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2007 (19th 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 2007.

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.


Oscar Nominated markerBack to the Future (1985)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerBullitt (1968)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)   IMDb
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerDances with Wolves (1990)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerDays of Heaven (1978)   IMDb
Glimpse of the Garden (1957) [short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerGrand Hotel (1932)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe House I Live In (1945) [short]   IMDb
In a Lonely Place (1950)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)   IMDb
Mighty Like a Moose (1926) [short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Naked City (1948)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerNow, Voyager (1942)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerOklahoma! (1955)   IMDb
Our Day (1938) [documentary short]   IMDb
Peege (1973) [short]   IMDb
The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928) [short]   IMDb
The Strong Man (1926)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThree Little Pigs (1933) [animated short]   IMDb
Tol’able David (1921)   IMDb
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated marker12 Angry Men (1957)   IMDb
The Women (1939)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerWuthering Heights (1939)   IMDb