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2017 (29th Year)
National Film Registry

The National Film Preservation Board was founded by the Library of Congress in 1988. Each year the Board selects up to 25 films which are considered to be culturally, historically or aesthetically important. Films must be at least 10 years old to be eligible for the registry. Listed below are the films inducted into the National Film Registry in 2017.

TheOscar Nominated marker symbol appears next to those films which also received an Academy Award nomination (although this is not a requirement for induction). Click on the name of one of those films to display more information about it. You can also click on the  IMDb  link to to open a new browser window showing information about the film from the Internet Movie Database. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the National Film Registry inductees for that year.


Ace in the Hole (aka Big Carnival) (1951)   IMDb
Boulevard Nights (1979)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerDie Hard (1988)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerDumbo (1941) [animated feature]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerField of Dreams (1989)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker4 Little Girls (1997) [documentary]   IMDb
Fuentes Family Home Movies Collection (1920s-30s)
Oscar Nominated markerGentleman’s Agreement (1947)   IMDb
The Goonies (1985)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerGuess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)   IMDb
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)   IMDb
Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905) [documentary short]   IMDb
La Bamba (1987)   IMDb
Lives of Performers (1972) [experimental film]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerMemento (2000)   IMDb
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)   IMDb
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) [animated short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerSpartacus (1960)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerSuperman (1978)   IMDb
Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) [documentary]   IMDb
Time and Dreams (1976) [short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerTitanic (1997)   IMDb
To Sleep with Anger (1990)   IMDb
Wanda (1971)   IMDb
With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1937-1938) [documentary]