2020 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY

The Library of Congress has added twenty-five movies to the National Film Registry which recognizes their artistic significance while helping to ensure their preservation for generations to come. This year some of the films selected include the musical-comedy, "The Blues Brothers"; the second installment of Christopher Nolan's groundbreaking Batman trilogy, "The Dark Knight"; the 2008 Best Picture winner, "The Hurt Locker" which was directed by the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar, Kathryn Bigelow; "Shrek", the computer-animated classic about a nasty ogre who falls in love with a princess; Sidney Poitier plays a former GI that a group of nuns believe has been sent by God to build them a new chapel in "Lillies of The Field" which the role made him the first African-American to win the Best Actor Oscar; the early blaxploitation action thriller, "Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song" which starred and was directed by Melvin Van Peebles; Based on the best-selling novel by Amy Tan, "The Joy Luck Club" follows four Chinese-American immigrant families in San Francisco and one of my all-time favorite movies, the screen-adaption of the Broadway musical, "Grease".

These films, which must be at least ten years old, have been named because of their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance and with these selections brings the number of films in the registry to 800. Here is the complete list of the films selected to the 2020 National Film Registry:

"The Battle Of The Century" (1927)
"The Blues Brothers" (1980)



"Bread" (1918)
"Buena Vista Social Club" (1999)



"Cabin In The Sky" (1943)
"A Clockwork Orange" (1971)
"The Dark Knight" (2008)
"The Devil Never Sleeps" (1994)
"Freedom Riders" (2010)



"Grease" (1978)
"The Ground" (1993-2001)
"The Hurt Locker" (2008)
"Illusions" (1982)
"The Joy Luck Club" (1993)



"Kid Auto Races At Venice" (1914)
"Lilies Of The Field" (1963)



"Losing Ground" (1982)
"The Man With the Golden Arm" (1955)



"Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege" (2006)
"Outrage" (1950)



"Shrek" (2001)
"Suspense" (1913)
"Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song" (1971)
"Wattstax" (1973)



"With Car And Camera Around The World" (1929)