List of 25 films chosen for Nat'l Registry

[December 28, 2011]  (AP) -- Here are the 25 films selected in 2011 by the Library of Congress to be preserved as part of the National Film Registry:

• "Allures" (1961)

• "Bambi" (1942)

• "The Big Heat" (1953)

• "A Computer Animated Hand" (1972)

• "Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment" (1963)

• "The Cry of the Children" (1912)

• "A Cure for Pokeritis" (1912)

• "El Mariachi" (1992)

• "Faces" (1968)

• "Fake Fruit Factory" (1986)

• "Forrest Gump" (1994)

• "Growing Up Female" (1971)

• "Hester Street" (1975)

• "I, an Actress" (1977)

• "The Iron Horse" (1924)

• "The Kid" (1921)

• "The Lost Weekend" (1945)

• "The Negro Soldier" (1944)

• "Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies" (1930s-40s)

• "Norma Rae" (1979)

• "Porgy and Bess" (1959)

• "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

• "Stand and Deliver" (1988)

• "Twentieth Century" (1934)

• "War of the Worlds" (1953)

[Associated Press]

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