# 2014 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions # Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-14-210/ NFR_2014 = { "13 Lakes": { "year": 2004, "description": "James Benning's feature-length film can be seen as a series of moving landscape paintings shot at 13 American lakes in identical 10-minute takes, exploring landscape as a temporal element." }, "Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day": { "year": 1913, "description": "Seven reels of untitled and unassembled footage featuring vaudevillian Bert Williams, believed to constitute the earliest surviving feature film starring black actors." }, "The Big Lebowski": { "year": 1998, "description": "Joel and Ethan Coen's tale of kidnapping, mistaken identity and bowling became a highly quoted cult classic despite modest initial box office performance." }, "Down Argentine Way": { "year": 1940, "description": "Betty Grable's breakthrough Technicolor musical where she traveled to South America and fell in love with Don Ameche, establishing her as a major star." }, "The Dragon Painter": { "year": 1919, "description": "Sessue Hayakawa's film about an obsessed, untutored painter who loses his artistic powers after he finds and marries a supposed dragon princess." }, "Felicia": { "year": 1965, "description": "A 13-minute short subject documenting a slice of life in the Watts neighborhood through a teenager's first-person narrative perspective." }, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off": { "year": 1986, "description": "John Hughes's story of a teenage wiseacre whose day playing hooky leads to comic adventures and personal growth for himself and friends." }, "The Gang's All Here": { "year": 1943, "description": "20th Century-Fox Technicolor musical featuring Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda with legendary musical number choreography by Busby Berkeley." }, "House of Wax": { "year": 1953, "description": "The first full-length 3-D color film produced by major American studio, introducing 3-D effects widely while establishing Vincent Price as horror master." }, "Into the Arms of Strangers": { "year": 2000, "description": "Oscar-winning documentary examining the Kindertransport operation that placed thousands of Jewish children with foster families in Great Britain before WWII." }, "Little Big Man": { "year": 1970, "description": "Arthur Penn's Western following a 121-year-old man looking back at his life as a pioneer with narrative interweaving fact and myth." }, "Luxo Jr.": { "year": 1986, "description": "The iconic living, moving desk lamp in Pixar's charming, computer-animated short subject that became the studio's logo." }, "Moon Breath Beat": { "year": 1980, "description": "CalArts student Lisze Bechtold's experimental animation exploring what happens when an animator follows a line, a patch of color, or a shape into the unconscious." }, "Please Don't Bury Me Alive!": { "year": 1976, "description": "Considered by historians to be the first Chicano feature film, writer-director Efraín Gutiérrez's independent production addressing Vietnam War era identity." }, "The Power and the Glory": { "year": 1933, "description": "Preston Sturges's debut screenplay, a haunting tragedy that introduced a non-chronological structure to mainstream movies influencing later classics." }, "Rio Bravo": { "year": 1959, "description": "Howard Hawks Western where a sheriff and his deputies are waiting in a jail for a prisoner transfer and anticipated escape attempt." }, "Rosemary's Baby": { "year": 1968, "description": "Roman Polanski's horror masterpiece where protagonist comes to believe that a cult of witches in the building is implementing a plot against her." }, "Ruggles of Red Gap": { "year": 1935, "description": "Charles Laughton's comedy about an English manservant won in a poker game who discovers American egalitarianism and becomes a businessman." }, "Saving Private Ryan": { "year": 1998, "description": "Spielberg's WWII film dropping ordinary soldiers into a near-impossible rescue mission set amid the carnage of Omaha Beach landing." }, "Shoes": { "year": 1916, "description": "Lois Weber's social drama documenting the suffering of an underpaid shopgirl struggling to support family through poverty and exploitation." }, "State Fair": { "year": 1933, "description": "Henry King's celebration of state fair traditions starring Will Rogers in a small town slice-of-life setting with Americana and romance storylines." }, "Unmasked": { "year": 1917, "description": "Grace Cunard's film where she not only starred but also wrote its script and parlayed her contributions into a directorial role." }, "V-E +1": { "year": 1945, "description": "Samuel Fuller's silent 16 mm footage documenting the burial of beaten and emaciated Holocaust victims at Falkenau concentration camp liberation." }, "The Way of Peace": { "year": 1947, "description": "Frank Tashlin's puppet animation film sponsored by the American Lutheran Church using stop-motion to reinforce Christian values during the atomic age." }, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory": { "year": 1971, "description": "Gene Wilder stars in this musical adaptation where surreal, yet playful production design creates the fanciful world of Roald Dahl's imagination." }, }