‘Titanic’, ‘Superman’ and More Added to National Film Registry

The list is out as only 25 movies from 1905 to 2000 are selected each year for the honor of being added to the National Film Registry.  Every year, the films are selected based on the importance to American Cinema and the Nation’s Cultural and Historical Heritage.  The complete list was announced on Turner Classic movies (TCM) at 8 p.m. E.T, on Wednesday December 13, 2017 as The Liberian and movie critic Leonard Maltin talked about the newest additions.  This year marks 725 movies total in the library ranging from Hollywood block busters, silent movies, animation, shorts and independent as well as home movies.

This year’s inductees include…

1. 1939, aviation adventure starring Cary Grant, Only Angel’s Have Wings
2. Elia Kazan’s 1947 anti-Semitism study Gentleman’s Agreement
3. Stanley Kramer’s 1967 drama Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner 
4. Yvonne Rainner’s 1972 experimental film Lives of Performers
5. Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adventure, Goonies
6. 1989, inpirational fantasy Field of Dreams
7. Jame’s Cameron’s Titanic
8. 1988, thriller Die Hard
9. Christopher Nolan’s 2000 breakthrough thriller Momento
10. The historical epic Spartacus
11. The film noir, Ace in the Hole
12. 1978 version of Superman directed by Richard Donner
13. The 1978 musical biopic La Bamba
14. The 1979 documentary styled Boulevard Nights
15. 1990 African American director Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger
16. Spike Lee’s documentary 4 Little Girls about the deaths of four young children in the 1963 church firebombing in Alabama
17. The insightful 1988 film Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
18. 1937-38 advocacy documentary, With the Abraham Lincoln Bridgade in Spain
19. The student film from 1976, Time and Dreams
20. 1971 Wanda, directed by actress, Barbara Loden
21. A collection of home movies of the Fuentes family in the 1920’s and 30’s in Corpus Christi
22. The animated film Dumbo from 1941
23. 1918 propaganda short, The Sinking of the Lusitania
24. 1905 documentary, Interior New York Subway, 14th to 42nd Street
25. Lon Chaney’s  landmark drama from 1924, He Who Gets Slapped