2012 (24th Year)
National Film Registry
The National Film Preservation Board was founded by the Library of Congress in 1988. Each year the Board selects up to 25 films which are considered to be culturally, historically or aesthetically important. Films must be at least 10 years old to be eligible for the registry. Listed below are the films inducted into the National Film Registry in 2012.
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symbol appears next to those films which also received an Academy Award nomination (although this is not a requirement for induction). Click on the name of one of those films to display more information about it. You can also click on the IMDb link to to open a new browser window showing information about the film from the Internet Movie Database. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the National Film Registry inductees for that year.
The Augustas (1930s-50s) [short]The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897) [sports coverage]The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-50s) [shorts]Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests (1922) [demonstration tests]