'all The President's Men,' 'the Exorcist,' 'malcolm X' Among 2010 National Film Registry Picks

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Tue, 12/28/2010 - 9:16am

"Airplane!" the outlandish 1980 spoof of disaster movies; "All the President's Men," the Oscar-winning fact-based drama about the uncovering of the Watergate scandal; and "Let There Be Light," John Huston's controversial 1946 war documentary that was banned for several decades, are among the 25 films selected for the 2010 National Film Registry, according to the Library of Congress.

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