- Associated Press - Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Here are the 25 films selected in 2012 by the Library of Congress to be preserved as part of the National Film Registry:

“3:10 to Yuma” (1957)

“Anatomy of a Murder” (1959)



“The Augustas” (1930s-1950s)

“Born Yesterday” (1950)

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)

“A Christmas Story” (1983)

“The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight” (1897)

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“Dirty Harry” (1971)

“Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2” (1980-82)

“The Kidnappers Foil” (1930s-1950s)

“Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests” (1922)

“A League of Their Own” (1992)

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“The Matrix” (1999)

“The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair” (1939)

“One Survivor Remembers” (1995)

“Parable” (1964)

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“Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia” (1990)

“Slacker” (1991)

“Sons of the Desert” (1933)

“The Spook Who Sat by the Door” (1973)

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“They Call It Pro Football” (1967)

“The Times of Harvey Milk” (1984)

“Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971)

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1914)

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“The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England” (1914)

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