National Film Registry: Class of 2009
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- 19117mNot Rated7.1 (1.9K)ShortDirectorWinsor McCayJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsWinsor McCayJohn BunnyMaurice CostelloCartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.
- DirectorMabel NormandStarsMabel NormandHarry McCoyCharley ChaseMabel 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.
- DirectorKarl BrownStarsHelen MundyForrest JamesReb GroganA 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.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHenry FondaGeorge BrentIn 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsRoy RogersSmiley BurnetteCarol HughesRoy is elected to Congress to bring the misery of the "dustbowl" of the 1930s to the attention of Washington politicians.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsTyrone PowerLinda DarnellBasil RathboneA young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsBurgess MeredithRobert MitchumFreddie SteeleAt the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsGrant WilliamsRandy StuartApril KentAfter Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsRock HudsonDoris DayTony RandallAn interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.
- DirectorKent MackenzieStarsYvonne WilliamsHomer NishTom ReynoldsFollows a family of Native Americans living in the City of Angels.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsAl PacinoJohn CazalePenelope AllenThree amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a 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.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsJim HensonFrank OzJerry NelsonKermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsMichael JacksonOla RayForrest J. AckermanA night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now.
- DirectorChuck WorkmanA 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.
- DirectorSally CruikshankStarsSally CruikshankKim DeitchQuasi, 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.
- DirectorMartin BrestStarsDanny DeVitoWilliam Duff-GriffinRhea PerlmanMartin 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.
- DirectorSidney PetersonStarsJeremy AndersonElma BarrettJack KloughA short experimental film by Sidney Peterson using double overlapping lenses to tell the story of a woman and a deep sea diver.
- DirectorHelen HillAn animated short film from Helen Hill which documents the life cycle of a group of chickens.
- DirectorAnthony YoungStarsJohn J. BradleyEmile GauvreauFilms shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.
- DirectorMiriam BennettA woman's club ponders what life would be like under Soviet rule.
- DirectorCharlie 'Brown' DavisJimmy 'Country' RobinsonDavid 'Bat' WilliamsStarsCharlie 'Brown' DavisDavid 'Bat' WilliamsReginald 'Reggie' AckridgeA documentary and dramatization of gang life in 1960s Philadelphia.
- DirectorJanie GeiserA flat animated short from Janie Geiser centered around the contents of a red book.
- DirectorEdmundo PadillaFélix PadillaStarsBob KortmanG. Raymond NyePancho VillaThrough 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.