National Film Registry: Class of 2009
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1. Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911)
Not Rated | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.
Directors: Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Winsor McCay, John Bunny, Maurice Costello, George McManus
Votes: 1,849
2. Mabel's Blunder (1914)
13 min | Short, Comedy
Mabel is engaged to Harry, the boss's son. The boss has an eye for Mabel too, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Director: Mabel Normand | Stars: Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, Charley Chase, Charles Bennett
Votes: 447
3. Stark Love (1927)
70 min | Drama
A literate young hillbilly plans to attend college to learn about chivalry and escape the brutal, rigid mountain society with the love of his life, but his tyrannical father interferes.
Director: Karl Brown | Stars: Helen Mundy, Forrest James, Reb Grogan, Silas Miracle
Votes: 159
4. Jezebel (1938)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 15,056
5. Under Western Stars (1938)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Western
Roy is elected to Congress to bring the misery of the "dustbowl" of the 1930s to the attention of Washington politicians.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Maple City Four
Votes: 425
6. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 10,981 | Gross: $4.36M
7. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty
Votes: 19,470 | Gross: $13.50M
8. Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
Votes: 3,727
9. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton
Votes: 19,975
10. Pillow Talk (1959)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 19,176 | Gross: $18.75M
11. The Exiles (1961)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
Follows a family of Native Americans living in the City of Angels.
Director: Kent Mackenzie | Stars: Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez
Votes: 1,389 | Gross: $0.03M
12. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
PG-13 | 166 min | Western
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 349,178 | Gross: $5.32M
13. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar
Votes: 273,137 | Gross: $50.00M
14. The Muppet Movie (1979)
G | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt
Votes: 39,154 | Gross: $76.66M
15. Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983 Music Video)
PG | 13 min | Horror, Music
A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Michael Jackson, Ola Ray, Forrest J. Ackerman, Reed Armstrong
Votes: 18,560
16. Precious Images (1986)
8 min | Documentary, Short
A montage of nearly 500 film clips from eight decades of American movies, made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Director's Guild of America.
Director: Chuck Workman
Votes: 746
17. Quasi at the Quackadero (1976)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Quasi, a duck, spends the day at a bizarre amusement park with fellow duck Anita and a robot named Rollo, but his rude and annoying behavior soon becomes impossible for his companions to tolerate.
Director: Sally Cruikshank | Stars: Sally Cruikshank, Kim Deitch
Votes: 734
18. Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)
22 min | Short
A photographer plans to blow up the Statue of Liberty in order to take a picture and thus get famous.
Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Danny DeVito, William Duff-Griffin, Rhea Perlman, Martin Brest
Votes: 123
19. The Lead Shoes (1949)
18 min | Short
A short experimental film by Sidney Peterson using double overlapping lenses to tell the story of a woman and a deep sea diver.
Director: Sidney Peterson | Stars: Jeremy Anderson, Elma Barrett, Jack Klough
Votes: 270
20. Scratch and Crow (1995)
5 min | Animation, Short
An animated short film from Helen Hill which documents the life cycle of a group of chickens.
Director: Helen Hill
Votes: 233
21. Heroes All (1920)
73 min | Documentary, War
Films shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.
Director: Anthony Young | Stars: John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Votes: 19
22. A Study in Reds (1932)
18 min | Short, Comedy
A woman's club ponders what life would be like under Soviet rule.
Director: Miriam Bennett
Votes: 91
23. The Jungle (1968)
22 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary and dramatization of gang life in 1960s Philadelphia.
Directors: Charlie 'Brown' Davis, Jimmy 'Country' Robinson, David 'Bat' Williams | Stars: Charlie 'Brown' Davis, David 'Bat' Williams, Reginald 'Reggie' Ackridge, Jimmy 'Country' Robinson
Votes: 92
24. The Red Book (1994)
11 min | Animation, Short
A flat animated short from Janie Geiser centered around the contents of a red book.
Director: Janie Geiser
Votes: 122
25. The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1932)
60 min | Biography, War
Through recontextualized footage from decades of Mexican and American silent films and newsreels, the life story of Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa unfolds in a series of spectacular battle sequences.
Directors: Edmundo Padilla, Félix Padilla | Stars: Bob Kortman, G. Raymond Nye, Pancho Villa, Raoul Walsh
Votes: 31
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