Today’s Best News Ever: The Terminator preserved for all time

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Every December, as the rest of the film community is busy compiling lists of the year’s best movies, the Library of Congress announces 25 films that will be preserved for future generations.  So when the robots finally take over, they’ll be able to experience one of the classic sci-fi films that predicted their rise to power: The Terminator.  

From the Library of Congress press release:

Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, each year the Librarian of Congress names 25 films to the National Film Registry that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant, to be preserved for all time. These films are not selected as the “best” American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring significance to American culture.

Joining The Terminator in the National Film Registry this year are classics like Sergeant York, Harryhausen’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle, and Universal’s monster movie The Invisible Man. 

Here are the 25 films selected this year to be stored in the explosion-proof vault with the Charters of Freedom when the bombs go off:

• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• Deliverance (1972)
• Disneyland Dream (1956)
• A Face in the Crowd (1957)
• Flower Drum Song (1961)
• Foolish Wives (1922)
• Free Radicals (1979)
• Hallelujah (1929)
• In Cold Blood (1967)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• The Killers (1946)
• The March (1964)
• No Lies (1973)
• On the Bowery (1957)
• One Week (1920)
• The Pawnbroker (1965)
• The Perils of Pauline (1914)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
• So’s Your Old Man (1926)
• George Stevens WW2 Footage (1943-46)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Water and Power (1989)
• White Fawn’s Devotion (1910)