Irène Jacob and Guillaume de Tonquédec in The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

Scotty Bloch and Clebert Ford in The Lunch Date (1989)

In 1995, to celebrate the centenary of cinema, UNESCO worked together with film archives from 49 countries to "compile and publish a list of approximately 15 films each country considers to be representative of its most significant national cinematic heritage." UNESCO suggested that they consider historical importance and cultural/artistic value, but each film archive was allowed to define its own criteria to determine which films were important.

The films of each country are listed in the order of the source-pdf. These countries are included. Angola, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Greece, The Holy See, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Macedonia, Ukraine, United States of America, Venezuela, Yugoslavia

These films or collections on the source-pdf are not included in this list, because they are not on IMDb: Canada: 
* A Selection of OMPB Films Produced between the two World Wars
* A Selection of Film Produced by the Government of Canada before the Creation of the National Film Board
* Royal Welcome, 8 unknown titles from the Canadian Cameo Series
* 4 unknown reels from "Shorts Produced at the London Headquarters of the Canadian Army during the last War"
* Animated Films of the National Film Board
Ecuador: 
* part of Obra Filmica Documental Miguel A. Alvarez (35 shorts are included so far)
* Obra Filmica Documental Karl Gartelman
Kazakhstan: 
* Two Days in Spring
* Baiterek


Afonso Malheiro in Quem Faz Correr Quim (1991)

Combining the 101 Genre Films and the 501 Directors/Stars lists

Missing: Repetition (Jon Jost, 1963, 12m) The Young Runaways (Russ Mayberry, 1978, 120m) 24 Hours of Explicit Sex (Jose Mojica Marins, 1985, 77m)

Yvonne Serand in La fée aux choux (1896)

Jean Dujardin and Louis Garrel in An Officer and a Spy (2019)

List order 201-300
Memory of the World: National Cinematic Heritage

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