# 2011 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions # Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-11-240/2011-national-film-registry-more-than-a-box-of-chocolates/2011-12-28/ NFR_2011 = { "Allures": { "year": 1961, "description": "Abstract imagery with a spiritual dimension featuring dazzling displays of color, light, and moving patterns by Jordan Belson, influenced by Wassily Kandinsky." }, "Bambi": { "year": 1942, "description": "Walt Disney's animated coming-of-age story. One of film's most heart-rending stories of parental love with iconic characters and nature conservation messaging." }, "The Big Heat": { "year": 1953, "description": "Post-war noir film starring Glenn Ford. Filled with atmosphere, fascinating female characters, and a jolting degree of violence directed by Fritz Lang." }, "A Computer Animated Hand": { "year": 1972, "description": "Ed Catmull's pioneering work. One of the earliest examples of 3D computer animation displaying hand movements and finger flexing." }, "Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment": { "year": 1963, "description": "Robert Drew's cinema-verite documentary capturing Governor George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door and President Kennedy's response during University of Alabama desegregation." }, "The Cry of the Children": { "year": 1912, "description": "Silent melodrama addressing child labor reform. The boldest, most timely and most effective appeal for stamping out social abuse." }, "A Cure for Pokeritis": { "year": 1912, "description": "John Bunny comedy. Actor recognized as the living symbol of wholesome merriment." }, "El Mariachi": { "year": 1992, "description": "Robert Rodriguez's $7,000 indie film. An energetic, highly entertaining tale of a musician mistaken for a hit man during a drug war." }, "Faces": { "year": 1968, "description": "John Cassavetes' work described as a barrage of attack on contemporary middle-class America exploring marriage dissolution." }, "Fake Fruit Factory": { "year": 1986, "description": "Chick Strand's documentary blending ethnographic techniques. An expressive, sympathetic look at Mexican women creating papier-mâché ornaments." }, "Forrest Gump": { "year": 1994, "description": "Tom Hanks vehicle. A smash hit receiving six Academy Awards including Best Picture with technological innovations in digital insertion." }, "Growing Up Female": { "year": 1971, "description": "Documentary from women's liberation movement. Among the first films documenting female identity formation across life stages." }, "Hester Street": { "year": 1975, "description": "Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Abraham Cahan's novel. A portrait of Eastern European Jewish life in America examining immigration experiences." }, "I, an Actress": { "year": 1977, "description": "George Kuchar's avant-garde short. Hilarious documentation of directing technique emphasizing camp aesthetics and love of artifice and exaggeration." }, "The Iron Horse": { "year": 1924, "description": "John Ford's epic Western. Employed more than 5,000 extras celebrating transcontinental railroad construction and immigrant contributions." }, "The Kid": { "year": 1921, "description": "Charlie Chaplin's feature debut. An artful melding of touching drama, social commentary and inventive comedy." }, "The Lost Weekend": { "year": 1945, "description": "Billy Wilder film. An uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism winning four Academy Awards." }, "The Negro Soldier": { "year": 1944, "description": "Frank Capra production unit film. A watershed in the use of film to promote racial tolerance featuring dignified African-American representation." }, "Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies": { "year": 1930, "description": "Archival footage of renowned dancers. Capture a golden age of show business with rare documentation of Cotton Club and Broadway performances." }, "Norma Rae": { "year": 1979, "description": "Sally Field vehicle. A treatise about maturation, personal willpower, fairness and the empowerment of women based on true unionization efforts." }, "Porgy and Bess": { "year": 1959, "description": "George Gershwin's folk opera adaptation. Lavish production filmed during civil rights movement tensions regarding African-American representation." }, "The Silence of the Lambs": { "year": 1991, "description": "Jonathan Demme thriller. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Adapted Screenplay featuring Anthony Hopkins." }, "Stand and Deliver": { "year": 1988, "description": "Edward James Olmos film. Celebrates values of self-betterment through hard work and power through knowledge from Latino filmmakers." }, "Twentieth Century": { "year": 1934, "description": "Howard Hawks comedy. Marked the first of director Howard Hawks' frenetic comedies establishing screwball comedy genre conventions." }, "War of the Worlds": { "year": 1953, "description": "Byron Haskin adaptation. Released at the height of cold-war hysteria with Academy Award-winning special effects described as soul-chilling." }, }