2018 Library of Congress National Film Registry
by dan_dassow | created - 12 Dec 2018 | updated - 17 Dec 2018 | PublicIn their 30th annual selection the US Library of Congress selected 25 films deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant to the nation's film heritage. The selection helps ensure that those on the list will be preserved for all time.
Which of these films do you consider to be most worthy to be included in the 2018 Library of Congress National Film Registry?
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Reference:
'Jurassic Park,' 'The Shining,' 'Brokeback Mountain' Enter National Film Registry, The Hollywood Reporter, December 12, 2018
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1. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger
Votes: 18,576
2. Broadcast News (1987)
133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one Producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky
Votes: 26,069 | Gross: $51.25M
3. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
14A | 134 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid
Votes: 315,350 | Gross: $83.04M
4. Cinderella (1950)
G | 74 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Ilene Woods, James MacDonald, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton
Votes: 141,311 | Gross: $85.00M
5. Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
PG | 117 min | Drama
An alcoholic marries a young woman, who he systematically addicts to booze, so they can share his "passion" together.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
Votes: 11,119
6. Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency (1908)
26 min | Documentary, Short, History
The film captures life on Crow Agency, Crow Fair and a recreation of the Battle of Little Big Horn featuring four of Custer's Crow scouts.
Directors: Joseph K. Dixon, Roland Dixon | Star: Plenty Coups
Votes: 25
7. Eve's Bayou (1997)
14A | 109 min | Drama
After a daughter witnesses her father having an affair, she begins a chain reaction that could tear her family apart.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield
Votes: 8,366 | Gross: $14.82M
8. The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
50 min | Drama
The story of two young sisters, one a somewhat demure musician who is in love with a scoundrel who's no good for her, and the other a wild, free spirit who is the object of a shy young carpenter's affections.
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Robert Walker, Fred C. Jones, Henry Hallam
Votes: 6
9. Hair Piece: A Film for Nappyheaded People (1984)
10 min | Short, Animation
An animated satire on the question of self image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free.
Director: Ayoka Chenzira | Star: Carol Jean Lewis
Votes: 76
10. Hearts and Minds (1974)
112 min | Documentary, History, War
An examination of the conflicting attitudes of the opponents of the Vietnam War.
Director: Peter Davis | Stars: Tin Chan, Chau Diem, Ngo Dinh Diem, John Foster Dulles
Votes: 5,174 | Gross: $0.03M
11. Hud (1963)
PG | 112 min | Drama, Western
Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde
Votes: 18,903 | Gross: $10.00M
12. The Informer (1935)
91 min | Crime, Drama
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame
Votes: 5,503
13. Jurassic Park (1993)
PG | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 837,636 | Gross: $402.45M
14. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Votes: 25,752 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
PG | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married. But her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both, and everyone else around them.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Votes: 10,452
16. Monterey Pop (1968)
78 min | Documentary, History, Music
A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, Country Joe McDonald
Votes: 3,623 | Gross: $0.00M
17. My Fair Lady (1964)
PG | 170 min | Drama, Family, Musical
Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 84,276 | Gross: $72.00M
18. The Navigator (1924)
59 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
Directors: Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Clarence Burton
Votes: 8,795 | Gross: $1.48M
19. On the Town (1949)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three sailors on a day of shore leave in New York City look for fun and romance before their twenty-four hours are up.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Votes: 15,466
20. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
PG | 141 min | Drama, Western
After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.
Director: Marlon Brando | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado
Votes: 9,586
21. Pickup on South Street (1953)
PG | 80 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye
Votes: 12,455
22. Rebecca (1940)
130 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
Votes: 118,330 | Gross: $4.36M
23. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 861,207 | Gross: $44.02M
24. Smoke Signals (1998)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by... See full summary »
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer
Votes: 9,507 | Gross: $6.72M
25. Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898)
1 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A burlesque on the John Rice - May Irwin kiss in The Kiss (1896)
Director: William Nicholas Selig | Stars: Gertie Brown, Saint Suttle
Votes: 281
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