Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests, 1922.

Given up yet? No, it's not that all three films were described by Rex Reed as "a genre-bending tour de force." These movies, along with 22 others, were just inducted into the National Film Registry, which chooses a select 25 films a year to preserve in case of an apocalyptic scenario, for the aliens to find in a time capsule when they discover the scorched earth of this planet and wonder what our society worshiped as gods. As The Week noted, Librarian of Congress James M. Billington has said that these 600-plus films are not "the best American films of all time," but are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" to Americans.

And yet The Big Lebowski is not even on there! Check out the full list below, along with clips of the features.

1. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons title fight (1897)
http://youtu.be/7GPv8x-LHgk

2. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
http://youtu.be/0M7sDoydlzc

3. The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)

4. Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests (1922)
http://youtu.be/J_RTnd3Smy8

5. Sons of the Desert (1933)
http://youtu.be/jmS5QG9oaic

6. The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
http://youtu.be/XMKGkO6uk2Q

7. The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-1950s)
http://youtu.be/IGPJ8yTg4vw

8. The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
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9. Born Yesterday (1950)
http://youtu.be/upJ5pZdyZlM

10. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
http://youtu.be/ZeroJ1BK6GQ

11. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
http://youtu.be/54muV-xIhIU

12. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
http://youtu.be/urQVzgEO_w8

13. Parable (1964)
http://youtu.be/vT3ymkNcedU

14. They Call it Pro Football (1967)
http://youtu.be/MfwI_WrG7yk

15. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
http://youtu.be/JKcIGPQST9s

16. Dirty Harry (1971)
http://youtu.be/8Xjr2hnOHiM

17. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
http://youtu.be/tsH8Y5wpDSs

18. Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-1982)

19. A Christmas Story (1983)
http://youtu.be/uvMLfSQrHKE

20. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
http://youtu.be/Jet-Ubwk5l8

21. Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)

22. Slacker (1991)
http://youtu.be/r9f9M6UAYb0

23. A League of Their Own (1992)
http://youtu.be/rWoD2sQ9LiU

24. One Survivor Remembers (1995)
http://youtu.be/8zQvxDbCztw

25. The Matrix (1999)
http://youtu.be/PkFyGNjaQ8k