List of U.S. movies that are considered particularly valuable and worthy of preservation for future generations. The legal basis for the collection is the National Film Preservation Act. The list is administered by the National Library of Congress and currently contains approximately 875 films. The list is expanded every year, but a movie must be at least 10 years old to be included in the list.
Information
The current list of movies can be viewed on the National Film Preservation Board page.
The list
The following list contains the movies that are currently on the National Preservation Board's list. The movies are reproduced in their original title. The enumeration reflects the status as of December 2023 and is sorted by decade. The year of the movie's release is in parentheses. Since a movie can be added to the list no earlier than 10 years after its release, the list currently ends with the release year 2013.
1891 – 1900
- Newark Athlete (1891)
- Blacksmith Scene (1893)
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894-1895)
- Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
- The Kiss (1896)
- Rip Van Winkle (1896)
- Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
- Mardi Gras Carnival (1898)
- Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898)
1901 – 1910
- Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
- President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
- Ringling Bros. Parade Film (1902)
- Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
- Life of an American Fireman (1903)
- The Great Train Robbery (1903)
- Westinghouse Works 1904 (1904)
- Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)
- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
- A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
- Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (1908)
- A Corner in Wheat (1909)
- Lady Helen’s Escapade (1909)
- Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
- Jeffries-Johnson World’s Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
- White Fawn’s Devotion (1910)
1911 – 1920
- Little Nemo (1911)
- Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
- The Cry of the Children (1912)
- A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
- From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
- The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
- Suspense (1913)
- Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913)
- The Evidence of the Film (1913)
- Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913)
- Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
- Traffic in Souls (1913)
- Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
- The Bargain (1914)
- The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
- Gertie The Dinosaur (1914)
- In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
- Mabel’s Blunder (1914)
- The Perils of Pauline (1914)
- Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
- The Wishing Ring: an Idyll of Old England (1914)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- The Cheat (1915)
- Fatty’s Tintype Tangle (1915)
- A Fool There Was (1915)
- The Italian (1915)
- Regeneration (1915)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
- Civilization (1916)
- The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916-1917)
- Hell’s Hinges (1916)
- Intolerance (1916)
- Shoes (1916)
- Where Are My Children? (1916)
- The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
- The Immigrant (1917)
- The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
- Unmasked (1917)
- Wild and Woolly (1917)
- Bread (1918)
- The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
- The Blue Bird (1918)
- Jubilo (1919)
- Broken Blossoms (1919)
- The Dragon Painter (1919)
- A Virtuous Vamp (1919)
- Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection (1920s and 1930s)
- Daughter of Dawn (1920)
- Heroes All (1920)
- Humoresque (1920)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
- The Making of an American (1920)
- The Mark of Zorro (1920)
- One Week (1920)
- Within Our Gates (1920)
1921 – 1930
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
- The Kid (1921)
- Manhatta (1921)
- Tol’able David (1921)
- A Movie Trip Through Filmland (1921)
- Cops (1922)
- Foolish Wives (1922)
- Miss Lulu Bett (1922)
- Nanook of the North (1922)
- Sky High (1922)
- Two-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III (1922)
- Safety Last! (1923)
- Salomé (1923)
- The Navigator (1924)
- He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
- Reverend Solomon Sir Jones films (1924-28)
- The Chechahcos (1924)
- Greed (1924)
- The Iron Horse (1924)
- Peter Pan (1924)
- Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
- Body and Soul (1925)
- Ben-Hur (1925)
- The Big Parade (1925)
- Clash of the Wolves (1925)
- The Freshman (1925)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- Grass (1925)
- Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
- The Lost World (1925)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925)
- The Flying Ace (1926)
- The Black Pirate (1926)
- Ella Cinders (1926)
- Hands Up! (1926)
- Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
- So’s Your Old Man (1926)
- The Son of the Sheik (1926)
- The Strong Man (1926)
- The Battle of the Century (1927)
- Flesh and the Devil (1927)
- The General (1927)
- It (1927)
- The Jazz Singer (1927)
- The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1927)
- Seventh Heaven (1927)
- Stark Love (1927)
- Sunrise (1927)
- Wings (1927)
- The Beau Brummels (1928)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
- The Cameraman (1928)
- The Crowd (1928)
- The Docks of New York (1928)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
- Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band (1928)
- The Last Command (1928)
- Lonesome (1928)
- Pass the Gravy (1928)
- The Power of the Press (1928)
- The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
- Show People (1928)
- Steamboat Willie (1928)
- There It Is (1928)
- The Wedding March (1928)
- The Wind (1928)
- With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)
- Applause (1929)
- Big Business (1929)
- Black and Tan (1929)
- H2O (1929)
- Hallelujah! (1929)
- Lambchops (1929)
- St. Louis Blues (1929)
- Hell-Bound Train (1930)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
- The Big Trail (1930)
- From Stump to Ship (1930)
- Kidnapper's Foil (1930s)
- King of Jazz (1930)
- Little Caesar (1930)
- Morocco (1930)
- Nicholas Brothers' Home Movies (1930s-'40s)
- Pups Is Pups (1930)
- The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930-1936)
1931 – 1940
- A Bronx Morning (1931)
- City Lights (1931)
- Dracula (1931)
- Dracula (Spanish language version) (1931)
- The Forgotten Frontier (1931)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- The Front Page (1931)
- The Public Enemy (1931)
- Tabu (1931)
- Flowers and Trees (1932)
- Freaks (1932)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
- Love Me Tonight (1932)
- The Music Box (1932)
- Red Dust (1932)
- Scarface (1932)
- A Study in Reds (1932)
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Employees Entrance (1933)
- 42nd Street (1933)
- Baby Face (1933)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- The Emperor Jones (1933)
- Footlight Parade (1933)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- The Invisible Man (1933)
- King Kong (1933)
- The Power and the Glory (1933)
- She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- Snow White (1933)
- Sons of the Desert (1933)
- State Fair (1933)
- The Three Little Pigs (1933)
- Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Imitation of Life (1934)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- It's a Gift (1934)
- Little Miss Marker (1934)
- Our Daily Bread (1934)
- Punch Drunks (1934)
- Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- Twentieth Century (1934)
- Becky Sharp (1935)
- The Informer (1935)
- The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Naughty Marietta (1935)
- A Night at the Opera (1935)
- Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
- Top Hat (1935)
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Flash Gordon Serial (1936)
- Fury (1936)
- Master Hands (1936)
- Modern Times (1936)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
- Rose Hobart (1936)
- Show Boat (1936)
- Swing Time (1936)
- Trance and Dance in Bali (1936-1939)
- George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
- With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1937-38)
- Lost Horizon (1937)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
- Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
- The Old Mill (1937)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
- Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage (1937)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Jezebel (1938)
- Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
- March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
- Our Day (1938)
- Porky in Wackyland (1938)
- The River (1938)
- Under Western Stars (1938)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- The City (1939)
- Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
- Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Early Abstractions (1939-1956)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
- The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
- Midnight (1939)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Tevye (1939)
- Verbena tragica (1939)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- The Women (1939)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
- Rebecca (1940)
- The Bank Dick (1940)
- Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina (1940)
- Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
- Down Argentine Way (1940)
- Fantasia (1940)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
- The Mark of Zorro (1940)
- Melody Ranch (1940)
- Men and Dust (1940)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Pinocchio (1940)
- The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
- Siege (1940)
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)
- Tarantella (1940)
1941 – 1950
- Dumbo (1941)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- The Blood of Jesus (1941)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- Kannapolis, N.C. (1941)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Sergeant York (1941)
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
- Bambi (1942)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Cat People (1942)
- Jam Session (1942)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- Road to Morocco (1942)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
- Woman of the Year (1942)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Cabin in the Sky (1943)
- The Gang's All Here (1943)
- George Stevens’ World War II Footage (1943-1946)
- Lassie Come Home (1943)
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Stormy Weather (1943)
- Topaz (1943-1945)
- Why We Fight (1943-1945)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Going My Way (1944)
- Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
- Jammin’ the Blues (1944)
- Laura (1944)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- Memphis Belle (1944)
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
- Mom and Dad (1944)
- National Velvet (1944)
- The Negro Soldier (1944)
- Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
- A Walk in the Sun (1945)
- The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
- Detour (1945)
- The House I Live In (1945)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
- The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
- V-E Day +1 (May 9, 1945) (1945)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Gilda (1946)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
- The Killers (1946)
- Let There Be Light (1946)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- Notorious (1946)
- The Story of Menstruation (1946)
- The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
- Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
- Out of the Past (1947)
- The Way of Peace (1947)
- Cab Calloway Home Movies (1948-51)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Force of Evil (1948)
- In the Street (1948)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Louisiana Story (1948)
- The Naked City (1948)
- The Pearl (1948)
- Red River (1948)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- On the Town (1949)
- Adam’s Rib (1949)
- All the King’s Men (1949)
- Gun Crazy aka Deadly Is the Female (1949)
- The Heiress (1949)
- The Lead Shoes (1949)
- Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
- White Heat (1949)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
- Outrage (1950)
- Cinderella (1950)
- All About Eve (1950)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- Born Yesterday (1950)
- D.O.A. (1950)
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Winchester '73 (1950)
- Bohulano Family Film Collection (1950 – 1970)
1951 – 1960
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Ace in the Hole (aka Big Carnival) (1951)
- The African Queen (1951)
- An American in Paris (1951)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Duck and Cover (1951)
- Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
- Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1951)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- The Thing from Another World (1951)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
- High Noon (1952)
- Magical Maestro (1952)
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- This Is Cinerama (1952)
- Pickup on South Street (1953)
- All My Babies (1953)
- The Band Wagon (1953)
- The Big Heat (1953)
- Duck Amuck (1953)
- Eaux d’artifice (1953)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
- House of Wax (1953)
- Little Fugitive (1953)
- The Living Desert (1953)
- The Naked Spur (1953)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Shane (1953)
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Carmen Jones (1954)
- The House in the Middle (1954)
- Johnny Guitar (1954)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Sabrina (1954)
- Salt of the Earth (1954)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
- A Star Is Born (1954)
- A Time Out of War (1954)
- Helen Keller: In Her Story (1954)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
- Phenix City Story, The (1955)
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Blackboard Jungle (1955)
- East of Eden (1955)
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- Marty (1955)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- The Court Jester (1956)
- Disneyland Dream (1956)
- Forbidden Planet (1956)
- Giant (1956)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Modesta (1956)
- One Froggy Evening (1956)
- The Searchers (1956)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Old Yeller (1957)
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
- The Hunters (1957)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- Jailhouse Rock (1957)
- Let’s All Go to the Lobby (1957)
- On the Bowery (1957)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- The Tall T (1957)
- What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
- Edge of the City (1957)
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
- Gigi (1958)
- A MOVIE (1958)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Cry of Jazz (1959)
- Imitation of Life (1959)
- Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1959)
- North By Northwest (1959)
- Pillow Talk (1959)
- Porgy and Bess (1959)
- Pull My Daisy (1959)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- Shadows (1959)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Spartacus (1960)
- The Apartment (1960)
- House of Usher (1960)
- Primary (1960)
- Psycho (1960)
- Think of Me First as a Person (1960-1975)
- Wild River (1960)
1961 – 1970
- One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
- Allures (1961)
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
- The Exiles (1961)
- Flower Drum Song (1961)
- The Hustler (1961)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- The Magnificent Seven (1961)
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- West Side Story (1961)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
- Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
- How the West Was Won (1962)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- The Music Man (1962)
- Ride the High Country (1962)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Charade (1963)
- Lilies of the Field (1963)
- Hud (1963)
- The Birds (1963)
- America, America (1963)
- The Cool World (1963)
- Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
- The Hole (1963)
- The Nutty Professor (1963)
- The Pink Panther (1963)
- Shock Corridor (1963)
- Zapruder Film (1963)
- Scorpio Rising (1964)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- Dead Birds (1964)
- Dog Star Man (1964)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- Empire (1964)
- The March (1964)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- Nothing But a Man (1964)
- Parable (1964)
- Point of Order (1964)
- The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
- Evergreen (1965)
- Felicia (1965)
- The Pawnbroker (1965)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Castro Street (The Coming of Consciousness) (1966)
- Cicero March (1966)
- The Endless Summer (1966)
- Navajo Film Themselves (Through Navajo Eyes) (1966)
- Seconds (1966)
- They Call It Pro Football (1966)
- A Time for Burning (1966)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Behind Every Good Man (1967)
- Titicut Follies (1967)
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Point Blank (1967)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Don’t Look Back (1967)
- Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
- The Graduate (1967)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- The Jungle (1967)
- Portrait of Jason (1967)
- Mingus (1968)
- Monterey Pop (1968)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Bullitt (1968)
- David Holzman’s Diary (1968)
- Faces (1968)
- The Inner World of Aphasia (1968)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- OffOn (1968)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- The Producers (1968)
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- Salesman (1968)
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
- Why Man Creates (1968)
- My Name Is Oona (1969)
- Putney Swope (1969)
- Brandy in the Wilderness (1969)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Czechoslovakia (1969)
- Easy Rider (1969)
- High School (1969)
- I Am Joaquin (1969)
- The Learning Tree (1969)
- Medium Cool (1969)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969-1971)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Requiem 29 (1970)
- I am Somebody (1970)
- Five Easy Pieces (1970)
- Hospital (1970)
- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
- Little Big Man (1970)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- Multiple SIDosis (1970)
- Patton (1970)
- Serene Velocity (1970)
- Woodstock (1970)
1971 – 1980
- Manzanar (1971)
- The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
- A New Leaf (1971)
- Wanda (1971)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Growing Up Female (1971)
- Harold and Maude (1971)
- The Hospital (1971)
- The Last Picture Show (1971)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
- Nostalgia (1971)
- Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-1972)
- Shaft (1971)
- Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
- Betty Tells Her Story (1972)
- Super Fly (1972)
- Pink Flamingos (1972)
- Sounder (1972)
- Lives of Performers (1972)
- Cabaret (1972)
- A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Film Portrait (1972)
- The Godfather (1972)
- Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)
- Peege (1972)
- The Long Goodbye (1973)
- Wattstax (1973)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Badlands (1973)
- Enter the Dragon (1973)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Frank Film (1973)
- Mean Streets (1973)
- No Lies (1973)
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
- The Sting (1973)
- Attica (1974)
- Hearts and Minds (1974)
- Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Chinatown (1974)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1974)
- Fuji (1974)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- We’re Alive (1974)
- Cruisin' J-Town (1975)
- Cooley High (1975)
- The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Hester Street (1975)
- Jaws (1975)
- Nashville (1975)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- Carrie (1976)
- Union Maids (1976)
- Time and Dreams (1976)
- All the President’s Men (1976)
- Chulas Fronteras (1976)
- Grey Gardens (1976)
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
- Network (1976)
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
- Please Don't Bury Me Alive! (1976)
- Rocky (1976)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- To Fly! (1976)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Alambrista! (1977)
- Passing Through (1977)
- Eraserhead (1977)
- I, an Actress (1977)
- Killer of Sheep (1977)
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Word is Out: Stories of Our Lives (1978)
- Grease (1978)
- Girlfriends (1978)
- Last Waltz, The (1978)
- Superman (1978)
- Days of Heaven (1978)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Halloween (1978)
- National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
- Powers of Ten (1978)
- Bush Mama (1979)
- Chicana (1979)
- Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
- The Wobblies (1979)
- Boulevard Nights (1979)
- Alien (1979)
- All That Jazz (1979)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Being There (1979)
- The Black Stallion (1979)
- Free Radicals (1979)
- Manhattan (1979)
- The Muppet Movie (1979)
- Norma Rae (1979)
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
- The Shining (1980)
- Airplane! (1980)
- Atlantic City (1980)
- Fame (1980)
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980)
- Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
- Moon Breath Beat (1980)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
1981 – 1990
- Zoot Suit (1981)
- The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
- Illusions (1982)
- Losing Ground (1982)
- The Atomic Café (1982)
- Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Chan Is Missing (1982)
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- Tootsie (1982)
- Return of the Jedi (1983)
- A Christmas Story (1983)
- El Norte (1983)
- Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
- The Right Stuff (1983)
- Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983)
- Itam Hakim, Hopiit (1984)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- Stop Making Sense (1984)
- Amadeus (1984)
- Before Stonewall (1984)
- Purple Rain (1984)
- Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People (1984)
- Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
- The Terminator (1984)
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
- The Goonies (1985)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Platoon (1986)
- She's Gotta Have it (1986)
- Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
- Hoosiers (1986)
- Luxo Jr. (1986)
- Precious Images (1986)
- Sherman’s March (1986)
- Top Gun (1986)
- Who Killed Vincent Chin (1987)
- The Lighted Field (1987)
- Matewan (1987)
- Broadcast News (1987)
- La Bamba (1987)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- Hairspray (1988)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
- Drums of Winter (aka Uksuum Cauyai) (1988)
- Stand and Deliver (1988)
- The Thin Blue Line (1988)
- Tin Toy (1988)
- The Little Mermaid (1989)
- Tongues Untied (1989)
- When Harry Met Sally (1989)
- Field of Dreams (1989)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- The Lunch Date (1989)
- Roger & Me (1989)
- sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
- Water and Power (1989)
- House Party (1990)
- To Sleep with Anger (1990)
- Paris Is Burning (1990)
- Dances with Wolves (1990)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
- Sink or Swim (1990)
- Home Alone (1990)
1991 – 2000
- Thelma & Louise (1991)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Boyz N the Hood (1991)
- Daughters of the Dust (1991)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Slacker (1991)
- Queen of Diamonds (1991)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- El Mariachi (1992)
- A League of Their Own (1992)
- Malcolm X (1992)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- The Ground (1993-2001)
- The Joy Luck Club (1993)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
- The Wedding Banquet (1993)
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)
- The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)
- Clerks (1994)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Hoop Dreams (1994)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- The Red Book (1994)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- One Survivor Remembers (1995)
- Scratch and Crow (1995)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Watermelon Woman (1996)
- Fargo (1996)
- Study of a River (1996-1997)
- Selena (1997)
- Eve's Bayou (1997)
- 4 Little Girls (1997)
- Titanic (1997)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Smoke Signals (1998)
- Rushmore (1998)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
- Boys Don't Cry (1999)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Bamboozled (2000)
- Love & Basketball (2000)
- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
2001 – 2010
- The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- Shrek (2001)
- Memento (2001)
- Real Women Have Curves (2002)
- Decasia (2002)
- Fog of War (2003)
- 13 Lakes (2004)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
- Iron Man (2008)
- Wall-E (2008)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- The Hurt Locker (2009)
- Freedom Riders (2010)
2011 – 2020
- Pariah (2011)
- 20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
to be continued….
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