2022 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY

The Library of Congress has added twenty-five movies this year to the National Film Registry which recognizes their artistic significance while helping to ensure their preservation for generations to come. 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 850.

Some of the films selected into the registry include "The Little Mermaid", the animated musical that helped restart Disney's flagging animated feature film division at the time; "Super Fly", Gordon Parks Jr.'s blaxploitation crime drama; the romantic-comedy mystery drama, "Charade" that stars Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant; "Carrie", Brian DePalma's vision of Stephen King's debut horror novel; "Cyrano de Bergerac", the first English-language version of the 1897 French drama by Edmond Rostand and won star, José Ferrer an Oscar; "When Harry Met Sally...", the beloved romantic-comedy written by Nora Ephron, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan; "Hairspray", the offbeat comedy that brought cult filmmaker John Waters, the self-proclaimed "King of filth", into the mainstream; "Iron Man", the film that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe; and several groundbreaking LGBTQ+ films: the documentaries, "Behind Every Good Man", "Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives" and "Tongues Untied", the bold, experimental work by filmmaker, Marlon Riggs; Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising" and Dee Rees' debut feature, "Pariah".

Here is the complete list of the films selected to the 2022 National Film Registry:

"Mardi Gras Carnival" (1898)
"Cab Calloway Home Movies" (1948-1951)
"Cyrano de Bergerac" (1950)



"Charade" (1963)



"Scorpio Rising" (1963)
"Behind Every Good Man" (1967)
"Titicut Follies" (1967)



"Mingus" (1968)
"Manzanar" (1971)
"Betty Tells Her Story" (1972)
"Super Fly" (1972)



"Attica" (1974)
"Carrie" (1976)



"Union Maids" (1976)
"Word is Out: Stories of Our Lives" (1977)
"Bush Mama" (1979)
"The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" (1982)



"Itam Hakim, Hopiit" (1984)
"Hairspray" (1988)
"The Little Mermaid" (1989)
"Tongues Untied" (1989)



"When Harry Met Sally" (1989)



"House Party" (1990)



"Iron Man" (2008)
"Pariah" (2011)