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 Joy Luck Club
( 1993 )
Four Chinese women along with their mothers delve into their past and try to find answers. Slowly, this search helps them to understand the complex relationship they share with each other.
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Jubilo
( 1919 )
An easy-going tramp with a love of food and an aversion to work suddenly gets deeply involved in the life of a farmer and his daughter.
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Judgment at Nuremberg
( 1961 )
Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
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Jurassic Park
( 1993 )
An industrialist invites some experts to visit his theme park of cloned dinosaurs. After a power failure, the creatures run loose, putting everyone's lives, including his grandchildren's, in danger.
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Kannapolis, N.C.
( 1941 )
A "town portrait" film consisting of silent footage of everyday street scenes in the small town of Kannapolis, North Carolina.
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The Kid
( 1921 )
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.
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Killer of Sheep
( 1978 )
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
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The Killers
( 1946 )
Hit men arrive in a small New Jersey town to kill an unresisting victim, and insurance investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
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King Kong
( 1933 )
A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
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King of Jazz
( 1930 )
A rotund bandleader leads a series of theatrical sketches, dance numbers, special effects, and animated segments.
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The Kiss (Short 1896)
( 1896 )
In a medium closeup shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at a hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.
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Kiss Me Deadly
( 1955 )
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
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Ko-Ko's Earth Control (Short 1928)
( 1928 )
Koko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control.
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Koyaanisqatsi
( 1983 )
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
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L.A. Confidential
( 1997 )
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
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La Bamba
( 1987 )
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
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Lady and the Tramp
( 1955 )
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
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The Lady Eve
( 1941 )
A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
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The Lady from Shanghai
( 1948 )
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
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Lady Helen's Escapade (Short 1909)
( 1909 )
A bored rich woman goes slumming as a domestic at a boarding house, where she falls in love with a sensitive young musician.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
( 1926 )
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
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Lambchops (Short 1929)
( 1929 )
After briefly struggling to find the audience behind the camera, George and Gracie bring their vaudeville act to the big screen. Throughout their exchange, Gracie's goal is to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy.
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The Land Beyond the Sunset (Short 1912)
( 1912 )
A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.
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Lassie Come Home
( 1943 )
After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
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The Last Command
( 1928 )
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
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The Last of the Mohicans
( 1920 )
In the midst of the French and Indian War, the eldest daughter of a British officer develops an attraction towards an Indian ally who is the last living warrior of his tribe, the Mohicans.
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The Last Picture Show
( 1971 )
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
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The Last Waltz
( 1978 )
A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
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Laura
( 1944 )
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
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Lawrence of Arabia
( 2013 )
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
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The Lead Shoes (Short 1949)
( 1949 )
A short experimental film by Sidney Peterson using double overlapping lenses to tell the story of a woman and a deep sea diver.
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A League of Their Own
( 1992 )
During World War II, sisters Dottie and Kit join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.
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The Learning Tree
( 1970 )
A bittersweet, idyllic story about a year in the life of 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor Black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, and immorality.
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Leave Her to Heaven
( 1945 )
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
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Let There Be Light
( 1980 )
A group of mentally traumatized veteran patients is followed as they go through psychiatric treatment.
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Let's All Go to the Lobby (Short 1957)
( 1957 )
An animated chorus line of treats dances down a theater aisle while singing a jingle that encourages the audience to visit the concession stand.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
( 1948 )
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
( 1981 )
Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.
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Life of an American Fireman (Short 1903)
A fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.
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The Life of Emile Zola
( 1937 )
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
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Lilies of the Field
( 1963 )
A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
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The Lion King
( 1994 )
Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
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Little Big Man
( 1970 )
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
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Little Caesar
( 1931 )
A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
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Little Fugitive
( 1953 )
A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
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The Little Mermaid
( 1989 )
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
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Little Miss Marker
( 1934 )
Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.
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Lives of Performers
( 1972 )
A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, "Lives of Performers" examines the dilemma of a man who can't choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Originally part of a dance performance choreographed by Rainer.
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The Living Desert
( 1953 )
Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.
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Lonesome
( 1928 )
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
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The Long Goodbye
( 1973 )
Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.
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Losing Ground
( 1982 )
Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
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Lost Horizon
( 1937 )
When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
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The Lost Weekend
( 1945 )
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
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The Lost World
( 1925 )
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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Louisiana Story
( 1948 )
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
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Love & Basketball
( 2000 )
Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
( 1938 )
Andy has problems raising the last payment for a used car and juggling three pretty girls with an upcoming country club dance scheduled.
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Love Me Tonight
( 1932 )
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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The Lunch Date (Short 1989)
( 1989 )
A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.
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Luxo Jr. (Short 1986)
( 1987 )
A larger lamp watches while a smaller, younger lamp plays exuberantly with a ball but doesn't pick up the knack of correct handling.
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M*A*S*H
( 1970 )
The staff of a Korean War field hospital uses humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
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Mabel's Blunder (Short 1914)
( 1914 )
Mabel is engaged to Harry, the boss's son. The boss has an eye for Mabel too, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
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Magical Maestro (Short 1952)
( 1952 )
A magician seeks revenge against an opera singer for refusing to let him perform his magic act. He then devises what he thinks is a clever plan to enact his revenge with some hilarious results.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
( 1942 )
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Magnificent Seven
( 1960 )
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
( 1937 )
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
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Malcolm X
( 1992 )
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
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The Maltese Falcon
( 1941 )
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
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The Manchurian Candidate
( 1962 )
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
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Manhatta (Short 1921)
This groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors.
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Manhattan
( 1979 )
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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Manzanar (Short 1971)
( 2025 )
A reflection about Robert Nakamura's incarceration inside an Internment camp during World War II.
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Mardi Gras Carnival (Short 1898)
"This magnificent pageant is every year the mecca of tourists from all over the world. Our picture shows the following floats in the parade of 1899: No. 1, Corn; No. 2, Cherries; No. 3, Coffee; No. 4, Tea."
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Inside Nazi Germany (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
A newsreel made to condemn the militarization, oppressiveness, and ideology of the Nazi regime - using reedited stock footage of Nazi rallies in both Germany and the United States, with added narration to drive home its points.
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The Mark of Zorro
( 1920 )
A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
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The Mark of Zorro
( 1940 )
A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
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Marty
( 1955 )
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
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Mary Poppins
( 1965 )
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
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Matewan
( 1987 )
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community in 1920 West Virginia, brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
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The Matrix
( 1999 )
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
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Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege
( 2006 )
A dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawai'i becomes the subject of a bitter feud between scientists who want to use it as an astronomical observatory and native Hawaiians who consider it sacred.
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Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
( 1995 )
A film about the work of the artist most famous for her monuments such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
( 1971 )
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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