National Film Registry Class of 2009

Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

Follows a family of Native Americans living in the City of Angels.

Films shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.

Martin Brest's NYU student film about a photographer who plans to blow up the Statue of Liberty in order to take a picture and thus get famous.

After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.

In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

A documentary and dramatization of gang life in 1960s Philadelphia.

A short experimental film by Sidney Peterson using double overlapping lenses to tell the story of a woman and a deep sea diver.

Mabel is engaged to Harry, the boss's son. The boss has an eye for Mabel too, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.

A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.

A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies attacks Michael and his date - only a "Thriller" can save them now.

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.

A montage of nearly 500 film clips from eight decades of American movies, made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Director's Guild of America.

Quasi, a duck, spends the day at a bizarre amusement park with fellow duck Anita and a robot named Rollo, but his rude and annoying behavior soon becomes impossible for his companions to tolerate.

A flat animated short from Janie Geiser centered around the contents of a red book.

Through recontextualized footage from decades of Mexican and American silent films and newsreels, the life story of Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa unfolds in a series of spectacular battle sequences.

An animated short film from Helen Hill which documents the life cycle of a group of chickens.

A literate young hillbilly plans to attend college to learn about chivalry and escape the brutal, rigid mountain society with the love of his life, but his tyrannical father interferes.

At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with, and reports on, the U.S. Army's 77th Infantry Division during their liberation of Italy.

A woman's club ponders what life would be like under Soviet rule.

Roy is elected to Congress to bring the misery of the "dustbowl" of the 1930s to the attention of Washington politicians.

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.