National Film Registry selections: 1989

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Every year since 1989, the Library of Congress adds 25 films of "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance" to its National Film Registry. These are the first 25 films to be named to the Registry.

  1. 1.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler
  2. 2.
    Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz
  3. 3.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  6. 6.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman
  7. 7.
    Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Victor Fleming
  8. 8.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford
  9. 9.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  10. 10.
    Intolerance
    by D.W. Griffith
  11. 11.
    The Learning Tree
    by Gordon Parks
  12. 12.
    The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Special Edition)
    by John Huston
  13. 13.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin
  14. 14.
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    by Frank Capra
  15. 15.
    Nanook of the North (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert J. Flaherty
  16. 16.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan
  17. 17.
    The Searchers (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
    by John Ford
  18. 18.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly
  19. 19.
  20. 20.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder
  21. 21.
    Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Lucas
  23. 23.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  24. 24.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  25. 25.
    The Wizard of Oz (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by George Cukor
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Created by RobT2 on Dec 29, 2006.
 

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