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Jeff Usry
Special to Blackflix.com
Director Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, ('89) was among 25 films recently added to the National Film Registry.
Lee's breakthrough classic about racial tensions during the hottest day in Brooklyn, and the award-winning documentary of the late Dr. Martin Luther King King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery to Memphis ('70) are among the films the Library of Congress chose for the list.
Every year the librarian of Congress names 25 films of cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to be added to the registry.
Other films added to the preservation list (some are available on video) were:
A Street Car Named Desire, 1951
Civilization, 1916
The Docks of New York, 1928
Duck Amuck, 1953
The Emperor Jones, 1933
Gunga Din, 1939
In The Land of the Head Hunters, 1914
Jazz on a Summer's Day, 1959
The Kiss, 1896
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955
Lambchops, 1929
Laura, 1944
Master Hands, 1936
My Man Godfrey, 1936
Night of the Living Dead, 1968
The Plow That Broke the Plains, 1936
Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
Roman Holiday, 1953
The Shop Around The Corner, 1940
A Street Car Named Desire, 1951
The Ten Commandments, 1956
Trance and Dance in Bali, 1938-39
The Wild Bunch, 1969
Woman of the Year, 1942 |
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