Purple Rain, Boys Don't Cry, and Body and Soul among 25 Titles Added to National Film Registry

Established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, the National Film Preservation Board is an advisory body for the Librarian of Congress. The Board helps shape national film preservation planning policy, and also recommends films for the National Film Registry.

Chosen for their cultural, historic, or aesthetic significance, the Board's 25 annual selections for 2019 cover a wide gamut of genres and time periods, from such early films as Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island and Body and Soul to such later works as Amadeus and Fog of War. The full list for 2019 is as follows:

2000s
Fog of War (2003)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)

1990s
Boys Don't Cry (1999) 
Clerks (1994)

1980s

Platoon (1986)

She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Amadeus (1984)

Before Stonewall (1984)

Purple Rain (1984)

Zoot Suit (1981)

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

1970s

Girlfriends (1978)

The Last Waltz (1978)

A New Leaf (1971)

I Am Somebody (1970)

                                                                                                           

1960s

My Name Is Oona (1969)

1950s

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Old Yeller (1957)

The Phenix City Story (1955)

1940s

Gaslight (1944) 

1930s

George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)

Becky Sharp (1935)

Employees Entrance (1933)

                       

1920s

Body and Soul (1925)

                 

1900s

Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)

Further information on the Registry as well as the films themselves can be found on the Library of Congress' web site. All 775 films selected for the Registry since 1989 can also be browsed online. In addition, the public is encouraged to make nominations for next year's selections to the National Film Registry.