This year, 'The Asphalt Jungle', 'Sergeant York', 'In Cold Blood', 'The Pawnbroker', 'Deliverance' and 'The Terminator', feature amongst the 25-films, the Library of Congress has honoured for inclusion in its National Film Registry, designed for ensuring films that are 'culturally, historically or aesthetically' significant, are preserved for all time.

Established in 1989, the National Film Registry has 500-titles in its' collection, films which serve as a public-awareness tool and an educational learning aid for students, helping America understand the diversity and the need for preservation of its' film heritage. With films, especially nitrate-based and acetate-based films deteriorating with the passage of time, it is increasingly important that from classics to obscure gems are preserved for posterity.

Films become part of the Registry after the public and board members like Martin Scorsese, Caleb Deschanel, Gregory Nava and Leonard Maltin nominate films via the National Film Preservation Board's library website. Following which Librarian James Billington makes a selection for inclusion in the Registry.

As usual, this year's selection for the Registry covers a wide range of films, e. g.:

1. 'Disneyland Dream', a 1956 home movie, a Connecticut family made of their trip to Disneyland and other L. A. spots. A hot favourite with Disney buffs.
2. 'No Lies', a 16-minute film NYU film student Mitchell Block made in 1973 about a rape victim's treatment by investigators.
3. 'A Face in the Crowd' (1957).
4. 'Flower Drum Song' (1961).
5. 'Foolish Wives' (1922).
6. 'The Invisible Man' (1933).
7. 'Johnny Guitar' (1954).
8. 'The Killers' (1946).
9. 'The Perils of Pauline' (1914).
10. 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' (1958).
11. A rare colour collection of WW II European battle footage shot by Helmer G. Stevens.
12. 'Hallelujah' - MGM's 1929 musical King Vidor directed with an all-black cast.
13. 'Free Radicals', a 1979 four-minute experimental shot New Zealand filmmaker Len Lye made by making direct scratches on film stock and then setting the stick-like images dancing to an African tribe's field recorded music, all made the cut.
14. 'One Week' (1920) - Buster Keaton's first two-reeler.
15. W. C. Fields' 'So's Your Old Man' (1926).
16. 'Water and Power' (1989) - an exquisite blending of downtown L. A. images with scenes of water flowing to the city from the Owens Valley, and for which filmmaker Pat O'Neill won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
17. 'White Fawn's Devotion', a landmark 1910 study of Native Americans.
18. 'On the Bowery' - a 1957 docu-drama of the lives of three Gotham skid row denizens made by Lionel Rogosin.
19. 'The March' (1964) - a documentary on the 1963 March to Washington produced by the United States Information Agency.
20. 'In Cold Blood' (1967) - Truman Capote's 'true crime novel'.
21. 'Deliverance' (1972) - the first film featuring an all-African-American cast.