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The Library of Congress has announced twenty-five films that will be preserved in perpetuity on the National Film Registry.
This year’s inductees span more than a century and include Audrey Hepburn’s 1961 classic “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Clint Eastwood’s 1971 cop drama “Dirty Harry.”
The National Film Registry was created in 1989 to highlight and preserve films with cultural or historical significance, and it isn’t just big Hollywood productions that make the cut. The list now includes 600 feature films, documentaries, independent films and early experimental projects.
The oldest addition to the list this year is the 1897 documentary “The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight,” which chronicles the St. Patrick’s Day boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons.
The most recent selection is the groundbreaking 1999 sci-fi flick “The Matrix” staring Keanu Reeves.
2012 National Film Registry Inductees
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)
Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Tests (1922)
The Augustas (1930s-50s)
The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-50s)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
Born Yesterday (1950)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Parable (1964)
They Call It Pro Football (1967)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
A Christmas Story (1983)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
Slacker (1991)
A League of Their Own (1992)
One Survivor Remembers (1995)
The Matrix (1999)
