The Matrix, Dirty Harry Added to National Film Registry

In its ongoing effort to preserve U.S. film heritage, the Library of Congress today announced the next 25 films selected to be added to the National Film Registry.

Among them were a few relatively recent movies and a few modern classics, including The Matrix, Dirty Harry, A Christmas Story, and A League of Their Own.

Here are this year's 25 selections:

• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
• Born Yesterday (1950)
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
• The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-1950s)
• Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests (1922)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
• One Survivor Remembers (1995)
• Parable (1964)
• Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
• Slacker (1991)
• Sons of the Desert (1933)
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
• They Call It Pro Football (1967)
• The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1914)
• The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)

Source : ign[dot]com