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2013 (25th 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 2013.

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.


Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)   IMDb
Brandy in the Wilderness (1969)   IMDb
Cicero March (1966) [documentary]   IMDb
Daughter of Dawn (1920)   IMDb
Decasia (2002)   IMDb
Ella Cinders (1926)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerForbidden Planet (1956)   IMDb
Gilda (1946)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Hole (1962) [animated short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerJudgment at Nuremberg (1961)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerKing of Jazz (1930)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Lunch Date (1989) [short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Magnificent Seven (1960)   IMDb
Martha Graham Early Dance Films (1931-44) [shorts]
Heretic (1931)   IMDb
Frontier (1936)   IMDb
Lamentation (1943)   IMDb
Appalachian Spring (1944)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerMary Poppins (1964)   IMDb
Men and Dust (1940) [documentary]   IMDb
Midnight (1939)   IMDb
Notes on the Port of St. Francis (1951) [documentary short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerPulp Fiction (1994)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Quiet Man (1952)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Right Stuff (1983)   IMDb
Roger & Me (1989) [documentary]   IMDb
A Virtuous Vamp (1919)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)   IMDb
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)   IMDb