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Continuing its annual year-end tradition, the National Film Preservation Board has announced its latest list of films to be preserved in the National Film Registry. Since 1989, the registry has selected 25 films each year that are at least ten years old and deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Among this year's inductees are several titles familiar to modern audiences, including "Dirty Dancing," "The Social Network," "Spy Kids," and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre."
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As in previous years, the selected works are not limited to feature films, also encompassing shorts, silent films, and other formats. The complete list of films selected for preservation this year is as follows:
"Annabelle Serpentine Dance" (1895)
"KoKo’s Earth Control" (1928)
"Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938)
"The Pride of the Yankees" (1942)
"Invaders from Mars" (1953)
"The Miracle Worker" (1962)
"The Chelsea Girls" (1966)
"Ganja and Hess" (1973)
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974)
"Uptown Saturday Night" (1974)
Zora Lathan Student Films (1975-76)
"Up in Smoke" (1978)
"Will" (1981)
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982)
"Beverly Hills Cop" (1984)
"Dirty Dancing" (1987)
"Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt" (1989)
"Powwow Highway" (1989)
"My Own Private Idaho" (1991)
"American Me" (1992)
"Mi Familia" (1995)
"Compensation" (1999)
"Spy Kids" (2001)
"No Country for Old Men" (2007)
"The Social Network" (2010)