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ATIONAL FILM REGISTRY TITLES
of the U. S. LIBRARY of CONGRESS
(1989 - 2023)

Part 2

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.



National Film Registry's Selections
(1989-2023)

(part 2, alphabetical order)

L

La Bamba (1987)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
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)
The Last Waltz (1978)
Laura (1944)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lead Shoes (1949)
A League of Their Own (1992)
The Learning Tree (1969)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
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)
Life of an American Fireman (1903)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The Lighted Field (1987)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
The Lion King (1994)
Little Big Man (1970)
Little Caesar (1930)
The Little Fugitive (1953)
Little Miss Marker (1934)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Little Nemo (1911)
Lives of Performers (1972)
The Living Desert (1953)
Lonesome (1928)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Losing Ground (1982)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Lost World (1925)
Louisiana Story (1948)
Love & Basketball (2000)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
The Lunch Date (1989)
Luxo Jr. (1986)

M

Mabel's Blunder (1914)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Magical Maestro (1952)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
Making of an American (1920)
Malcolm X (1992)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Manhatta (1921)
Manhattan (1979)
Manzanar (1971)
The March (1964)
March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany - 1938 (1938)
Mardi Gras Carnival (1898)
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
The Mark of Zorro (1920)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Martha Graham Early Dance Films (1931-1944)
Marty (1955)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Master Hands (1936)
Matewan (1987)
Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
The Matrix (1999)
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Mean Streets (1973)
Medium Cool (1969)
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Melody Ranch (1940)
Memento (2000)
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Men and Dust (1940)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
Midnight (1939)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mingus (1968)
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)
Monterey Pop (1968)
Moon Breath Beat (1980)
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 Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
The Music Box (1932)
The Music Man (1962)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Fair Lady (1964)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
My Name Is Oona (1969)

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 Navigator (1924)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
Network (1976)
A New Leaf (1971)
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)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Ninotchka (1939)
No Lies (1973)
Norma Rae (1979)
North By Northwest (1959)
Nostalgia (1971)
Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1951)
Nothing But a Man (1964)
Notorious (1946)
Now, Voyager (1942)
The Nutty Professor (1963)

O

OffOn (1968)
Oklahoma! (1955)
The Old Mill (1937)
Old Yeller (1957)
On the Bowery (1957)
On the Town (1949)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
One Froggy Evening (1956)
One Survivor Remembers (1995)
One Week (1920)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Our Daily Bread (1934)
Our Day (1938)
Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
Out Of The Past (1947)
Outrage (1950)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

P

Parable (1964)
Pariah (2011)
Paris Is Burning (1990)
Pass the Gravy (1928)
Passing Through (1977)
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 Phenix City Story (1955)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
The Pink Panther (1963)
Pinocchio (1940)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Platoon (1986)
Please Don't Bury Me Alive! (1976)
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Point Blank (1967)
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)
Portrait of Jason (1967)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
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)
The Princess Bride (1987)
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)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Punch Drunks (1934)
Pups is Pups (Our Gang) (1930)
Purple Rain (1984)
Putney Swope (1969)

Q

Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
Queen of Diamonds (1991)
The Quiet Man (1952)

R

Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
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)
Requiem-29 (1970)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930-1936)
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
Ride the High Country (1962)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Ringling Brothers Parade Film (1902)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rip Van Winkle (1896)
The River (1937)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Rocky (1976)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Roger & Me (1989)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Rose Hobart (1936)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Rushmore (1998)

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)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Scarface (1932)
Schindler's List (1993)
Scorpio Rising (1964)
Scratch and Crow (1995)
The Searchers (1956)
Seconds (1966)
Selena (1997)
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)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Sherman's March (1986)
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
The Shining (1980)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Shoes (1916)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Show Boat (1936)
Show People (1928)
Shrek (2001)
Siege (1940)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
Sink or Swim (1990)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
Sky High (1922)
Slacker (1991)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Snow White (1933)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Solomon Sir Jones films (1924-28)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898)
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
So's Your Old Man (1926)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Sounder (1972)
Spartacus (1960)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
Stagecoach (1939)
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Steamboat Willie (1928)
A Star Is Born (1954)
Stark Love (1927)
Star Theatre (1901)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars Episode VI — Return of the Jedi (1983)
State Fair (1933)
Stevens-George World War II Footage (1943-1946)
The Sting (1973)
St. Louis Blues (1929)
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Stormy Weather (1943)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
The Story of Menstruation (1946)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
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)
Super Fly (1972)
Superman (1978)
Suspense (1913)
Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Swing Time (1936)

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)

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)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
Tevye (1939)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
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)
13 Lakes (2004)
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)
Time and Dreams (1976)
A Time for Burning (1966)
A Time Out of War (1954)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Tin Toy (1988)
Titanic (1997)
Titicut Follies (1967)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
To Fly (1976)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
To Sleep With Anger (1990)
Tol'able David (1921)
Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (1969-71)
Tongues Untied (1989)
Tootsie (1982)
Top Gun (1986)
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)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Twentieth Century (1934)
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

U

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
Under Western Stars (1938)
Unforgiven (1992)
Union Maids (1976)
Unmasked (1917)

V

V-E + 1 (1945)
Verbena Tragica (1939)
Vertigo (1958)
A Virtuous Vamp (1919)

W

A Walk in the Sun (1945)
WALL-E (2008)
Wanda (1971)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Water and Power (1989)
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Wattstax (1973)
The Way of Peace (1947)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
The Wedding March (1928)
We’re Alive (1974)
Westinghouse Works (1904)
West Side Story (1961)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Where are My Children? (1916)
White Fawn's Devotion (1910)
White Heat (1949)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Why Man Creates (1968)
Why We Fight (series) (1943-45)
Wild and Wooly (1917)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Wild River (1960)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
The Wind (1928)
Wings (1927)
The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)
With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1937-38)
With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)
Within Our Gates (1920)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Woman of the Year (1942)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Women, The (1939)
The Wobblies (1979)
Woodstock (1970)
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977)
Wuthering Heights (1939)

Y

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

Z

Zapruder Film (1963)
Zoot Suit (1981)



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