National Film Registry

"These films are not selected as the 'best' American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture. They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation."

- National Film Registry FAQ

The National Film Registry is a department of the United States Library of Congress designed to index American-made films that are "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant". In other words, the films that end up on the Registry are the ones that deserve to live forever according to the US government. This is among the highest honors an American movie can receive, much higher than even the Academy Awards (and, believe it or not, less politically meddled with).

Twenty-five movies are selected each year (usually in December) to be listed on the Registry. To qualify, an entry must be at least ten years old. Members of the public are allowed to suggest up to 50 titles per year for inclusion. The official list is here; the entries have been copied to this page. Anyone interested in suggesting some worthy titles can do so here; nominations do not carry over from year to year, but the Library of Congress does keep a list of famous films that didn't make the list in previous years.

Of the 775 films on the list in 2019, 62 were directed or co-directed by women; a list can be found on the LOC's website.

As of the 2022 selection, the oldest film on the Registry is The Newark Athlete (1891), and the newest is Pariah (2011). Only one film has been added to the Registry in its first year of eligibility: Freedom Riders (2010) in 2020.

A note about terminology: Films are "on" The National Film Registry list, not "in" the Registry. This is not a physical collection of movies.

1989
The first twenty-five entries.
 * Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
 * Nanook of the North (1922)
 * The General (1927)
 * Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
 * The Crowd (1928)
 * Modern Times (1936)
 * Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
 * Gone with the Wind (1939)
 * Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
 * The Wizard of Oz (1939)
 * The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
 * Citizen Kane (1941)
 * The Maltese Falcon (1941)
 * Casablanca (1942)
 * The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
 * Sunset Boulevard (1950)
 * High Noon (1952)
 * Singin' in the Rain (1952)
 * On the Waterfront (1954)
 * The Searchers (1956)
 * Vertigo (1958)
 * Some Like It Hot (1959)
 * Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1964)
 * The Learning Tree (1969)
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

1990

 * The Great Train Robbery (1903)
 * The Freshman (1925)
 * All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
 * Love Me Tonight (1932)
 * Duck Soup (1933)
 * Top Hat (1935)
 * Dodsworth (1936)
 * Bringing Up Baby (1938)
 * The River (1938)
 * Ninotchka (1939)
 * Fantasia (1940)
 * How Green Was My Valley (1941)
 * Sullivan's Travels (1941)
 * Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
 * It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
 * Red River (1948)
 * The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
 * All About Eve (1950)
 * Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
 * Primary (1960)
 * The Godfather (1972)
 * A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
 * Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
 * Killer of Sheep (1977)
 * Raging Bull (1980)

1991

 * Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
 * The Italian (1915)
 * Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
 * Greed (1924)
 * Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
 * City Lights (1931)
 * Frankenstein (1931)
 * I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
 * Trouble in Paradise (1932)
 * King Kong (1933)
 * The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
 * Tevye (1939)
 * The Blood of Jesus (1941)
 * The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
 * Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
 * The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
 * My Darling Clementine (1946)
 * Out of the Past (1947)
 * A Place in the Sun (1951)
 * Gigi (1958)
 * Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
 * David Holzman's Diary (1968)
 * High School (1969)
 * Chinatown (1974)

1992
The year which brought the total to 100.
 * The Birth of a Nation (1915)
 * Within Our Gates (1920)
 * The Big Parade (1925)
 * The Gold Rush (1925)
 * Big Business (1929)
 * Morocco (1930)
 * Footlight Parade (1933)
 * The Bank Dick (1940)
 * Double Indemnity (1944)
 * Detour (1945)
 * Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
 * Adam's Rib (1949)
 * Carmen Jones (1954)
 * Salt of the Earth (1954)
 * The Night of the Hunter (1955)
 * Paths of Glory (1957)
 * What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
 * Psycho (1960)
 * Ride the High Country (1962)
 * Dog Star Man (1964)
 * Castro Street (1966)
 * Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
 * Salesman (1969)
 * Nashville (1975)
 * Annie Hall (1977)

1993

 * The Cheat (1915)
 * Where Are My Children? (1916)
 * The Black Pirate (1926)
 * The Wind (1928)
 * It Happened One Night (1934)
 * A Night at the Opera (1935)
 * March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
 * His Girl Friday (1940)
 * Cat People (1942)
 * Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
 * Lassie Come Home (1943)
 * An American in Paris (1951)
 * Magical Maestro (1952)
 * Eaux d'artifice (1953)
 * Shane (1953)
 * Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
 * Touch of Evil (1958)
 * Shadows (1959)
 * Nothing But a Man (1964)
 * Point of Order (1964)
 * Badlands (1973)
 * The Godfather Part II (1974)
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
 * Chulas Fronteras (1976)
 * Blade Runner (1982)

1994

 * A Corner in Wheat (1909)
 * The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
 * Hell's Hinges (1916)
 * Safety Last! (1923)
 * Tabu (1931)
 * Freaks (1932)
 * Scarface (1932)
 * Snow White (1933)
 * Pinocchio (1940)
 * The Lady Eve (1941)
 * Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
 * Force of Evil (1948)
 * Louisiana Story (1948)
 * The African Queen (1951)
 * Marty (1955)
 * Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
 * A MOVIE (1958)
 * The Apartment (1960)
 * The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
 * The Cool World (1963)
 * Zapruder film (1963)
 * Midnight Cowboy (1969)
 * Hospital (1970)
 * Taxi Driver (1976)
 * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

1995

 * Blacksmith Scene (1893)
 * Rip Van Winkle (1896)
 * Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
 * The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
 * The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
 * Manhatta (1921)
 * 7th Heaven (1927)
 * Fury (1936)
 * The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
 * Stagecoach (1939)
 * The Philadelphia Story (1940)
 * Jammin' the Blues (1944)
 * The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
 * Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
 * The Band Wagon (1953)
 * All That Heaven Allows (1955)
 * North by Northwest (1959)
 * To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
 * The Hospital (1971)
 * Cabaret (1972)
 * American Graffiti (1973)
 * The Conversation (1974)
 * To Fly! (1976)
 * Chan Is Missing (1982)
 * El Norte (1983)

1996

 * Broken Blossoms (1919)
 * The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
 * The Jazz Singer (1927)
 * The Forgotten Frontier (1931)
 * She Done Him Wrong (1933)
 * Flash Gordon Serial (1936)
 * Show Boat (1936)
 * The Awful Truth (1937)
 * Destry Rides Again (1939)
 * Verbena trágica (1939)
 * Road to Morocco (1942)
 * To Be or Not to Be (1942)
 * Topaz (1943–1945)
 * Mildred Pierce (1945)
 * The Heiress (1949)
 * Pull My Daisy (1959)
 * Shock Corridor (1963)
 * The Graduate (1967)
 * The Producers (1968)
 * M*A*S*H (1970)
 * Woodstock (1970)
 * Frank Film (1973)
 * The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
 * The Deer Hunter (1978)
 * The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)

1997

 * Cops (1922)
 * Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
 * Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)
 * The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1927)
 * Wings (1927)
 * The Music Box (1932)
 * The Thin Man (1932)
 * Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
 * Republic Steel Strike Newsreel Footage (1937)
 * The Great Dictator (1940)
 * Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
 * Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
 * The Big Sleep (1946)
 * Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
 * Little Fugitive (1953)
 * The Naked Spur (1953)
 * Rear Window (1954)
 * The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
 * The Hustler (1961)
 * West Side Story (1961)
 * How the West Was Won (1962)
 * Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
 * Harold and Maude (1971)
 * Mean Streets (1973)
 * Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)

1998

 * Westinghouse Works 1904 (1904)
 * From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
 * The Immigrant (1917)
 * Sky High (1922)
 * The Lost World (1925)
 * The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
 * Pass the Gravy (1928)
 * Steamboat Willie (1928)
 * The Public Enemy (1931)
 * 42nd Street (1933)
 * Little Miss Marker (1934)
 * Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
 * The City (1939)
 * Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses (1940)
 * The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
 * Gun Crazy (1949)
 * Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
 * The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
 * Modesta (1956)
 * Dead Birds (1964)
 * Don't Look Back (1967)
 * Easy Rider (1969)
 * The Last Picture Show (1971)
 * Powers of Ten (1978)
 * Tootsie (1982)

1999

 * The Kiss (1896)
 * In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
 * Civilization (1916)
 * The Docks of New York (1928)
 * Lambchops (1929)
 * The Emperor Jones (1933)
 * Master Hands (1936)
 * My Man Godfrey (1936)
 * The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
 * Trance and Dance in Bali (1936-1939)
 * Gunga Din (1939)
 * The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
 * Woman of the Year (1942)
 * Laura (1944)
 * A Streetcar Named Desire (1952)
 * Duck Amuck (1953)
 * Roman Holiday (1953)
 * Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
 * The Ten Commandments (1956)
 * Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
 * Night of the Living Dead (1968)
 * The Wild Bunch (1969)
 * King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
 * Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
 * Do the Right Thing (1989)

2000

 * President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
 * The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
 * Regeneration (1915)
 * Salome (1923)
 * Peter Pan (1924)
 * The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
 * Little Caesar (1930)
 * Dracula (1931)
 * The Emperor Jones (1933)
 * The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
 * Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
 * Porky in Wackyland (1938)
 * Why We Fight (1943-1945)
 * The Living Desert (1953)
 * A Star Is Born (1954)
 * The Tall T (1957)
 * Intermission: Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957)
 * Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
 * Five Easy Pieces (1970)
 * Multiple SIDosis (1970)
 * Shaft (1971)
 * Network (1976)
 * Apocalypse Now (1979)
 * Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
 * Sherman's March (1986)
 * Goodfellas (1990)

2001

 * The Evidence of the Film (1913)
 * Miss Lulu Bett (1922)
 * It (1927)
 * Rose Hobart (1936)
 * Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther (1939)
 * Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
 * Jam Session (1942)
 * Stormy Weather (1943)
 * Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
 * The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
 * Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
 * All the King's Men (1949)
 * The Thing from Another World (1951)
 * The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
 * The House in the Middle (1954)
 * America America (1963)
 * The Sound of Music (1965)
 * Planet of the Apes (1968)
 * Serene Velocity (1970)
 * Jaws (1975)
 * Animal House (1978)
 * All That Jazz (1979)
 * Manhattan (1979)
 * Hoosiers (1986)
 * The Thin Blue Line (1988)

2002

 * Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)
 * Wild and Woolly (1917)
 * Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
 * Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925)
 * From Stump to Ship (1930)
 * Punch Drunks (1934)
 * Melody Ranch (1940)
 * The Pearl (1948)
 * The Bad and The Beautiful (1952)
 * This Is Cinerama (1952)
 * All My Babies (1953)
 * From Here to Eternity (1953)
 * Sabrina (1954)
 * Wild River (1960)
 * The Endless Summer (1966)
 * Navajo Film Themselves (Through Navajo Eyes) (1966)
 * In the Heat of the Night (1967)
 * Why Man Creates (1968)
 * Fuji (1974)
 * Alien (1979)
 * The Black Stallion (1979)
 * Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
 * This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
 * Beauty and the Beast (1991)
 * Boyz N the Hood (1991)

2003

 * Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894-1895)
 * Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
 * Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
 * The Chechahcos (1924)
 * The Son of the Sheik (1926)
 * Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band (1928)
 * Show People (1928)
 * The Wedding March (1928)
 * Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
 * Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
 * Naughty Marietta (1935)
 * Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
 * National Velvet (1944)
 * White Heat (1949)
 * One Froggy Evening (1956)
 * The Hunters (1957)
 * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
 * Medium Cool (1969)
 * Patton (1970)
 * (nostalgia) (1971)
 * Film Portrait (1972)
 * Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
 * Young Frankenstein (1974)
 * Atlantic City (1980)
 * Tin Toy (1988)

2004

 * Lady Helen's Escapade (1909)
 * The Blue Bird (1918)
 * Clash of the Wolves (1925)
 * There It Is (1928)
 * Pups Is Pups (1930)
 * A Bronx Meeting (1931)
 * Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
 * Swing Time (1936)
 * Kanapolis, NC (1941)
 * Going My Way (1946)
 * D.O.A. (1950)
 * Duck and Cover (1951)
 * Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
 * The Court Jester (1956)
 * Jailhouse Rock (1957)
 * Ben-Hur (1959)
 * The Nutty Professor (1963)
 * Empire (1964)
 * OffOn (1968)
 * Enter the Dragon (1973)
 * Eraserhead (1977)
 * Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980)
 * Daughters of the Dust (1991)
 * Unforgiven (1992)
 * Schindler's List (1993)

2005

 * San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
 * Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
 * The Making of an American (1920)
 * Hands Up! (1926)
 * The Cameraman (1928)
 * The Power of the Press (1928)
 * H2O (1929)
 * Baby Face (1933)
 * Imitation of Life (1934)
 * Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
 * Mom and Dad (1944)
 * Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
 * Giant (1956)
 * House of Usher (1960)
 * A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
 * The Music Man (1962)
 * A Time for Burning (1966)
 * Cool Hand Luke (1967)
 * The French Connection (1972)
 * The Sting (1973)
 * The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
 * The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
 * Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
 * Hoop Dreams (1994)
 * Toy Story (1995)

2006

 * Traffic in Souls (1913)''
 * Tess of the Storm Country (1914)''
 * The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916-1917)''
 * Flesh and the Devil (1927)''
 * The Last Command (1928)''
 * Applause (1929)''
 * St. Louis Blues (1929)''
 * The Big Trail (1930)''
 * Red Dust (1932)''
 * Daughter of Shanghai (1937)''
 * Early Abstractions (1939-1956)''
 * Siege (1940)''
 * Notorious (1946)''
 * In the Street (1948)''
 * A Time Out of War (1954)''
 * Think of Me First as a Person (1960-1975)''
 * The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)''
 * Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-1972)''
 * Blazing Saddles (1974)''
 * Rocky (1976)''
 * Halloween (1978)''
 * Drums of Winter (a.k.a. Uksuum Cauyai) (1988)''
 * sex, lies, and videotape (1989)''
 * Groundhog Day (1993)''
 * Fargo (1996)''

2007

 * Tol'able David (1921)''
 * Mighty Like a Moose (1926)''
 * The Strong Man (1926)''
 * The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)''
 * Grand Hotel (1932)''
 * The Three Little Pigs (1933)''
 * Our Day (1938)''
 * The Women (1939)''
 * Wuthering Heights (1939)''
 * Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)''
 * Now, Voyager (1942)''
 * The House I Live In (1945)''
 * The Naked City (1948)''
 * In a Lonely Place (1950)''
 * Oklahoma! (1955)''
 * 12 Angry Men (1957)''
 * Glimpse of the Garden (1957)''
 * The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)''
 * Bullitt (1968)''
 * Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969-1971)''
 * Peege (1972)''
 * Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)''
 * Days of Heaven (1978)''
 * Back to the Future (1985)''
 * Dances with Wolves (1990)''

2008
The year which brought the total to 500.
 * White Fawn's Devotion (1910)''
 * The Perils of Pauline (1914)''
 * One Week (1920)''
 * Foolish Wives (1922)''
 * So's Your Old Man (1926)''
 * Hallelujah! (1929)''
 * The Invisible Man (1933)''
 * Sergeant York (1941)''
 * George Stevens' World War II Footage (1943-1946)''
 * The Killers (1946)''
 * The Asphalt Jungle (1950)''
 * Johnny Guitar (1954)''
 * Disneyland Dream (1956)''
 * A Face in the Crowd (1957)''
 * On the Bowery (1957)''
 * The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)''
 * Flower Drum Song (1961)''
 * The March (1964)''
 * The Pawnbroker (1965)''
 * In Cold Blood (1967)''
 * Deliverance (1972)''
 * No Lies (1973)''
 * Free Radicals (1979)''
 * The Terminator (1984)''
 * Water and Power (1989)''

2009

 * Little Nemo (1911)
 * Mabel's Blunder (1914)
 * Heroes All (1920)
 * Stark Love (1927)
 * The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930-1936)
 * A Study in Reds (1932)
 * Jezebel (1938)
 * Under Western Stars (1938)
 * The Mark of Zorro (1940)
 * Mrs. Miniver (1942)
 * The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
 * The Lead Shoes (1949)
 * The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
 * Pillow Talk (1959)
 * The Exiles (1961)
 * The Jungle (1967)
 * Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
 * Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)
 * Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
 * Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
 * The Muppet Movie (1979)
 * Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)
 * Precious Images (1986)
 * The Red Book (1994)
 * Scratch and Crow (1995)''

2010

 * Newark Athlete (1891)
 * A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
 * Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
 * The Bargain (1914)
 * Lonesome (1928)
 * The Front Page (1931)
 * It's a Gift (1934)
 * Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
 * Tarantella (1940)
 * A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
 * Let There Be Light (1946)
 * The Cry of Jazz (1959)
 * The Pink Panther (1963)
 * Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
 * I Am Joaquin (1969)
 * Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
 * McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
 * The Exorcist (1973)
 * All the President's Men (1976)
 * Grey Gardens (1976)
 * Saturday Night Fever (1977)
 * Airplane! (1980)
 * The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
 * Malcolm X (1992)
 * Study of a River (1996)

2011

 * A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
 * The Cry of the Children (1912)
 * The Kid (1921)
 * The Iron Horse (1924)
 * Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-1940s)
 * Twentieth Century (1934)
 * Bambi (1942)
 * The Negro Soldier (1944)
 * The Lost Weekend (1945)
 * The Big Heat (1953)
 * War of the Worlds (1953)
 * Porgy and Bess (1959)
 * Allures (1961)
 * Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
 * Faces (1968)
 * Growing Up Female (1971)
 * A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
 * Hester Street (1975)
 * I, an Actress (1977)
 * Norma Rae (1979)
 * Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
 * Stand and Deliver (1988)
 * The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
 * El Mariachi (1992)
 * Forrest Gump (1994)

2012

 * Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
 * The Wishing Ring: an Idyll of Old England (1914)
 * Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
 * Two-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III (1922)
 * Sons of the Desert (1933)
 * The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
 * Born Yesterday (1950)
 * 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
 * Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
 * Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
 * Parable (1964)
 * They Call It Pro Football (1966)
 * Dirty Harry (1971)
 * Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
 * The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
 * Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
 * A Christmas Story (1983)
 * The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
 * Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
 * Slacker (1991)
 * A League of Their Own (1992)
 * One Survivor Remembers (1995)
 * The Matrix (1999)
 * Kidnapper's Foil ("1930s")
 * The Augustas ("1930s-1950s")

2013

 * A Virtuous Vamp (1919)
 * Daughter of Dawn (1920)
 * Ella Cinders (1926)
 * King of Jazz (1930)
 * Martha Graham Early Dance Films (1931-1944)
 * Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
 * Midnight (1939)
 * Men and Dust (1940)
 * Gilda (1946)
 * Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1951)
 * The Quiet Man (1952)
 * Forbidden Planet (1956)
 * Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
 * The Magnificent Seven (1961)
 * The Hole (1962)
 * Mary Poppins (1964)
 * Cicero March (1966)
 * Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
 * Brandy in the Wilderness (1969)
 * The Right Stuff (1983)
 * Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
 * Roger & Me (1989)
 * The Lunch Date (1989)
 * Pulp Fiction (1994)
 * Decasia (2002)

2014

 * Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913)
 * Shoes (1916)
 * Unmasked (1917)
 * The Dragon Painter (1919)
 * State Fair (1933)
 * The Power and the Glory (1933)
 * Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
 * Down Argentine Way (1940)
 * The Gang's All Here (1943)
 * V-E Day +1 (May 9, 1945) (1945)
 * The Way of Peace (1947)
 * House of Wax (1953)
 * Rio Bravo (1959)
 * Felicia (1965)
 * Rosemary's Baby (1968)
 * Little Big Man (1970)
 * Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
 * Please Don't Bury Me Alive! (1976)
 * Moon Breath Beat (1980)
 * Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
 * Luxo Jr. (1986)
 * Saving Private Ryan (1998)
 * The Big Lebowski (1998)
 * Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
 * 13 Lakes (2004)

2015

 * Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
 * Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
 * A Fool There Was (1915)
 * Humoresque (1920)
 * The Mark of Zorro (1920)
 * Black and Tan (1929)
 * Dracula (Spanish language version) (1931)
 * Our Daily Bread (1934)
 * The Old Mill (1937)
 * Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
 * John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
 * The Story of Menstruation (1946)
 * Winchester '73 (1950)
 * Imitation of Life (1959)
 * Seconds (1966)
 * Portrait of Jason (1967)
 * Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
 * The Inner World of Aphasia (1968)
 * Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1974)
 * Being There (1979)
 * Ghostbusters (1984)
 * Top Gun (1986)
 * Sink or Swim (1990)
 * The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
 * L.A. Confidential (1997)

2016

 * Life of an American Fireman (1903)
 * Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
 * Reverend Solomon Sir Jones films (1924-28)
 * The Beau Brummels (1928)
 * Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
 * Lost Horizon (1937)
 * Ball of Fire (1941)
 * A Walk in the Sun (1945)
 * Blackboard Jungle (1955)
 * East of Eden (1955)
 * The Birds (1963)
 * Point Blank (1967)
 * Funny Girl (1968)
 * Putney Swope (1969)
 * The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
 * The Atomic Café (1982)
 * Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
 * The Breakfast Club (1985)
 * The Princess Bride (1987)
 * Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
 * Paris Is Burning (1990)
 * Thelma and Louise (1991)
 * The Lion King (1994)
 * Rushmore (1998)

2017

 * Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905)
 * The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
 * Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection (1920s and 1930s)
 * He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
 * With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1937-38)
 * Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
 * Dumbo (1941)
 * Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
 * Ace in the Hole (aka Big Carnival; 1951)
 * Spartacus (1960)
 * Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
 * Wanda (1971)
 * Lives of Performers (1972)
 * Time and Dreams (1976)
 * Superman (1978)
 * Boulevard Nights (1979)
 * The Goonies (1985)
 * La Bamba (1987)
 * Die Hard (1988)
 * Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
 * To Sleep with Anger (1990)
 * Field of Dreams (1989)
 * 4 Little Girls (1997)
 * Titanic (1997)
 * Memento (2000)

2018

 * Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898)
 * Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (1908)
 * The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
 * The Navigator (1924)
 * The Informer (1935)
 * Rebecca (1940)
 * Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
 * The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
 * On the Town (1949)
 * Cinderella (1950)
 * Pickup on South Street (1953)
 * Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
 * One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
 * Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
 * Hud (1963)
 * My Fair Lady (1964)
 * Monterey Pop (1968)
 * Hearts and Minds (1974)
 * The Shining (1980)
 * Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People (1984)
 * Broadcast News (1987)
 * Jurassic Park (1993)
 * Eve's Bayou (1997)
 * Smoke Signals (1998)
 * Brokeback Mountain (2005)

2019

 * Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
 * Body and Soul (1925)
 * Employees' Entrance (1933)
 * Becky Sharp (1935)
 * George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
 * Gaslight (1944)
 * The Phenix City Story (1955)
 * Old Yeller (1957)
 * Sleeping Beauty (1959)
 * My Name Is Oona (1969)
 * I am Somebody (1970)
 * A New Leaf (1971)
 * Girlfriends (1978)
 * The Last Waltz (1978)
 * Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
 * Zoot Suit (1981)
 * Amadeus (1984)
 * Before Stonewall (1984)
 * Purple Rain (1984)
 * Platoon (1986)
 * She's Gotta Have It (1986)
 * Clerks (1994)
 * Boys Don't Cry (1999)
 * Real Women Have Curves (2002)
 * The Fog of War (2003)

2020

 * Suspense (1913)
 * "Kid Auto Races at Venice" (1914)
 * Bread (1918)
 * The Battle of the Century (1927)
 * With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)
 * Cabin in the Sky (1943)
 * Outrage (1950)
 * The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
 * Lilies of the Field (1963)
 * A Clockwork Orange (1971)
 * Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
 * Wattstax (1973)
 * Grease (1978)
 * The Blues Brothers (1980)
 * Illusions (1982)
 * Losing Ground (1982)
 * The Joy Luck Club (1993)
 * The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)
 * Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
 * Shrek (2001)
 * Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
 * The Dark Knight (2008)
 * The Hurt Locker (2008)
 * Freedom Riders (2010)
 * The Ground (1993-2001)

2021

 * "Ringling Bros. Parade Film" (1902)
 * Jubilo (1919)
 * The Flying Ace (1926)
 * Hellbound Train (1930)
 * "Flowers and Trees" (1932)
 * Strangers on a Train (1951)
 * What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
 * Evergreen (1965)
 * Requiem-29 (1970)
 * The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
 * Pink Flamingos (1972)
 * Sounder (1972)
 * The Long Goodbye (1973)
 * Cooley High (1975)
 * Chicana (1979)
 * The Wobblies (1979)
 * Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
 * Return of the Jedi (1983)
 * A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
 * Stop Making Sense (1984)
 * Who Killed Vincent Chin (1987)
 * Watermelon Woman (1996)
 * Selena (1997)
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
 * WALL-E (2008)

2022
Unlike previous years, only twenty-four movies are listed on the National Film Registry website for 2022.
 * "Mardi Gras Carnival" (1898)
 * "Cab Calloway Home Movies" (1948-51)
 * Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
 * Charade (1963)
 * Scorpio Rising (1964)
 * Behind Every Good Man (1967)
 * Titicut Follies (1967)
 * Mingus (1968)
 * Manzanar (1971)
 * Betty Tells Her Story (1972)
 * Attica (1974)
 * Carrie (1976)
 * Union Maids (1976)
 * Word is Out: Stories of Our Lives (1978)
 * Bush Mama (1979)
 * The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
 * Itam Hakim, Hopiit (1984)
 * Hairspray (1988)
 * The Little Mermaid (1989)
 * Tongues Untied (1989)
 * When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
 * House Party (1990)
 * Iron Man (2008)
 * Pariah (2011)