Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Library of Congress National Film Registry Listing
These films have been selected by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The goal of the National Film Registry is to assure the long-term preservation of them for future generations.
Following films are in the public domain in the United States.
By year of release
[edit]xixth century
[edit]- Newark Athlete (1891)
- Blacksmith Scene (1893)
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894-1895)
- Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
- The Kiss (1896 film) (1896)
- Rip Van Winkle (1896)
- Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
- Mardi Gras Carnival (1898)
- Something Good—Negro Kiss (1898)
1901–1905
[edit]- 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)
1906–1910
[edit]- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
- San Francisco Earthquake & 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
[edit]- Little Nemo (1911)
1912
[edit]- Musketeers of Pig Alley
- The Cry of the Children
- A Cure for Pokeritis
- From the Manger to the Cross
- The Land Beyond the Sunset
1913
[edit]- Suspense
- Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day
- The Evidence of the Film
- Matrimony's Speed Limit
- Preservation of the Sign Language
- Traffic in Souls
1914
[edit]- Kid Auto Races at Venice
- The Bargain
- The Exploits of Elaine
- Gertie
- In the Land of the Head Hunters
- Mabel's Blunder
- The Perils of Pauline
- Tess of the Storm Country
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The Wishing Ring: an Idyll of Old England
1915
[edit]1916
[edit]- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Civilization
- The Curse of Quon Gwon
- Hell's Hinges
- Intolerance
- Shoes
- Where Are My Children?
1917
[edit]1918
[edit]1919
[edit]1920
[edit]- Daughter of Dawn
- Heroes All
- Humoresque
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Making of an American
- The Mark of Zorro
- One Week
- Within Our Gates
1921
[edit]1922
[edit]- Cops
- Foolish Wives
- Miss Lulu Bett
- Nanook of the North
- Sky High
- Two-Color Kodachrome Test Shots No. III
1923
[edit]1924
[edit]- The Navigator
- He Who Gets Slapped
- Reverend Solomon Sir Jones films
- The Chechahcos
- Greed
- The Iron Horse
- Peter Pan
- Sherlock, Jr.
- The Thief of Bagdad
1925
[edit]- Body and Soul
- A Tale of the Christ
- The Big Parade
- Clash of the Wolves
- The Freshman
- The Gold Rush
- Grass
- Lady Windermere's Fan
- The Lost World
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck
1926
[edit]- The Flying Ace
- The Black Pirate
- Ella Cinders
- Hands Up!
- Mighty Like a Moose
- So's Your Old Man
- The Son of the Sheik
- The Strong Man
1927
[edit]- The Battle of the Century
- Flesh and the Devil
- The General
- It
- The Jazz Singer
- The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928?)
- 7th Heaven
- Stark Love
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- Wings
1928
[edit]- The Beau Brummels
- Steamboat Bill, Jr.
- The Cameraman
- The Crowd
- The Docks of New York
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band
- The Last Command
- Lonesome
- Pass the Gravy
- The Power of the Press
- The Sex Life of the Polyp
- Show People
- Steamboat Willie
- There It Is
- The Wedding March
- The Wind
1929
[edit]- Applause
- Big Business
- Black and Tan
- H2O
- Hallelujah!
- Lambchops
- St. Louis Blues
- With Car and Camera Around the World