More films directed or co-directed by women than ever before have been added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. See the full list below
Before Stonewall, considered the first documentary on civil rights directed by a woman.
The annual list of influential films that span both genres and decades was announced Wednesday by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Among the considered films for 2019 were 6,000 nominated by the public. The biggest public vote getter was Kevin Smith’s 1994Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island, the 2003 documentary in which former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara re-examines his role in shaping U.S. military and foreign policy at the height of the Vietnam War.
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