In 1988, the Library of Congress passed the National Film Preservation Act, and thus established the National Film Preservation Board. The law authorizes the Librarian of Congress to select and preserve up to 25 films each year to add to the National Film Registry.

Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has also selected as the "100 Greatest Films".

The Lady Eve (1941)
Lady Helen's Escapade (1909)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
Lambchops (1929)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
Lassie Come Home (1943)
The Last Command (1928)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Laura (1944)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lead Shoes (1949)
A League of Their Own (1992)
The Learning Tree (1969)
Let There Be Light (1946)
Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra (1927)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Little Caesar (1930)
The Little Fugitive (1953)
Little Miss Marker (1934)
Little Nemo (1911)
The Living Desert (1953)
Lonesome (1928)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Lost World (1925)
Louisiana Story (1948)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Love Me Tonight (1932)

M

Mabel's Blunder (1914)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Magical Maestro (1952)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
Making of an American (1920)
Malcolm X (1992)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Manhatta (1921)
Manhattan (1979)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The March (1964)
March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany - 1938 (1938)
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Marty (1955)
Master Hands (1936)
Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
The Matrix (1999)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Mean Streets (1973)
Medium Cool (1969)
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Melody Ranch (1940)
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
Modern Times (1936)
Modesta (1956)
Mom and Dad (1944)
Morocco (1930)
Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
A Movie (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Multiple Sidosis (1970)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Music Box (1932)
The Music Man (1962)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Man Godfrey (1936)

N

The Naked City (1948)
The Naked Spur (1952)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nashville (1975)
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
National Velvet (1944)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
Network (1976)
Newark Athlete (1891)
Nicholas Brothers' Home Movies (1930's-40's)
A Night At The Opera (1935)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Ninotchka (1939)
No Lies (1973)
Norma Rae (1979)
North By Northwest (1959)
Nostalgia (1971)
Nothing But a Man (1964)
Notorious (1946)
Now, Voyager (1942)
The Nutty Professor (1963)

O

OffOn (1968)
Oklahoma! (1955)
On the Bowery (1957)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
One Froggy Evening (1956)
One Survivor Remembers (1995)
One Week (1920)
Our Day (1938)
Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
Out Of The Past (1947)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

P

Parable (1964)
Pass the Gravy (1928)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
The Pearl (1948)
Peege (1972)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Peter Pan (1924)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pillow Talk (1959)
The Pink Panther (1964)
Pinocchio (1940)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Point of Order (1964)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (1936)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Porky in Wackyland (1938)
Power of the Press (1928)
Powers of Ten (1978)
Precious Images (1986)
Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
Primary (1960)
Princess Nicotine; or The Smoke Fairy (1909)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
The Producers (1968)
Psycho (1960)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Pull My Daisy (1959)
Punch Drunks (1934)
Pups is Pups (Our Gang) (1930)

Q

Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)

R

Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Red Book (1994)
Red Dust (1932)
Red River (1948)
Regeneration (1915)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-72)
Republic Steel Strike Riot (Newsreel Footage) (1937)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930-1936)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Rip Van Winkle (1896)
The River (1937)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Rocky (1976)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Rose Hobart (1936)

S

Sabrina (1954)
Safety Last (1923)
Salesman (1969)
Salome (1922)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Scarface (1932)
Schindler's List (1993)
Scratch and Crow (1995)
The Searchers (1956)
Serene Velocity (1970)
Sergeant York (1941)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
sex, lies and videotape (1989)
Sex Life of the Polyp, The (1928)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shadows (1959)
Shaft (1971)
Shane (1953)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Sherman's March (1986)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Show Boat (1936)
Show People (1928)
Siege (1940)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
Sky High (1922)
Slacker (1991)
Snow White (1933)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
So's Your Old Man (1926)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
Stagecoach (1939)
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Steamboat Willie (1928)
A Star Is Born (1954)
Stark Love (1927)
Star Theatre (1901)
Star Wars (1977)
Stevens-George World War II Footage (1943-1946)
The Sting (1973)
St. Louis Blues (1929)
Stormy Weather (1943)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Strong Man, The (1926)
A Study in Reds (1932)
Study of a River (1996)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)

T

Tabu (1931)
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
The Tall T (1957)
The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
Tarantella (1940)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
The Terminator (1984)
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
Tevye (1939)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck (1925)
There It Is (1928)
They Call It Pro Football (1967)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Think of Me First as a Person (1960-75)
This is Cinerama (1952)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Three Little Pigs (1933)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Thriller (1983) - music video
Through Navajo Eyes (series) (1966)
A Time for Burning (1966)
A Time Out of War (1954)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Tin Toy (1988)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
To Fly (1976)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Tol'able David (1921)
Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (1969-71)
Tootsie (1982)
Top Hat (1935)
Topaz (1943-5) (Japanese American Internment Camp home movie footage)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Toy Story (1995)
Traffic in Souls (1913)
Trance and Dance in Bali (1938-9)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

U

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1914)
Under Western Stars (1938)
Unforgiven (1992)

V

Verbena Tragica (1939)
Vertigo (1958)

W

War of the Worlds (1953)
Water and Power (1989)
The Wedding March (1928)
Westinghouse Works (1904)
West Side Story (1961)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Where are My Children? (1916)
White Fawn's Devotion (1910)
White Heat (1949)
Why Man Creates (1968)
Why We Fight (series) (1943-45)
Wild and Wooly (1917)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Wild River (1960)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
The Wind (1928)
Wings (1927)
The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)
Within Our Gates (1920)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Woman of the Year (1942)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Women, The (1939)
Woodstock (1970)
Wuthering Heights (1939)

Y

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)