| Film title
|
Release year
|
Notes/subject matter
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National Film Registry
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| Kansas Saloon Smashers |
1901 |
silent film: based on Carrie Nation |
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| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
1910 |
silent film: earliest surviving film version of Oz |
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| A Modern Musketeer |
1917 |
Silent film |
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| Naughty, Naughty! |
1918 |
Silent film |
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| Wild Bill Hickok |
1923 |
Silent film |
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| Tumbleweeds |
1925 |
Silent film |
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| Wizard of Oz |
1925 |
Silent film: features Oliver Hardy as Tin Man |
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| Free and Easy |
1930 |
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| The Big Trail |
1930 |
|
 Y
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| Cimarron |
1931 |
Academy Award for Best Picture |
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| Movie Crazy |
1932 |
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| Silver Dollar |
1932 |
starring Edward G. Robinson |
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| The Plainsman |
1936 |
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| Pick a Star |
1937 |
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| The Texans |
1938 |
story of the Chisholm Trail |
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| Jesse James |
1939 |
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| Dodge City |
1939 |
stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland |
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| Union Pacific |
1939 |
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| The Wizard of Oz |
1939 |
|
Y
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| Dark Command |
1940 |
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| The Return of Frank James |
1940 |
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| Santa Fe Trail |
1940 |
features Ronald Reagan as Custer |
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| Sheriff of Tombstone |
1941 |
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| Heaven Can Wait |
1943 |
stars Gene Tierney, Don Ameche |
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| The Kansan |
1943 |
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| The Woman of the Town |
1943 |
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| Abilene Town |
1946 |
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| The Harvey Girls |
1946 |
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| Trail Street |
1947 |
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| The Walls of Jericho |
1948 |
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| Red River |
1948 |
|
Y
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| Kansas Raiders |
1950 |
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| Winchester '73 |
1950 |
|
Y
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| The Cimarron Kid |
1952 |
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| Kansas Pacific |
1953 |
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| The Stranger Wore a Gun |
1953 |
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| Masterson of Kansas |
1954 |
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| Picnic |
1955 |
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| Seven Angry Men |
1955 |
based on abolitionist John Brown |
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| Wichita |
1955 |
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| The Rainmaker |
1956 |
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| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
1957 |
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| The Jayhawkers! |
1959 |
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| Splendor in the Grass |
1961 |
Oscar for best writing for William Inge |
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| Cheyenne Autumn |
1964 |
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| The Ghost and Mr. Chicken |
1966 |
Don Knotts comedy |
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| Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter |
1966 |
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| The Plainsman |
1966 |
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| Gunfight in Abilene |
1967 |
Bobby Darin stars in non-singing role |
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| In Cold Blood |
1967 |
|
Y
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| Angel in My Pocket |
1969 |
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| The Gypsy Moths |
1969 |
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| The Learning Tree |
1969 |
|
Y
|
| Prime Cut |
1972 |
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| Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies |
1973 |
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| Paper Moon |
1973 |
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| Journey Back to Oz |
1974 |
animated film |
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| A Boy and His Dog |
1975 |
set in post-apocalyptic Topeka, stars Don Johnson |
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| The Great Waldo Pepper |
1975 |
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| King Kung Fu |
1976 |
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| Superman |
1978 |
set in fictional Smallville |
Y
|
| Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff |
1979 |
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| The Attic |
1980 |
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| Americana |
1983 |
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| The Day After |
1983 |
originally aired on television |
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| Superman III |
1983 |
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| Return to Oz |
1985 |
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| Critters |
1986 |
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| Planes, Trains and Automobiles |
1987 |
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| Kansas |
1988 |
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| Dances with Wolves |
1990 |
Academy Award for Best Picture |
Y
|
| Sarah, Plain and Tall |
1991 |
originally aired on television |
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| Unforgiven |
1992 |
Academy Award for Best Picture |
Y
|
| Leap of Faith |
1992 |
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| Dennis the Menace |
1993 |
based on cartoon set in Wichita |
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| Wyatt Earp |
1994 |
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| Truman |
1995 |
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| Mars Attacks! |
1996 |
Partially set in fictional Perkinsville |
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| The Big Kahuna |
1999 |
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| Ninth Street |
1999 |
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| Ride with the Devil |
1999 |
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| Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
2001 |
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| Nurse Betty |
2003 |
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| Rolling Kansas |
2003 |
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| Mysterious Skin |
2004 |
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| Capote |
2005 |
story of writing In Cold Blood |
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| Firecracker |
2005 |
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| The Muppets' Wizard of Oz |
2005 |
television film |
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| The Ice Harvest |
2005 |
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| Infamous |
2006 |
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| The Lookout |
2007 |
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| New York City Serenade |
2007 |
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| Amelia |
2009 |
biopic of Amelia Earhart |
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| Hannah's Law |
2012 |
television film |
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| Looper |
2012 |
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| Oz the Great and Powerful |
2013 |
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| Man of Steel |
2013 |
partially set in fictional Smallville |
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| Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice |
2016 |
partially set in fictional Smallville |
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| American Honey |
2016 |
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| Justice League |
2017 |
partially set in fictional Smallville |
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| All Creatures Here Below |
2018 |
partially set in De Soto |
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| Brightburn |
2019 |
Set in fictional Brightburn |
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