Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named 25 motion pictures— classics from every era of American filmmaking—to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, including "Bullitt," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Grand Hotel," "Oklahoma!" and "12 Angry Men."
The selections were made as part of a program aimed at preserving the nation’s movie heritage. Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act of 1992, each year the Librarian of Congress, with advice from the National Film Preservation Board, names 25 films to the National Film Registry to be preserved for all time. The films are chosen because they are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant. This year’s selections bring to 475 the number of motion pictures in the registry.
Films Selected for the 2007 National Film Registry
* Back to the Future (1985)
* Bullitt (1968)
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
* Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
* Dances With Wolves (1990)
* Days of Heaven (1978)
* Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
* Grand Hotel (1932)
* The House I Live In (1945)
* In a Lonely Place (1950)
* The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
* Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
* The Naked City (1948)
* Now, Voyager (1942)
* Oklahoma! (1955)
* Our Day (1938)
* Peege (1972)
* The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
* The Strong Man (1926)
* Three Little Pigs (1933)
* Tol’able David (1921)
* Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71)
* 12 Angry Men (1957)
* The Women (1939)
* Wuthering Heights (1939)
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