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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The Gold Rush
( 1925 )
A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
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Gone with the Wind
( 1940 )
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
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Goodfellas
( 1990 )
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
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The Goonies
( 1985 )
A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.
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The Graduate
( 1967 )
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
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Grand Hotel
( 1932 )
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
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The Grapes of Wrath
( 1940 )
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
( 1926 )
The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
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Grease
( 1978 )
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
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The Great Dictator
( 1941 )
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Greed
( 1925 )
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
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Grey Gardens
( 1975 )
Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
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Groundhog Day
( 1993 )
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
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Growing Up Female
( 1971 )
Focuses on the socialization of American females. It tells the story of six women and girls. The first film to emerge from the modern women's movement in the early 1970s.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
( 1967 )
A White couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her Black fiancé.
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Gun Crazy
( 1950 )
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
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Gunga Din
( 1939 )
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
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Hail the Conquering Hero
( 1944 )
Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
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Hairspray
( 1988 )
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
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Hallelujah
( 1929 )
A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
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Halloween
( 1978 )
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.
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Hands Up!
( 1926 )
A southern spy during the Civil War, he must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, the Indians and a firing squad.
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Harlan County U.S.A.
( 1977 )
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
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Harold and Maude
( 1971 )
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
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Hearts and Minds
( 1975 )
A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
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He Who Gets Slapped
( 1924 )
A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous baron who once betrayed him.
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The Heiress
( 1949 )
A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
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The Unconquered
( 1954 )
This documentary chronicles the life of Helen Keller, who was struck by an illness as a young child that left her both blind and deaf. Aided by her devoted teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller is able to develop ways to communicate and becomes an author and advocate. Made when Keller was 72 years old, this film, directed by Nancy Hamilton and narrated by actress Katharine C...Read all
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Hell's Hinges
( 1916 )
In the wayward western town known as Hell's Hinges, a local tough guy is reformed by the faith of a good woman.
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Hellbound Train
( 1930 )
If you listen to jazz, you will go to Hell, where the scorching fires of torment are mighty and endless.
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Heroes All
( 1920 )
Films shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.
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Hester Street
( 1975 )
In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York City's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but she has difficulty assimilating.
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High Noon
( 1952 )
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.
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High School
( 1968 )
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.
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His Girl Friday
( 1940 )
When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
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The Hitch-Hiker
( 1953 )
Two friends pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
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Home Alone
( 1990 )
An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.
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Hoop Dreams
( 1994 )
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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Hoosiers
( 1987 )
A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.
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Hospital
( 1970 )
An intimate look at the daily activities of medical staff and patients in New York's Metropolitan Hospital.
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The Hospital
( 1972 )
A hospital's chief-of-staff struggles to find meaning in his life during a spate of staff deaths.
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Hot Dogs for Gauguin (Short 1972)
Martin Brest's NYU student film about a photographer who plans to blow up the Statue of Liberty in order to take a picture and thus get famous.
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Hours for Jerome
( 1982 )
It is a "silent tone poem" recording the daily events of Dorsky and his partner, artist Jerome Hiler around Lake Owassa in New Jersey and in Manhattan.
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The House in the Middle (Short 1954)
Courtesy of the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association, this helpful short shows you how good housekeeping and fresh paint can protect you and your family from the worst of an atomic blast.
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House of Usher
( 1960 )
Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
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House of Wax
( 1953 )
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
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House Party
( 1990 )
Kid decides to go to his friend Play's house party, but neither of them can predict what's in store for them on what could be the wildest night of their lives.
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How Green Was My Valley
( 1942 )
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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How the West Was Won
( 1963 )
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
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Hud
( 1963 )
Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
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Humoresque
( 1920 )
The matriarch of a poor Jewish family nurtures her talented son's dream of being a great violinist, but as an adult, global events call for him to postpone his dream.
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The Hunters
( 1957 )
This film follows the hunting of a giraffe by four members of the Ju/'hoansi (a !Kung Bushmen tribe) over a 13-day period in the Kalahari desert. The film consists of footage shot in 1952-53 on a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody expedition.
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The Hurt Locker
( 2009 )
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
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The Hustler
( 1961 )
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
( 1932 )
A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove his worth.
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I Am Joaquin (Short 1969)
This short film is based on the poem by the same title published by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales in 1967.
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I Am Somebody (Short 1970)
In 1969, 400 poorly paid black women working in a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, went on strike to demand union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves confronting the National Guard and the state government.
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I, an Actress (Short 1977)
( 1977 )
Student Barbara Lapsley had wanted a short film to launch her acting career, and the class at the San Francisco Art Institute obliged by staging a classic Hollywood screen test.
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Illusions (Short 1982)
( 1982 )
An African American woman rises to prominence in a fictional movie studio in the 1940s by passing as a white woman, affording others some dignity in the business that frequently portrayed movies as an illusion of a purely "white world."
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Imitation of Life
( 1934 )
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Imitation of Life
( 1959 )
An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
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The Immigrant (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.
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In a Lonely Place
( 1950 )
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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In Cold Blood
( 1967 )
Two ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.
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In the Heat of the Night
( 1967 )
A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
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In the Land of the Head Hunters
( 1914 )
Combining fact and fabrication, Edward S. Curtis' dramatization of the life of the Kwakiutl peoples of British Columbia revolves around a chief's son, who must contend with an evil sorcerer in order to win the hand of a beautiful maiden.
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
( 1957 )
After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
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The Informer
( 1935 )
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
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New York Subway (Short 1905)
( 1905 )
In one long take, the camera shows us the journey of a subway train as it makes its way from Union Square to the old Grand Central Station.
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Intolerance
( 1916 )
Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.
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Invaders from Mars
( 1953 )
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
( 1956 )
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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The Invisible Man
( 1933 )
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
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The Iron Horse
( 1925 )
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
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Iron Man
( 2008 )
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
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It
( 1927 )
A salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.
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It Happened One Night
( 1934 )
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
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It's a Gift
( 1934 )
A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.
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It's a Wonderful Life
( 1947 )
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
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The Italian
( 1915 )
An Italian immigrant and his sweetheart search for a better life in America, but the harsh realities of life in the slums of New York City lay waste to their hopes and dreams.
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Itam Hakim, Hopiit
( 1984 )
A documentary about the Hopi indigenous nation in the United States and their culture and history.
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Jailhouse Rock
( 1957 )
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
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Jammin' the Blues (Short 1944)
( 1944 )
Created under the guidance of jazz impresario and Verve Records founder Norman Granz, this short captures the spontaneity of a jam session and is one of few film records of black jazzers of the day including tenor sax legend Lester Young.
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Jaws
( 1975 )
When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to the local police chief, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
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The Jazz Singer
( 1928 )
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
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Jezebel
( 1938 )
In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
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John Henry and the Inky-Poo (Short 1946)
( 1946 )
John Henry springs to life as a full-grown man, and in no time at all establishes himself as the mightiest steel-driver around. When a newfangled steel-driving machine threatens his livelihood, he sets out to beat it in a one-on-one race.
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Johnny Guitar
( 1954 )
After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
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