# 1999 National Film Registry inductees # Source: https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9912/nfb.html NFR_1999 = { "Civilization": { "year": 1916, "description": "Epic anti-war film depicting the horrors of warfare and advocating for peace." }, "Do the Right Thing": { "year": 1989, "description": "Spike Lee's powerful examination of racial tensions in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the hottest day of summer." }, "The Docks of New York": { "year": 1928, "description": "Josef von Sternberg's atmospheric silent film about a stoker who falls for a woman he saves from drowning." }, "Duck Amuck": { "year": 1953, "description": "Chuck Jones' innovative Warner Bros. cartoon featuring Daffy Duck tormented by an unseen animator." }, "The Emperor Jones": { "year": 1933, "description": "Adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play featuring Paul Robeson in a powerful leading role." }, "Gunga Din": { "year": 1939, "description": "Adventure film set in colonial India, loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's poem." }, "In the Land of the Head-Hunters": { "year": 1914, "description": "Edward S. Curtis' ethnographic film documenting Kwakwaka'wakw culture and traditions." }, "Jazz on a Summer's Day": { "year": 1959, "description": "Documentary capturing the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival performances." }, "King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery to Memphis": { "year": 1970, "description": "Documentary chronicling Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights leadership." }, "The Kiss": { "year": 1896, "description": "Early Edison film depicting a couple's brief kiss, considered scandalous at the time." }, "Kiss Me Deadly": { "year": 1955, "description": "Robert Aldrich's violent, apocalyptic film noir featuring detective Mike Hammer." }, "Lambchops": { "year": 1929, "description": "George O'Hara comedy short film." }, "Laura": { "year": 1944, "description": "Otto Preminger's stylish film noir about a detective obsessed with a murder victim." }, "Master Hands": { "year": 1936, "description": "Chevrolet-sponsored industrial film documenting automobile assembly." }, "My Man Godfrey": { "year": 1936, "description": "Screwball comedy about a socialite who hires a forgotten man as the family butler." }, "Night of the Living Dead": { "year": 1968, "description": "George A. Romero's groundbreaking horror film that redefined the zombie genre." }, "The Plow that Broke the Plains": { "year": 1936, "description": "Documentary examining the Dust Bowl's ecological and social devastation." }, "Raiders of the Lost Ark": { "year": 1981, "description": "Steven Spielberg's adventure film introducing archaeologist Indiana Jones." }, "Roman Holiday": { "year": 1953, "description": "Romantic comedy featuring Audrey Hepburn as a princess exploring Rome incognito." }, "The Shop Around the Corner": { "year": 1940, "description": "Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy about pen pals who are unknowing co-workers." }, "A Streetcar Named Desire": { "year": 1951, "description": "Elia Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play featuring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh." }, "The Ten Commandments": { "year": 1956, "description": "Cecil B. DeMille's epic retelling of the Exodus story starring Charlton Heston." }, "Trance and Dance in Bali": { "year": 1938, "description": "Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson's ethnographic documentation of Balinese rituals." }, "The Wild Bunch": { "year": 1969, "description": "Sam Peckinpah's violent revisionist Western about aging outlaws in the changing West." }, "Woman of the Year": { "year": 1942, "description": "First pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in a romantic comedy about marriage and careers." }, }