Arnold Schwarzenegger turned from a historic actor to a respected politician. He now fights for the good of California as its governor, but the movie which made him famous “is back” for good. Schwarzenegger starred in “The Terminator” back in 1984 and the U.S. Library of Congress has listed the low-budget film among the 25 movies preserved for their historic, cultural and aesthetic significance.

The library stated that it had chosen “The Terminator” to be among movies like "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950), "Deliverance" (1972), "A Face in the Crowd" (1957), "In Cold Blood" (1967) and "The Invisible Man" (1933) because Schwarzenegger playing a cyborg assassin makes the movie stand out in the science fiction genre.

Patrick Loughney, who runs the Library of Congress film vault, told Reuters that the movie has already proved it resisted to the test of time. He added that “The Terminator” is a movie “that endures because it’s so good.” And it has really sent a good, commercial and at the same time, cultural message.

Intelligent, but artificially built machines, which run the world, send the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor, a woman who is to give birth to a future resistance leader. The movie touches both a religion theme and a cultural one.

Directed by James Cameron, “The Terminator” was made with a small budget of nearly $6.4 million and it had also had a sequel. In 2008, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” television series was released to continue the Terminator’s history. Yet, a third movie sequel will be released in 2009.

Phrases like “I’ll be back” and “Hasta la vista, baby” made both Schwarzenegger and the movie so popular that they found their way into popular culture.