National Film Registry: Class of 2001

A once-timid young woman gains newfound confidence after a failed marriage, much to the chagrin of her miserable family.

A salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.

A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

The rise and fall of a corrupt politician who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.

Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.

A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.

A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.

After being kept in hypersleep during a long expedition into deep space, an astronaut crew crash-lands in the 40th century on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.

When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

Footage selected from 'East of Borneo' and other films is arranged and edited so as to highlight actress Rose Hobart.

An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.

Structures, people and events are documented in Cologne, Minnesota, USA in 1939.

A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000.

Courtesy of the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association, this helpful short shows you how good housekeeping and fresh paint can protect you and your family from the worst of an atomic blast.

Short film which documents Marian Anderson's singing performance at the Lincoln Memorial.

The Duke Ellington Orchestra performs 'C Jam Blues'.