In order to preserve some of our greatest films of all time, the National Film Preservation Board created the National Film Registry in 1989. Since then, the Board has selected 25 films a year that were deemed to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" for preservation. And courtesy of The Washington Post, we have a full list of this year’s additions to the Registry.
It's interesting to see well-known flicks like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Christmas Story, Dirty Harry, and A League of Their Own rubbing elbows with obscure movies like The Kidnapper’s Foil and Parable. The inclusion of The Matrix also marks the most recent film to be added to the Registry. Take a look at the full list below:
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
A Christmas Story (1983)
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
The Kidnapper’s Foil (1930s-1950s)
<Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Tests (1922)
A League of Their Own (1992)
The Matrix (1999)
The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
One Survivor Remembers (1995)
Parable (1964)
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
Slacker (1991)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
They Call It Pro Football (1967)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1914)
The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)
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[via The Washington Post]
