We've reached the point in the year where the Stateside National Film Preservation Board picks 25 movies to add to the National Film Registry for "their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage." This year's entries include Jurassic Park, The Shining and Broadcast News.
It's a typically eclectic list, one that also includes film such as Brokeback Mountain, Bad Day At Black Rock, the original, 1950 Disney Cinderella and Days Of Wine And Roses.
But it's not just well-known films that make it in, to be forever protected in a vault (the cockroaches will have something to watch after humanity has ruined the world). There are also chunks of footage from an expedition to study Native American life in the West near the turn of the 20th century and Hair Piece, a short about the challenges faced by African-American women around their hair.
You can find the full list here.
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