Movies
'Back To The Future' to join Film Registry
Published Friday, Dec 28 2007, 07:55 GMT | By Beth Hilton
Back To The Future and Close Encounters of The Third Kind are among this year's 25 films chosen for preservation by the US Library of Congress.
Bullitt, 12 Angry Men and Grand Hotel will also be added to the National Film Registry, which aims to safeguard the heritage of the US.
Cowboy musical Oklahoma!, Bette Davis tearjerker Now, Voyager and western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance were among other works considered to be of cultural, historical or aesthetic significance.
1921 movie Tol'able David was the earliest entry, with Kevin Costner's 1990 epic Dances With Wolves the most recent.
There are now 475 films being preserved as part of the project, which began in 1989.
The selected movies in full:
The Naked City
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
In a Lonely Place
Oklahoma!
Back to the Future
12 Angry Men
The Strong Man
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Bullitt
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dances with Wolves
Days of Heaven
Glimpse of the Garden
Grand Hotel
The House I Live In
Mighty Like a Moose
Now, Voyager
Our Day
Peege
The Sex Life of the Polyp
Three Little Pigs
Tol'able David
Tom, Tom the Piper's Son
The Women
Wuthering Heights
Bullitt, 12 Angry Men and Grand Hotel will also be added to the National Film Registry, which aims to safeguard the heritage of the US.
Cowboy musical Oklahoma!, Bette Davis tearjerker Now, Voyager and western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance were among other works considered to be of cultural, historical or aesthetic significance.
1921 movie Tol'able David was the earliest entry, with Kevin Costner's 1990 epic Dances With Wolves the most recent.
There are now 475 films being preserved as part of the project, which began in 1989.
The selected movies in full:
The Naked City
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
In a Lonely Place
Oklahoma!
Back to the Future
12 Angry Men
The Strong Man
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Bullitt
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dances with Wolves
Days of Heaven
Glimpse of the Garden
Grand Hotel
The House I Live In
Mighty Like a Moose
Now, Voyager
Our Day
Peege
The Sex Life of the Polyp
Three Little Pigs
Tol'able David
Tom, Tom the Piper's Son
The Women
Wuthering Heights
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