 1983 )
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
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Chulas Fronteras
( 1976 )
"Chulas Fronteras" examines the origins and social significance of the traditional Tejano (or 'Tex-Mex') music that developed along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Cicero March
( 1966 )
Short film which documents the Chicago Civil Rights March.
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Cinderella
( 1950 )
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq and from her Fairy Godmother.
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Citizen Kane
( 1941 )
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
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The City (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
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City Lights
( 1931 )
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
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Civilization
( 1916 )
Christ takes on the form of a pacifist count to end a senseless war.
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Clash of the Wolves
( 1925 )
A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into a nearby desert where they will terrorize the local residents.
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Clerks
( 1994 )
A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.
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A Clockwork Orange
( 1972 )
Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
( 1977 )
An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
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Coal Miner's Daughter
( 1980 )
The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.
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Cologne (Short 1939)
Structures, people and events are documented in Cologne, Minnesota, USA in 1939.
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Compensation
( 1999 )
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
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A Computer Animated Hand (Short 1972)
( 1972 )
Displays the hand turning, opening and closing, pointing at the viewer, and flexing its fingers, ending with a shot that seemingly travels up inside the hand.
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The Conversation
( 1974 )
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Cool Hand Luke
( 1967 )
A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
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Cooley High
( 1978 )
In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
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The Cool World
( 1964 )
A look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
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Cops (Short 1922)
( 1922 )
A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force.
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The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
( 1897 )
Documentary film depicting the 1897 boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada on St. Patrick's Day. Originally running for more than 100 minutes, it is the world's first feature film.
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A Corner in Wheat (Short 1909)
( 1909 )
An unscrupulous and greedy speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
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The Court Jester
( 1956 )
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.
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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
( 1963 )
Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the issue as JFK stands by his decisions.
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The Crowd
( 1928 )
The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.
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The Cry of the Children (Short 1912)
( 1912 )
An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
( 1950 )
The charismatic swordsman-poet and provocateur in 1640s Paris helps a young guardsman woo the woman he loves, complicated by the politics of the nobility and the war with Spain.
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D.O.A.
( 1950 )
Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
( 1940 )
After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.
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Dances with Wolves
( 1990 )
A lieutenant assigned to a remote Civil War outpost starts questioning his purpose after making contact with a neighboring Sioux settlement.
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The Dark Knight
( 2008 )
When a menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman, James Gordon and Harvey Dent must work together to put an end to the madness.
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The Daughter of Dawn
( 1920 )
This restored silent film features a love triangle involving a Kiowa chief's daughter and ensuing conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages.
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Daughter of Shanghai
( 1937 )
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
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Daughters of the Dust
( 1991 )
A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
( 1951 )
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
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Days of Heaven
( 1978 )
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
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Days of Wine and Roses
( 1963 )
An alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together.
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Dead Birds
( 1963 )
An ethnographic documentary with allegorical undertones about the Dani people of Papua Barat and their social values based on an elaborate system of tribal warfare and revenge.
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Decasia
( 2003 )
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
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The Deer Hunter
( 1979 )
The lives of a group of friends are forever changed by the Vietnam War.
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Deliverance
( 1972 )
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
( 1985 )
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.
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Destry Rides Again
( 1939 )
Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.
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Detour
( 1946 )
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
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The Devil Never Sleeps
( 1995 )
Oscar is found dead from a gunshot wound, whose wife believes he committed suicide. His nephew, Portillo, suspects that it was murder and investigates the death with no help from the authorities.
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Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Short 1894)
( 1894 )
The earliest extant sound film, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost. It depicts William K.L. Dickson standing in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder.
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Die Hard
( 1988 )
A New York City cop, John McClane, tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas Eve party at the Nakatomi Plaza Skyscraper in Los Angeles, California.
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Dinner at Eight
( 1934 )
As an aspiring New York socialite prepares for a lavish dinner party, her guests find themselves consumed by a tangle of business, romantic, and personal crises - all of which come to a head on the big night.
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Dirty Dancing
( 1987 )
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
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Dirty Harry
( 1971 )
When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
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Disneyland Dream (Short 1956)
The Barstow family, winners of a free trip to the newly-opened Disneyland theme park, produce a memorable home movie documenting their experience.
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Do the Right Thing
( 1989 )
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
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The Docks of New York
( 1928 )
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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Dodsworth
( 1936 )
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Dog Day Afternoon
( 1975 )
Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
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Dog Star Man
( 1964 )
An experimental film from Stan Brakhage in which a man and his dog ascend a wooded mountain.
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Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
( 1968 )
Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
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Double Indemnity
( 1944 )
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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