THE DARK KNIGHT, GREASE, SHREK Among Movies Added To The National Film Registry

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The Dark Knight, Grease, The Blues Brothers, and Shrek are among the group of films selected this year to be included into the National Film Resigtry. The Library of Congress unveiled its annual list of 25 movies selected for preservation. This year’s list include everything from silent shorts, to musicals, to a Batman movie.

The films are selected based on "their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to the nation's film heritage, the 2020 titles include blockbusters, musicals, silent films, documentaries and diverse stories transferred from books to screen. They bring the number of films selected for preservation in the registry to 800, a fraction of the 1.3 million films in the Library's collections."

"This is not only a great honor for all of us who worked on The Dark Knight, this is also a tribute to all of the amazing artists and writers who have worked on the great mythology of Batman over the decades," said Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight, in a statement.

According to the official press release Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will host a television special Tuesday, Dec. 15, starting at 8 p.m. ET to screen a selection of motion pictures named to the registry this year.

Here’s the full list of this year’s inductees:

• The Battle Of The Century (1927)

• The Blues Brothers (1980)

• Bread (1918)

• Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

• Cabin In The Sky (1943)

• A Clockwork Orange (1971)

• The Dark Knight (2008)

• The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)

• Freedom Riders (2010)

• Grease (1978)

• The Ground (1993-2001)

• The Hurt Locker (2008)

• Illusions (1982)

• The Joy Luck Club (1993)

• Kid Auto Races At Venice (1914)

• Lilies Of The Field (1963)

• Losing Ground (1982)

• The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)

• Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)

• Outrage (1950)

• Shrek (2001)

• Suspense (1913)

• Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

• Wattstax (1973)

H/T: Variety