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The 1991 women-on-the-run drama "Thelma & Louise" — a movie that put Utah's red rocks on view for a new generation of film lovers — has been added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

"Thelma & Louise" is one of 25 movies added to the Registry, created to preserve classic and historic films of all types.

Other titles added to the list this year include the animated hits "The Lion King" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," the fairy-tale "The Princess Bride," Alfred Hitchcock's fright-fest "The Birds," and three high-school stories of different eras: "Blackboard Jungle," "The Breakfast Club" and "Rushmore."

"Thelma & Louise," director Ridley Scott's drama about two desperate women (played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) who start a cross-country crime spree, won an Academy Award for Callie Khouri's original screenplay.

In a statement, Scott said, "I am very honored and proud to be acknowledged by the Library of Congress. 'Blade Runner' will now have two great ladies to keep him company." (Scott's "Alien" also is on the Registry.)

Scott used southern Utah's redrock locations — including Arches and Canyonlands national parks — for the women's drive through the Southwest, culminating in a famous finale at the Grand Canyon (which was actually filmed at Utah's Dead Horse Point).

"We had the best time" filming in Utah, Davis said in a 2011 interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, for the movie's 20th anniversary. "Pretty much everything we did was outside, in the magnificent scenery. Susan and I got to hang out together in the car waiting for them to set up shots."

Watching the movie years later, Davis said, "it really struck me, more than ever, the vistas of the film, the landscape of it. It's so visually stunning."

The movie became an iconic film for feminist identity, because of the rarity then of having two strong female characters who weren't attacking each other. Davis and Sarandon landed on the cover of Time magazine because of it.

The movie "really impacted how I saw films, and female roles," Davis said in 2011. "It made me realize we give women so few opportunities for female characters.…

"I had women stop me and tell me their reaction — they'd be holding onto my lapels, getting me to listen to what they were saying. Other cars were honking at me, waving, going 'woo-hoo.'"

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Here are the 25 additions to the National Film Registry for 2016:

• "The Atomic Cafe" (1982) • Documentary about post-WWII fear of nuclear war, told through archival footage including newsreels and educational films.

• "Ball of Fire" (1941) • Howard Hawks' comedy, about a showgirl (Barbara Stanwyck) hiding from gangsters with a group of egghead professors (including Gary Cooper).

• "The Beau Brummells" (1928) • Comedy short featuring the vaudeville duo of Al Shaw and Sam Lee.

• "The Birds" (1963) • Alfred Hitchcock's horror tale, in which a seaside town is attacked by crazed birds.

• "Blackboard Jungle" (1955) • Richard Brooks' drama about a teacher (Glenn Ford) dealing with juvenile delinquents in an inner-city school. Notable for the early use of rock music (Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock") on the soundtrack.

• "The Breakfast Club" (1985) • John Hughes' tale of five angst-ridden teens (Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Emilio Esteves and Ally Sheedy) stuck in detention one Saturday morning.

• "The Decline of Western Civilization" (1981) • Penelope Spheeris' rough-and-tumble documentary of L.A.'s punk-rock scene of the 1980s.

• "East of Eden" (1955) • Director Elia Kazan's adaptation of John Steinbeck's tale of brothers (James Dean and Richard Davalos) fighting for the love of their stern father (Raymond Massey).

• "Funny Girl" (1968) • Barbra Streisand became a movie star when she reprised her Broadway role, as comedian/singer Fanny Brice, in this musical.

• "Life of an American Fireman" (1903) • Early work by Edwin S. Porter, who later made "The Great Train Robbery."

• "The Lion King" (1994) • Disney does "Hamlet" on the savanna, with the story of a lion cub who feels guilty for his father's death and must overcome that to take his place as king of the jungle.

• "Lost Horizon" (1937) • Frank Capra's adaptation of James Hilton's fantasy novel, in which travelers find the legendary Shangri-La, a gentle paradise in the Himalayas.

• "Musketeers of Pig Alley" (1912) • D.W. Griffith-directed short that's considered the first gangster film, with a cast that includes Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore.

• "Paris Is Burning" (1990) • Landmark LGBT documentary of New York's ballroom subculture of the 1980s.

• "Point Blank" (1967) • John Boorman directed this crime thriller, with Lee Marvin as a tough guy out for revenge when he's double-crossed by a mobster (John Vernon).

• "The Princess Bride" (1987) • Fairy-tale traditions get hilariously upended in this tale of a princess (Robin Wright), a farmboy-turned-pirate (Cary Elwes), a swordsman (Mandy Patinkin), a wizard couple (Billy Crystal and Carol Kane) and a giant (Andre the Giant).

• "Putney Swope" (1969) • Black nationalists take over an advertising agency, in Robert Downey Sr.'s harsh satire.

• "Rushmore" (1998) • Writer-director Wes Anderson's comedy about a geeky prep-school student (Jason Schwartzman) who competes with his mentor (Bill Murray) for the attention of his teacher (Olivia Williams).

•  Solomon Sir Jones films (1924-28) • Amateur footage shot by a Baptist minister and businessman that documents African-American communities in Oklahoma.

• "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (1928) • In this silent comedy, Buster Keaton plays an educated dandy who must take over for his salty father (Ernest Torrence), a riverboat captain.

• "Suzanne, Suzanne" (1982) • A 30-minute documentary of a black woman's descent into substance abuse, a film conceived by the woman's aunt as a kind of intervention.

• "Thelma & Louise" (1991) • Two women (Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon) end up on a cross-country crime spree in this groundbreaking drama.

• "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1916) • Silent adaptation of Jules Verne's undersea adventure, shot location in the Bahamas.

• "A Walk in the Sun" (1945) • Director Lewis Milestone's chronicle of a U.S. Army platoon surviving a beach landing near Salerno, Italy, and battling Nazis to take a bridge and farmhouse.

• "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) • Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny share the screen for the first time in Robert Zemeckis' comedy, following a private eye (Bob Hoskins) on a case that takes him into Toontown with a manic rabbit.