“Ten Nights in a Barroom” (1926): A silent film featuring an all-Black cast, it’s based on a stage melodrama adapted from “Ten Nights in a Bar-room and What I Saw There,” an 1854 “temperance novel” ...
These films, along with “White Christmas” and “Inception,” are among 25 selected by the Librarian of Congress this year.
Also picked for preservation: ‘The Thing,' ‘Before Sunrise,' ‘Frida,' ‘Inception,' ‘Philadelphia,' ‘The Incredibles' and ‘The ...
“Philadelphia,” “The Truman Show” and Ken Burns’s “Brooklyn Bridge” were also among the films included in the Library of Congress’s annual list of influential movies.