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2015 (27th 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 2015.

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 markerBeing There (1979)   IMDb
Black and Tan (1929) [musical short]   IMDb
Dracula (Spanish language version) (1931)   IMDb
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) [short]   IMDb
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975) [documentary]   IMDb
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) [short]   IMDb
A Fool There Was (1915)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerGhostbusters (1984)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerHail the Conquering Hero (1944)   IMDb
Humoresque (1920)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerImitation of Life (1959)   IMDb
The Inner World of Aphasia (1968) [documentary short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerJohn Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946) [animated short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerL.A. Confidential (1997)   IMDb
The Mark of Zorro (1920)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Old Mill (1937) [animated short]   IMDb
Our Daily Bread (1934)   IMDb
Portrait of Jason (1967) [documentary]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerSeconds (1966)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Shawshank Redemption (1994)   IMDb
Sink or Swim (1990) [documentary]   IMDb
The Story of Menstruation (1946) [animated documentary short]   IMDb
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) [documentary]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerTop Gun (1986)   IMDb
Winchester ’73 (1950)   IMDb