Twenty-Five Films Added to the National Film Registry at the U.S. Library of Congress

Surely you can’t be serious … Polyester leisure suits, an clueless Inspector, a 180 degree little girl’s swiveling head and Yoda make the National Film Registry.

Surely, they are. The movie Airplane has been added to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Along with 24 other movies, most likely Airplane was selected as a tribute to the late Leslie Nielsen. Other films that made the list were The Empire Strikes Back, The Exorcist, The Pink Panther, and Saturday Night Fever.

1. AIRPLANE! (1980)
2. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
3. THE BARGAIN (1914)
4. CRY OF JAZZ (1959)
5. ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
6. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
7. THE EXORCIST (1973)
8. THE FRONT PAGE (1931)
9. GREY GARDENS (1976)
10. I AM JOAQUIN (1969)
11. IT’S A GIFT (1934)
12. LET THERE BE LIGHT (1946)
13. LONESOME (1928)
14. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937)
15. MALCOLM X (1992)
16. MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971)
17. NEWARK ATHLETE (1891)
18. OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (1969)
19. THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
20. PRESERVATION OF THE SIGN LANGUAGE (1913)
21. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)
22. STUDY OF A RIVER (1996)
23. TARANTELLA (1940)
24. A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (1945)
25. A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET (1906)