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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today the annual selection of 25 of America’s most influential motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage. “The National Film Registry turns 30 this year and for those three decades, we have been recognizing, celebrating and preserving this distinctive medium,” Hayden said. — LOC Blog

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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced the 2017 selections to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. “Spanning the period 1905 to 2000, the films named to this year’s registry include Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts and independent and home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725, which is a small fraction of the Library’s vast moving-image collection of 1.3 million items.” — LOC Blog

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According to the News from the Library of Congress, on December 14, 2016 the new Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, announced, “the annual selection of 25 motion pictures that have been inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress because of their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance.”

We have most of the titles available through CLAMS. If there is a title on the list unavailable in CLAMS you can request a title via the Commonwealth Catalog or contact your local library to receive the item via InterLibrary Loan.

Films Selected for the 2016 National Film Registry

1. Atomic Cafe (1982)
2. Ball of Fire (1941)
3. Beau Brummels, The (1928)
4. Birds, The (1963)
5. Blackboard Jungle (1955)
6. Breakfast Club, The (1985)
7. Decline of Western Civilization, The (1981)
8. East of Eden (1955)
9. Funny Girl (1968)
10. Life of an American Fireman (1903)
11. Lion King, The (1994)
12. Lost Horizon (1937)
13. Musketeers of Pig Alley, The (1912)
14. Paris Is Burning (1990)
15. Point Blank (1967)
16. Princess Bride, The (1987)
17. Putney Swope (1969)
18. Rushmore (1998)
19. Solomon Sir Jones films (1924-28)
20. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
21. Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
22. Thelma & Louise (1991)
23. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
24. Walk in the Sun, A (1945)
25. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)