{"id":437123,"date":"2026-01-29T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:57:11","slug":"national-film-registry-adds-karate-kid-clueless-inception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437123\/","title":{"rendered":"National Film Registry Adds ‘Karate Kid’, ‘Clueless’, ‘Inception’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Library of Congress<\/a> on Wednesday revealed 25 films it is adding to its National Film Registry<\/a>, movies that span the silent film era as far back as 1896 to Wes Anderson\u2019s 2014 nine-time Oscar-nominated The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther films to make the cut for the registry, which chooses films annually for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to the nation\u2019s film heritage, include Christopher Nolan\u2019s Inception, the Civil War drama Glory, the original The Karate Kid<\/a>, Pixar\u2019s The Incredibles, Amy Heckerling\u2019s Clueless<\/a>, and a pair of musicals in 1954\u2019s White Christmas and 1956\u2019s High Society.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe list also included the Tom Hanks-starring AIDS drama Philadelphia, Peter Weir\u2019s The Truman Show, Richard Linklater\u2019s 1995 romantic trilogy starter Before Sunrise, the Salma Hayek-starring biopic Frida and John Carpenter\u2019s 1982 cult sci-i horror film The Thing which the library said received the most nomination votes by the public. <\/p>\n

\n\tFour documentaries were also selected: Ken Burns\u2019 Brooklyn Bridge, Nancy Buirski\u2019s The Loving Story, George Nierenberg\u2019s Say Amen, Somebody and Danny Tedesco\u2019s The Wrecking Crew.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest class bring the total number of titles in the registry to 925, with some among the 2 million moving image collection items held in the Library of Congress. Others are preserved in coordination with copyright holders or other film archives, the library says.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we preserve films, we preserve American culture for generations to come. These selections for the National Film Registry show us that films are instrumental in capturing important parts of our nation\u2019s story,\u201d Acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen said in a release today. \u201cWe are proud to continue this important work, adding a broad range of 25 films to the National Film Registry as a collective effort in the film community to protect our cinematic heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow is the full list of 2025 entries into the National Film Register.<\/p>\n

The Tramp and the Dog (1896)<\/p>\n

The Oath of the Sword (1914)<\/p>\n

The Maid of McMillan (1916)<\/p>\n

The Lady (1925)<\/p>\n

Sparrows (1926)<\/p>\n

Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926)<\/p>\n

White Christmas (1954)<\/p>\n

High Society (1956)<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Bridge (1981)<\/p>\n

Say Amen, Somebody (1982)<\/p>\n

The Thing (1982)<\/p>\n

The Big Chill (1983)<\/p>\n

The Karate Kid (1984)<\/p>\n

Glory (1989)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia (1993)<\/p>\n

Before Sunrise (1995)<\/p>\n

Clueless (1995)<\/p>\n

The Truman Show (1998)<\/p>\n

Frida (2002)<\/p>\n

The Hours (2002)<\/p>\n

The Incredibles (2004)<\/p>\n

The Wrecking Crew (2008)<\/p>\n

Inception (2010)<\/p>\n

The Loving Story (2011)<\/p>\n

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Library of Congress on Wednesday revealed 25 films it is adding to its National Film Registry, movies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[19951,88,10867,206,206459,206537,206538],"class_list":["post-437123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-clueless","tag-entertainment","tag-library-of-congress","tag-movies","tag-national-film-registry","tag-the-grand-budapest-hotel","tag-the-karate-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}