Home > List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry
The United States' National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. The National Film Registry is meant to preserve up to 25 films deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" each year. To be eligible, films must be at least 10 years old. The films do not have to be feature-length or to have had a theatrical release. The Foundation's primary mission is to save so-called "orphan films," films without owners to pay for their preservation. The films most at risk are newsreels, silent films, experimental works, films out of copyright protection, significant amateur footage, documentary films, and features made outside the commercial mainstream. Hundreds of American museums, archives, libraries, universities, and historical societies care for "orphaned" original film materials of cultural value. As of 2003, there were 375 films preserved in the National Film Registry.
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AlienAlien ( 1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/ horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. Although the title characters are the highly aggressive extraterrestrial creatures, the real connecti (1979) (inducted 2002)
All About EveThis article is about All About Eve, the movie. There is also an article about the goth/folk rock band All About Eve. All About Eve is a movie written and directed in 1950 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a story by Mary Orr. Anne Baxter plays scheming young (1950) (inducted 1990)
All My BabiesAll My Babies is a 1953 educational film produced and directed by George C. Stoney which was used to educate midwives in the Southern United States. It was produced by the Georgia Department of Public Health, and written by George C. External link 1953 fi (1953) (inducted 2002)
All Quiet on the Western FrontA Novel written in 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues in German), clearly elucidates not only the horrors of contemporary warfare, but also the deep detachment from German c (1930) (inducted 1990)
All That Heaven AllowsAll That Heaven Allows is a 1955 drama and May-September romance in which a well-to-do widow ( Jane Wyman), living in a small town, decides to marry a handsome younger man ( Rock Hudson) who owns a small landscaping business. The two lead very different l (1955) (inducted 1995)
All That JazzAll That Jazz is a 1979 musical film and semi-autobiographical fantasy by and about Bob Fosse. Roy Scheider plays a chain-smoking, pill-popping, womanizing, workaholic choreographer and director. Fosse was inspired by his own manic effort to edit his movi (1979) (inducted 2001)
All the King's MenAll the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, published in 1946, made into a film in 1949 and again in 2005. The Novel The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and is acknowledged to be one of the best American political novels of all time. It port (1949) (inducted 2001)
America, AmericaAmerica, America is a 1963 Elia Kazan film about a young Greek who leaves his small town in Anatolia in 1900 dreaming of a better life in America. It was directed and written by Kazan, from his own book, and stars Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Kar (1963) (inducted 2001)