National Film Registry announces 2024 additions

Texas Chainsaw Massacre has made its way into the National Film Registry, and that means it will be preserved for future generations.

Acting under the National Film Preservation Act, each year the Library of Congress adds 25 films to the National Film Registry. Members of the public are allowed to nominate up to 50 films per person, and then a board decides which films are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. With the additions for 2024, the list of films now being preserved has surpassed 875 films.

This year’s list marks some interesting inclusions such as John Water’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and a few other films from the 1980s.

The complete list of films added to the registry in 2024 includes:

1. Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
2. KoKo’s Earth Control (1928)
3. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
4. Pride of the Yankees (1942)
5. Invaders from Mars (1953)
6. The Miracle Worker (1962)
7. The Chelsea Girls (1966)
8. Ganja and Hess (1973)
9. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
10. Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
11. Zora Lathan Student Films (1975-76)
12. Up in Smoke (1978)
13. Will (1981)
14. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)
15. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
16. Dirty Dancing (1987)
17. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
18. Powwow Highway (1989)
19. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
20. American Me (1992)
21. Mi Familia (1995)
22. Compensation (1999)
23. Spy Kids (2001)
24. No Country for Old Men (2007)
25. The Social Network (2010)

You can check out detailed information on all of this year’s additions in the press release. You can learn about the National Film Preservation Board where you can learn all of the films that are in the registry and what exactly they do with them. You can also begin nominating films for the 2025 additions now by submitting up to 50 titles.