3 min readOct 25, 2021
U.S. National Film Registry- Movies that need to be inducted.

- The Toll of the Sea (1922) (Chester M. Franklin)
- The Ten Commandments (1923) (Cecil B. DeMille)
- Hell’s Angels (1930) (Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale)
- The Outlaw (1943) (Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks)
- Peter Pan (1953) (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) (David Lean)
- The Rain People (1969) (Francis Ford Coppola)
- THX 1138 (1971) (George Lucas)
- Johnny Got His Gun (1971) (Dalton Trumbo)
- Last Tango in Paris (1972) (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) (Tobe Hopper)
- Carrie (1976) (Brian De Palma)
- Smokey and the Bandit (1977) (Hal Needham)
- The Warriors (1979) (Walter Hill)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) (Robert Benton)
- Ordinary People (1980) (Robert Redford)
- The Elephant Man (1980) (David Lynch)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) (Nicholas Meyer)
- Poltergeist (1982) (Tobe Hooper)
- The Thing (1982) (John Carpenter)
- The Outsiders (1983) (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Risky Business (1983) (Paul Brickman)
- Scarface (1983) (Brian De Palma)
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984) (Martin Brest)
- The Color Purple (1985) (Steven Spielberg)
- Aliens (1986) (James Cameron)
- Stand by Me (1986) (Rob Reiner)
- Robocop (1987) (Paul Verhoeven)
- Dirty Dancing (1987) (Emile Ardolino)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987) (Stanley Kubrick)
- Wall Street (1987) (Oliver Stone)
- Beetlejuice (1988) (Tim Burton)
- Big (1988) (Penny Marshall)
- Coming to America (1988) (John Landis)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (Martin Scorsese)
- Rain Man (1988) (Barry Levinson)
- Dead Poets Society (1989) (Peter Weir)
- When Harry Met Sally… (1989) (Rob Reiner)
- Pretty Woman (1990) (Garry Marshall)
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) (James Cameron)
- My Own Private Idaho (1991) (Gus Van Sant)
- JFK (1991) (Oliver Stone)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992) (Quentin Tarantino)
- Aladdin (1992) (Ron Clements, John Musker)
- A Few Good Men (1992) (Rob Reiner)
- Dazed and Confused (1993) (Richard Linklater)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (Henry Selick)
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (Chris Columbus)
- Philadelphia (1993) (Jonathan Demme)
- Apollo 13 (1995) (Ron Howard)
- The Usual Suspects (1995) (Bryan Singer)
- Se7en (1995) (David Fincher)
- Casino (1995) (Martin Scorsese)
- Heat (1995) (Michael Mann)
- Jerry Maguire (1996) (Cameron Crowe)
- Scream (1996) (Wes Craven)
- Good Will Hunting (1997) (Gus Van Sant)
- Boogie Nights (1997) (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- The Truman Show (1998) (Peter Weir)
- American History X (1998) (Tony Kaye)
- The Thin Red Line (1998) (Terrence Malick)
- The Blair Witch Project (1999) (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
- The Sixth Sense (1999) (M. Night Shyamalan)
- American Beauty (1999) (Sam Mendes)
- Fight Club (1999) (David Fincher)
- Being John Malkovich (1999) (Spike Jonze)
- The Green Mile (1999) (Frank Darabont)
- Gladiator (2000) (Ridley Scott)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) (Darren Aronofsky)
- Mulholland Drive (2001) (David Lynch)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (Peter Jackson)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (Peter Jackson)
- Lost in Translation (2003) (Sofia Ford Coppola)
- Finding Nemo (2003) (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkirch)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (Peter Jackson)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (Michel Gondry)
- Million Dollar Baby (2004) (Clint Eastwood)
- The Departed (2006) (Martin Scorsese)
- No Country for Old Men (2007) (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
- There Will Be Blood (2007) (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- WALL-E (2008) (Andrew Stanton)
- Avatar (2009) (James Cameron)
- Inception (2010) (Christopher Nolan)
- The Social Network (2010) (David Fincher)
- The Tree of Life (2011) (Terrence Malick)
- The Avengers (2012) (Joss Whedon)
- Django Unchained (2012) (Quentin Tarantino)
- 12 Years a Slave (2013) (Steve McQueen)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) (Martin Scorsese)
- Boyhood (2014) (Richard Linklater)
- Whiplash (2014) (Damien Chazelle)
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) (Alejandro G. Inarritu)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (George Miller)
- Spotlight (2015) (Tom McCarthy)
- Moonlight (2016) (Barry Jenkins)
- La La Land (2016) (Damien Chazelle)
- Get Out (2017) (Jordan Peele)
- Dunkirk (2017) (Christopher Nolan)
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) (Martin McDonagh)
- The Shape of Water (2017) (Guillermo del Toro)
- Black Panther (2018) (Ryan Coogler)
- Parasite (2019) (Bong Joon Ho)
- Nomadland (2020) (Chloe Zhao)