‘Lilies of the Field,’ ‘Wattstax,’ ‘Sweetback,’ ‘Cabin in the Sky,’ ‘Freedom Riders,’ ‘Shrek’ Added to National Film Registry (Video)

*Films starring Sidney Poitier and the voice of Eddie Murphy are among this year’s additions to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The 1963 film “Lillies of the Field,” adapted by James Poe from the 1962 William Edmund Barrett novel of the same name, starred Poitier as an African American itinerant worker who encounters a group of East […]