Library of Congress’ National Film Registry Movies: From Hayakawa to Gump

The Cheat with Sessue Hayakawa and Fannie Ward. Cecil B. DeMille’s 1915 sex & miscegenation melodrama about a white woman (Fannie Ward) who becomes enslaved to a cruel, sensual, mysterious, and impeccably dressed “Oriental” (Sessue Hayakawa), The Cheat was added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 1993. Unlike Sessue Hayakawa, Broadway star Fannie Ward (1871/2–1952) never became a major movie name. Yet the ever-youthful Ward – she was 43 when The Cheat came out – did topline a couple of dozen movies between 1915–1920 (e.g., Her Strange Wedding, A School for Husbands, A Japanese Nightingale).

Library of Congress’ National Film Registry movies

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Below is a partial list of movies found on the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Film Registry (1989–2017).

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Adam’s Rib (1949)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The African Queen (1951)
Airplane! (1980)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
All That Jazz (1979)
All the King’s Men (1949)
All the President’s Men (1976)
America, America (1963)
American Graffiti (1973)
An American in Paris (1951)
Anatomy of Murder (1959)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Apartment (1960)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Applause (1929)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Atlantic City (1980)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Baby Face (1933)
Back to the Future (1985)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Badlands (1973)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Bambi (1942)
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Bargain (1914)
Being There (1979).
Ben-Hur (1925).
Ben-Hur (1959).
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
The Big Parade (1925).
The Big Sleep (1946).
The Big Trail (1930).
The Birds (1963).
The Birth of a Nation (1915).
The Black Pirate (1926).
The Black Stallion (1979).
Blade Runner (1982)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Blood of Jesus (1941)
The Blue Bird (1918)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Bullitt (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cabaret (1972)
The Cameraman (1928)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat People (1942)
The Cheat (1915)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
Civilization (1916)
Clash of the Wolves (1925)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Conversation (1974)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cops (1922)
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
The Court Jester (1956)
The Crowd (1928)
The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916–1917)
Czechoslovakia 1968 (1968)
D.O.A. (1950)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Deliverance (1972)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Detour (1946)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Dodsworth (1936)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Dracula (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
Dumbo (1941)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Easy Rider (1969).
El Norte (1983).
Ella Cinders (1926).
The Emperor Jones (1933).
Empire (1964).
The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
The Endless Summer (1966).
Enter the Dragon (1973).
Eraserhead (1978).
The Exorcist (1973).
The Exploits of Elaine (1914).
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Faces (1968)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Fantasia (1940).
Fargo (1996).
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).
Five Easy Pieces (1970).
Flesh and the Devil (1927).
Flower Drum Song (1961).
A Fool There Was (1915).
Foolish Wives (1922).
Footlight Parade (1933).
Force of Evil (1948).
Forrest Gump (1994).
42nd Street (1933).
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921).
Frankenstein (1931).
Freaks (1932).
The French Connection (1971).
The Freshman (1925).
From Here to Eternity (1953).
From the Manger to the Cross (1912).
The Front Page (1931).
Funny Girl (1968).
Fury (1936).
The General (1927).
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947).
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914).
Giant (1956).
Gigi (1958).
Gilda (1946).
The Godfather (1972).
The Godfather Part II (1974).
Going My Way (1944).
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
Grand Hotel (1932)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Grass (1925)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Greed (1924)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Gun Crazy (1949)
Gunga Din (1939)
Hallelujah (1929)
Halloween (1978)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Harold and Maude (1972)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The Heiress (1949)
Hell’s Hinges (1916)
Hester Street (1975)
High Noon (1952).
His Girl Friday (1940).
The Hitch-Hiker (1953).
Hoop Dreams (1994).
Hoosiers (1986).
The Hospital (1971).
House of Usher (1960).
How Green Was My Valley (1941).
How the West Was Won (1962).
The Hustler (1961).
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932).
Imitation of Life (1934).
The Immigrant (1917).
In a Lonely Place (1950).
In Cold Blood (1967).
In the Heat of the Night (1967).
Intolerance (1916).
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
The Invisible Man (1933).
It (1927).
It Happened One Night (1934).
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
The Italian (1915).
Jailhouse Rock (1957).
Jaws (1975).
The Jazz Singer (1927).
Jezebel (1938).
Johnny Guitar (1954).
Killer of Sheep (1977).
The Killers (1946).
King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (1970).
King Kong (1933).
King of Jazz (1930).
The Kiss (1896).
Kiss Me Deadly (1955).
Knute Rockne, All American (1940).
Koyaanisqatsi (1983).
The Lady Eve (1941).
Lady Helen’s Escapade (1909).
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925).
Lassie Come Home (1943)
The Last Command (1928)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Laura (1944)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Learning Tree (1969)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The Lion King (1994)
Little Caesar (1930)
Little Fugitive (1953)
Little Miss Marker (1934)
The Living Desert (1953)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Lost World (1925)
Louisiana Story (1948)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
M*A*S*H (1970)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Manhattan (1979)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Marty (1955)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Mean Streets (1973)
Medium Cool (1969)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Melody Ranch (1940)
Midnight (1939)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Miss Lulu Bett (1922)
Modern Times (1936)
Morocco (1930)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Music Man (1962)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
The Naked City (1948)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nashville (1975)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
National Velvet (1944)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Network (1976)
A Night at the Opera (1935).
The Night of the Hunter (1955).
Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Ninotchka (1939).
North by Northwest (1959).
Notorious (1946).
Now, Voyager (1942).
The Nutty Professor (1963).
Oklahoma! (1955).
On the Waterfront (1954).
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).
Only Angels Have Wings (1939).
Out of the Past (1947)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
The Pearl (1948)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Peter Pan (1924)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Pink Panther (1963)
Pinocchio (1940)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Point Blank (1967)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Porgy and Bess (1959).
The Power and the Glory (1933).
The Power of the Press (1928).
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937).
The Producers (1968).
Psycho (1960).
The Public Enemy (1931).
The Quiet Man (1952).
Raging Bull (1980).
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
A Raisin in the Sun (1961).
Rear Window (1954).
Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
Red Dust (1932).
Red River (1948).
Regeneration (1915).
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980).
Ride the High Country (1962).
The River (1937).
Road to Morocco (1942).
Rocky (1976).
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
Roman Holiday (1953).
Rose Hobart (1936).
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Sabrina (1954)
Safety Last (1923)
Salome (1922)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Scarface (1932)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Seconds (1966)
Sergeant York (1941)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
7th Heaven (1927)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Sex Lies and Videotape (1989)
The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shadows (1959)
Shaft (1971)
Shane (1953)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Shock Corridor (1963)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Show Boat (1936)
Show People (1928)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Sky High (1922)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
So’s Your Old Man (1926)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Spartacus (1960)
Stagecoach (1939).
A Star Is Born (1954).
Star Wars (1977).
State Fair (1933).
Steamboat Willie (1928).
The Sting (1973).
Stormy Weather (1943).
Stranger Than Paradise (1984).
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
The Strong Man (1926)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
Tabu (1931)
The Tall T (1957)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Terminator (1984)
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Thing from Another World (1951).
This Is Spinal Tap (1984).
Three Little Pigs (1933).
3:10 to Yuma (1957).
To Be or Not to Be (1942).
To Fly (1976).
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
Tol’able David (1921).
Tootsie (1982).
Top Hat (1935).
Touch of Evil (1958).
Toy Story (1995).
Traffic in Souls (1913).
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945).
Trouble in Paradise (1932).
12 Angry Men (1957).
Twelve O’Clock High (1949).
Twentieth Century (1934).
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1914)
Under Western Stars (1938)
Unforgiven (1992)
Vertigo (1958)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Wedding March (1928)
West Side Story (1961)
Where Are My Children? (1916)
White Heat (1949)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Wild and Woolly (1917)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Wild River (1960)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
The Wind (1928)
Wings (1927)
Within Our Gates (1920)
The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Woman of the Year (1942).
A Woman Under the Influence (1974).
The Women (1939).
Woodstock (1970).
Wuthering Heights (1939).
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
Young Frankenstein (1974).
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939).

National Film Registry/Library of Congress website.

Image of Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry entry The Cheat: Paramount Pictures.

“Library of Congress’ National Film Registry Movies: From Fannie Ward to Forrest Gump” last modified in March 2018.