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The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB's inception in 1988.
Film preservation, or film restoration, describes a series of ongoing efforts among film historians, archivists, museums, cinematheques, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images they contain. In the widest sense, preservation assures that a movie will continue to exist in as close to its original form ...
List of Mexican Revolution and Cristero War films; List of World War I films; List of Irish revolutionary period films; List of Spanish Civil War films; List of films about the Spanish Maquis; List of World War II films; List of Korean War films; List of films about the Algerian War; List of Vietnam War films; List of films about the Basque ...
The United States National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) is the board selecting films for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. It was established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988. The National Film Registry is meant to preserve up to 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films" each ...
The Treasures from American Film Archives series of DVDs is produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF), a nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress in 1997. The NFPF publishes these DVD sets, with accompanying booklets and extensive commentary, to promote public access to the films preserved by the American archival ...
Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation claimed in 2017 that "half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever". [4] Deutsche Kinemathek estimates that 80–90% of silent films are gone; [5] the film archive's own list contains over 3,500 lost films.
The Lost Movies list of 1970s titles at the Wayback Machine; Film Threat's Top 50 Lost Films of All Time and Version 2.0; Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation (2013) documentary; American Silent Feature Film Database at the Library of Congress; List of 7200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films 1912-29 at the Library of Congress
Film reels in the Cinemateca Portuguesa. This is a list of film archives and cinematheques. Film archives collect, restore, investigate and conserve audiovisual content like films, documentaries, television programs and newsreel footage. Often, a country has its own film archive to preserve the national audiovisual heritage.