The 25 Films Accepted into the National Film Registry (2012)

[JamesG]

National Film Registry Adds The Matrix, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Christmas Story
by Brent Lang
12/19/12


Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Matrix, Dirty Harry and A Christmas Story are among 25 movies that have been selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

"These films are not selected as the ‘best’ American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture," The Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement. "They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation."





The selections represent a wide range of genres and eras. They include a 1914 version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, notable for having the first black actor to star in a feature-length American film, to more recent works like 1992's baseball comedy A League of Their Own.

Their is also a mixture of classic studio films like Born Yesterday and indie features such as Slacker and Two Lane Backdrop.

Documentaries include The Times of Harvey Milk, about San Francisco’s first openly gay elected official, and One Survivor Remembers, a short about the Holocaust.





This year’s selections bring the number of films in the registry to 600.

The Librarian makes the annual selections to the registry after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public and conferring with Library film curators and members of the National Film Preservation Board.









The 25 Films Selected to the National Film Registry (2012):


1. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
3. The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)
4. Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests (1922)
5. The Augustas (1930s-1950s)


6. The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-1950s)
7. Sons of the Desert (1933)
8. The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
9. Born Yesterday (1950)
10. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)


11. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
12. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
13. Parable (1964)
14. They Call It Pro Football (1967)
15. Dirty Harry (1971)


16. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
17. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
18. Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
19. A Christmas Story (1983)
20. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)


21. Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
22. Slacker (1991)
23. A League of Their Own (1992)
24. One Survivor Remembers (1995)
25. The Matrix (1999)

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[Penny Lane]

A Christmas Story definitely belongs there!

[PrettyinPink55]

A League of Their Own is one of my all-time favorites!!

[80sTrivia]

I'm glad they honored A Christmas Story, one of the best holiday films of all time.