On Wednesday morning, the National Film Preservation Board, or NFPB, announced that a slew of Hollywood classics were officially set to be preserved in the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The new group of 25 brings the National Film Registry’s selection of movies up to 700.
There’s a little something for everyone in the NFPB’s latest batch: beloved musicals like Funny Girl and The Lion King; seismic documentaries including The Atomic Cafe and Paris Is Burning; directorial feats ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds to Wes Anderson’s Rushmore; and crowdpleasing favorites such as The Breakfast Club and The Princess Bride. Among the other significant additions are The Musketeers of Pig Alley, widely credited as the first-ever gangster film, and Life of an American Fireman, one of the earliest American narrative films ever produced (in 1903).
Below is the full list of films selected by the NFPB in 2016:
The Atomic Cafe (1982)
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Beau Brummels (1928)
The Birds (1963)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
East of Eden (1955)
Funny Girl (1968)
Life of an American Fireman (1903)
The Lion King (1994)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Paris Is Burning (1990)
Point Blank (1967)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Putney Swope (1969)
Rushmore (1998)
Solomon Sir Jones films (1924–28)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
