The Leonard Lopate Show / December 18, 2009 / America’s Film Legacy
America’s Film Legacy
Friday, December 18, 2009
Daniel Eagan has compiled a comprehensive guide to the 500 most significant films ever made in the United States, from big-budget blockbusters to experimental shorts. America’s Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry presents the films that make up the backbone of American cinema"from the well-known, such as "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca" to the obscure "Blacksmithing Scene," and "Free Radicals."
Highlights from the list of Titles in the National Film Registry
Chronological Order
1893 Blacksmithing Scene
1894 Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1901 President McKinley Inauguration Footage
1903 The Great Train Robbery
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906
1914 Gertie the Dinosaur
1915 The Birth of a Nation
1923 Safety Last!
1924 The Thief of Bagdad
Sherlock, Jr.
1925 The Gold Rush
The Freshman
1927 The General
The Jazz Singer
1928 Steamboat Willie
The Fall of the House of Usher
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 Little Caesar
City Lights
The Public Enemy
Frankenstein
1932 Scarface
Grand Hotel
1933 King Kong
42nd Street
Gold Diggers of 1933 Duck Soup
1934 It Happened One Night
The Thin Man
1935 Bride of Frankenstein A Night at the Opera
1936 Modern Times
1937 Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
1938 March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany
Bringing Up Baby
1939 Gunga Din
Stagecoach
Wuthering Heights
The Wizard of Oz
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940 His Girl Friday
The Grapes of Wrath
Pinocchio
The Great Dictator
Fantasia
The Bank Dick
The Philadelphia Story
1941 Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
1942 Casablanca
1943 Shadow of a Doubt
1944 Double Indemnity
Laura
Meet Me in St. Louis
National Velvet
1946 The Big Sleep
The Killers
Notorious
It’s a Wonderful Life
1947 Miracle on 34th Street
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1949 Adam’s Rib
Twelve O’Clock High
1950 The Asphalt Jungle
Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still
An American in Paris Duck and Cover
The African Queen
1952 Singin’ in the Rain
High Noon
1953 Duck Amuck
Shane
From Here to Eternity Roman Holiday
1954 Rear Window
A Star Is Born
1955 Marty
Oklahoma!
Rebel Without a Cause
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Ten Commandments
1957 12 Angry Men
Sweet Smell of Success What’s Opera, Doc?
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 Touch of Evil
Vertigo
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1959 Some Like It Hot North by Northwest
Ben-Hur
1960 Psycho
House of Usher The Apartment
1961 A Raisin in the Sun
The Hustler
West Side Story
1962 The Manchurian Candidate
Lawrence of Arabia To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 The Nutty Professor
Zapruder Film of the Kennedy Assassination
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965 The Sound of Music
1967 In the Heat of the Night
Bonnie and Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
In Cold Blood
The Graduate
1968 Planet of the Apes
2001: A Space Odyssey
Night of the Living Dead
Bullitt
1969 Midnight Cowboy
The Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970 MASH
Patton
Five Easy Pieces
1971 Shaft
The French Connection
Harold and Maude
1972 Cabaret
The Godfather
Deliverance
1973 Enter the Dragon
Mean Streets
The Sting
1974 Blazing Saddles
The Conversation
Chinatown
A Woman Under the Influence
The Godfather, Part II Young Frankenstein
1975 Nashville Jaws
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 Taxi Driver The Outlaw Josey Wales
Rocky
Network
1977 Annie Hall Star Wars
Eraserhead Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978 National Lampoon’s Animal House
Days of Heaven
Halloween
The Deer Hunter
1979 Manhattan Alien
Apocalypse Now
The Black Stallion
1980 Return of the Secaucus 7
Raging Bull
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
1982 Blade Runner
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Koyaanisqatsi Tootsie
1984 This Is Spinal Tap
The Terminator
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Hoosiers
1988 The Thin Blue Line
1989 Do the Right Thing
1990 GoodFellas
Dances With Wolves
1991 Daughters of the Dust
Boyz n the Hood
Beauty and the Beast
1993 Groundhog Day Schindler’s List
1995 Toy Story
1996 Fargo
Gad! That provided an armload of nostalgia, just reading those titles! (Believe it or not, there are two or three films there that I've not only never seen but that I've never heard of.)
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talk72000
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Wed 23 Dec, 2009 07:05 pm
@tsarstepan,
I have only see 10-20% of them.
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msolga
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Wed 23 Dec, 2009 07:15 pm
Interesting list. tsar. I shall return later, when not on the run.
One thing: I have been attempting to find a DVD copy of Return of the Secaucus 7 for years, now. With absolutely no success. I'm curious to know whether you think it's worth persisting. (I notice it's not one of your red films.)
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