National Film Registry Class of 2003
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1. Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
G | 58 min | Documentary, Biography
A special deluxe edition of the 1974 Oscar nominated documentary film about the first female conductor to conduct major orchestras in the US and Europe, Antonia Brico!
Directors: Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow | Stars: Antonia Brico, Judy Collins
Votes: 149
2. Atlantic City (1980)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 18,285
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
Votes: 226,665 | Gross: $102.31M
4. The Chechahcos (1923)
Unrated | 87 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Following a shipwreck, a family of prospectors become separated from their infant daughter in the Klondike. Years later, the grown-up daughter begins to unravel the truth about her heritage.
Director: Lewis H. Moomaw | Stars: William Dills, Albert Van Antwerp, Eva Gordon, Alexis B. Luce
Votes: 273
5. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Music
The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two ... See full summary »
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 2,563
6. Film Portrait (1970)
81 min | Documentary, Biography
A diary film in which Jerome Hill presents his life and milieu through different scenes, many hand-colored and animated.
Director: Jerome Hill | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Ernest Borgnine, Cyd Charisse, Jerome Hill
Votes: 99
7. Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band (1928)
11 min | Documentary, Short, Music
The only surviving sound recording of the famous band led by Daniel Joseph Jenkins features the orphans performing a lively and unique rendition of "Shoutin' Eliza".
Star: Daniel Joseph Jenkins
Votes: 164
8. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 9,140 | Gross: $4.80M
9. The Hunters (1957)
72 min | Documentary
This film follows the hunting of a giraffe by four members of the Ju/'hoansi (a !Kung Bushmen tribe) over a 13-day period in the Kalahari desert. The film consists of footage shot in 1952-53 on a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody expedition.
Directors: Robert Gardner, John Marshall | Star: John Marshall
Votes: 109
10. Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
Unrated | 14 min | Comedy, Short
A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Fraunie Fraunholz, Marian Swayne
Votes: 479
11. Medium Cool (1969)
R | 111 min | Drama
A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Director: Haskell Wexler | Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill
Votes: 4,712 | Gross: $1.48M
12. National Velvet (1944)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere
Votes: 7,999
13. Naughty Marietta (1935)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 1,537
14. Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971)
36 min | Short
Frampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
Director: Hollis Frampton | Star: Michael Snow
Votes: 730
15. One Froggy Evening (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man futilely struggles to make his fortune with a frog that sings and dances, but only when it is alone with the owner.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: William Roberts
Votes: 6,106
16. Patton (1970)
GP | 172 min | Biography, Drama, War
The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong
Votes: 107,920 | Gross: $61.70M
17. Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy (1909)
Unrated | 5 min | Comedy, Short, Fantasy
A drowsy pipe-smoker attempts to nap, only to be tormented relentlessly by the mischievous Princess Nicotine and her fairy companion.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Paul Panzer, Gladys Hulette
Votes: 1,024
18. Show People (1928)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli
Votes: 4,008 | Gross: $1.10M
19. The Son of the Sheik (1926)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love
Votes: 2,129 | Gross: $1.56M
20. Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Passed | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.
Directors: Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Jack Conway | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 5,569
21. Tin Toy (1988)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Family
A one-man-band tin toy tries to escape a destructive baby.
Director: John Lasseter
Votes: 11,677
22. The Wedding March (1928)
Passed | 113 min | Drama
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, Matthew Betz
Votes: 1,898
23. White Heat (1949)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly
Votes: 35,728
24. Young Frankenstein (1974)
PG | 106 min | Comedy
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle
Votes: 168,854 | Gross: $86.30M
25. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Passed | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History
A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan
Votes: 9,178
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