On December 14, 2021, the Library of Congress announced the latest annual additions to the National Film Registry, which contains summaries of films deemed culturally, aesthetically or historically important and worthy of preservation for future generations . 

In addition to classic films and box office blockbusters from Hollywood studios, the registry also protects independent films, documentaries, experimental works, cartoons, music videos, educational films, commercials, and even amateur family films. These films are the most democratic and The most American movie. List of all movies.

Scroll through our gallery to read detailed descriptions (in alphabetical order) of the 25 films that joined the register this year, including the original "Star Wars" trilogy "Return of the Jedi" by George Lucas ending.

Using documentaries, interviews, and works of art, producer and director Silvia Morales traced the role of women in Mexican and Mexican American history, from the pre-Columbian era to the Mexican Revolution, to contemporary civil rights and Labor struggles, examining their culture and political contributions made through a clear feminist perspective. 

After the success of George Lucas’s “American Graffiti”, Michael Schultz’s “Cooly High School” (written by Eric Monte, creator of the sitcom “Good Times”) followed the Chicago black high school students Hoaxes and poor hoaxes in the 1964 housing project. Starring Corin Rogers, Joseph Carter Wilson, Glynn Turman, and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, this youth comedy has achieved great commercial success, spawning a spin-off TV series ("What happened!!"), and inspiring A generation of filmmakers, from John Singleton to Spike Lee.

Hilton Jacobs will continue to star in "Welcome Back, Kurt", while Terman will star in "The Wire" and "Mareni's Black Background." The cast also includes Garrett Morris (who will help launch "Saturday Night Live") and Steven Williams ("21 Jump Street", "X-Files"). 

Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison were attending school at the UCLA Film School when they were making a student film "Evergreen Tree" about jazz musicians (played by Henry Chrismond) and Art student (Romantic story of Dorothy Fujikawa, Manzarek’s then girlfriend and future wife)). According to Manzarek, the film is heavily influenced by French New Wave and Beat literature. It is a jazz film format and features a trio of Herbie Mann and Bill Evans (Bill Evans). Trio) and the music of the Jazz Crusader. 

The following year, Manzarek and Morrison transitioned from film to rock as the founding members of The Doors. 

In the late 1920s and early 1930s (including "The Wandering King", "The King of Jazz" and "Under the Texas Moon"), two-tone color technology has been used in several Hollywood movies, but in rich tones Appears pale and feeble can be obtained through the new three-band Technicolor process. Walt Disney was the first filmmaker to use it in this short film "Symphony of Silly" cartoons. Its energetic hand-drawn animation attracted the audience and heralded that Disney will transition to full in all of his short films. Color-and later his groundbreaking feature-length cartoon, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." "Flowers and Trees" is also the first animated film to win an Oscar.

A bold aerial transfer between two biplane caps "The Flying Ace," a silent drama of the Norman Film Production Company in Jacksonville, Florida, which specializes in making films for black audiences. This story about the black pilots of the First World War returning home looking for romance and a plot involving a group of wage thieves stood out on the screen with a more modern racial expression than the typical situation at the time. 

Evangelists James and Eloyce Gist don't really understand how they use 16mm cameras, but budding filmmakers use this new tool as a means of spreading discourse when they go to churches and religious gatherings. This silent work from 1930 was recently reorganized from fragments preserved in the Library of Congress. It is a surreal allegory about sin, in which Satan himself drives a train and carries a whole train of people to drink, with jazz music Dance, or have a good time in other ways. What is their fate? As the exquisite printing of the train ticket proclaims, "No round-trip tickets-only one way!" An early milestone in African-American cinema was restored by Howard University professor and filmmaker S. Torriano Berry.

In Will Rogers' third film, he plays a homeless man looking for a job in a farm community, and he meets a woman he realizes is his daughter. Rogers is a vaudeville star known for his harsh comments. The lack of voice in early films did not help Rogers, but he made up for it by writing his own title, and his humor shines here. With the appearance of the voice, his career really took off.

Directed by Clarence C. Badger, Rogers has directed Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson and Colleen during his career ·Moore (Colleen Moore) and many other movies. 

Detective Philip Marlowe, played by Raymond Chandler, was brought to the screen by Humphrey Bogart in "Big Sleep", which is unforgettable, in director Robert Altman based on Chandler's 1953 novel The adaptation of the detective drama returns with the counter-cultural face of the "mix and match" star Elliott Gould. Written by "Big Sleep" screenwriter Leigh Brackett and translated into contemporary Los Angeles, Altman's views on the type of detective, improvisational dialogue and Gould's paranoid performance, led to the seeming irony of film noir, which made some critics feel Happy, but not those who look forward to the world. 

Previous attempts to capture the fantasy epic of JRR Tolkien were either destroyed or half-hearted in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 anime. When director Peter Jackson tried to translate Tolkien's three books that make up "Lord of the Rings" into two movies, New Line Cinema recommended three movies with its infinite wisdom (and its extraordinary financial benefits). make sense! 

The first one, "Friends of the Lord of the Rings", is an amazing work that cleverly creates a fantasy world where elves, dwarves, hobbits, orcs, demons and humans fight for the fate of the Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings The mysterious creator of Dark Lord Sauron, tried to control all life in Middle-earth. The performance was great (exceeding people's expectations of the widescreen action spectacle), and the location in New Zealand was jaw-dropping. It has been nominated for 13 Oscars and won four Oscars, including intoxicating photography and visual effects, and Howard Shore's brilliant music-his "Ring" trilogy The first chapter is still the best film soundtrack of the 21st century. 

Howard Alker’s 1971 documentary tells a brief introduction to the leader of the Illinois branch of the Black Panther Party, following the 21-year-old Fred Hampton advocating non-violence and armed fighting, and building alliances to solve poverty and combat The police were cruel afterwards. But during the production process, Hampton and Black Panther companion Mark Clark were killed by the police, so Alke pointed his camera at the crime scene to investigate the cause of their death. The finished film will contradict the official version of the shooting, exposing the police cover. 

Wes Craven became famous in horror movies with "The Last House on the Left", "An Eye on the Mountain" and "Things in a Swamp" when he directed this imaginative horror movie. It tells the story of a child killer being killed by a neighbouring volunteer police officer. Freddie Kruger (Robert Englander) will then reappear in the victim's dream with witty words and a razor blade to avenge him. 

With a cast including Heather Langenkamp, ​​John Saxon, Ronnie Blakely, and Johnny Depp, "Nightmare on Elm Street" is a film that frightens a series of sequels, and at the same time will Frey Di established as a true idol of horror movies. In a game in 2003, he even had a head-to-head confrontation with another horror film star, Jason of "Friday the 13th". 

Not all the main dishes of the National Film Registry are to your taste. In fact, Baltimore filmmaker John Waters would avoid such a description because his 1972 underground cult comedy was a celebration of very bad taste and it was exhilarating. "Pink Flamingo" tells the story of Babs Johnson (played by the drag queen Divine) who was named "the dirtiest person in the world" by the tabloid and other people who tried to overthrow her. But as the last tragic scene of the movie shows, no one can surpass Babs. You have been warned. 

A student film of the UCLA National Communication Project (directed by David Garcia and produced by Mocte Suma Esparza) aims to document the anti-war demonstrations in East Los Angeles in August 1970. That is, the National Chicano Ban Parade. Instead, it captures the chaos of the police brutal reaction during which the Los Angeles Times reporter Ruben Salazar (the icon of the Chicano movement) was killed. This film became Salazar's requiem and a sad investigation into the investigation of his death. Since the original elements have long been lost, the UCLA Film and Television Archives performed a 4K scan of the surviving faded 16mm prints-an early step towards full restoration. 

The final chapter of one of the most successful movie trilogy of all time, "Return of the Jedi" echoes the wizards of space wars in the first movie "Star Wars", and solves Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in the exciting chapter Chapter Two "The Empire Strikes Back". Will the young Jedi follow his father Darth Vader and join the dark side of the Force? Or will he defeat the evil Emperor Palpatine and save the struggling rebellion? 

"Return of the Jedi" now joins the first two epics of the National Film Registry, which is responsible for preserving the original version of the film (albeit a "special edition") by law.

The second stand-up comedy recorded by Richard's Pryor at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California, was original, very non-PC, and super hilarious. His routine includes his observations of black and white curses, watchdogs, hospitals, death, sex, machismo, and clashes with police after he shot his wife's car with Magnum. This is a show that every successful talk show comedian is eager to match. 

It is estimated that 70% of all films made before the advent of sound have disappeared-lost, deteriorated due to the fragility of nitrate raw materials, or destroyed due to negligence or lack of commercial interest. This makes the short news films (also known as reality) of the early 20th century more fascinating as a record of early life.

The unmarked roll of film with non-standard perforations was found in the basement of a couple and they took it to the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, California. Research by film historian David Kiehn determined that it was the Ringling Brothers Circus Parade in Indianapolis in May 1902. This 3-minute movie has been restored by the museum and can be watched on their YouTube channel.

This reminds people that when scrolls are found in attics, basements, barns, vaults, or buried under permafrost in the Yukon, many "lost" movies have been recovered. [This is a list of 7,200 silent feature films that have been lost. ]

Tejana female singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was emerging as one of the greatest stars in the world when her 1995 album "Dreaming of You" became the first Spanish-based album and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. one. But her life was shortened, and she was murdered by the chairman of her fan club when she was 23 years old. Gregory Nava’s biopic has Jennifer Lopez as her first protagonist, and Edward James Olmos is Selena’s father/producer. The film not only tracks the rise of the artist, but also her tragic ending-and ends with scenes of real Selena's performance. 

Nava's 1983 film "North" was also selected into the National Film Registry in 1995.

Martin Ritt (Martin Ritt) This touching drama tells the struggle of a family of tenant farmers in Louisiana during the Great Depression. Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield won Oscars for their performances Nominate. The film also received a nomination for best picture and a screenplay nomination for Lonnie Elder III.

Film critic Roger Ebert praised The Voice: "This is one of the most sympathetic and authentic films. It has not been fully successful," he wrote. "This is a rare film that can fully communicate with nine- or ten-year-olds, but the depth and subtleties contained therein are enough to attract any adult." 

Considered to be one of the greatest concert movies of all time, Jonathan Demme recorded Talking Heads (lead singer David Byrne, guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison, bassist Tina The performance of Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz in 1983 was a passionate show of energy for theater bands, including the classic "Mental Killer" and "Burn the House" ", "life in wartime" and "once in a lifetime".

This is not the first rodeo show held by Talking Heads at the Library of Congress. In 2017, the band’s 1980 album “Remain in Light” was included in the library’s National Recording Registry, which kept recordings for future generations. 

One of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest and cruel thrillers tells the story of professional tennis player Guy Haynes (Fali Granger) and mentally ill Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) A chance encounter between ), the latter proposed the perfect murder: killing each other’s acquaintances, but could not find the real culprit. Haines regarded this as a small chat, until he discovered that his cheating wife was strangled to death. -Anthony is ready to let Haynes complete his back and forth murder. The race to prevent Anthony from planting evidence of crime-a lighter-at the crime scene is intertwined with a high-stakes tennis match, and it is a first-rate hitch. 

Pixar’s talent in producing animated feature films not only breaks the boundaries of film art, but also taps the deep source of human emotions in a humorous way. It reaches the culmination in the Chaplinesque story of this earth full of environmental destruction, one of which is a lonely robot. WALL -E, rummaging through the ruins of civilization. His encounter with the robot EVE sparked romance-and sparked a desperate race to save the human remnants on the space ark. As the winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, this film is composed of Ben Burt, Alyssa Knight, Fred Willard and (in "Alien" a tribute to Nostromo’s computer mother ) Starring in the voice of Sigourney Weaver. 

In this false documentary produced by Cheryl Dunye, the Liberia-born filmmaker plays a fictional version of himself: Cheryl, a clerk in a Philadelphia lesbian video store in his 20s, is making a movie about 1930 A documentary about a black actress in the 1950s, titled Watermelon Girl. The first feature film filmed by black lesbians, the aggressive "Watermelon Woman" was a milestone in queer movies and helped establish Dunye as the director who promoted the expansion of the screen.

Dunye said the film was inspired by a question and answer with director Spike Lee on his 1986 film "She Must Own" [the film itself was added to the National Film Registry in 2019]. When audiences complained about Lee's portrayal of African-American women, his response was to challenge them to make their own films. Tano did it. She now has 40 feature films, short films and TV series named after her. 

Two Hollywood ladies-Joan Crawford and Betty Davis, who have been known as rivals throughout their careers-joined forces for this psychological horror, telling the story of two declining movie stars. Psychologically horrible, they were trapped in a run-down mansion, tortured each other, offering a lot of help with jealousy, malice and cruelty. Based on Henry Farrell's novel and directed by Robert Aldridge, this film earned Davis her 11th Oscar nomination. (Victor Bruno was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.) It also launched a mini type similar to Grand Guignol Entertainment, including Davis and Olivia De Havilland (at the beginning of the filming). After replacing Crawford) starring in "Quiet...Quiet, Sweet Charlotte"). 

In 1982, when the success of Japanese automakers adversely affected the American auto industry, Chinese American Vincent Chin seemed to be mistaken for Japanese by two white auto workers who beat the 27-year-old with a baseball bat. Death. As terrible as this racially motivated murder, the two assailants were convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to probation, and did not serve their sentences. Director Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña’s Oscar-nominated documentary tells the story of this misjudgment and how the case raised awareness of violence against ethnic minorities. 

The documentary by Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird premiered at the New York Film Festival in 1979. It tells the dramatic story of the establishment of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905. The union fought for Safer working conditions, better wages and health care. Factories, farmland, mines and docks. Many former members of the 1980s and 1990s spoke about the struggles faced by the IWW and the entire labor movement before and after the First World War. 

Frodo: "I hope the ring never appears on me. I hope that none of this has happened." Gandalf: "The same is true for all living people. But it's not up to them. All we have to do is how to deal with it. Give us time."

– Elijah Wood as Frodo and Ian McLean as Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings" (2001). 

Want to nominate a film to the National Film Registry? Visit the nomination page of the Library of Congress here.   

For more information: National Film Registry (Library of Congress) National Film Preservation Foundation

Author: CBSNews.com Senior Producer David Morgan

David Morgan is the senior editor of CBSNews.com and cbssundaymorning.com.

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