“Willy Wonka,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Saving Private Ryan” Added to National Film Registry
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Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The children’s classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the John Hughes-directed comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Steven Spielberg’s World War Two drama Saving Private Ryan are among the 25 motion pictures that have been selected this year to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress annually announces a list of films that are added to the registry for preservation. The registry includes familiar movies as well as documentaries, silent films, student films and other projects.
This year’s selections also include the Coen brothers’ popular movie The Big Lebowski; the horror films Rosemary’s Baby and House of Wax; and Little Big Man, a Western that starred Dustin Hoffman.
Here are the films that have just been selected for the National Film Registry, along with their release dates:
- Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day, 1913
- The Big Lebowski, 1998
- Down Argentine Way, 1940
- The Dragon Painter, 1919
- Felicia, 1965
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986
- The Gang’s All Here, 1943
- House of Wax, 1953
- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, 2000
- Little Big Man, 1970
- Luxo Jr., 1986
- Moon Breath Beat, 1980
- Please Don’t Bury Me Alive!, 1976
- The Power and the Glory, 1933
- Rio Bravo, 1959
- Rosemary’s Baby, 1968
- Ruggles of Red Gap, 1935
- Saving Private Ryan, 1998
- Shoes, 1916
- State Fair, 1933
- 13 Lakes, 2004
- Unmasked, 1917
- V-E Day + 1, 1945
- The Way of Peace, 1947
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971
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