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The 100 Most Acclaimed
Movies of All Time
Source lists & details:
Academy Awards
AFI 100 (and AFI 400)
Los Angeles Film Critics Assoc.
National Film Registry
National Society of Film Critics
New York Film Critics Circle
Sight & Sound critics poll

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National Film Registry

Limited to: American films (features or shorts, documentaries, animated, etc.) that are "at least 10 years old" and  "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Type of honor: annual announcement of up to 25 additional titles 
Selected by: Librarian of Congress, "after reviewing public suggestions and consulting extensively with film experts and the 40 members and alternates of the National Film Preservation Board." General public can nominate films.
Sponsored by: The Library of Congress and the National Film Preservation Board
Announced: annually in the fall (1998 announcement: November 16) since 1989
Web sites: National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry nomination page, National Film Preservation Foundation, Library of Congress

National Film Registry
(alphabetical by title)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
African Queen, The (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
American Graffiti (1973)
American in Paris, An (1951)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apartment, The (1960)
Awful Truth, The (1937)
Badlands (1973)
Band Wagon, The (1953)
Bank Dick, The (1940)
Battle of San Pietro, The (1944)
Ben Hur (1926)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Big Business (1929)
Big Parade, The (1925)
Big Sleep, The (1946)
Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
Black Pirate, The (1926)
Blacksmith Scene (1893)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blood of Jesus, The (1941)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Cabaret (1972)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Casablanca (1942)
Castro Street (1966)
Cat People (1942)
Chan is Missing (1982)
Cheat, The (1915)
Chinatown (1974)
Chulas Fronteras (1976)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
Conversation, The (1974)
Cool World, The (1963)
Cops (1922)
Corner in Wheat, A (1909)
Crowd, The (1928)
Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
David Holzman's Diary (1968)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Deer Hunter, The (1978)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Detour (1945)
Dodsworth (1936)
Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Eau d'Artifice (1953)
El Norte (1983)
Exploits of Elaine, The (1914)
Fantasia (1940)
Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
Flash Gordon (1936/I)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Force of Evil (1948)
Forgotten Frontier, The (1931)
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Frank Film (1973)
Frankenstein (1931)
Freaks (1932)
Freshman, The (1925)
Fury (1936)
General, The (1926)
Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Gigi (1958)
Godfather, Part II, The (1974)
Godfather, The (1972)
Gold Rush, The (1925)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Graduate, The (1967)
Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)
Great Dictator, The (1940)
Great Train Robbery, The (1903)
Greed (1925)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Heiress, The (1949)
Hell's Hinges (1916)
High Noon (1952)
High School (1968)
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Hospital (1970)
Hospital, The (1971)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Hustler, The (1961)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Intolerance (1916)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Italian, The (1915)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jammin' the Blues (1944)
Jazz Singer, The (1927)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
King Kong (1933)
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
Lady Eve, The (1941)
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1920)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Learning Tree, The (1969)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra, The (1928)
Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
Little Fugitive, The (1953)
Louisiana Story (1948)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Magical Maestro (1952)
Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
Manhatta (1921)
March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
Marty (1955)
Mean Streets (1973)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Modern Times (1936)
Morocco (1930)
Motion Painting no. 1 (1947)
Movie, A (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Music Box, The (1932)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Naked Spur, The (1952)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nashville (1975)
Night at the Opera, A (1935)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Ninotchka (1939)
North by Northwest (1959)
Nothing But a Man (1964)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Out of the Past (1947)
Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Place in the Sun, A (1951)
Point of Order (1964)
Poor Little Rich Girl, The (1917)
Primary (1960)
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937)
Producers, The (1968)
Psycho (1960)
Pull My Daisy (1958/I)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1965)
Red River (1948)
Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage (1937)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Rip Van Winkle (1896)
River, The (1937)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Safety Last (1923)
Salesman (1969)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Scarface (1932)
Searchers, The (1956)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shadows (1959)
Shane (1953)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Show Boat (1936)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Snow White (1933)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Stagecoach (1939)
Star Wars (1977)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Tabu (1931)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tevye (1939)
Thief of Bagdad, The (1924)
Thin Man, The (1934)
To Be or Not To Be (1942)
To Fly (1976)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Top Hat (1935)
Topaz (1945)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
Verbena Tragica (1939)
Vertigo (1958)
West Side Story (1961)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Where Are My Children? (1916)
Wind, The (1928)
Wings (1927)
Within Our Gates (1920)
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)
Woodstock (1970)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (1963)

 


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1997

1) Ben Hur (1926)
2) Big Sleep, The (1946)
3) Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
4) Cops (1922)
5) Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)
6) Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)
7) Great Dictator, The (1940)
8) Harold and Maude (1971)
9) Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
10) How the West Was Won (1962)
11) Hustler, The (1961)
12) Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
13) Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra, The (1928)
14) Little Fugitive, The (1953)
15) Mean Streets (1973)
16) Motion Painting no) 1 (1947)
17) Music Box, The (1932)
18) Naked Spur, The (1952)
19) Rear Window (1954)
20) Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage (1937)
21) Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
22) Thin Man, The (1934)
23) Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
24) West Side Story (1961)
25) Wings (1927)

1996

1) Awful Truth, The (1937)
2) Broken Blossoms (1919)
3) Deer Hunter, The (1978)
4) Destry Rides Again (1939)
5) Flash Gordon (1936/I)
6) Forgotten Frontier, The (1931)
7) Frank Film (1973)
8) Graduate, The (1967)
9) Heiress, The (1949)
10) Jazz Singer, The (1927)
11) Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)
12) M*A*S*H (1970)
13) Mildred Pierce (1945)
14) Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)
15) Producers, The (1968)
16) Pull My Daisy (1958/I)
17) Road to Morocco (1942)
18) She Done Him Wrong (1933)
19) Shock Corridor (1963)
20) Show Boat (1936)
21) Thief of Bagdad, The (1924)
22) To Be or Not To Be (1942)
23) Topaz (1945)
24) Verbena Tragica (1939)
25) Woodstock (1970)

1995

1) Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
2) All That Heaven Allows (1955)
3) American Graffiti (1973)
4) Band Wagon, The (1953)
5) Blacksmith Scene (1893)
6) Cabaret (1972)
7) Chan is Missing (1982)
8) Conversation, The (1974)
9) Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
10) El Norte (1983)
11) Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
12) Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
13) Fury (1936)
14) Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
15) Hospital, The (1971)
16) Jammin' the Blues (1944)
17) Last of the Mohicans, The (1920)
18) Manhatta (1921)
19) North by Northwest (1959)
20) Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
21) Rip Van Winkle (1896)
22) Seventh Heaven (1927)
23) Stagecoach (1939)
24) To Fly (1976)
25) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

1994

1) African Queen, The (1951)
2) Apartment, The (1960)
3) Cool World, The (1963)
4) Corner in Wheat, A (1909)
5) E)T) The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
6) Exploits of Elaine, The (1914)
7) Force of Evil (1948)
8) Freaks (1932)
9) Hell's Hinges (1916)
10) Hospital (1970)
11) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
12) Lady Eve, The (1941)
13) Louisiana Story (1948)
14) Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
15) Marty (1955)
16) Meet Me in St) Louis (1944)
17) Midnight Cowboy (1969)
18) Movie, A (1958)
19) Pinocchio (1940)
20) Safety Last (1923)
21) Scarface (1932)
22) Snow White (1933)
23) Tabu (1931)
24) Taxi Driver (1976)
25) Zapruder Film (8 mm) of John F) Kennedy Assassination (1963)

1993

1) American in Paris, An (1951)
2) Badlands (1973)
3) Black Pirate, The (1926)
4) Blade Runner (1982)
5) Cat People (1942)
6) Cheat, The (1915)
7) Chulas Fronteras (1976)
8) Eau d'Artifice (1953)
9) Godfather, Part II, The (1974)
10) His Girl Friday (1940)
11) It Happened One Night (1934)
12) Lassie Come Home (1943)
13) Magical Maestro (1952)
14) March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
15) Night at the Opera, A (1935)
16) Nothing But a Man (1964)
17) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
18) Point of Order (1964)
19) Shadows (1959)
20) Shane (1953)
21) Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
22) Touch of Evil (1958)
23) Where Are My Children? (1916)
24) Wind, The (1928)
25) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

1992

1) Adam's Rib (1949)
2) Annie Hall (1977)
3) Bank Dick, The (1940)
4) Big Business (1929)
5) Big Parade, The (1925)
6) Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
7) Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
8) Carmen Jones (1954)
9) Castro Street (1966)
10) Detour (1945)
11) Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
12) Double Indemnity (1944)
13) Footlight Parade (1933)
14) Gold Rush, The (1925)
15) Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
16) Morocco (1930)
17) Nashville (1975)
18) Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
19) Paths of Glory (1957)
20) Psycho (1960)
21) Ride the High Country (1962)
22) Salesman (1969)
23) Salt of the Earth (1954)
24) What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
25) Within Our Gates (1920)

1991

1) Battle of San Pietro, The (1944)
2) Blood of Jesus, The (1941)
3) Chinatown (1974)
4) City Lights (1931)
5) David Holzman's Diary (1968)
6) Frankenstein (1931)
7) Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
8) Gigi (1958)
9) Greed (1925)
10) High School (1968)
11) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
12) Italian, The (1915)
13) King Kong (1933)
14) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
15) Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
16) My Darling Clementine (1946)
17) Out of the Past (1947)
18) Place in the Sun, A (1951)
19) Poor Little Rich Girl, The (1917)
20) Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937)
21) Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
22) Sherlock, Jr) (1924)
23) Tevye (1939)
24) Trouble in Paradise (1932)
25) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

1990

1) All About Eve (1950)
2) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
3) Bringing Up Baby (1938)
4) Dodsworth (1936)
5) Duck Soup (1933)
6) Fantasia (1940)
7) Freshman, The (1925)
8) Godfather, The (1972)
9) Great Train Robbery, The (1903)
10) Harlan County, U)S)A) (1976)
11) How Green Was My Valley (1941)
12) It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
13) Killer of Sheep (1977)
14) Love Me Tonight (1932)
15) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
16) Ninotchka (1939)
17) Primary (1960)
18) Raging Bull (1980)
19) Rebel Without a Cause (1965)
20) Red River (1948)
21) River, The (1937)
22) Sullivan's Travels (1941)
23) Top Hat (1935)
24) Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
25) Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)

1989

1) Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
2) Casablanca (1942)
3) Citizen Kane (1941)
4) Crowd, The (1928)
5) Dr) Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
6) General, The (1926)
7) Gone with the Wind (1939)
8) Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
9) High Noon (1952)
10) Intolerance (1916)
11) Learning Tree, The (1969)
12) Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
13) Mr) Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
14) Modern Times (1936)
15) Nanook of the North (1922)
16) On the Waterfront (1954)
17) Searchers, The (1956)
18) Singin' in the Rain (1952)
19) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
20) Some Like It Hot (1959)
21) Star Wars (1977)
22) Sunrise (1927)
23) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
24) Vertigo (1958)
25) Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
 

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