'Dirty Dancing,' 'Spy Kids,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' added to National Film Registry

By Mary Pat Thompson

The Library of Congress has announced the 25 films it selected to join the National Film Registry in 2024.

The film selections for this year, which were announced on Tuesday, go back almost 130 years and span from the silent film era to a 2010 drama about the creation of Facebook.

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"Spy Kids," 2021.

Among the titles selected are "Dirty Dancing," "Beverly Hills Cop," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "My Own Private Idaho," "Spy Kids," "No Country for Old Men" and "The Social Network." These 25 new selections bring the total number of films in the registry to 900. They'll either join the moving image collection items held in the Library of Congress or be preserved in coordination with copyright holders or different film archives.

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Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in "Dirty Dancing," 1987.

The public submits nominations to be considered to join the archive. Over 6,700 submissions were made this year, and the Library of Congress chose 25 of them based on "their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation's film heritage," according to Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

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"Beverly Hills Cop", 1984.

Here are the 25 films selected for the 2024 National Film Registry:

• "Annabelle Serpentine Dance" (1895)
• "KoKo's Earth Control" (1928)
• "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938)
• "The Pride of the Yankees" (1942)
• "Invaders from Mars" (1953)
• "The Miracle Worker" (1962)
• "The Chelsea Girls" (1966)
• "Ganja and Hess" (1973)
• "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974)
• "Uptown Saturday Night" (1974)
• "Zora Lathan Student Films" (1975-76)
• "Up in Smoke" (1978)
• "Will" (1981)
• "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan" (1982)
• "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984)
• "Dirty Dancing" (1987)
• "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt" (1989)
• "Powwow Highway" (1989)
• "My Own Private Idaho" (1991)
• "American Me" (1992)
• "Mi Familia" (1995)
• "Compensation" (1999)
• "Spy Kids" (2001)
• "No Country for Old Men" (2007)
• "The Social Network" (2010)