While President Donald Trump is pushing Americans to see his spouse’s documentary “Melania” which premieres this week, the Library of Congress is reminding us that the nation’s cinematic historical past is huge and effectively price celebrating.
The physique on Thursday launched its annual record of films added to the National Film Registry “due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage.”
The Library named 25 films in whole, relationship from 1896 to 2014. The record contains classics from the ’80s and ’90’s, together with “The Big Chill,” “The Karate Kid,” “Philadelphia” and “Before Sunrise,” in addition to newer fare like “Inception” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
No one inform the president that the 1992 comedy “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” during which he famously makes a cameo, didn’t make the minimize.
The Library of Congress National Film Registry was established by Congress when the National Film Preservation Act was handed in 1988. The picks for 2025 deliver the variety of titles in the registry to 925.
Wes Anderson, who directed “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” mentioned the Library of Congress impressed his movie’s visible type.
“When we were first starting to try to figure out, how do we tell this story… the architecture and the landscapes… they don’t exist anymore,” Anderson said in a statement to NPR. “We just went through the entire photocrom collection, which is a lot of images. And …we made our own versions of things, but much of what is in our film comes directly – with our little twist on it – from that collection, from the library, the Library of Congress.”
Trump has focused the Library of Congress in his need to overhaul the authorities.
In May 2025, he fired the long-serving Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who nonetheless had a couple of year and a half left in her 10-year time period.
Later that year, the Supreme Court stopped Trump, at the very least quickly, from changing a high official at the Library of Congress, Shira Perlmutter, the director of the US Copyright Office.
The films added by the Library of Congress to the National Film Registry for 2025 are:
· The Tramp and the Dog (1896)
· The Oath of the Sword (1914)
· The Maid of McMillan (1916)
· The Lady (1925)
· Sparrows (1926)
· Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926)
· White Christmas (1954)
· High Society (1956)
· Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
· Say Amen, Somebody (1982)
(*25*)
· The Thing (1982)
· The Big Chill (1983)
· The Karate Kid (1984)
· Glory (1989)
· Philadelphia (1993)
· Before Sunrise (1995)
· Clueless (1995)
· The Truman Show (1998)
· Frida (2002)
· The Hours (2002)
· The Incredibles (2004)
· The Wrecking Crew (2008)
· Inception (2010)
· The Loving Story (2011)
· The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)