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2000 (12th 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 2000.

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 markerApocalypse Now (1979)   IMDb
Dracula (1931)   IMDb
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) [short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerFive Easy Pieces (1970)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerGoodfellas (1990)   IMDb
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) [documentary]   IMDb
The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912) [short]   IMDb
Let’s All Go to the Lobby (1957) [animated short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Life of Emile Zola (1937)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerLittle Caesar (1931)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Living Desert (1953) [documentary]   IMDb
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)   IMDb
Multiple Sidosis (1970) [short]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerNetwork (1976)   IMDb
Peter Pan (1924)   IMDb
Porky in Wackyland (1938) [animated short]   IMDb
President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901) [shorts]
President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol (1901)   IMDb
President McKinley Taking the Oath (1901)   IMDb
Regeneration (1915)   IMDb
Salome (1923)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerShaft (1971)   IMDb
Sherman’s March (1986) [documentary]   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerA Star Is Born (1954)   IMDb
The Tall T (1957)   IMDb
The “Why We Fight” series (1943-1945) [documentaries]
Oscar Nominated markerPrelude to War (1943)   IMDb
The Battle of Britain (1943)   IMDb
Oscar Nominated markerThe Battle of Russia (1943)   IMDb
The Battle of China (1944)   IMDb
The Nazis Strike (1945)   IMDb
Divide and Conquer (1945)   IMDb
War Comes to America (1945)   IMDb
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)   IMDb