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The National Film Registry is housed at the Library of Congress, which since 1988 has selected movies for preservation based on their cultural and historic importance.

Since 1988, National Film Registry has selected movies for preservation

In our news wrap Wednesday, the new government in Peru declared a state of emergency and suspended basic rights to quell violent protests, a storm system reached the upper Midwest and the Deep South where tornadoes killed a woman and her eight-year-old son in Louisiana and Ukraine says its air defenses blunted the latest Russian drone attacks aimed at power and water sites.

“When Harry Met Sally” is one of 25 films chosen this year to enter the National Film Registry.

The 1989 rom-com "When Harry Met Sally" is one of 25 films chosen this year to enter the National Film Registry, a list that ranges from Disneys "The Little Mermaid" to an 1898 silent documentary, long thought lost, about the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.

The registry is housed at the Library of Congress, which since 1988 has selected movies for preservation based on their cultural and historic importance.

The Stephen King horror classic "Carrie," John Waters' "Hairspray," and the Oscar-winning "Cyrano de Bergerac" also among films to be preserved by Library of Congress for future generations.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today the annual selection of 25 influential motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry

Those movies, along with ‘Hairspray’ and ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ are among 25 selected by the Librarian of Congress.

The registry is housed at the US Library of Congress, which selects films for preservation based on their cultural and historic importance.