Film: The Godfather

This is the epic tale of a 1940's New York Mafia family, led by patriarch Don Vito Corleone, and their struggle to protect their empire from rival families as the leadership switches from the father to his youngest son. The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema and one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”