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Since 1989, the Library of Congress has chosen the most significant movies in American cinema to preserve. These top influential films all played a big role in shaping American thought and culture today. The films are alphabetically listed and are important movies to preserve. There are so many great American films out their but these culturally and historically significant movies are the ones Librarian of Congress specifically has selected to keep in their records forever.

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Order   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1948
    Charles Barton
    Comedy, Black-and-white, Horror, Slapstick, Parody, Screwball comedy, Monster More
    Béla Lugosi, Jane Randolph, Frank Ferguson, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert More
  2. 2
    1980
    Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams
    Comedy, Disaster, Romance Film, Parody, Cult, Satire, Airplanes and airports More
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ethel Merman, Al White, Lorna Patterson, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Stephen Stucker, Julie Hagerty, Ross Harris, David Leisure, Michelle stacy, Frank Ashmore, Barbara Billingsley, Howard Jarvis, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Jill Whelan, Jimmie Walker More
  3. 3
    1976
    Alan J. Pakula
    Drama, History, Thriller
    Meredith Baxter, Penny Fuller, Ned Beatty, Robert Walden, Robert Redford, Jane Alexander, F. Murray Abraham, Hal Holbrook, Valerie Curtin, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Dustin Hoffman, Stephen Collins More
  4. 4

    Cry of Jazz

  5. 5
    1967
    George Lucas
    Science Fiction, Short Film
    Dan Natchsheim, Mark O'Donnell
  6. 6
    1980
    Irvin Kershner
    Fantasy, Family, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Space opera
    James Earl Jones, Jeremy Bulloch, Harrison Ford, Des Webb, John Ratzenberger, Carrie Fisher, Jack Purvis, Frank Oz, Billy Dee Williams, Mark Hamill, Clive Revill, Peter Mayhew, Jason Wingreen, Kenny Baker, Denis Lawson, David Prowse, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Alec Guinness, John Hollis More
  7. 7
    1973
    William Friedkin
    Psychological thriller, Horror, Supernatural, Cult, Demonic child, New Hollywood More
    Linda Blair, Peter Masterson, Ellen Burstyn, Jack MacGowran, William O'Malley, Lee J. Cobb, Mercedes McCambridge, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Barton Heyman More
  8. 8
    1931
    Lewis Milestone
    Comedy, Black-and-white
    Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett, Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Edward Everett Horton, Pat O'Brien, Mae Clarke, Slim Summerville More
  9. 9
    1934
    Norman Z. McLeod
    Comedy, Black-and-white
    Baby LeRoy, Jean Rouverol, Tammany Young, Kathleen Howard, W. C. Fields, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp More
  10. 10
    1946
    John Huston
    Black-and-white, Documentary, War
  11. 11
    Paul Fejos
    Drama, Comedy, Romance Film
    Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Gusztáv Pártos, Eddie Phillips, Fay Holderness, Andy Devine More
  12. 12
    1937
    Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey
    Drama, Black-and-white, Film adaptation
    Minna Gombell, Victor Moore, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Fay Bainter, Barbara Read, Porter Hall More
  13. 13
    1992
    Spike Lee
    Drama, Period piece, Biography, Biographical film, Political drama
    John Sayles, Denzel Washington, Peter Boyle, Al Freeman, Jr., Lonette McKee, Theresa Randle, Angela Bassett, Karen Allen, Spike Lee, Lizbeth MacKay, Michael Imperioli, Albert Hall, Ossie Davis, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, Al Sharpton More
  14. 14

    McCabe and Mrs. Miller

  15. 15

    Newark Athlete

  16. 16

    Our Lady of the Sphere

  17. 17
    1963
    Blake Edwards
    Comedy, Family, Slapstick, Crime Fiction, Parody, Comedy-drama
    Meri Welles, Robert Wagner, Guy Thomajan, Brenda De Banzie, Michael Trubshawe, Peter Sellers, Capucine, David Niven, Riccardo Billi, James Lanphier, Fran Jeffries, Claudia Cardinale, Colin Gordon, John Le Mesurier, Martin Miller More
  18. 18

    Preservation of the Sign Language

  19. 19
    1977
    John Badham
    Drama, Musical, Romance Film, Coming of age
    Donna Pescow, Denny Dillon, Barry Miller, Julie Bovasso, Val Bisoglio, Joseph Cali, John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Fran Drescher, Robert Costanzo, Martin Shakar, Paul Pape, Bruce Ornstein More
  20. 20

    Study of a River

    1996
    Peter Hutton
    Short Film
  21. 21

    Tarantella

  22. 22
    1945
    Elia Kazan
    Drama, Period piece, Family, Film adaptation, Family Drama, Coming of age More
    Peggy Ann Garner, James Gleason, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell More
  23. 23

    A Trip Down Market Street

  24. 24
    1949
    George Cukor
    Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy
    Eve March, Will Wright, Jean Hagen, Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn, Clarence Kolb, Tom Ewell More
  25. 25
    1938
    Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
    Drama, Costume drama, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Romance Film, Swashbuckler films More
    Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale, Sr., Eugene Pallette, Melville Cooper, Olivia de Havilland, Lester Matthews, Una O'Connor, Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Herbert Mundin, Montagu Love, Leonard Willey More

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