Three of the listed films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Film title | Release year | Notes/subject matter | National Film Registry |
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| Kansas Saloon Smashers | 1901 | silent film: based on Carrie Nation |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | 1910 | silent film: earliest surviving film version of Oz |
| A Modern Musketeer | 1917 | silent film |
| Naughty, Naughty! | 1918 | silent film |
| Wild Bill Hickok | 1923 | silent film |
| Tumbleweeds | 1925 | silent film |
| Wizard of Oz | 1925 | silent film: features Oliver Hardy as Tin Man |
| Free and Easy | 1930 |
| The Big Trail | 1930 | {{y}} |
| Cimarron | 1931 | Academy Award for Best Picture |
| The Plainsman | 1936 |
| Pick a Star | 1937 |
| The Texans | 1938 | story of the Chisholm Trail |
| Jesse James | 1939 |
| Dodge City | 1939 | stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland |
| Union Pacific | 1939 |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | {{y}} |
| Dark Command | 1940 |
| The Return of Frank James | 1940 |
| Santa Fe Trail | 1940 | features Ronald Reagan as Custer |
| Heaven Can Wait | 1943 | stars Gene Tierney, Don Ameche |
| The Woman of the Town | 1943 |
| Abilene Town | 1946 |
| The Harvey Girls | 1946 |
| Trail Street | 1947 |
| The Walls of Jericho | 1948 |
| Red River | 1948 | {{y}} |
| Kansas Raiders | 1950 |
| Winchester '73 | 1950 | {{y}} |
| The Cimarron Kid | 1952 |
| Kansas Pacific | 1953 |
| The Stranger Wore a Gun | 1953 |
| Masterson of Kansas | 1954 |
| Picnic | 1955 |
| Seven Angry Men | 1955 | based on abolitionist John Brown |
| Wichita | 1955 |
| The Rainmaker | 1956 |
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 |
| Badman's Country | 1958 |
| The Gunfight at Dodge City | 1959 |
| The Jayhawkers! | 1959 |
| Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Oscar for best writing for William Inge |
| Cheyenne Autumn | 1964 |
| The Ghost and Mr. Chicken | 1966 | Don Knotts comedy |
| Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter | 1966 |
| The Plainsman | 1966 |
| Gunfight in Abilene | 1967 | Bobby Darin stars in non-singing role |
| In Cold Blood | 1967 | {{y}} |
| Angel in My Pocket | 1969 |
| The Gypsy Moths | 1969 |
| The Learning Tree | 1969 | {{y}} |
| Prime Cut | 1972 |
| Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies | 1973 |
| Paper Moon | 1973 |
| Journey Back to Oz | 1974 | animated film |
| A Boy and His Dog | 1975 | set in post-apocalyptic Topeka, stars Don Johnson |
| The Great Waldo Pepper | 1975 |
| King Kung Fu | 1976 |
| Superman | 1978 | set in fictional Smallville | {{y}} |
| Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff | 1979 |
| The Attic | 1980 |
| Americana | 1983 |
| The Day After | 1983 | originally aired on television |
| Superman III | 1983 |
| Return to Oz | 1985 |
| Critters | 1986 |
| Planes, Trains and Automobiles | 1987 |
| Kansas | 1988 |
| Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Academy Award for Best Picture | {{y}} |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | 1991 | originally aired on television |
| Unforgiven | 1992 | Academy Award for Best Picture | {{y}} |
| Leap of Faith | 1992 |
| Dennis the Menace | 1993 | based on cartoon set in Wichita |
| Wyatt Earp | 1994 |
| Truman | 1995 |
| Mars Attacks! | 1996 |
| The Big Kahuna | 1999 |
| Ninth Street | 1999 |
| Ride with the Devil | 1999 |
| Nurse Betty | 2003 |
| Rolling Kansas | 2003 |
| Mysterious Skin | 2004 |
| Capote | 2005 | story of writing In Cold Blood |
| Firecracker | 2005 |
| The Muppets' Wizard of Oz | 2005 | television film |
| The Ice Harvest | 2005 |
| Infamous | 2006 |
| The Lookout | 2007 |
| New York City Serenade | 2007 |
| Amelia | 2009 | biopic of Amelia Earhart |
| Hannah's Law | 2012 | television film |
| Looper | 2012 |
| Oz the Great and Powerful | 2013 |
| Man of Steel | 2013 | partially set in fictional Smallville |
| Dawn of Justice | 2016 | partially set in fictional Smallville |
| American Honey | 2016 |
1. ^{{cite web | title = Kansas in the Movies | publisher = Washburn University: Center for Kansas Studies | url = http://www.washburn.edu/reference/cks/mapping/movies/index.html | accessdate = May 6, 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web | title = Cool Things - Western Movies Set in Kansas | publisher = Kansas State Historical Society | url = http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/cool-things-western-movies-set-in-kansas/10728 | accessdate = July 7, 2014}}
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