Library of Congress Adds 25 Titles
to National Film Registry

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named 25 more titles to the library’s National Film Registry December 27, bringing the total number of films on the list to 300. The films, chosen by Billington in consultation with the National Film Preservation Board, are singled out for preservation because of their cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance. This year’s entries are:

• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Dracula (1931)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• GoodFellas (1990)
• Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
• The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
• Let’s All Go to the Lobby (1957)
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
• Little Caesar (1930)
• The Living Desert (1953)
• Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
• Multiple Sidosis (1970)
• Network (1976)
• Peter Pan (1924)
• Porky in Wackyland (1938)
• President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901)
• Regeneration (1915)
• Salome (1922)
• Shaft (1971)
• Sherman’s March (1986)
• A Star Is Born (1954)
• The Tall T (1957)
• Why We Fight (series) (1943–45)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

Posted January 1, 2001.