2021 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 Hitchcock's psychological thriller based on the Patricia Highsmith novel, "Strangers on a Train"; John Waters' first feature and camp classic, "Pink Flamingos"; another camp classic featuring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"; the first of the horror franchise that introduced us to Freddy Krueger, "A Nightmare on Elm Street"; the first installment in the trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and several highlights of cinema focused on African-Americans that includes Cheryl Dunye's lesbian romantic-comedy, "The Watermelon Woman"; "The Murder of Fred Hampton", a documentary on the leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party; the coming-of-age, high-school comedy; "Cooley High"; "Richard Pryor: Live in Concert", a concert film featuring the comedy legend; and the Oscar-nominated drama set during the Great Depression in the South, "Sounder".

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 825. Here is the complete list of the films selected to the 2021 National Film Registry:

"Ringling Brothers Parade Film" (1902)
"Jubilo" (1919)
"The Flying Ace" (1926)
"Hellbound Train" (1930)
"Flowers and Trees" (1932)
"Strangers on a Train" (1951)



"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962)



"Evergreen" (1965)
"Requiem-29" (1970)
"The Murder of Fred Hampton" (1971)
"Pink Flamingos" (1972)
"Sounder" (1972)



"The Long Goodbye" (1973)



"Cooley High" (1975)
"Richard Pryor: Live in Concert" (1979)
"Chicana" (1979)
"The Wobblies" (1979)



"Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi" (1983)
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984)



"Stop Making Sense" (1984)
"Who Killed Vincent Chin?" (1987)
"The Watermelon Woman" (1996)
"Selena" (1997)



"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001)
"WALL-E" (2008)