Alicia Silverstone in 1995's 'Clueless' Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment High Society, The Big Chill, The Karate Kid, Glory, Philadelphia, Clueless, The Incredibles, The Grand Budapest Hotel and the first mainstream documentary from Ken Burns have been inducted into the National Film Registry, it was announced Thursday. The Thing - the top title nominated by the public last year - White Christmas, Before Sunrise, The Truman Show, Frida, The Hours and Inception also are among the 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant works selected for preservation by the Library of Congress. Related Stories Movies Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' Leads Cesar Awards Nominations TV Bruce Bilson, Director on 'Get Smart,' 'Hogan's Heroes,' 'Barney Miller' and So Much More, Dies at 97 Six silent films from 1896 to 1926 are in the class of 2025, as are four documentaries: George Nierenberg's Say Amen, Somebody; Burns' Brooklyn Bridge; Danny Tedesco's The Wrecking Crew; and Nancy Buirski's The Loving Story. There are now 925 films in the registry (selections began in 1989, and a film must be at least 10 years old to be eligible). The six-week government shutdown delayed the 2025 announcement by about a month. "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," acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen said in a statement. "We are proud to continue this important work ... as a collective effort in the film community to protect our cinematic heritage." TCM will screen a few of the inductees starting at 5 p.m. PST on March 19, with TCM host Jacqueline Stewart, chair of the National Film Preservation Board, introducing the films. Also considered were 7,559 titles nominated by the public. Nominations for 2026 will be accepted through Aug. 15 here. In an interview with the Library of Congress, Burns said that "with the exception of The American Revolution, which is a subject that predates photography, we've used the Library of Congress in every single film we've worked on. [For Brooklyn Bridge], I spent between eight and nine weeks, Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30 in the paper print collection, filming on an easel with gloves and magnets. "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. And you realize what an extraordinary repository it is." Wes Anderson said he also took advantage of the LOC to create The Grand Budapest Hotel. "There's a specific set of postcards in the Library of Congress Photochrome Prints collection. They're photographs from the turn of the century and hand-tinted," he said. "When we were first starting to figure out how to tell this story, the views and images that we were looking for, the architecture and the landscapes that we wanted, they don't exist anymore. "We went through the entire Photochrome collection, which is a lot of images. We made our own versions of things, but much of what is in our film comes directly from that collection from the Library of Congress." Here are the 2025 inductees in alphabetical order, with descriptions supplied by the Library of Congress: Before Sunrise (1995)Richard Linklater has explored a wide range of narrative storytelling styles while consistently capturing ordinary, everyday American life. However, his innovative use of time as a defining and recurring cinematic tool has become one of his most significant accomplishments. As the first film in his Before trilogy - each film shot nine years apart - Before Sunrise unfolds as one of cinema's most sustained explorations of love and the passage of time, highlighting the human experience through chance encounters and conversation. With his critically acclaimed 12-year production of Boyhood (2014) and a new 20-year planned production underway, his unique use of the medium of film to demonstrate time passing demonstrates an unprecedented investment in actors and narrative storytelling. Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in 1995's 'Before Sunrise.' Columbia/Courtesy Everett Collection The Big Chill (1983)Lawrence Kasdan's Oscar best picture nominee offers an intimate portrait of friends reunited after the suicide of one of their own and features actors who defined cinema in the 1980s - Glenn Close, William Hurt, JoBeth Williams, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum and Meg Tilly. This powerful ensemble portrays American stereotypes of the time - the yuppie, the drug