Empire added to the National Film Registry

Its been a big year for The Empire Strikes Back . As the movie celebrated it's 30th anniversary this year it's success and legacy has been honored with special screenings, Interviews with cast and crew reminicing, and biggest of all Celebration V taking place in Florida earlier this year. Well Empire is finishing up the year in style by being preserved as part of the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Every year 25 films are selected to be preserved as an innfluential part of American culture. In addition to Empire another George Lucas creation was selected. His early film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB was also selected. That's this movie which was one of his student films that he would later adapt into his first feature.

The complete list of films added to the Registry this year can be found below.

Airplane! (1980)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Bargain (1914)

Cry of Jazz (1959)

Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

The Exorcist (1973)

The Front Page (1931)

Grey Gardens (1976)

I Am Joaquin (1969)

It's a Gift (1934)

Let There Be Light (1946)

Lonesome (1928)

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Malcolm X (1992)

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

Newark Athlete (1891)

Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)

The Pink Panther (1964)

Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Study of a River (1996)

Tarantella (1940)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

A Trip Down Market Street (1906)