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Some Films Not Yet Named to the National Film Registry


Note: Each year, we begin the National Film Registry process anew and start from scratch. So if you voted for a film one year but it was not selected, that vote does not carry over to the next year. To give you a few ideas, below are some fairly well-known films not yet selected to the Registry. You may vote for these films or for others not yet on this list. But please do vote: films which receive the most support each year are given special consideration during the process by members of the National Film Preservation Board.
Ramona (1910)
Little Nemo (1911)

Bargain, The (1914)
Squaw Man, The (1914)

The Coward (1915)

Hearts of the World (1918)
Stella Maris (1918)

Blind Husbands (1919)
Male and Female (1919)

Mark of Zorro (1920)
One Week (1920)
Penalty, The (1920)
Way Down East (1920)

Kid, The (1921)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Sheik, The (1921)

Blood and Sand (1922)
Foolish Wives (1922)
Manslaughter (1922)
Robin Hood (1922)

Covered Wagon, The (1923)
Felix in Hollywood (1923)
Grandma's Boy (1923)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Ten Commandments (1923)
The White Sister (1923)

Girl Shy (1924)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Her Night of Romance (1924)
Iron Horse, The (1924)
Manhandled (1924)
Navigator, The (1924)
Sea Hawk (1924)

Cobra (1925)
Eagle, The (1925)
Goose Woman, The (1925)
Her Sister From Paris (1925)
Merry Widow, The (1925)
Paths to Paradise (1925)
Seven Chances (1925)
Smouldering Fires (1925)
Tumbleweeds (1925)
Unholy Three (1925)
Womanhandled (1925)
Rin-Tin-Tin films  

Beau Geste (1926)
Great K&A Train Robbery (1926)
It's the Old Army Game (1926)
Kiki (1926)
Kiss for Cinderella, A (1926)
Mantrap (1926)
Mare Nostrum (1926)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
So This is Paris (1926)
So's Your Old Man (1926)
Sparrows (1926)
Torrent (1926)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
You'd Be Surprised (1926)

His First Flame (1927)
Kid Brother, The (1927)
King of Kings, The (1927)
Love (1927)
My Best Girl (1927)
The Night of Love (1927)
Stark Love (1927)
Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Underworld (1927)

Beggars of Life (1928)
Circus, The (1928)
Koko's Earth Control (1928)
Lonesome (1928)
Man Who Laughs (1928)
Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
The Patsy (1928)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Street Angel (1928)
Two Tars (1928)
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)

Iron Mask (1929)
Redskin (1929)
The Skeleton Dance (1929)
Wild Orchids (1929)

King of Jazz (1930)

Bimbo's Initiation (1931)

Flowers and Trees (1932)
Minnie the Moocher (1932)
Mummy, The (1932)

Design for Living (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Queen Christina (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933)

Affairs of Cellini (1934)
Cleopatra (1934)
It's a Gift (1934)
One Night of Love (1934)
Merry Widow, The (1934)
Twentieth Century (1934)

Ah, Wilderness!(1935)
Band Concert, The (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Symphony in Black (1935)

After the Thin Man (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
Clock Cleaners (1937)
Easy Living (1937)
Maytime (1937)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
The Old Mill (1937)
They Won't Forget (1937)
Topper (1937)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Algiers (1938)
Brave Little Tailor (1938)
Holiday (1938)
Jezebel (1938)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Dark Victory (1939)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Peace on Earth (1939)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Broadway Melody of 1940, The (1940)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
Mark of Zorro, The (1940)
You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)

Ball of Fire (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
High Sierra (1941)
King's Row (1941)
Little Foxes, The (1941)
Little Red Riding Rabbit (1941)
Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
Sergeant York (1941)
Superman (1941)
Wolf Man, The (1941)
Woody Woodpecker (1941)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)

Bambi (1942)
The Dover Boys (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Talk of the Town, The (1942)

Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Corny Concerto (1943)
Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)

The Barber of Seville (1944)
Cover Girl (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Screwball Squirrel (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Woman in the Window (1944)

Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Lost Weekend, The (1945)
Pride of the Marines (1945)
Saratoga Trunk (19450
Scarlet Street (1945)
Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
They Were Expendable (1945)
Three Caballeros (1945)
Walk in the Sun, A (1945)

Book Revue (1946)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Gilda (1946)
Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
Killers, The (1946)
Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
Spiral Staircase, The (1946)
Yearling, The (1946)

Cat Concerto (1947)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)
King-Size Canary (1947)
Pursued (1947)
Random Harvest (1947)

Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Easter Parade (1948)
Gorilla My Dreams (1948)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Search, The (1948)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
They Live By Night (1948)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Act of Violence (1949)
Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
Champion (1949)
Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)
Red Pony, The (1949)

Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Gunfighter, The (1950
Harvey (1950)
No Way Out (1950)
Rabbit of Seville (1950)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Steel Helmet, The (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)

Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
Feed the Kitty (1952)
Greatest Show on Earth, The (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Quiet Man, The (1952)
Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
Rooty Toot Toot (1952)
Scaramouche (1952)
Viva Zapata! (1952)

Big Heat, The (1953)
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (1953)
5000 Fingers of Dr T, The (1953)
House of Wax (1953)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Robe, The (1953)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)
Unicorn in the Garden (1953)
War of the Worlds (1953)

Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)
Broken Lance (1954)
Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Sabrina (1954)
Them!  (1954)
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954)
Wild One, The (1954)

The African Lion (1955)
Big Knife, The (1955)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Picnic (1955)
Rose Tattoo, The (1955)
Seven Year Itch, The (1955)
Summertime (1955)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
When MaGoo Flew (1955)

Anastasia (1956)
Attack! (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
King and I, The (1956)
Patterns (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)

Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
Desk Set (1957)
Edge of the City (1957)
Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
Funny Face (1957)
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)
Peyton Place (1957)
Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (1957
Twelve Angry Men (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Defiant Ones, The (1958)
Long, Hot Summer, The (1958)

Alias Jesse James (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Moonbird (1959)
Nun's Story, The (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)

The Alamo (1960)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Magnificent Seven, The (1960)

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Advise and Consent (1962)
The Hole (1962)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Birds, The (1963)
Great Escape, The (1963)
Hud (1963)

Americanization of Emily, The (1964)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Mary Poppins (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964
Shot in the Dark, The (1964)

Cat Ballou (1965)
Loved One, The (1965)
Pawnbroker, The (1965
Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The (1965)
Thousand Clowns, A (1965)

Alfie (1966)
Man for all Seasons, A (1966)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
In Cold Blood (1967)
King of Hearts (1967)
President's Analyst, The (1967)

Charly (1968)
Faces (1968)
Funny Girl (1968)
Odd Couple, The (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Petulia (1968)
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1969)
They Shoot Horses Don't They (1969)

Adam at 6 A.M. (1970)
Airport (1970)
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970)

Dirty Harry (1971)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Klute (1971)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

Candidate, The (1972)
Deliverance (1972)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Sleuth (1972)
Sounder (1972)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)

Exorcist, The (1973)
Paper Chase, The (1973)
Paper Moon (1973)
Save the Tiger (1973)
Sleeper (1973)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
That's Entertainment (1974)

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
Shampoo (1975)


Alambrista! (1977)
Julia (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Coming Home (1978)
Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Being There (1979)
Breaking Away (1979)
Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
Norma Rae (1979)

Airplane! (1980)
Blues Brothers (1980)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Elephant Man (1980)
Empire Strikes Back, The (1980)
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Ordinary People (1980)
Stunt Man, The (1980)

Absence of Malice (1981)
Allegretto (1981)
Arthur (1981)
Body Heat (1981)
French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Heartland (1981)
On Golden Pond (1981)
Pennies From Heaven (1981)
Reds (1981)
Superman II (1981)

Diner (1982)
48 Hours (1982)
Eating Raoul (1982)
Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)
Victor/Victoria (1982)

Return of the Jedi (1983)
Right Stuff (1983)
Risky Business (1983)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Zelig (1983)

Amadeus (1984) 
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Brother from Another Planet, The (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Killing Fields (1984)
Natural, The (1984)
Places in the Heart (1984)
Repo Man (1984)
Soldier's Story, A (1984)

Agnes of God (1985)
Back to the Future (1985)
Cocoon (1985)
Color Purple, The (1985)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Lost in America (1985)
Out of Africa (1985) 
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Witness (1985)

About Last Night...(1986)
Aliens (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Color of Money, The (1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The Mission (1986)
Platoon (1986) 
Stand by Me (1986)

Broadcast News (1987)
Cry Freedom (1987)
Dead, The (1987)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
La Bamba (1987)
Matewan (1987)
Moonstruck (1987)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Tin Men (1987)
Untouchables, The (1987)
Wall Street (1987)
Whales of August (1987)
Your Face (1987)

The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Big (1988)
Bull Durham (1988)
Dangerous Liaison (1988)
Rain Man (1988) AA
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Working Girl (1988)

The Abyss (1989)
Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) 
Field of Dreams (1989)
Glory (1989)
Heathers (1989)
Look Who's Talking (1989)
Roger and Me (1989)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Avalon (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Ghost (1990)
Pretty Woman (1990)

Barton Fink (1991)
Bugsy (1991)
City Slickers (1991)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
JFK (1991)
Prince of Tides (1991)
Rambling Rose (1991)
Silence of the Lambs (1991) 
Terminator 2 (1991)
Thelma and Louise (1991)

Aladdin (1992)
A Few Good Men (1992)
El Mariachi (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
The Player (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Wayne's World (1992)

Ace Ventura–Pet Detective (1993)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Philadelphia (1993)
Sleepless In Seattle (1993)
Speed (1993
What's Love Got to Do With It (1993)

Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Ed Wood (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Lion King (1994)
Maya Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Quiz Show (1994)
Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Apollo 13 (1995)
Babe (1995)
Braveheart (1995)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Get Shorty (1995)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Seven (1995)
Usual Suspects (1995)

The English Patient (1996)
Fly Away Home (1996)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Sling Blade (1996)
When We Were Kings (1996)

Amistad (1997)
The Apostle (1997)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Titanic (1997)

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