A routine archival submission turned into a major film discovery after the Library of Congress uncovered a long-lost silent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Film Registry’s class of 2026 spans nearly 120 years of film history. The oldest selection is 1896’s The Tramp and the Dog, a ...

The Library of Congress discovered a lost 1897 film by Georges Méliès, a legendary pioneer of special effects, featuring one ...

A Pennsylvania man spent years trying to offload his great-grandfather’s trunk of old silent films with no luck — until the ...

Montage image showing 2024 selections of the National Film Registry. Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess remains one of the most revolutionary works in Black horror. Released in 1973, the film redefined the ...

Credit: Shawn Miller. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center/Library of Congress/Cover Images A lost film by pioneering French filmmaker Georges Méliès has been discovered in the U.S. and restored.

For almost a century, film has played a vital role in preserving and reflecting the American experience. From Birth of a Nation to To Kill a Mockingbird, films have chronicled our culture, for better ...

Five Latino films — stoner comedy “Up in Smoke” (1978), teen action flick “Spy Kids” (2001), Mexican Mafia crime drama “American Me” (1992), sci-fi adventure “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (1982) ...

Arguing over the greatest movies about Los Angeles is a fun party sport that some people take way too seriously – like those hardcores who get all worked up about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie ...

Over the past month, “Matt About Town” has shined a bright, Hollywood-sized spotlight on a Library of Congress outpost in Culpeper, Virginia. The library is working to preserve 135-plus years of ...

The first appearance on film of what might be called a robot has made its way to the Library of Congress. Filmmaking pioneer Georges Melies created the 45-second film strip in 1897, but it was ...