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 Searchers
( 1956 )
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
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Seconds
( 1966 )
A sinister company transforms a plain client.
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Selena
( 1997 )
The true story of Selena, a Texas-born Tejana singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart-topping albums on the Latin music charts.
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Serene Velocity (Short 1970)
( 1970 )
An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.
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Sergeant York
( 1941 )
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
( 1954 )
When a backwoodsman in 1850s Oregon brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
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7th Heaven
( 1927 )
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape
( 1989 )
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
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Shadow of a Doubt
( 1943 )
A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
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Shadows
( 1960 )
Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.
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Shaft
( 1971 )
A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Shane
( 1953 )
An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.
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The Shawshank Redemption
( 1994 )
A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.
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She Done Him Wrong
( 1933 )
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
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Sherlock Jr.
( 1924 )
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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Sherman's March
( 1986 )
Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
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The Shining
( 1980 )
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
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Shock Corridor
( 1963 )
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
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Shoes
( 1916 )
A young woman grows tired of providing for her family.
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The Shop Around the Corner
( 1940 )
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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Show Boat
( 1936 )
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Show People
( 1928 )
A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
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Shrek
( 2001 )
A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.
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Siege (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
A short film which documents the siege of Warsaw at the beginning of World War II.
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The Silence of the Lambs
( 1991 )
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
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Singin' in the Rain
( 1952 )
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
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Sink or Swim
( 1990 )
In a series of 26 short autobiographical vignettes, Su Friedrich methodically analyzes and reflects on her childhood and the emotional scars left by her detached and self-involved father.
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Sky High
( 1922 )
A government agent infiltrates a gang of Chinese immigrant smugglers and pursues their ringleader throughout the heart of the Southwestern desert.
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Slacker
( 1991 )
A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.
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Sleeping Beauty
( 1959 )
After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.
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Smoke Signals
( 1998 )
Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
( 1938 )
Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.
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So's Your Old Man
( 1926 )
An unlucky inventor's attempt to demonstrate his break-proof glass at a convention goes humiliatingly wrong, but his luck may be about to change when he runs into pretty young woman on the train ride home.
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The Social Network
( 2010 )
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
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Some Like It Hot
( 1959 )
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
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The Son of the Sheik
( 1926 )
The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.
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Sons of the Desert
( 1933 )
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
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The Sound of Music
( 1965 )
A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
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Sounder
( 1973 )
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Spartacus
( 1960 )
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
( 1981 )
A black man plays 'uncle Tom' in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American revolt.
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Spy Kids
( 2001 )
Two kids become spies in attempt to save their ex-spies parents from an evil mastermind. Armed with a bag of high tech gadgets, Carmen and Juni will bravely crisscross the globe on a mission to save their parents and maybe even the world.
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St. Louis Blues (Short 1929)
( 1929 )
In her only known film appearance, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith witnesses her lover's betrayal, then sings a powerful rendition of the title song.
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Stagecoach
( 1939 )
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
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Stand and Deliver
( 1988 )
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.
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A Star Is Born
( 1954 )
A fading matinee idol helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
( 1982 )
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
( 1977 )
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
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Stark Love
( 1927 )
A literate young hillbilly plans to attend college to learn about chivalry and escape the brutal, rigid mountain society with the love of his life, but his tyrannical father interferes.
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State Fair
( 1933 )
An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
( 1928 )
The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
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Steamboat Willie (Short 1928)
( 1929 )
Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
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The Sting
( 1973 )
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
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Stop Making Sense
( 1984 )
A live performance of the band Talking Heads shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and featuring their most memorable songs.
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Stormy Weather
( 1943 )
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
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Story of G.I. Joe
( 1945 )
At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with, and reports on, the U.S. Army's 77th Infantry Division during their liberation of Italy.
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The Story of Menstruation (Short 1946)
( 1946 )
A basic explanation of the purpose and process of menstruation, told largely with diagrams (and completely avoiding the subject of sex).
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Stranger Than Paradise
( 1984 )
A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.
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Strangers on a Train
( 1951 )
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
( 1951 )
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
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The Strong Man
( 1926 )
A meek Belgian soldier, fighting in World War I, receives a letter and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. After the war, he travels to America searching for her.
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Sullivan's Travels
( 1942 )
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
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Sunrise
( 1927 )
A married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Sunset Boulevard
( 1950 )
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
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Super Fly
( 1972 )
The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
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Superman
( 1978 )
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
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Suspense (Short 1913)
( 1913 )
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
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Sweet Smell of Success
( 1957 )
A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
( 1973 )
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
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Swing Time
( 1936 )
Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
( 1968 )
Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the behind-the-scenes drama taking place.
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The T.A.M.I. Show
( 1964 )
Surf pop duo Jan and Dean host this showcase of performances by popular rock and roll and R&B musicians of the era.
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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
( 1931 )
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
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The Tall T
( 1957 )
An independent former ranch foreman is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by trio of ruthless outlaws.
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Tarantella (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
Colorful abstract shapes and lines move exuberantly to the syncopated modernistic piano music of Edwin Gershefsky.
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Tarzan and His Mate
( 1934 )
The idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.
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Taxi Driver
( 1976 )
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
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The Ten Commandments
( 1956 )
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
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The Terminator
( 1984 )
A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior that will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
( 1991 )
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
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Tess of the Storm Country
( 1914 )
A wealthy resident attempts to dispossess squatters who live near his home, which leads to a false accusation of murder.
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Tevya
( 1939 )
The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
( 1974 )
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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Thelma & Louise
( 1991 )
Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.
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Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
( 1989 )
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.
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There It Is (Short 1928)
( 1928 )
Two Scotland Yard detectives travel to New York to investigate the "Fuzz-Faced Phantom": a strange entity who seemingly has the power to cause bizarre, surreal incidents.
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The Thief of Bagdad
( 1924 )
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
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The Thin Blue Line
( 1988 )
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
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The Thin Man
( 1934 )
Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
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