Turner Classic Movies to Showcase New Additions to 2025 National Film Registry
What To Know
- Turner Classic Movies will air a special on March 19 highlighting films newly inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.
- The additions bring the total number of preserved films to 925, reflecting the registry’s mission to safeguard works that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
Turner Classic Movies will host a television special showcasing a selection of films newly inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry for 2025, honoring works deemed worthy of preservation for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
The special will air Thursday, March 19, beginning at 8/7c. TCM host and film historian Jacqueline Stewart, who chairs the National Film Preservation Board, will introduce the films.
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This year’s selections span genres and generations, from Clueless, Amy Heckerling‘s sharp, modern take on Emma, to Inception, Christopher Nolan‘s mind-bending science-fiction thriller. The special offers audiences a chance to revisit — or discover — why these films earned a place in America’s cinematic legacy.
Other standout films added to the registry this year include The Thing, John Carpenter‘s body-horror classic; Philadelphia, the landmark courtroom drama starring Tom Hanks; the silent-era short The Tramp and the Dog; Frida, 1984 sports drama The Karate Kid; the biopic led by Salma Hayek; High Society, starring Grace Kelly; and The Incredibles, the Pixar animated superhero comedy from Brad Bird.
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“When we preserve films, we preserve American culture for generations to come. These selections for the National Film Registry show us that films are instrumental in capturing important parts of our nation’s story,” said acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen in a statement. “We are proud to continue this important work, adding a broad range of 25 films to the National Film Registry as a collective effort in the film community to protect our cinematic heritage.”
“When I think about the National Film Registry and all the films that are contained in it, I think of it as a giant mirror of the United States, reflecting back all of the complexity, all of the intimacy, all of the variety of the people and ideas and forces and movements that have taken place over our history,” said documentarian Ken Burns, whose Brooklyn Bridge was included in this year’s choices. “And you realize what an extraordinary repository it is.”
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This year’s choices bring the number of titles in the registry to 925. The full list of films selected for the 2025 National Film Registry includes:
• 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)
• 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)
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